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Design Manager
🇨🇭 Zurich, Switzerland
Globalengineer Gmbh 🇨🇭 Zurich, Switzerland
Lead technical execution of development programs and variant projects, coordinating design managers, designers, and engineers while managing work breakdown structures, milestones, schedules, budgets, risks, and performance. Conduct design reviews, approve technical data packages, coordinate engineering work, manage interfaces with program management, supply chain, and production, support customer reviews and acceptance, and perform FMEA and configuration management activities.
Design Manager - Special Projects
🇫🇷 Paris, France
Polène Paris 🇫🇷 Paris, France
Lead the design and development of special projects while managing a team of two designers. Oversee the creative process and product development in collaboration with internal workshops and cross-functional teams.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Aj Group 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Manage external consultants and engineering teams to deliver data centre designs and high-quality documentation across all RIBA stages. Oversee design reviews and approvals, help appoint design professionals, and present design proposals and emerging technologies to stakeholders and senior leaders.
Preconstruction / Design Manager - MEP
🇺🇸 Portland, Oregon, United States of America
Skanska 🇺🇸 Portland, Oregon, United States of America
Lead MEP preconstruction and design coordination from project pursuit through construction, including detailed cost estimating, estimate reviews, and coordination across civil, structural, architectural, and MEP disciplines. Collaborate with design teams, operations, business development, and subcontractors to manage value options, procurement planning, project risks, and scope, cost, schedule, and quality objectives.
Lead Design Manager
🇳🇴 Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway
Ikm Consultants As 🇳🇴 Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway
Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary design activities, resources, interfaces, budgets, and deliverables to meet project requirements, schedules, and quality expectations. Serve as the primary design link among the client, project management, production, technical disciplines, and external consultants, ensuring integrated and buildable solutions.
Graduate Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Cundall 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Support the design management team in coordinating and delivering data centre projects, liaising with design disciplines, tracking progress, and helping resolve design-stage issues. Maintain project schedules, requirements and comments trackers, meeting records, action logs, deliverable schedules, and project filing systems.
Design Manager
🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Alec Fitout 🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Lead luxury Spa and Wellness design development from concept through construction documentation, site execution, commissioning, and handover. Coordinate multidisciplinary teams and specialist suppliers, review technical documentation, integrate wellness systems, and resolve design, compliance, and constructability issues.
Senior Technology Design Manager - Data Hall Fit Out
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Coreweave 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Senior Technology Design Manager will lead and coordinate the design process for data center fit outs, ensuring alignment with performance, efficiency, and scalability standards. This role acts as the primary point of contact for design-related matters, collaborating with internal SMEs and external consultants to oversee construction implementation.
Migration Design Manager
🇺🇸 Plano, Texas, United States of America
Jpmorganchase 🇺🇸 Plano, Texas, United States of America
Design and document end-to-end migration approaches for payment platforms and digital channels, including scopes of work, milestones, dependencies, risks, and readiness criteria. Lead cross-functional forums, coordinate client and colleague preparedness, manage concurrent migrations, resolve escalations, and improve migration guidance and processes.
Senior Technology Design Manager - Data Hall Fit Out
🇺🇸 Livingston, NJ 07039, United States of America
Coreweave 🇺🇸 Livingston, NJ 07039, United States of America
Lead and coordinate architectural, MEP, and low-voltage/IT designs for multiple data center fit-out projects, aligning consultants, suppliers, internal experts, and project requirements. Monitor design quality, deviations, budgets, schedules, equipment submittals, and construction implementation, while reporting progress and supporting handoff to construction management.
Design Manager - Sports Infrastructure (Building Engineering)
🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Aecom 🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Lead and integrate large multidisciplinary design teams to ensure cohesive, high-quality technical solutions across various infrastructure sectors. Act as the primary client interface to define operational requirements, manage project scope, and ensure compliance with technical and security standards.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Wates Group 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead and coordinate design across multiple social housing planned works, refurbishment, and retrofit projects, ensuring deliverables are compliant, buildable, accurate, and issued on schedule. Manage design programmes, consultants, risks, meetings, and value engineering while supporting pre-construction, procurement, and safe project delivery.
Fire Design Manager
🇺🇸 Renton, Washington, United States of America
Everon 🇺🇸 Renton, Washington, United States of America
Lead and develop a team of Sales Engineers while providing fire alarm design, specifications, drawings, scopes of work, and technical support to customers, consultants, integrators, distributors, and internal teams. Support sales opportunities and proposals, train sales and technical staff, manage project coordination and customer issues, and maintain accurate records while traveling to customer sites as needed.
Principal Design Manager
🇦🇺 Cordelia, Queensland, Australia
Jacobs 🇦🇺 Cordelia, Queensland, Australia
Lead the design delivery of major transport infrastructure projects across bus rapid transit, roads and highways, and rail, coordinating with commercial, project management, and technical teams. Strengthen client relationships, support business development and project wins, represent Jacobs in the market, and mentor teams while promoting collaboration, knowledge sharing, and safety.
Design Manager - Hospitality Interiors
🇬🇧 Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom
Gleeson Recruitment Group 🇬🇧 Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom
Lead and develop an in-house design team while managing hospitality refurbishment, development, and interior fit-out projects from concept through delivery. Approve design schemes and technical documentation, maintain brand consistency, coordinate with internal and external stakeholders, and improve the design function.
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.