Design Leadership Jobs
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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 between architects, consultants, and district personnel to oversee the design process from conception to final handoff.
Design Manager, Experiential
🇺🇸 United States of America
Stripe 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead and grow a team of experiential designers to set the creative direction for Stripe's global events and brand activations. Partner with cross-functional leaders to build scalable design systems and ensure high-quality execution of physical and digital brand experiences.
DESIGN MANAGER - Automotive & Industrial projects
🇺🇸 Novi, Michigan, United States of America
Arcadis 🇺🇸 Novi, Michigan, United States of America
Lead and coordinate multi-disciplinary engineering design efforts for automotive, industrial, and commercial projects. Manage financial controls, resource deployment, and client-facing communications to ensure timely service delivery.
Design Manager - Aviation
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Stv 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
The Design Manager will lead design and preconstruction efforts for airport construction projects, including budgeting, scheduling, and procurement planning. They will collaborate with various stakeholders to ensure compliance with regulations and successful project execution.
Product Design Manager, Adobe Experience Platform
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Adobe 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
As a Design Manager, you will lead a squad of product designers and set the quality bar for the team's output. You will also coach designers on their craft and career growth while advocating for the team's contributions to cross-functional partners.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 United States of America
The Boldt Company 🇺🇸 United States of America
The Design Manager will lead the design and preconstruction process for complex projects, integrating scope, schedule, cost, and risk. This role involves collaboration with owners, engineers, trade partners, and internal teams to ensure project success.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
Bridgestone Americas 🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
This position manages architectural due diligence and design across all Bridgestone Retail store formats, including new builds, remodels, and expansions. The role is responsible for project budget management, risk mitigation, and financial stewardship from inception to completion.
Partner 20, Design Systems Lead
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
A16z 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Own and evolve the firm's design infrastructure by translating brand systems into scalable templates, AI-powered tools, and modular frameworks. Build repeatable systems and lightweight apps to enable non-designers to produce high-quality, on-brand work independently.
Partner 20, Design Systems Lead
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Andreessen Horowitz 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Design Systems Lead will own and evolve the design systems infrastructure, ensuring quality, consistency, and scalability. This role involves translating the a16z brand into usable templates and components while building tools that empower non-designers to create on-brand work independently.
Partner 20, Design Systems Lead
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Andreessen Horowitz 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Design Systems Lead will own and evolve the design systems infrastructure, ensuring quality, consistency, and scalability. This role involves translating the a16z brand into usable templates and components while building tools that empower non-designers to create on-brand work independently.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
Bridgestone Americas 🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
Manages architectural due diligence and design for all Bridgestone Retail store formats, including new builds and remodels. Leads technical negotiations with external developers and manages project budgets and risk mitigation from inception to completion.
Group Product Design Manager, Data & Insights
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Adobe 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead a design squad focused on innovation and rapid delivery of customer value while overseeing day-to-day team operations. Develop collaborative design activities and explore emerging product spaces to enhance Adobe's analytics capabilities.
Design Manager - Workplace Interiors
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Gensler 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead all phases of corporate interior projects, managing client relationships, budgets, and project schedules. Mentor junior staff and coordinate with contractors and consultants to ensure high-quality project execution.
Design Manager - Water/Wastewater
🇺🇸 Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America
The Haskell Company 🇺🇸 Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America
Lead the design and execution of industrial wastewater treatment projects, ensuring alignment with client expectations. Manage project scopes, schedules, budgets, and resources for successful project delivery.
Design Manager - Water/Wastewater
🇺🇸 Frisco, Texas, United States of America
The Haskell Company 🇺🇸 Frisco, Texas, United States of America
Lead the design and execution of industrial wastewater treatment projects, ensuring alignment with project goals and client expectations. Manage project scopes, schedules, budgets, and resources while communicating directly with clients and senior management.
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.