Design Leadership Jobs
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Design Manager
🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
Quavered 🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
The Design Manager will lead a multidisciplinary design team to create engaging educational experiences. Responsibilities include mentoring team members, overseeing design quality, and exploring new design technologies.
Traveling Design Manager - MSG - Pharmaceutical
🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Turner Construction Company 🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
The Design Manager leads the design process from schematic design through execution, ensuring client requirements are met. They also manage communication between design teams and construction teams, and oversee the timely delivery of design documents.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Industrious 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Evaluate new real estate opportunities and make independent decisions on design feasibility. Lead the development of design packages and manage external architects to ensure high-quality, cost-effective documentation.
Design Manager, Industrial/Manufacturing
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Je Dunn Construction 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
The Senior Design Manager is responsible for leading the design process and ensuring successful project delivery. This includes managing design teams, collaborating with stakeholders, and overseeing compliance with project goals and technical requirements.
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.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Charlottesville, Hancock County, IN 46117, United States of America
Mace 🇺🇸 Charlottesville, Hancock County, IN 46117, United States of America
The Senior Design Manager is responsible for developing business plan outcomes, managing design resources, and leading project design operations. They also support business development, training, and ensure adherence to project roles and responsibilities.
Design Manager - Design Build
🇺🇸 Reston, Virginia, United States of America
Jacobs 🇺🇸 Reston, Virginia, United States of America
The Design Manager will lead the scoping, planning, and delivery of municipal and industrial water infrastructure projects. This includes managing teams through all phases of design and ensuring project quality and financial performance.
Lead Design Manager, Resilient
🇺🇸 LaGrange, Georgia, United States of America
Interface 🇺🇸 LaGrange, Georgia, United States of America
The Lead Design Manager, Resilient is responsible for leading the design strategy and creating innovative designs for Interface’s resilient product portfolio. This role involves collaboration with a global design team and guiding the Senior Designer on projects to ensure alignment with company values.
Lead Design Manager, Resilient
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Interface 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Lead the design strategy for the resilient product portfolio, creating innovative designs and colorways while guiding senior designers. Act as a critical connector between design operations, product management, and global manufacturing facilities to ensure timely product delivery.
Design Manager - Design Build
🇺🇸 Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America
Jacobs 🇺🇸 Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America
The Design Manager will lead and manage teams through all phases of design, ensuring projects meet scope, schedule, budget, and quality expectations. They will also be accountable for project completion and client satisfaction while adhering to Jacobs' business policies.
Product Design Manager - AI Trainer
Remote (🇺🇸 Pennsylvania, United States of America)
Dataannotation Remote (🇺🇸 Pennsylvania, United States of America)
Review and critique AI-generated UI/UX designs and evaluate the quality produced by AI models. Help train models to better understand aesthetic quality and user-centered design.
Design Manager - Design Build
🇺🇸 Mendota Heights, MN 55120, United States of America
Jacobs 🇺🇸 Mendota Heights, MN 55120, United States of America
The Design Manager will lead and manage teams through all phases of design, ensuring projects meet scope, schedule, budget, and quality expectations. They will also be accountable for project completion and contribute to the development of the Industrial Water Market Strategy.
Head of Design and Research
🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Upside 🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Own the quality, consistency, and polish bar across the consumer and payments experience. Lead a small team of designers and researchers to enhance design integration into product discovery and drive measurable outcomes.
Design Manager - Design Build
🇺🇸 Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
Jacobs 🇺🇸 Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
The Design Manager will lead the scoping, planning, and delivery of municipal and industrial water infrastructure projects, ensuring quality and financial performance. They will manage multi-disciplinary teams and interface with clients to meet project expectations.
Design Manager - Design Build
🇺🇸 Hampton, Virginia, United States of America
Jacobs 🇺🇸 Hampton, Virginia, United States of America
The Design Manager will lead the scoping, planning, and delivery of municipal and industrial water infrastructure projects. This includes managing teams through all phases of design and ensuring project quality and financial performance.
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.