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FBS - Enterprise Learning Training Design Manager
🇲🇽 Mexico
Capgemini 🇲🇽 Mexico
Lead and develop the training design team, set quality standards, review learning materials, and manage priorities, resources, and deadlines. Partner with business stakeholders to select effective learning approaches and advance a scalable learning model that embeds learning into everyday work.
Design Manager - Data Centers
🇨🇴 Bogota, Colombia
Aecom 🇨🇴 Bogota, Colombia
The Design Manager will oversee colocation and hyper-scale data center projects from site due diligence through construction administration. They are responsible for managing design resources, ensuring budget and schedule adherence, and fostering collaboration within the data center design team.
Head of design and manufacturing
🇫🇷 Paris, France
Sorontar 🇫🇷 Paris, France
Establish Sorontar’s first pilot production line, including in-house-built machines, design methods, quality control, subcontractor selection, and assembly processes. Recruit and lead a team, work closely with company leadership and the software team, and scale the pilot line into a full factory as the company moves toward series production.
Site Design Manager Residential
🇬🇷 Elliniko, South Athens, Greece
Lamda Development S.a. 🇬🇷 Elliniko, South Athens, Greece
Manage and coordinate design implementation during construction, ensuring approved design intent, project objectives, quality standards, and technical requirements are maintained. Coordinate stakeholders, review construction documentation and technical queries, monitor site quality, assess design changes, and support project close-out and handover.
Design Manager
🇮🇹 Milan, Italy
Verto People 🇮🇹 Milan, Italy
Manage and coordinate mechanical and electrical design activities, multidisciplinary teams, consultants, and subcontractors throughout the project lifecycle. Ensure design deliverables meet technical requirements, deadlines, construction needs, and project milestones while addressing risks, technical issues, and design changes.
Design Manager - Interior Fit Out
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Graham Group 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Manage and coordinate the design process from pre-construction through project delivery, ensuring design information is technically compliant and aligned with programme, procurement, budget, and client requirements. Lead design reviews and approvals, manage design risks and changes, support tendering and value engineering, and coordinate consultants, subcontractors, and project teams.
Design Manager
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Decima International 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
The Design Manager will direct the end-to-end design process for hyperscale data center projects, ensuring alignment with schedules, budgets, and technical standards. They will act as the owner's representative, managing multidisciplinary coordination, stakeholder communication, and risk mitigation throughout the project lifecycle.
Learning Design Manager – Strategic Skills
🇬🇧 Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Tesco 🇬🇧 Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Design and deliver scalable learning solutions that build strategic capabilities across technical and specialist domains, translating business priorities and skills frameworks into learning journeys and hands-on interventions. Partner with leaders, subject matter experts, and external providers to roll out learning, measure skill acquisition and business impact, and continuously improve solutions.
Senior Design Manager
🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Intro Recruitment Solutions 🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Lead the design and construction of commercial, health, and education projects, typically managing one or two projects at a time. Oversee the full design lifecycle from concept through delivery and lead multidisciplinary design teams and consultants.
Head of Design
🇺🇸 United States of America
Ladders 🇺🇸 United States of America
Define the design vision and product direction, leading products from early concepts through prototyping and launch. Build and evolve design systems, develop new interaction paradigms for human-agent collaboration, and shape product strategy in close partnership with engineering and leadership.
Design Manager - Data Centres
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Arcadis 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
The Design Manager will lead multi-disciplinary design projects for data centres, ensuring technical delivery meets client scope, budget, and timeline requirements. They will coordinate design activities across various internal and external teams while fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation.
Senior Design Manager MEP ( Healthcare NHP)
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Skanska 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
The Senior Design Manager will lead and manage MEP design delivery for New Hospital Programme projects, ensuring compliance with standards and project objectives. They are responsible for managing design team contracts, coordinating design deliverables, and chairing design team meetings.
Junior Design Manager - Riga, Latvia (f/m/d)
🇱🇻 Riga, Latvia
Db Engineering & Consulting 🇱🇻 Riga, Latvia
Manage local road design, hydrological design, and survey production, including defining and delegating actions, overseeing preparation, and reviewing and presenting outcomes. Support the Design Manager with technical project management, including client meetings, design reviews, technical reports, configuration and change management, BIM/CAD coordination, status reporting, and risk management.
Design Manager - Italian Speaking
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Rhythm Careers 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Support the Senior Design Manager in overseeing the project and its design strategy, plans, procedures, and processes. Help deliver the project within agreed parameters and in line with client expectations and needs.
Learning Design Manager – Strategic Skills
🇬🇧 Welwyn Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Tesco 🇬🇧 Welwyn Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
The Learning Design Manager will design and deliver scalable learning solutions that build critical skills aligned with the organization's strategic growth objectives. They will partner with senior stakeholders and subject matter experts to translate business needs into high-impact, measurable learning journeys.
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.