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Project Manager (Design Manager) - Sports
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Gensler 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
You will direct multidisciplinary design teams and oversee project delivery during all phases. This includes managing schedules, budgets, and client relationships while ensuring quality assurance of project documentation.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Arlington, Texas, United States of America
Cumming Group 🇺🇸 Arlington, Texas, United States of America
Oversee the building design process to ensure compliance with standards, budgets, and legal requirements for educational structures. Manage project schedules, costs, and stakeholders while coordinating with cost management groups and permitting agencies.
Design Systems Lead
🇺🇸 United States of America
Creative Circle 🇺🇸 United States of America
The Design Systems Lead will lead the redesign and evolution of the enterprise design system and component library, partnering closely with design, development, and web governance teams. This role involves translating creative direction and design standards into AI-ready frameworks and documentation.
Design Manager - Interiors - Senior
🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Gensler 🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Lead complex, large-scale corporate interiors projects while ensuring alignment between client goals and design excellence. Act as a trusted advisor to clients, driving project success and business growth.
Design Manager - Critical Facilities
🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Gensler 🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
The Design Manager will implement client projects by leading project teams and managing schedules, budgets, and staffing. They will also resolve complex technical and design issues to ensure project success.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Industrious 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Evaluate new real estate opportunities and make independent design feasibility calls. Lead the development of design packages and manage external architects to ensure high-quality documentation.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Manhattan Beach, CA 90266, United States of America
Pride Resource Partners Llc 🇺🇸 Manhattan Beach, CA 90266, United States of America
Lead the design activities for the School Upgrade Program and critical repair projects, ensuring compliance with educational and building standards. Manage the full design process from conception to handoff, coordinating with architects, consultants, and the Division of State Architects.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Tempe, Arizona, United States of America
Olympic West Fire Protection Llc 🇺🇸 Tempe, Arizona, United States of America
The Design Manager supervises and mentors a team of Design Engineers while creating departmental SOPs and championing design standardization. They coordinate with sales and project managers to ensure design requirements and commitment dates are met.
Design Systems & Operations Lead
🇺🇸 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Pnc 🇺🇸 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
This role leads the intersection of Design Operations and Design Systems to scale design quality and delivery effectiveness across the organization. It involves owning the design delivery ecosystem, governing the design system roadmap, and executing high-impact product design initiatives.
Senior Design Manager, Events
🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Mcdermott Will & Schulte 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
The Senior Design Manager, Events is responsible for envisioning and delivering world-class event experiences. This role involves overseeing the creative vision from start to finish, ensuring cohesive and elevated experiences across various event formats.
Senior Design Manager, Events
🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Mcdermott Will & Schulte 🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
The Senior Design Manager, Events is responsible for envisioning and delivering world-class event experiences, ensuring a cohesive and elevated brand presence. This role involves overseeing the creative vision from concept to execution, managing timelines, and collaborating with internal and external stakeholders.
Assistant Design Manager
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Metropolitan Transportation Authority 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Assistant Design Manager supports the architectural and engineering design processes to ensure compliance with MTA standards. They lead the design team, manage project deliverables, and maintain stakeholder relationships.
Tailored Clothing Design Manager
🇺🇸 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Peter Millar 🇺🇸 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
The Tailored Clothing Design Manager will oversee the seasonal assortment strategy and manage the end-to-end development process from concept through production. This role requires collaboration with senior leadership and various departments to ensure product execution meets quality and commercial objectives.
Traveling Design Manager - MSG - Pharmaceutical
🇺🇸 Greenville, South Carolina, United States of America
Turner Construction Company 🇺🇸 Greenville, South Carolina, United States of America
The Design Manager leads the design process from schematic design through execution, ensuring client requirements are met. They also manage the design team and coordinate with construction teams to optimize design and minimize costs.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Adelphi Group 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Execute high-quality creative designs across presentations, digital, social, and print media to support pitches and brand initiatives. Collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams to translate strategy into compelling visual narratives and scalable brand assets.
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.