Design Leadership Jobs
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Design Manager - Design Build
🇺🇸 Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States of America
Jacobs 🇺🇸 Virginia Beach, Virginia, 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.
Head of Design and Research
🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Upside 🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Lead a small team of designers and researchers to elevate the quality, consistency, and polish of the consumer and payments experience. Partner with Product, Engineering, and Marketing to integrate design into early discovery and scale the research practice using AI-native approaches.
Design Manager - Design Build
🇺🇸 Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Jacobs 🇺🇸 Kansas City, 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.
Head of Design
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Maven Clinic 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Head of Design will lead product design, brand design, and user research to position Maven as a design leader in healthcare. This role involves translating company goals into design priorities and driving member engagement and clinical outcomes through design.
Design Manager - Design Build
🇺🇸 Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
Jacobs 🇺🇸 Richmond, Virginia, 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.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Linesight 🇺🇸 Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
The Senior Design Manager will manage the successful delivery of design packages and coordinate with project partners to ensure timely and high-quality delivery. They will lead a design team, develop reporting for decision-making, and oversee design changes.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Tampa, Florida, United States of America
Suffolk Construction 🇺🇸 Tampa, Florida, United States of America
The Design Manager will lead integrated teams through the design-build management process, ensuring project goals are met while maintaining client relationships. They will also manage design processes to deliver coordinated and buildable drawings efficiently.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Tampa, Florida, United States of America
Suffolk Construction 🇺🇸 Tampa, Florida, United States of America
The Senior Project Design Manager will lead integrated teams through the design-build management process, ensuring project goals are met while maintaining client relationships. Responsibilities include managing design processes, facilitating collaboration among stakeholders, and resolving design issues during construction.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Estero, Lee County, FL 33928, United States of America
Suffolk Construction 🇺🇸 Estero, Lee County, FL 33928, United States of America
The Senior Project Design Manager will lead integrated teams through the design-build management process, ensuring the successful realization of the client's project vision. Responsibilities include managing design processes, maintaining client relationships, and collaborating with various stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.
Head of Design
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Maven Clinic 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Head of Design will lead product design, brand design, and user research, connecting design to business outcomes and driving member engagement. This role involves modernizing the design organization and establishing a cohesive design vision across consumer and enterprise products.
Head of Design
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Maven Clinic 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead the product, brand, and user research teams to position Maven as a design leader in healthcare. The role involves translating business goals into design priorities and implementing AI-native workflows to accelerate production and quality.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 United States of America
Sullivan Environmental Services Inc 🇺🇸 United States of America
The Design Manager oversees the planning and execution of design activities for detention facility projects, managing schedules and BIM standards. They coordinate between internal teams, external architects, and regulatory authorities to ensure design quality and consistency.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Linesight 🇺🇸 Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Manage the delivery of design packages and coordinate with project partners to ensure scope, timing, and quality standards are met. Lead a team of design members and maintain the design change register and documentation throughout the project lifecycle.
DESIGN MANAGER - Automotive & Industrial projects
🇺🇸 Novi, Michigan, United States of America
Arcadis 🇺🇸 Novi, Michigan, United States of America
The Design Manager will coordinate with various stakeholders to align project objectives and manage multi-disciplinary engineering design efforts. They will also be responsible for financial management and ensuring timely service delivery that meets client expectations.
DESIGN MANAGER - Automotive & Industrial projects
🇺🇸 Detroit, Michigan, United States of America
Arcadis 🇺🇸 Detroit, Michigan, United States of America
The Design Manager will coordinate with various stakeholders to align project objectives and manage multi-disciplinary engineering design efforts. They will also be responsible for financial management and ensuring timely service delivery that meets client expectations.
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.