Design Leadership Jobs in Austin, United States of America
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Senior Airfield Civil Engineer & Design Manager
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Jacobs 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Lead and manage aviation and airfield design efforts across project stages, including planning, design reviews, submittals, construction administration, and occasional site inspections. Coordinate stakeholders, guide design teams, present design solutions, and ensure projects meet requirements for quality, cost, schedule, sustainability, constructability, and operational needs.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Mello 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Lead creative direction and manage in-house and freelance designers delivering merchandise design sprints, while keeping projects on schedule. Review all deliverables for quality, maintain design standards, coordinate with cross-functional teams, and improve sprint processes as demand grows.
Senior Design Manager, Industrial Manufacturing Construction
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Je Dunn Construction 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Leads design delivery from early planning through project completion, coordinating design partners, internal disciplines, clients, trade partners, and regulatory stakeholders. Manages design scope, contracts, budgets, schedules, documentation, quality, and change control while supporting business development and resolving project challenges.
Design Manager 2, Industrial Manufacturing Construction
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Je Dunn Construction 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Manage industrial and manufacturing design projects from concept through construction and startup, coordinating design partners, internal disciplines, clients, and construction teams. Oversee scope, schedules, budgets, contracts, design quality, documentation, permitting, and field problem-solving while supporting business development and project delivery.
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Product Innovation & Design Manager
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Atlas Coffee Club 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Develop and prototype new consumer products, including researching customer needs, creating concepts and packaging briefs, and sourcing and managing suppliers. Coordinate launches from approved concept through production readiness, support demand forecasting, and analyze launch performance and feedback to improve products.
Engineering Design Manager
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Stantec 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
The Engineering Design Manager will forecast, organize, and monitor project design development and production delivery while enforcing project execution plans. They will also coordinate with multidisciplinary teams, consultants, and clients to ensure project commitments regarding cost, quality, and schedule are met.
Design Manager, Mission Critical
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
J.e. Dunn Construction Group Inc P 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
The Design Manager interprets design-build RFPs and develops work plans while collaborating with preconstruction and operations teams. They manage outside design consultants, oversee the design review process, and ensure project documentation meets technical and budgetary requirements.
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.