Design Leadership Jobs in Canada
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Design Manager
🇨🇦 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Recruitment Partners Inc. 🇨🇦 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Lead and support design coordinators, coordinate schedules and priorities across internal and third-party design teams, and review external design work as needed. Support tender planning and resource allocation, improve processes, communicate with clients, and monitor progress to ensure timely delivery of design packages.
Lead, Design Systems & Design Operations
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Cibc 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead the strategy, governance, roadmap, and ongoing evolution of the Wealth design system, including reusable components, patterns, tokens, theming, and cross-platform standards. Establish scalable design operations and partner with Product and Technology teams to improve implementation, accessibility, quality, reuse, and AI-assisted and design-to-code workflows.
Lead, Design Systems & Design Operations
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Cibc 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
You will lead the strategy, roadmap, and governance of the Wealth design system to ensure consistent digital experiences across web and mobile platforms. Additionally, you will partner with technology and product teams to implement scalable design operations and modern design-to-code workflows.
Content Design Manager
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Common Wealth Retirement 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Content Design Manager will lead creative content development and visual storytelling to support marketing campaigns, member education, and advisor engagement. They will maintain and evolve the brand's visual identity while collaborating with cross-functional teams to produce high-quality digital and print assets.
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Design Leadership - Future Opportunities
🇨🇦 Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Neo Financial 🇨🇦 Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Define and drive the design vision and product strategy for a product pillar, while producing high-quality design work and evolving the design system and processes. Build and mentor a small design team, and influence product, engineering, and data partners to make design a strategic driver.
Design Manager, Airport
🇨🇦 Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Aecom 🇨🇦 Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
The Design Manager leads the implementation of multi-disciplinary design standards and oversees all pre-construction services, including planning and permitting. They serve as the primary client interface, managing consultancy agreements and facilitating design reviews to ensure project compliance and timely decision-making.
Timber-Tech Truss LP. - Design Manager
🇨🇦 Aldersyde, AB T0L, Canada
Upsourced Hr 🇨🇦 Aldersyde, AB T0L, Canada
The Design Manager will lead and mentor the design team to ensure accurate, cost-effective, and timely delivery of engineered wood products and truss systems. This role involves standardizing design workflows, collaborating with sales and operations, and driving continuous improvement initiatives across all locations.
Design Manager, Airport
🇨🇦 Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Aecom 🇨🇦 Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
The Design Manager leads the implementation and coordination of multi-disciplinary design standards while serving as the primary client interface throughout all project phases. They are responsible for managing design consultancy agreements, facilitating design reviews, and ensuring compliance with technical specifications and project schedules.
Design Manager, Airport
🇨🇦 Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Aecom 🇨🇦 Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
The Design Manager leads the implementation of multi-disciplinary design standards and oversees all pre-construction services, including planning and permitting. They serve as the primary client interface and manage design consultancy agreements to ensure technical, budgetary, and schedule alignment.
Station Design Manager
🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Systra Canada 🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Lead and coordinate the multidisciplinary design of rail stations from concept to completion, ensuring alignment with operational requirements and regulatory frameworks. Manage technical interfaces between architecture, rail systems, and civil works while overseeing design governance and authority approvals.
Station Design Manager
🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Systra 🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Lead and coordinate the multidisciplinary design of rail stations from concept to completion, ensuring alignment with operational requirements and regulatory frameworks. Manage technical interfaces between architecture, engineering systems, and external authorities to deliver high-performance transportation hubs.
Station Design Manager
🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Atkinsréalis 🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
The Station Design Manager will lead and coordinate the multidisciplinary design of high-speed rail stations from concept through construction. They are responsible for ensuring technical governance, managing project interfaces, and aligning designs with operational, safety, and passenger experience standards.
Station Design Manager
🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Atkinsréalis 🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
The Station Design Manager will lead and coordinate the multidisciplinary design of High Speed Rail stations from concept through construction. They are responsible for ensuring technical governance, managing project interfaces, and aligning designs with operational, safety, and sustainability requirements.
Design Manager
🇨🇦 Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Ventana Construction Corporation 🇨🇦 Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Lead complex design-build and construction management projects from pre-construction through to construction readiness. Coordinate multidisciplinary teams of architects and engineers to ensure design outcomes align with client expectations, budgets, and constructability.
Lead Design Manager, for COWI in North America
🇨🇦 Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
Cowi 🇨🇦 Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
Oversee and coordinate multidisciplinary design activities for major underground and infrastructure projects, specifically supporting the Fraser River Tunnel Project. Act as the central point of design integration, managing interfaces, risks, and client relations to ensure compliant and safe delivery.
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.