Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
The Tsui Group 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Lead the design activities for the School Upgrade Program and critical repair projects, ensuring compliance with functional, budgetary, and legal requirements. Coordinate between architects, consultants, and District personnel from project conception through final handoff to execution.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Maas Companies, Inc. 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
As Senior Design Manager, you will lead design activities for the School Upgrade Program and critical repair projects, ensuring compliance with budgetary and legal requirements. You will manage the design process from conception through final review and approval, coordinating with various District branches and representing the design program in community outreach.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Maas Companies 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Lead the design process for the School Upgrade Program, managing architects and projects from conception through final approval. Coordinate with various District branches and the Division of the State Architect to ensure projects meet functional, budgetary, and legal requirements.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Eminent, Inc. 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Lead the design and execution of monthly plans across multiple brands, overseeing the process from conceptualization and sketching to production. Manage and mentor junior designers while collaborating with cross-functional teams to align product development with financial and merchandising strategies.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Owais Construction Group 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Lead the design activities for the School Upgrade Program, ensuring projects meet functional, budgetary, and legal requirements. Coordinate with architects, consultants, and the Division of State Architects to oversee the building design process from conception to handoff.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Owais Construction Group 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Lead the design activities for the School Upgrade Program, ensuring projects meet functional, budgetary, and legal requirements. Coordinate between architects, consultants, and district personnel to oversee the design process from conception to final handoff.
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.