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Bridge Design Manager
🇺🇸 Greenville, South Carolina, United States of America
Stantec 🇺🇸 Greenville, South Carolina, United States of America
The Bridge Design Manager will lead engineering teams on infrastructure projects, overseeing design development, project deliverables, and construction phase services. They are responsible for mentoring staff, performing quality control, and managing client coordination and project pursuits.
Senior Interaction Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Netcompany 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
You will lead the end-to-end design of high-profile digital products and services while mentoring other designers. This role involves facilitating design workshops and collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams to ensure solutions meet user needs and business objectives.
Design Manager
🇫🇮 Finland
Granlund 🇫🇮 Finland
The Design Manager will lead and coordinate design activities for large-scale data center projects, ensuring they meet quality, budget, and schedule requirements. They will act as the primary contact for stakeholders and manage a multidisciplinary team of 15–20 professionals.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Bechtel Corporation 🇦🇺 Perth, Western Australia, Australia
The Design Manager will lead a team to interpret, organize, and coordinate the engineering technical aspects of complex infrastructure projects. They are responsible for ensuring design compliance, managing technical risks, and facilitating communication between stakeholders and contractors.
Design manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Talent Forte 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
You will lead the technical delivery of commercial projects from design development through to construction and handover. This involves coordinating multidisciplinary teams, resolving technical issues, and ensuring compliance with building regulations and safety standards.
Lead Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Allswell 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
You will lead the design of core patient and provider experiences while building a scalable design system for the company. This role involves conducting user research and partnering closely with engineering and clinical teams to ship intuitive, evidence-based product features.
Mechanical Design Manager
🇷🇸 Belgrade, City of Belgrade, Serbia
Belgrade Waterfront 🇷🇸 Belgrade, City of Belgrade, Serbia
The Mechanical Design Manager leads and coordinates all mechanical engineering aspects of projects, including HVAC, plumbing, and fire protection, throughout the entire project lifecycle. They manage design consultants, review engineering deliverables, and ensure integrated, high-quality solutions that meet project objectives and international standards.
Senior Interaction Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Netcompany 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
You will deliver high-profile digital products and services for major UK companies and public sector organizations. This involves leading design workshops, creating design artefacts, and collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams to meet user needs.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Niche Talent. 🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
The Design Manager will lead and manage external consultants and multidisciplinary design teams throughout the full project lifecycle. They are responsible for ensuring designs meet regulatory compliance, budget requirements, and construction standards while driving project quality and efficiency.
Product Designer
🇮🇳 Mumbai City District, India
Tist Media 🇮🇳 Mumbai City District, India
The Product Designer will translate product thinking into clean, user-friendly interfaces for web and mobile platforms while collaborating closely with engineers and product leadership. Responsibilities include executing design flows, contributing to the design system, and shaping AI-native features with a focus on user empathy and clarity.
Senior Product Designer
🇮🇳 Mumbai City District, India
Tist Media 🇮🇳 Mumbai City District, India
Lead the end-to-end product design for the TIST App across web, mobile, and internal tools. This includes defining user flows, evolving the design system, and creating intuitive interfaces for AI-driven features.
Product Designer, Consumer Web
🇺🇸 United States of America
Mindbody 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design of consumer web booking experiences while defining product direction and long-term vision. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive execution and create scalable, customer-centric design frameworks.
Design Manager
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Collen Construction 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
The Design Manager will coordinate communication between architects, structural engineers, and service engineers while ensuring design development aligns with financial and contractual requirements. They are responsible for leading sub-contractor workshops, tracking design approvals, and proactively identifying risks to ensure project alignment.
Design Manager - Wet
🇲🇾 Johor Bahru, Malaysia
Dyson 🇲🇾 Johor Bahru, Malaysia
The Design Manager leads technical delivery for Floorcare development programs from concept through industrialization and production readiness. They act as the primary technical contact, coordinating cross-functional teams and ensuring alignment with global engineering standards.
Design Manager - Corded
🇲🇾 Johor Bahru, Malaysia
Dyson 🇲🇾 Johor Bahru, Malaysia
The Design Manager leads the technical delivery of Floorcare development programs from concept through industrialization and production readiness. They act as the primary technical interface between global RDD teams and local manufacturing partners to ensure project milestones and quality standards are met.
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.