Top Design Manager Jobs in London

The Design Operations Manager will build and run the systems that enable a rapidly growing design organization. Responsibilities include organizational planning, headcount strategy, hiring, onboarding, planning cadences, OKR alignment, cross-functional program delivery, AI-native workflow adoption, documentation, and quality reporting. The role partners closely with design, product, engineering, marketing, talent, and leadership teams, and is based in Stockholm, New York City, or London.

Leads design standards and development for new gym openings, refits, and enhancements. Reviews layouts, develops CAD concepts, manages architects and consultants, and ensures designs are buildable, compliant, commercially effective, and consistent across the estate. Uses member insight, operational feedback, utilization data, and performance metrics to improve gym formats. Coordinates internal resources, supports pilots, and communicates design decisions across Property, Operations, and business stakeholders.

Manages engineering and design projects for Microsoft datacenters across EMEA, including greenfield, brownfield, and retrofit developments. Oversees scope, schedules, budgets, technical direction, design deliverables, permitting, site due diligence, and construction coordination. Leads internal and external architects, engineers, consultants, vendors, and cross-functional stakeholders in delivering datacenter shell, power, cooling, telecom, and controls infrastructure.

Leads design development for new gym openings, refits, and enhancements across a multi-site estate. Owns design standards, reviews layouts and drawings, uses CAD, data, and member insight to improve spaces, and coordinates internal resources and external consultants. Ensures designs are commercially effective, buildable, compliant with statutory, health and safety, and CDM requirements, while supporting trials and scalable format development.

Supports project managers by leading multidisciplinary design delivery, coordinating internal and external teams, and ensuring client scope, budget, resources, and timelines are met. Facilitates meetings and workshops, manages design and project risks, integrates procurement, planning, environmental, construction, and operations activities, and promotes collaborative design decisions. The role requires stakeholder engagement, BIM and Autodesk knowledge, technical reporting, and the ability to manage complex engineering projects and changing priorities.

Lead the creative direction and end-to-end delivery of retail print and promotional campaigns across three brands and nine markets. Manage and develop a team of three designers, ensuring customer-focused, commercially effective, on-brand communications. Oversee creative briefs, stakeholder presentations, production, critical paths, approvals, and campaign performance insights while collaborating across retail, commercial, web, merchandising, and production teams.

Manage multidisciplinary engineering design across the full project lifecycle for major infrastructure and real estate projects. Lead technical assurance, constructability reviews, design interfaces, consultant and contractor performance, and stakeholder coordination. Drive compliant, sustainable, innovative, and maintainable mechanical and integrated engineering solutions while incorporating health, safety, environmental, regulatory, and asset lifecycle requirements.

Lead end-to-end FX product lifecycle: define strategy and roadmap, manage discovery and launches, track success metrics and risk, collaborate with cross-functional teams, support incident response, and ensure scalable, secure client solutions.

Lead multidisciplinary design coordination and technical assurance for complex utilities and renewable infrastructure projects. Manage design delivery against scope, programme, budget, regulatory requirements, client specifications, asset interfaces, outages, and commissioning constraints. Collaborate with project, commercial, and construction managers while managing risks in regulated, safety-critical environments. The role also involves stakeholder engagement, client relationship development, leadership, and business development.

Supports design management for high-end residential projects from pre-construction through handover. Coordinates consultants, subcontractors, technical submissions, shop drawings, RFIs, design information, samples, mock-ups, meetings, reports, budgets, programmes, and quality standards. Ensures compliance with planning, listed building, building, and fire regulations while helping resolve site coordination issues and maintain design quality.

Lead and mentor 4–8 Product Designers across key product domains. Balance people management, hiring, resourcing, hands-on product design, and strategic delivery. Partner with product and engineering leaders to define roadmaps, OKRs, and cohesive app experiences. Deliver end-to-end design work using research, prototyping, testing, and handoff, while exploring AI-enhanced design and development workflows.

Lead product design for core platform, native mobile experiences, and the design system. Manage approximately eight distributed product designers across the US and India, providing coaching, hiring, performance management, critiques, and quality oversight. Partner with Product and Engineering to improve UX/UI, interaction design, visual craft, information architecture, and cross-platform consistency. Drive design system adoption and responsible AI-assisted workflows while supporting high-velocity product delivery.

Leads electrical and multidisciplinary design management across infrastructure and real estate projects. Responsibilities include technical assurance, constructability reviews, design interface management, consultant and contractor coordination, stakeholder liaison, regulatory compliance, and development of sustainable engineering solutions. The role oversees design delivery throughout the project lifecycle while ensuring integration, maintainability, reliability, health and safety, and client requirements.

Lead and develop a distributed team of product designers across platform foundations, optimization, business infrastructure, and design systems. Partner with product and engineering leadership on strategy, roadmap vision, customer-centered design, and AI-native experiences. Establish high standards for design craft, coach career growth, shape design practices, and guide coherent experiences across complex enterprise platform areas.

Leads Williams F1 Team’s digital creative direction across its website, app, campaigns, email, and race activations. Owns digital quality, brand integration, performance creative, design systems, and motion principles. Manages and develops the digital design team, oversees external partners, establishes creative processes, and drives scalable, data-informed design improvements. Partners closely with creative, social, brand, and performance teams to strengthen fan engagement and digital brand expression.

Lead and grow Scale AI’s enterprise product design team, set design direction, hire and develop designers, and drive execution with Product and Engineering. Establish research practices, maintain high craft standards, contribute to the shared design system, and define interaction patterns for enterprise users working with AI agents and human-in-the-loop systems.

Leads the design, coordination, delivery, and compliance of temporary works for a major HS2 rail infrastructure project. Responsibilities include managing designers, site teams, subcontractors, suppliers, interfaces, delivery programmes, procurement, CDM compliance, training records, quality assurance, and technical standards. The role requires coordination across civil engineering, rail systems, construction, environmental, and consents teams while ensuring temporary works are designed and built safely and in accordance with project requirements.

Leads product design quality and direction across core user journeys, manages and develops a team of designers, provides hands-on craft leadership, runs design reviews, partners with Product and Engineering, and establishes design standards and culture. The role requires shaping design vision for a scaled consumer app while contributing to the broader design system and leadership team.

Leads multidisciplinary design teams on AMP8 water and wastewater projects across optioneering, design, and construction support. Coordinates technical interfaces, risks, decisions, reviews, assurance, and stakeholder relationships while supporting programme, budget, quality, safety, sustainability, and constructability objectives. The role also contributes to work winning, framework development, continuous improvement, and mentoring technical team members.

Lead and manage a multidisciplinary analog/mixed-signal IC design team, own end-to-end NPI from concept to production, drive design execution and risk management across concurrent high-speed programmes, coordinate cross-functional stakeholders, lead pre-tape-out reviews, and oversee post-silicon bring-up and performance optimisation.

Lead and manage a multidisciplinary MEPHFC design team to deliver RIBA/GRIP stage designs for rail infrastructure. Oversee design production, compliance with rail and safety standards, BIM coordination, risk mitigation, reporting, and stakeholder engagement across projects.

Lead and mentor a small design team while contributing hands-on to high-end print and digital marketing collateral. Manage external vendors, oversee production, uphold brand standards, collaborate with stakeholders, and ensure timely delivery of visually compelling materials across campaigns, events, websites, social media, and presentations.

The Shipboard Design Manager at Margaritaville at Sea oversees the development of guest communications and marketing materials, ensuring alignment with brand guidelines to enhance the onboard experience.

The Shipboard Design Manager enhances guest experiences by developing print and digital communications, collaborating with leadership, and ensuring brand consistency.