Design Leadership Jobs
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Sr Director, Design Systems, AI Enablement
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Gap Inc. 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Architect and lead a modern, machine-readable design system that supports multi-brand experiences across various platforms. Lead the AI enablement strategy for the Experience Design practice, ensuring seamless integration between design and engineering.
Design Systems Lead
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Imprint 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Design Systems Lead will own the strategy, evolution, and execution of Imprint's design system while collaborating with various teams to enhance product development. This role involves mentoring a team and advocating for design systems across the organization.
Product Design Manager, Adobe Experience Platform
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Adobe 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
As a Design Manager, you will lead a squad of product designers and set the quality bar for the team's output. You will also coach designers on their craft and career growth while advocating for the team's contributions to cross-functional partners.
Partner 20, Design Systems Lead
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
A16z 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Own and evolve the firm's design infrastructure by translating brand systems into scalable templates, AI-powered tools, and modular frameworks. Build repeatable systems and lightweight apps to enable non-designers to produce high-quality, on-brand work independently.
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Partner 20, Design Systems Lead
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Andreessen Horowitz 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Design Systems Lead will own and evolve the design systems infrastructure, ensuring quality, consistency, and scalability. This role involves translating the a16z brand into usable templates and components while building tools that empower non-designers to create on-brand work independently.
Group Product Design Manager, Data & Insights
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Adobe 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead a design squad focused on innovation and rapid delivery of customer value while overseeing day-to-day team operations. Develop collaborative design activities and explore emerging product spaces to enhance Adobe's analytics capabilities.
Group Product Design Manager, Document Cloud Mobile
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Adobe 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead and shape design strategy across Acrobat's mobile surfaces while fostering a user-centric design practice. Collaborate with product and engineering teams to drive impactful design projects and mentor designers.
Design Manager - Workplace Interiors
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Gensler 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Design Manager will lead all phases of corporate interior projects, managing client relationships and project delivery. They will mentor junior staff and ensure high-quality design and client satisfaction.
Design Manager - Workplace Interiors
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Gensler 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead all phases of corporate interior projects, managing client relationships, budgets, and project schedules. Mentor junior staff and coordinate with contractors and consultants to ensure high-quality project execution.
Design Director, Core Insurance & Design Systems
Remote (🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America)
Headway Remote (🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America)
Lead the design systems across products and manage a team defining these systems. Oversee foundational experiences including insurance, support, and security experiences for customers.
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.