Design Leadership Jobs in United States of America
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The North Face: Senior Design Manager, Men's Apparel
🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
The North Face 🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
You will lead and elevate the design expression for Men's Tops & Bottoms, creating best-in-class products that align brand vision with consumer needs. Additionally, you will provide creative direction and mentorship to the design team while partnering with cross-functional teams to ensure successful product commercialization.
The North Face: Senior Design Manager, Men's Apparel
🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Vf Corporation 🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
You will lead and elevate the design expression for Men's Tops & Bottoms, ensuring the creative vision aligns with brand, consumer, and business needs. Additionally, you will provide creative direction and mentorship to the design team while partnering with cross-functional departments to drive product execution.
Process Design Manager
🇺🇸 Chandler, Arizona, United States of America
Bank Of America 🇺🇸 Chandler, Arizona, United States of America
Manage complex process transformation and continuous improvement initiatives, aligning process design with strategic goals while improving efficiency, quality, controls, and sustainability. Translate operational workflows into normalized process objects, maintain process and capability taxonomies, and coordinate business, operations, architecture, and technology partners on future-state solutions.
Remote Aviation Design Manager
Remote (🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America)
Egis Group Remote (🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America)
The Design Manager leads the technical design function by managing design teams, ensuring project deliverables meet quality standards, and enforcing technical processes. They also coordinate resource allocation across projects and partner with project managers to ensure successful execution and client satisfaction.
Construction Liaison & Design Manager
🇺🇸 Somerville, Massachusetts, United States of America
City Of Somerville 🇺🇸 Somerville, Massachusetts, United States of America
Develop and deliver inclusive community engagement strategies for public infrastructure planning, design, and construction, including facilitating meetings, communicating technical information, and coordinating interpretation and translation services. Support project managers and city departments with project oversight, construction impact mitigation, stakeholder communications, records, status updates, and responses to constituent concerns.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Saronic Technologies 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Lead design efforts across multiple capital projects, guiding multidisciplinary teams from project definition and scoping through design, commissioning, and handover. Coordinate with internal stakeholders and external partners, manage design reviews and approvals, and support project budgets, schedules, and permitting.
Director- Design Systems, Operations and Bank Design
🇺🇸 United States of America
Thrivent 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead the enterprise design system strategy, governance, tools, and adoption, while overseeing design operations and the Bank product design team to deliver consistent, high-quality client and advisor experiences across web and mobile. Develop managers and design talent, advance AI-enabled design practices, and partner with product, engineering, and senior leaders to shape strategy, improve delivery, and increase design’s business impact.
Technical & Design Manager
🇺🇸 Lancaster County, South Carolina, United States of America
Pattison Id 🇺🇸 Lancaster County, South Carolina, United States of America
The Technical & Design Manager leads a multidisciplinary team to deliver high-quality manufacturing drawings while ensuring structural integrity and adherence to design standards. The role also drives process innovation, monitors team performance through KPIs, and collaborates across departments to ensure project execution excellence.
Director- Design Systems, Operations and Bank Design
🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
Thrivent 🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
The Director leads the strategic development, governance, and operational excellence of Thrivent's enterprise design systems and mobile design capabilities. This role manages cross-functional teams to deliver consistent digital experiences while integrating AI-driven workflows and fostering a culture of high performance.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Jll 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Design Manager will lead project teams in delivering high-quality commercial interior design solutions while managing client relationships and project financials. They are responsible for overseeing design development, ensuring operational excellence, and contributing to business development initiatives.
Senior Design Manager, Supply Chain Facilities Management (SCFM), Supply Chain Facilities Management (SCFM)
🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America
The Senior Design Manager will own the end-to-end design strategy for supply chain facilities across NALA, EMEA, and APAC, ensuring consistency and quality. They will lead technical due diligence for building acquisitions and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver infrastructure projects.
Design Manager- Industrial Architecture
🇺🇸 Coppell, TX 75019, United States of America
Gray Aes 🇺🇸 Coppell, TX 75019, United States of America
Lead architectural design and coordinate project teams, consultants, and build-design partners to deliver technically accurate, integrated design documents within project scope, budget, and schedule. Supervise and mentor design staff, oversee quality and regulatory submissions, support construction administration, and contribute to customer engagement and business development.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 United States, 97-30 57th Avenue, New York, NY 11368, United States of America
Council On Foreign Relations 🇺🇸 United States, 97-30 57th Avenue, New York, NY 11368, United States of America
Produce polished, high-quality design across digital products, branding, editorial features, print publications, and organizational campaigns while maintaining CFR’s brand standards. Provide design feedback, lead complex initiatives, collaborate with freelance creatives and cross-functional teams, and develop reusable templates and design documentation.
Head of Design
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Profound 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
You will lead and grow the design team while setting the long-term vision for an AI-native product experience. You will partner with leadership to shape product strategy and ensure all shipped work meets an exceptionally high standard of quality.
Design Manager, Data Centers - Remote (U.S.)
Remote (🇺🇸 Arlington County, Virginia, United States of America)
Aecom Remote (🇺🇸 Arlington County, Virginia, United States of America)
Lead data center due diligence and design teams to deliver high-quality projects across various disciplines including architecture, mechanical, and electrical engineering. Proactively manage project plans, client relationships, and technical proposals while resolving issues throughout the project lifecycle.
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.