Went looking for design employment advice...

Designer who doesn’t like designing in design-less area complains about lack of design jobs that he doesn’t actually want.

Not sure if we’re the ones with confused expectations or what. If you don’t want to do design the other areas of product development either lead you into program management, product management, or engineering. Being a “Guy who can help make things” consultant is only so valuable because big engineering consultancies want people with broad engineering or manufacturing specialties, not design backgrounds.

Unless you actually know what job title you want to make you happy, finding that job will continue to be impossible. I would say to pursue a management track but unless you have the design vision and interpersonal skills to lead a design team, (which coming into a new position would require a great portfolio to show how your design successes in the past) that will not be an easy job to get.