Design Leadership Jobs in United States of America
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Head of Design
🇺🇸 San Leandro, California, United States of America
Fuse 🇺🇸 San Leandro, California, United States of America
Own and develop Fuse's brand identity across its website, communications, recruiting, events, video, and physical spaces, while directing creative partners and building an in-house design and content team. Lead the website relaunch, APEIRON campus storytelling, ongoing content production, hiring materials, and studio processes.
Head of Design
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Openclaw Foundation 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Define the design vision and lead the creation of polished, zero-to-one products, scalable design systems, and new interaction paradigms for AI agents. Partner with Foundation leadership, researchers, engineers, and the open-source community to shape product strategy and enable consistent, high-quality experiences across the ecosystem.
Head of Design
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Openclaw Foundation 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Define OpenClaw’s design vision and lead the creation and launch of intuitive AI-agent products, interaction paradigms, and a scalable design system. Partner with Foundation leadership, researchers, engineers, and ecosystem contributors to shape product strategy and deliver polished experiences across consumer products, developer tools, and agent interfaces.
Project Design Manager
🇺🇸 Braintree, MA 02184, United States of America
Arora Engineers 🇺🇸 Braintree, MA 02184, United States of America
Lead multidisciplinary design delivery, coordinating teams, schedules, budgets, quality review milestones, and project risks across infrastructure and building projects. Serve as a primary client and stakeholder contact, support team development and business initiatives, and coordinate design-related construction matters with technical leads and the Construction Manager.
Senior Design Manager - Business Banking & Investments
🇺🇸 Portland, Oregon, United States of America
Mercury 🇺🇸 Portland, Oregon, United States of America
Lead design for Mercury’s Business Banking and Investments teams, setting a high bar for visual and interaction quality across payments, accounts, and treasury experiences. Develop designers, partner with Product and Engineering to shape and ship ambitious product improvements, and remain accountable for customer and business outcomes.
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Senior Design Manager - Business Banking & Investments
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Mercury 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead design for Business Banking and Investments products, setting a high bar for visual and interaction quality across payments, accounts, and treasury experiences. Develop designers, partner with Product and Engineering to shape and ship ambitious product improvements, and remain accountable for customer and business outcomes after launch.
Senior Design Manager - Business Banking & Investments
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Mercury 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead design for Mercury’s Business Banking and Investments products, setting a high bar for visual and interaction quality across payments, accounts, and treasury experiences. Develop designers, partner with Product and Engineering to shape and ship ambitious product improvements, and remain accountable for customer and business outcomes.
Senior Design Manager - Business Banking & Investments
🇺🇸 United States of America
Mercury 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead design for Business Banking and Investments, setting a high bar for visual and interaction quality across payments, accounts, and treasury experiences. Develop designers, partner with Product and Engineering to shape and deliver product direction, and stay accountable for customer and business outcomes after launch.
Head of Design
🇺🇸 San Leandro, California, United States of America
Fuse 🇺🇸 San Leandro, California, United States of America
The Head of Design will define and maintain the company's brand identity across all touchpoints while building and leading a creative team. They will oversee the development of marketing materials, digital presence, and physical design projects to effectively communicate the company's mission.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Emeryville, CA 94608, United States of America
Hdr Remodeling 🇺🇸 Emeryville, CA 94608, United States of America
The Design Manager will lead the design team, manage client communications, and oversee project timelines and implementation. They are responsible for creating architectural designs, including CAD modeling, while balancing aesthetic goals with budgetary constraints.
Content Design Manager, AI
🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Tiktok 🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Lead and develop a content design team, setting priorities, coaching team members, and ensuring high-quality UX writing and content experiences. Drive content strategy and cross-functional projects, establish efficient processes and standards, and collaborate with stakeholders to create a consistent product narrative.
Head of Design
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Openclaw Foundation 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Head of Design will define the design vision and systems for the OpenClaw ecosystem while leading the end-to-end creation of intuitive AI agent experiences. This role involves hands-on product design, establishing scalable design standards, and collaborating with engineering to ship high-quality, production-ready software.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 San Luis Obispo County, California, United States of America
Kitchell 🇺🇸 San Luis Obispo County, California, United States of America
Lead and coordinate preconstruction and design management for a design-build courthouse project, representing the owner and managing schedules, budgets, risks, design reviews, and coordination among project stakeholders. Oversee contractual compliance, quality control, agency coordination, project meetings, and documentation while ensuring the design meets sustainability, accessibility, and code requirements.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America
Andercorp 🇺🇸 Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America
Lead design execution from pursuit through project closeout, coordinating architects, engineers, consultants, owners, agencies, and construction teams. Manage design compliance, quality, constructability, submittals, changes, construction support, stakeholder communication, budgets, and project risks.
Print Design Manager
🇺🇸 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America
Cato Corporation 🇺🇸 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America
Lead the Print Design team in developing seasonal print and pattern direction, original artwork, and trend presentations aligned with brand and commercial needs. Manage team development, workflow, deadlines, resources, and print approvals while collaborating with Design, Buying, Product Development, and production teams.
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.