Design Leadership Jobs
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Head of Design, Unified Service Platform
🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Gusto 🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Lead and coach a team of three designers while maintaining a hands-on player-coach role for high-leverage design work. Set the design vision for the Unified Service Platform and represent design within the cross-functional leadership quartet.
Sr. Design Manager - Communications
🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Wsb 🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Lead a team of communications engineers and specialists to design and implement broadband infrastructure while ensuring regulatory compliance. Manage business development, departmental budgets, and client relationships to ensure project quality and timely delivery.
Building Design Manager
🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Kiewit 🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
The Building Design Manager leads the building project team and serves as the primary interface with project management and engineering discipline leads. They are responsible for setting expectations for productivity and quality, monitoring project metrics, and ensuring successful project execution.
Traveling Design Manager - MSG - Pharmaceutical
🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Turner Construction Company 🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
The Design Manager leads the design process from schematic design through execution, ensuring client requirements are met. They also manage communication between design teams and construction teams, and oversee the timely delivery of design documents.
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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.