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Design Manager (Location: Scranton, PA)
🇺🇸 Bloomsburg, PA 17815, United States of America
Ghd 🇺🇸 Bloomsburg, PA 17815, United States of America
As a Design Manager, you will lead complex, multidiscipline design efforts and contribute to the development of GHD’s footprint in Northeast Pennsylvania. You will be responsible for organizing the technical team, controlling the design path, and ensuring project outcomes meet specified results.
Design Manager (Location: Scranton, PA)
🇺🇸 Bloomsburg, PA 17815, United States of America
Ghd Group Pty Ltd 🇺🇸 Bloomsburg, PA 17815, United States of America
Lead complex, multidiscipline design efforts for water and wastewater projects while managing technical teams and solving design problems. Support the growth of GHD's footprint in Northeast Pennsylvania by managing client relationships and ensuring regulatory compliance.
Head of Design
🇺🇸 United States of America
Pholio 🇺🇸 United States of America
You will set the design direction for the product and work closely with the founders, product, and engineering teams. This includes designing and prototyping workflows, reviewing details, shaping the roadmap, and improving product quality and consistency.
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.
Design Manager – Sports & Entertainment - Senior
🇺🇸 Home, Marshall County, KS 66438, United States of America
Gensler 🇺🇸 Home, Marshall County, KS 66438, United States of America
You will lead multidisciplinary design teams on influential sports and entertainment projects, overseeing all phases from concept through completion. As the primary client contact, you will manage relationships and ensure project alignment with client objectives.
Category Design Manager Oral Health
🇺🇸 Warren Township, New Jersey, United States of America
Haleon 🇺🇸 Warren Township, New Jersey, United States of America
Lead the strategic visual brand experience and identity systems for the Oral Health category portfolio. Orchestrate end-to-end consumer journeys across packaging, digital, and retail platforms while partnering with cross-functional leaders.
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.
Creative Design Manager
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Synthesia 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
The Creative Design Manager will oversee the execution of creative design service delivery, ensuring projects meet client expectations. This role involves coordinating project timelines and resources while managing client relationships and performance monitoring.
Design Manager Design - Indirect
🇺🇸 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Builders Firstsource 🇺🇸 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
The design manager oversees the work generated by the Design department and manages employees using design software. They communicate with sales, designers, and customers to ensure timely completion of projects.
Project Design Manager
🇺🇸 Davie, Broward County, Florida, United States of America
Jacobs 🇺🇸 Davie, Broward County, Florida, United States of America
Manage and coordinate all phases of project and design planning, execution, and closeout. Ensure projects meet scope, schedule, budget, and quality requirements while maintaining client satisfaction.
Design Manager Design - Indirect
🇺🇸 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Builders Firstsource 🇺🇸 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
The Design Manager oversees the work generated by the Design department, managing employees who use engineering and design software. They are responsible for reviewing design work prior to production and coordinating with sales and customers for timely completion.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Reno, Nevada, United States of America
Scion Staffing 🇺🇸 Reno, Nevada, United States of America
The Design Manager will lead engineering and architectural design efforts for complex capital improvement projects within a federal healthcare environment. This role oversees multidisciplinary design teams and ensures projects are delivered on schedule and within budget.
Associate Design Manager, Workplace
🇺🇸 Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Jll 🇺🇸 Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Support the design and delivery of corporate workplace projects by coordinating between internal stakeholders and external architectural partners. Assist in managing design phases from concept through implementation while ensuring adherence to brand standards, budgets, and timelines.
HEAD OF DESIGN AND PRODUCTION: GALLERY SCALE ARTWORKS
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Design Observer 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Head of Design and Production will lead the design and fabrication of light sculptures and manage exhibition projects. This role oversees the entire lifecycle from R&D and prototyping to fabrication and installation.
Design Systems Lead
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Perplexity 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Lead will bootstrap and own a semantic token system and the design system repository on GitHub to ensure product coherence across platforms. They will bridge the gap between design and engineering by managing contributions, documentation, and accessibility standards.
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.