Design Leadership Jobs
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Remote Aviation Design Manager
Remote (🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America)
Hw Lochner Inc Remote (🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America)
The Design Manager leads and manages the technical design function, overseeing a team of Design Leads and staff to ensure project deliverables meet quality and design standards. They are responsible for resource planning, implementing technical processes, and fostering a culture of design excellence across the organization.
Design Manager (Freelance)
🌍 Remote
Charcoalblue 🌍 Remote
Provide subject matter expertise and design guidance for event and experience spaces while ensuring architectural designs align with client vision. Manage stakeholder relationships and produce documentation to support the delivery of complex projects within the workplace sector.
FOODSERVICE DESIGN MANAGER-(REMOTE)
🌍 Remote
Compass Group Usa 🌍 Remote
Oversees the planning and technical execution of foodservice and retail design projects across various sectors. Manages Foodservice Designers and BIM staff to ensure technical accuracy and alignment with national design guidelines.
FOODSERVICE DESIGN MANAGER-(REMOTE)
🌍 Remote
Compass Group 🌍 Remote
The Foodservice Design Manager oversees the planning, technical execution, and coordination of foodservice and retail design projects across the company portfolio. This role manages design staff, ensures technical accuracy in layouts, and collaborates with cross-functional teams to meet project milestones.
Design Systems Lead (Remote LATAM)
🌍 Remote
Blacksmith Agency 🌍 Remote
The Design Systems Lead is responsible for building scalable token architectures and core component libraries in Figma for multiple client brands. They must document these systems to ensure seamless execution by developers and automated pipelines.
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Senior Product Designer, Design Systems (Remote LATAM)
🌍 Remote
Blacksmith Agency 🌍 Remote
The role involves building and owning client design systems by extracting patterns into working systems with tokens, variables, and core components. You will document these systems to ensure seamless execution by developers or automated pipelines across multiple client brands.
Head of Design
🌍 Remote
Odin 🌍 Remote
You will lead the design direction for the company, defining and elevating the customer experience across both product and brand identity. You will also build and scale design systems, practices, and feedback loops while remaining hands-on with complex product problems.
Deputy Design Manager I, Data Centers - Remote (U.S.)
Remote (🇺🇸 Arlington County, Virginia, United States of America)
Aecom Remote (🇺🇸 Arlington County, Virginia, United States of America)
The Deputy Design Manager supports the coordination, documentation, and delivery of complex data center projects from site due diligence through construction. This role involves managing project schedules, tracking action items, and serving as a backup to the Design Manager.
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.