Design Leadership Jobs
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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.
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
🇨🇦 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.
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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.
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.