Design Leadership Jobs in United States of America
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Footwear Design Manager
🇺🇸 Beaverton, Oregon, United States of America
Mindlance 🇺🇸 Beaverton, Oregon, United States of America
Shape footwear material design direction and dimensional strategy by developing innovative material concepts, elevating existing materials, and translating consumer insights and cultural trends into compelling product narratives. Collaborate with design, development, manufacturing, product management, and merchandising teams to ensure design intent and material execution across strategic projects.
Train Control Design Manager
🇺🇸 Lynnwood, Washington, United States of America
Atkinsréalis 🇺🇸 Lynnwood, Washington, United States of America
The Train Control Design Manager provides technical authority and strategic leadership for all train control activities, including the design, integration, and commissioning of signalling systems. They oversee multidisciplinary teams to ensure project deliverables meet safety standards, regulatory requirements, and operational goals.
Communications Design Manager - Rail & Transit
🇺🇸 Lynnwood, Washington, United States of America
Atkinsréalis 🇺🇸 Lynnwood, Washington, United States of America
The Communications Design Manager leads the design, integration, and commissioning of complex communications systems for rail and transit environments. They coordinate multidisciplinary teams and act as the primary technical liaison with clients, regulatory agencies, and vendors to ensure project compliance and safety.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Sls Consultants 🇺🇸 Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Lead design delivery for a 1.5 GW hyperscale data center campus, coordinating architecture, engineering, and specialty consultants across site, utility, infrastructure, and building disciplines. Manage schedules, design packages, technical reviews, stakeholder alignment, consultant performance, quality, and risks from concept through construction.
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Design Manager
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Actalent 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Lead the development and implementation of building design standards and templates for complex, technology-focused facilities, coordinating across disciplines and internal and external stakeholders. Review designs for compliance and buildability, and support projects from proposals through construction administration while balancing operational needs, cost, sustainability, and user experience.
Architectural Design Manager
🇺🇸 Newark, New Jersey, United States of America
Actalent 🇺🇸 Newark, New Jersey, United States of America
Manage the design bulletin system and coordinate design changes among architects, engineers, construction teams, stakeholders, and project managers. Maintain schedules and documentation, lead change reviews, standardize change-management processes, monitor related budgets and resources, report progress, and ensure regulatory compliance.
High Security Design Manager
🇺🇸 United States of America
Microsoft 🇺🇸 United States of America
The High Security Design Manager will oversee the engineering scope, schedule, and budget for complex datacenter construction and retrofit projects. They will provide technical leadership and coordinate cross-functional teams to deliver infrastructure aligned with Microsoft's capacity roadmap.
RF/Mixed-Signal Design Leadership
🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Maxlinear, Inc. 🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Lead and develop the RF/Mixed-Signal design team in Irvine and Carlsbad to create IPs for 200G and 400G data center SERDES applications. Oversee the entire design lifecycle from concept through tape-out and production release while collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Head of Design & Editorial
🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
Minneapolis Institute Of Art 🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
Lead Mia’s visual identity, design systems, editorial standards, and creative direction across physical and digital experiences, publications, exhibitions, and campaigns. Manage and develop the design and editorial team, coordinate workflows and budgets, oversee external creative partners, and embed inclusion and accessibility in creative work.
RF/Mixed-Signal Design Leadership
🇺🇸 Carlsbad, California, United States of America
Maxlinear, Inc. 🇺🇸 Carlsbad, California, United States of America
Lead and develop the RF/Mixed-Signal design team in Irvine and Carlsbad to deliver high-performance IPs for 200G and 400G data center SERDES applications. Manage the full execution lifecycle from concept through tape-out and production release while collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Principal Data Center Design Manager (Nashville, TN)
🇺🇸 United States of America
Oracle 🇺🇸 United States of America
Manage end-to-end design delivery for new and retrofit data center projects, coordinating internal teams, consultants, and colocation partners while reviewing design packages for compliance with Oracle standards. Lead design reviews, manage deliverables and schedules, resolve design risks, and support consistent, scalable, efficient infrastructure across Oracle’s global portfolio.
Non-Train Control Systems (Non-TCS) Deputy Design Manager
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Wsp 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Deputy Design Manager will provide technical leadership and oversight for all non-train-control systems on the 6th Avenue / 63rd Street CBTC Project. This includes coordinating multidisciplinary design reviews, managing interfaces, and ensuring the Design-Builder's work complies with all project requirements and safety standards.
Accenture Construct – Construction Design Manager, ANS
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Accenture 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Manage and coordinate design processes and multiple capital projects, ensuring designs meet functional, budgetary, environmental, legal, and district standards. Coordinate with architects, consultants, and district personnel; oversee design reviews and changes; and monitor project progress, cost, and schedule.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 United States of America
Switch 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead design coordination for large-scale data center projects from kickoff through permitting and construction handoff, managing schedules, quality, documentation, RFIs, submittals, and permits. Coordinate internal teams and external partners, oversee permitting and project documentation, resolve design issues, and report schedule, cost, risk, and change updates to leadership.
Senior Transportation Design Manager
🇺🇸 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America
Aecom 🇺🇸 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America
The Senior Transportation Design Manager leads the planning, design, and delivery of transportation infrastructure projects while providing technical oversight to multidisciplinary teams. This role also involves building client relationships, supporting business development, and mentoring engineering staff to ensure project success.
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.