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Design Systems Designer - Lead
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Numi 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Build and lead the design system function across seven merchant lifecycle value streams, defining its roadmap, token architecture, multi-platform component libraries, governance, and accessibility standards. Align Product, Engineering, CX, and Research teams, drive adoption and measurable impact, and lead AI integration and a high-performing design systems team.
Interior Designer / Assistant Design Manager
🇮🇪 Wheelie Bin Storage Ireland, Tallaght Road, Templeogue, Dublin, Ireland
Macdonald & Company 🇮🇪 Wheelie Bin Storage Ireland, Tallaght Road, Templeogue, Dublin, Ireland
Develop and coordinate interior concepts, specifications, finishes, and FF&E for residential units, showhomes, marketing suites, and amenity spaces, balancing design quality with budget, durability, and buildability. Support the Design Manager by coordinating consultants and technical packages, tracking design deliverables, attending meetings and site inspections, and ensuring compliance with Irish regulations and project requirements.
Global Store Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Charlotte Tilbury 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Manage key store design projects from initial creative concept to store opening while ensuring brand standards and customer experience. Oversee the entire process including floor plans, technical drawings, cost management, and coordination with consultants and retailers.
Global Store Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Charlotte Tilbury Beauty 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Manage global store design projects from initial concept through store opening, ensuring brand expression, customer experience, design integrity, budgets, and schedules are maintained. Develop and approve design plans and documentation, coordinate consultants and suppliers, resolve project issues, and monitor installations and store openings.
Senior Design Manager MEP ( Healthcare NHP)
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Skanska 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead and manage MEP design delivery for New Hospital Programme projects, ensuring coordinated, compliant designs that meet programme standards and repeatable hospital objectives. Manage design teams, contracts, plans, programmes, requirements, and deliverables, and chair design meetings while ensuring alignment with client needs, cost, schedule, quality, safety, BIM strategy, and contractual obligations.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Richmond, California, United States of America
Overaa 🇺🇸 Richmond, California, United States of America
The Design Manager leads the design process for complex construction projects from programming through permitting and construction. They are responsible for managing design schedules, ensuring constructability, and maintaining alignment with construction budgets.
Residential Design Manager
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Skillforce 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
The Residential Design Manager will lead the design and material selection process for high-end projects from initial concept through final installation. They are responsible for coordinating with project teams, managing client expectations, and ensuring all designs are buildable and within budget.
FBS - Enterprise Learning Training Design Manager
🇧🇷 Brazil
Capgemini 🇧🇷 Brazil
Lead and develop the training design team, set quality standards, review learning materials, and manage workload, priorities, resources, and deadlines. Partner with business stakeholders to select effective learning approaches and advance a scalable, capability-based learning ecosystem using technology, performance support, and continuous improvement.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Emico Ltd 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary MEP design activities, ensuring design outputs meet technical and safety requirements, programme objectives, and project budgets. Manage design reviews, risks, deliverables, and collaboration with project teams and stakeholders, supporting the transition from design through construction.
Design Manager / Project Manager
🇺🇸 Sanford, Florida, United States of America
Wharton-smith, Inc. 🇺🇸 Sanford, Florida, United States of America
Lead pursuit and preconstruction planning for municipal water and wastewater projects, including proposal support, design coordination, constructability reviews, risk analysis, and GMP budget development. Coordinate owners, engineers, estimators, subcontractors, suppliers, and operations teams to develop project plans and ensure a smooth transition into construction.
Senior Creative Retail Design Manager
🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Parfums De Marly 🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Design and develop temporary retail animation concepts, including window displays, point-of-sale activations, events, and installations, aligned with marketing and trade plans and the brand’s creative vision. Lead concepts from initial sketches through technical development and deployment planning, while contributing to animation strategy and proposing fresh ideas.
Design Manager - Data Centres - Multi-Disciplinary Consultancy
🇮🇪 County Dublin, Ireland
Lumen Search 🇮🇪 County Dublin, Ireland
Lead multidisciplinary design teams and manage the design delivery of multiple complex projects, ensuring coordinated information meets programme, budget, and client requirements. Manage design reviews, technical queries, risks, consultant performance, value engineering, procurement and tender support, and project close-out.
Design Manager
🇦🇹 Vienna, Austria
Future Construction Recruitment 🇦🇹 Vienna, Austria
Manage the full MEP design process for major data centre projects, coordinating consultants, subcontractors, and internal teams from pre-construction through delivery and handover. Review drawings and technical submittals, drive BIM coordination and clash resolution, and ensure designs are buildable and aligned with programme, cost, and construction sequencing.
Creative Design Manager - Greek Speaking
🇲🇹 Malta
Entain 🇲🇹 Malta
The Creative Design Manager will lead an in-house design team to deliver impactful creative work across digital, commercial, and CRM channels. They will provide creative direction, mentor designers, and partner with cross-functional teams to ensure brand consistency and project success.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Six Ventures Ltd 🇬🇧 Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Manage mechanical and building services design from concept and specification through installation and handover, ensuring designs meet technical, regulatory, quality, and commercial requirements. Coordinate with clients, contractors, suppliers, and internal teams; support procurement, estimating, value engineering, design changes, and technical issues during project delivery.
About Design Leadership careers
Design leaders in 2026 set the strategic vision for design organizations navigating an AI-saturated market. This role requires a balance of craft expertise and high-level business acumen to advocate for design's value at the executive level.
Effective leaders foster a culture of technical agency, establishing systems that allow human creativity and machine efficiency to coexist.
Companies like Stripe and Airbnb seek VPs and Directors of Design who can scale teams and align design strategy with long-term business objectives.
We feature senior leadership positions including Design Directors, Heads of Design, VP of Design, Chief Design Officers, and design team leads at companies like Meta, Google, Airbnb, Stripe, and fast-growing AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. These roles span product design, brand, and cross-functional design organizations.
Many companies offer remote design leadership roles, including distributed-first companies like Notion, Linear, GitLab, and Vercel. AI companies like Midjourney and Anthropic also hire remote design leaders. Some companies prefer hybrid arrangements for VP+ positions.
Most positions require 8–15+ years of design experience with 3–5+ years managing teams. Strong candidates demonstrate strategic thinking, team building, stakeholder management, and a track record of shipping successful products at companies like Figma, Spotify, Netflix, or emerging AI startups. Browse leadership portfolios to see how experienced designers showcase their impact.
Design leadership salaries are highly competitive: Design Directors earn $160k–$240k, VPs of Design $220k–$350k+, and CDOs at major companies can exceed $400k with significant equity packages. AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Databricks often offer premium total compensation. Consult our salary guide for detailed breakdowns.