Design Leadership Jobs
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Product Design Manager
🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Maintainx 🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Lead and grow a team of 4-6 product designers to create intuitive, AI-powered workflows for maintenance and asset management. Partner with Product and Engineering leads to translate strategy into high-quality design execution across web and mobile platforms.
Furniture Design Manager
🇨🇦 Canada
Branch 🇨🇦 Canada
The Furniture Design Manager will lead design across a portfolio of projects, ensuring high-quality execution from concept to production. They will also manage the design of in-box materials and evolve the design process for the team.
Design Manager, Digital Experiences
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Stripe 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Manage and grow a high-performing design team while crafting a clear design vision that aligns with Stripe's goals. Advocate for design excellence and collaborate with various teams to enhance the web presence.
Sr. Design Manager, Product
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Meltwater 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Senior Manager of Product Design will lead a distributed design team to enhance Meltwater's platform experience through best-in-class design practices. Responsibilities include overseeing design execution, mentoring designers, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to align design efforts with business objectives.
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Fashion Design manager
🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Tristan 🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
The Fashion Design Manager leads and develops the design team, ensuring productivity and alignment with the seasonal vision. They manage the product development calendar and facilitate collaboration across teams to deliver cohesive collections that reflect the brand's identity.
Design Manager – Water/Wastewater
🇨🇦 Markham, Ontario, Canada
Ghd 🇨🇦 Markham, Ontario, Canada
The Design Manager is responsible for managing multi-disciplinary project delivery for municipal water/wastewater projects, ensuring compliance with client and construction requirements. This role also involves stakeholder management, project budgeting, and quality control throughout the project lifecycle.
Planning & Design Manager
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Bentway 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Design Manager will oversee the planning, coordination, procurement, and implementation of multidisciplinary design projects. This includes managing projects across various scales and ensuring alignment with The Bentway’s Under Gardiner Public Realm Plan.
Design Leadership - Future Opportunities
🇨🇦 Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Neo Financial 🇨🇦 Calgary, Alberta, Canada
You will partner with Founders and Product Directors to define the design vision and product strategy. Additionally, you will lead a team of designers, ensuring high-quality design outputs and fostering a culture of excellence.
Design Leadership - Future Opportunities
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Neo Financial 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The role involves strategic leadership in defining and driving the long-term design vision and product strategy, while also leading hands-on design work. Additionally, it includes building and mentoring a team of designers and championing the value of design across the organization.
Design Leadership - Future Opportunities
🇨🇦 Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Neo Financial 🇨🇦 Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Lead the long-term design vision and product strategy while remaining hands-on in creating high-fidelity mockups and prototypes. Build and mentor a team of designers and collaborate with executive leadership to drive design as a strategic business driver.
Senior Design Manager
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Chanel 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead all phases of design coordination, construction project management, and procurement for luxury retail and corporate offices in Canada. Manage budgets, coordinate with cross-functional teams, and ensure brand image standards are maintained across all sites.
Lead Product Designer - Connectivity
🇨🇦 Canada
Deel 🇨🇦 Canada
The Lead Product Designer will own design across highly technical and strategic surfaces, including API and developer ecosystems, and AI-powered customer experiences. They will partner with PDE Directors to shape the long-term direction of Deel's Connectivity platform and manage a small team of designers.
Lead Product Designer - Fintech
🇨🇦 Canada
Deel 🇨🇦 Canada
You will own design across Client and Worker experiences on Web and Mobile, impacting products used daily by hundreds of thousands of businesses and millions of workers. The role involves partnering with PDE Directors to shape experiences, working directly with designers on projects, and managing a small team through hands-on collaboration.
Design Manager | Construction
🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Turner Construction 🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Lead the entire design process from schematic design through execution to deliver efficient and economical construction documents. Coordinate between designers, clients, and construction teams to ensure technical requirements and contractual obligations are met.
Product Design Manager
🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Maintainx 🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Lead and grow a team of 4-6 product designers to create intuitive, AI-powered workflows for maintenance and asset management. Partner with Product and Engineering leads to translate strategy into high-quality design execution across web and mobile platforms.
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.