Design Leadership Jobs
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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
🇺🇸 Livingston, NJ 07039, United States of America
Spencer Ogden 🇺🇸 Livingston, NJ 07039, United States of America
The Design Manager will lead the design and coordination of large-scale data center fit-out projects. Responsibilities include managing architectural, MEP, and low-voltage/IT infrastructure design and ensuring projects are delivered on schedule and within budget.
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.
Design Manager, Experiential
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Stripe 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
As Design Manager of the Experiential team, you will lead a team of designers and set the creative direction for Stripe's event and experience design. You will partner closely with various stakeholders to ensure every Stripe experience is cohesive and on-brand.
Design Manager, Experiential
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Stripe 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
As Design Manager, you will lead a team of designers and set the creative direction for Stripe's event and experience design. You will partner with various stakeholders to ensure that every Stripe experience is cohesive and on-brand.
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.
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.
Design Systems Lead
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Imprint 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Design Systems Lead will own the strategy, evolution, and execution of Imprint's design system while collaborating with various teams to enhance product development. This role involves mentoring a team and advocating for design systems across the organization.
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.
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.