Top Design Jobs in Manchester

Hands-on director-level product designer for enterprise SaaS who owns the design system, user psychology, dashboards, data visualizations, and habit-forming product mechanics. Designs workflows to drive adoption, retention, referrals, and expansion while partnering with Product, Engineering, Sales, and Customer Success. Prototypes, tests, and refines UX based on analytics and A/B experiments to align design with revenue metrics.

As a Solution Design Engineer, you will create scalable technical solutions, translate requirements into designs, integrate AI technologies, and govern architectural standards within Agile teams.

The Innovation Architect identifies and develops innovation opportunities, conducting research, managing the innovation process, creating use cases, and developing business cases to support decision-making.

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.

Lead HV substation design for hyperscale data centre projects, managing technical delivery, compliance, client relations, and mentoring junior engineers.

Design and own user-centred content experiences, develop content strategies, style and governance guidelines, run workshops, define KPIs, and coach/manage team members while collaborating with stakeholders to deliver quality digital services.

Create user-centered digital content and strategies using content design principles. Conduct audits, develop taxonomies and style guidance, write accessible web content, work with CMS, collaborate across teams, and advocate for content-led product value.

As a Test Design Engineer, you will lead the design of test solutions for aerospace and defence systems, ensuring compliance with standards and customer requirements. You will collaborate with stakeholders and integrate testing systems throughout the product lifecycle.

The Project Design Authority will oversee technical compliance and solution design for projects, ensuring alignment with customer needs and regulations while leading project teams and reviewing risks and opportunities.

The Design Lead will oversee the creative direction and design strategy for multiple projects, ensuring alignment with business goals and quality standards across Mythwright’s titles, notably Thronefall.

Lead and manage design delivery for major gas infrastructure projects, act as Designated Individual for Temporary Works (BS 5975), produce and review 2D/3D designs, perform structural assessments and FEA, ensure design governance and compliance, coordinate multidisciplinary teams, support tender reviews and value engineering, and drive innovation toward hydrogen-ready, lower-carbon solutions.

Lead and manage all technical and design aspects of residential and infrastructure projects, coordinating consultants and subcontractors to ensure compliant, buildable designs are delivered on time and within budget. Oversee design programmes, approvals, document control, site coordination, change control, handovers and fulfil CDM/Building Regulations principal design responsibilities.

Lead and manage all technical and design aspects of residential and infrastructure projects, coordinating external consultants, ensuring regulatory and company compliance, preparing design programmes, managing design approvals, undertaking site reviews, and delivering coordinated information for construction, handover and certification within time and budget.

Perform National Grid BP141 design assurance reviews across transmission and distribution projects, assess compliance with BP188 and technical standards, produce DCAARs, coordinate stakeholders, identify risks and mitigation, maintain design records, and support timely, safe delivery of substation, cable, OHL and protection/control designs.

Lead design, specification, and delivery of HV/EHV cable systems from concept to completion. Perform routing, burial risk, thermal/EMC/mechanical modelling, ratings and installation methodology; coordinate multidisciplinary teams; provide client technical assurance; manage procurement, construction, commissioning, inspections and vendor oversight; mentor engineers and support business development.

Perform detailed electrical power system studies (load flow, short circuit, protection coordination, harmonics, stability), develop system design documentation (single-line diagrams, schematics, layouts), prepare technical specifications for HV equipment, ensure compliance with standards and grid codes, support sales/customer engagement, and collaborate across multi-disciplinary teams throughout project lifecycle.

Lead design and delivery of HV/EHV substations (11kV–400kV) for transmission, distribution and renewables. Client liaison, produce primary substation design deliverables, coordinate multidiscipline teams, apply National Grid/DNO/IEC standards, prepare equipment specifications, manage H&S and CDM design duties, support bids and project delivery to budget, time and quality.

Design and develop clinical training materials and guidance for Functional Assessors in the WCA service. Produce e-learning, videos, desk aids, assessments, liaise with clinicians and external bodies, research evidence-based guidance, and contribute to training needs analysis and continuous improvement.

Produce temporary works designs for excavation support, propping, formwork and falsework; check drawings to BS5975:2019; attend client meetings and site visits; review design briefs; manage workload and contribute to continuous improvement.

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

Provide technical leadership for polymer component design and analysis, interfacing with customers and cross-functional teams. Lead design proposals, generate/approve drawings and test/validation plans, perform failure analysis, support material disposition and continuous improvement, mentor junior engineers, and represent the company in technical meetings and presentations.

Lead and unify the agency's design technology practice, managing engineering teams, delivery across multiple engagements, technical strategy, architecture, standards, prototyping, AI-assisted tooling, and cross-disciplinary collaboration with designers and clients to ensure consistent, high-quality outcomes.

Lead and execute product design for a short-term rental SaaS: set design vision and standards, own the design system, lead a small player-coach design team, ship high‑impact work end-to-end, and use research, analytics, experimentation, and customer feedback to prove impact.

Lead the agency's 3D and motion output for a global technology client: own end-to-end 3D pipeline, set visual and technical standards, direct creative and client-facing presentations, plan resourcing and schedules, manage freelancers and external studios, and ensure photoreal quality across launches, social cutdowns and always-on content.