Design Leadership Jobs in United States of America
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Menswear Design Manager
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
24 Seven Talent 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Lead and develop design teams, set seasonal design direction, and maintain a consistent brand aesthetic across apparel categories. Partner with merchandising and production teams to deliver commercially viable assortments on schedule, balancing innovation with costs, margins, and production requirements.
Workplace Design Manager
🇺🇸 Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States of America
Turner & Townsend 🇺🇸 Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States of America
The Workplace Design Manager leads the planning, design, and delivery of workplace environments that align with client business objectives and employee experience strategies. They manage project lifecycles from concept development through construction, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to ensure functional and sustainable design solutions.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Simon Property Group 🇺🇸 Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Lead the planning and design of mixed-use developments, managing external architectural and engineering consultants from concept through construction and coordinating with internal development, leasing, project management, and operations teams. Define design scopes, schedules, and budgets; select and manage consultants and contracts; review designs, construction documents, submittals, and invoices; and support implementation through site visits and construction coordination.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Appleton, Wisconsin, United States of America
The Boldt Company 🇺🇸 Appleton, Wisconsin, United States of America
Lead planning, design, and preconstruction for complex power, renewable energy, and industrial projects, guiding work from concept development through construction readiness. Coordinate owners, engineers, trade partners, and project teams to align scope, schedule, cost, risk, and constructability and drive project decisions.
Head of Design - Zonda - Arlington, VA
🇺🇸 Arlington County, Virginia, United States of America
Costar 🇺🇸 Arlington County, Virginia, United States of America
Lead a cohesive design vision across Zonda’s products, brand, marketing, and events, strengthening customer experiences and aligning the brand with the broader CoStar Group portfolio. Develop and mentor a multidisciplinary design team, establish effective and AI-enabled design processes, and partner with Product, Technology, and Marketing to deliver impactful experiences and campaigns.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Gallery 🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Lead, mentor, and develop the Revit design team while establishing standards, workflows, and processes that ensure accurate, high-quality design deliverables. Coordinate with clients, vendors, and cross-functional teams; manage workloads and deadlines; and improve design tools, content libraries, and practices.
Data center Design Manager
🇺🇸 Wide Ruins, Apache County, Arizona, United States of America
Turner & Townsend 🇺🇸 Wide Ruins, Apache County, Arizona, United States of America
The Data center Design Manager will coordinate mechanical scopes through all phases of design and construction while managing external design consultants. They are responsible for maintaining project documentation, ensuring client service standards, and overseeing the commissioning of electrical scopes.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Actalent 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Lead a team developing and governing efficient building design standards and templates for complex, technology-focused facilities, coordinating across internal teams and external design consultants. Review designs for compliance and buildability, and support projects from proposals through construction administration while balancing operational needs, cost, sustainability, and user experience.
Assistant or Associate, Master of Arts in Design Engineering (MADE) and Industrial Design
🇺🇸 Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
Rhode Island School Of Design 🇺🇸 Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
Teach collaborative graduate studios in the MADE program and courses in Industrial Design’s undergraduate and graduate programs, while mentoring students through research, concept development, prototyping, testing, and implementation. Lead the MADE program for at least one three-year term, develop curricula and cross-institutional partnerships, and maintain an active design research, creative practice, or professional program.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Creative Office Resources 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead design projects and a team of interior designers, providing space planning, furniture application, specifications, installation drawings, and project documentation. Support sales and client meetings, collaborate with MillerKnoll on product application and development, and ensure high-quality work and effective communication across teams.
Design Manager (Water Utilities / Conveyance)
🇺🇸 McLean, VA 22101, United States of America
Clark Construction Group 🇺🇸 McLean, VA 22101, United States of America
Lead the design development phase for complex design-build projects, coordinating designers, trade partners, clients, and internal teams to deliver compliant, high-quality design on budget and schedule. Manage design reviews and issue resolution, stakeholder meetings, and design-build pursuit contributions, while maintaining alignment with project costs, schedules, and requirements.
Design Manager (Water / Wastewater Treatment)
🇺🇸 McLean, VA 22101, United States of America
Clark Construction Group 🇺🇸 McLean, VA 22101, United States of America
Lead the design development phase for water and wastewater design-build projects, ensuring deliverables meet contractual and program requirements and are completed on budget and schedule. Coordinate clients, designers, trade partners, and internal teams; lead design reviews and issue resolution; and contribute to bids and RFP/RFQ pursuit efforts.
Landscape Field Design Manager
🇺🇸 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Schilling Horticulture Group, Inc. 🇺🇸 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Manage residential landscape projects from initial consultation and design through estimating, contract approval, installation, and follow-up. Coordinate with clients, management, vendors, and production crews while preparing designs, proposals, project documentation, and schedules.
Referral Process Design Manager
🇺🇸 United States of America
Nva General Practice 🇺🇸 United States of America
Assess and document referral workflows across the network, then design and implement standardized solutions supported by procedures, training, and performance tools. Partner with hospital leaders to drive adoption, resolve implementation issues, monitor results, and continuously improve referral processes and partner satisfaction.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Creative Office Resources 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Design Manager is responsible for leading a design team, managing complex projects, and driving client meetings to provide space planning and furniture application services. They also collaborate with sales and corporate teams to develop product applications and ensure high-quality, error-free design deliverables.
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.