Design Leadership Jobs
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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.
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.
Interdisciplinary Design Manager.
🇺🇸 Portland, Oregon, United States of America
Us Army Corps Of Engineers 🇺🇸 Portland, Oregon, United States of America
Serve as the Design Manager for all customers within the Branch's region, coordinating with project managers and managing project schedules and budgets. Provide extensive planning, coordination, and reporting on project status for complex engineering tasks.
Design Manager, Experiential
🇺🇸 United States of America
Stripe 🇺🇸 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.
Marketing & Design Manager
🇺🇸 Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America
Florida State University 🇺🇸 Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America
The Marketing & Design Manager leads marketing and creative production efforts for Opening Nights at Florida State University. This includes developing marketing strategies, managing campaigns, and designing promotional materials.
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 - Water
🇺🇸 Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America
Wharton-smith, Inc. 🇺🇸 Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America
The Design Manager leads planning, coordination, budgeting, risk analysis, and stakeholder engagement during the pursuit and preconstruction phases of municipal water and wastewater projects. This role focuses on early project strategy, design collaboration, constructability reviews, cost development, and owner engagement.
HEAD OF DESIGN AND PRODUCTION: GALLERY SCALE ARTWORKS
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Design Observer 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Head of Design and Production will lead the design and fabrication of light sculptures and manage exhibition projects. This includes overseeing the entire lifecycle from R&D and prototyping to fabrication and installation.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America
Innovar Group 🇺🇸 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America
Lead design management efforts for a large-scale data center construction project and coordinate design activities across various teams. Manage design deliverables from preconstruction through project delivery while ensuring alignment with schedule, budget, and operational requirements.
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.
Architecture and Design Manager - Chicago
🇺🇸 Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States of America
Steelcase 🇺🇸 Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States of America
The Architecture and Design Manager will build relationships with targeted architecture and design firms to develop new business and collaborate with dealer partners. They will lead complex projects from concept through execution and manage administrative tasks.
Head of Design
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Bettingjobs 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Define and lead the overall creative vision and design standards across multiple brands and platforms. Collaborate with various teams to create engaging player experiences and elevate the visual layer of the app.
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.