Top Design Manager Jobs in London

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.

Supports EMEA site selection, mission-critical systems design, commissioning, operations, and infrastructure readiness for offices and data centers. Oversees MEP design, budgets, standards compliance, maintenance procedures, emergency response, lifecycle projects, and service providers. Uses AI-assisted design and predictive simulations to optimize layouts, energy use, equipment sizing, performance, and code compliance. Provides technical support to regional facilities teams and coordinates with engineering, construction, facilities management, IT, and technology stakeholders.

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.

Lead and develop a ten-person fashion design team, managing performance, workloads, capacity, workflow, and delivery. Translate the Design Director’s creative vision into clear priorities, review product work, produce performance reports, and improve team productivity. Collaborate with Buying, Garment Technology, and other stakeholders to support critical-path product development and commercial objectives.

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 security interfaces between HS2 and its supply chain, producing and assuring security design deliverables for stations and the future railway. Reviews designs against UK standards and legislation, supports security and design panels, contributes to hazard records, and coordinates with government, police, and infrastructure stakeholders. The role provides physical security expertise covering security systems, blast mitigation, hostile vehicle mitigation, regulatory compliance, and assurance processes in a safety-critical rail environment.

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.

Leads ELV design for mission-critical European data center projects, covering ICT infrastructure, structured cabling, fiber networks, physical security, BMS/BA interfaces, and low-voltage building systems. Coordinates multidisciplinary teams, consultants, contractors, vendors, and authorities; reviews designs for quality, compliance, constructability, and reliability; resolves technical risks; and supports testing, commissioning, documentation, and handover.

Manage design management teams and projects across the UK and internationally. Responsibilities include coordinating design programs, deliverables, quality, budgets, approvals, workshops, and design coordination; managing sub-consultant contracts, invoices, and financial reporting; supporting business planning; mentoring team members; and reviewing work for quality and contractual compliance.

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.

Manage multidisciplinary design projects from scope through delivery, coordinating internal and external teams, clients, stakeholders, procurement, construction, and operations. Lead design integration, meetings, workshops, risk identification, stakeholder communication, budget and resource alignment, and schedule management. The role requires strong project management, technical coordination, BIM and Autodesk knowledge, and the ability to guide complex engineering design solutions in Defence or Technology environments.

Supports design project delivery across multidisciplinary teams, coordinating scope, budgets, resources, schedules, risks, stakeholders, procurement, construction, and operations. The role facilitates workshops, guides internal and external designers, integrates technical design activities, promotes effective design decisions, and collaborates with project managers to deliver client outcomes. Experience in Defence or Technology sectors, BIM-led design, Autodesk products, project management tools, stakeholder engagement, and technical report writing are emphasized.

Manages design management teams and infrastructure design projects across the UK and internationally. Responsibilities include coordinating design programmes, deliverables, quality, budgets, approvals, workshops, and design coordination; managing sub-consultants, contracts, invoices, cash flow, and financial reporting; mentoring team members; reviewing work quality; and supporting business planning, performance management, and project delivery.

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.

Manage, coach, and develop Product Designers while building a strong Design culture. Own Design operations, processes, rituals, planning, quality standards, and team effectiveness. Partner with Product and Engineering leaders, guide complex B2B product design work, define Design KPIs and OKRs, identify capability gaps, and support organizational growth. The role is primarily focused on people leadership and Design strategy, with selective hands-on contribution.

Leads mechanical design for mission-critical European data center projects, covering HVAC, cooling, chilled water, hydronic, plumbing, drainage, ventilation, and thermal systems. Coordinates multidisciplinary teams, consultants, contractors, vendors, authorities, and operations stakeholders. Reviews designs, calculations, specifications, equipment selections, and technical proposals for quality, compliance, constructability, reliability, efficiency, maintainability, and sustainability. Identifies risks and supports issue resolution through design, commissioning, handover, and operational readiness.

Lead Mitre’s long-term product and design strategy for global football products. Translate brand direction and consumer insights into range priorities, design briefs, product stories, and commercially effective launches. Oversee seasonal range development, design execution, critical paths, reviews, milestones, sourcing, and development partnerships. Collaborate with brand, commercial, marketing, league, and external teams while coaching a Designer and championing innovative, sustainable, quality-led products.

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.

The EMEA Design Manager will oversee design delivery for data center projects, manage multidisciplinary teams, ensure compliance with standards, and report on project metrics.

Two-year graduate role supporting high-voltage design management across engineering projects. Responsibilities include learning the design lifecycle, supporting document control, reviewing drawings, managing requests for information and design issue logs, coordinating deliverables, and helping senior design managers progress designs to meet client requirements. The role includes mentorship, professional development, and support toward chartership.

Lead end-to-end delivery of annual, sustainability, and integrated reports for global clients; manage multi-stakeholder projects across design, content, production and digital teams; act as senior client lead; oversee schedules, budgets, quality control, and reporting platform workflows (e.g., CTRLPrint, Workiva).

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.