Design Leadership Jobs
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Design Director, Core Insurance & Design Systems
Remote (🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America)
Headway Remote (🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America)
Lead the design systems across products and manage a team defining these systems. Oversee foundational experiences including insurance, support, and security experiences for customers.
Hyundai Design Center - Interior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Irvine, California, United States of America
Hyundai America Technical Center, Inc. (hatci) 🇺🇸 Irvine, California, United States of America
Manage the development of automotive interior design programs from concept to production while overseeing project timing and budget. Lead a team of designers and collaborate with engineering and suppliers to ensure design feasibility and alignment with corporate direction.
Senior Staff UX Design Manager, YouTube TV
🇺🇸 San Bruno, CA 94066, United States of America
Google 🇺🇸 San Bruno, CA 94066, United States of America
Create and implement a cohesive user experience direction and strategy for YouTube TV and PrimeTime Channels. Collaborate with stakeholders to develop innovative product design concepts that enhance media content consumption.
Head of Design
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Permitflow 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Build and lead the design organization, evolving it into a strategic partner that defines the product's look, feel, and functionality. This player-coach role involves hiring a team of designers while personally executing high-quality design work and managing the design system.
Design Manager
Remote (🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America)
Church's Texas Chicken Remote (🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America)
The Design Manager develops and reviews building design projects for global franchised and company restaurants to maintain brand integrity. This includes creating floorplans, managing architectural consultants, and overseeing trade dress and imaging elements.
Architectural Design Manager | Education
🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America
Corgan 🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America
Lead the design process for education projects, ensuring innovative solutions and adherence to firm design principles. Oversee project designers and collaborate with studio directors to maintain design excellence from conceptualization through construction administration.
Design Manager- Energy
🇺🇸 United States of America
Interstates 🇺🇸 United States of America
Leads design teams through the full project lifecycle from pursuit to commissioning, focusing on power and distribution systems. Acts as the primary technical contact for clients to ensure the delivery of constructable and code-compliant design packages.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Jll 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
The Design Manager oversees the development and implementation of design concepts, guidelines, and block plans for retail banking and hospitality projects. They collaborate with stakeholders and consultants to integrate sustainable practices and provide guidance to project managers.
Manager, Brand Design Engineering
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Gemini 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Design and build the pre-login experience, including websites and landing pages, for GTM launch initiatives. Manage a small team of brand designers while maintaining design systems for web and mobile.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
The Whiting-turner Contracting Company 🇺🇸 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Lead comprehensive design services by integrating design excellence into construction delivery contracts from inception to completion. Coordinate between clients, design consultants, and builders to ensure projects meet budget, schedule, and quality requirements.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Towson, Maryland, United States of America
The Whiting-turner Contracting Company 🇺🇸 Towson, Maryland, United States of America
Lead comprehensive design services to ensure design is fully integrated into project execution from inception through completion. Coordinate between design and construction teams to maintain program requirements, budget, schedule, and quality standards.
Design Manager - Interiors
🇺🇸 Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Gensler 🇺🇸 Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Manage all phases of corporate interior projects from set-up through construction administration, ensuring they are delivered on time and on budget. Lead project teams and maintain client relationships while overseeing scheduling, budgets, and financial performance.
Adoption Design Manager - Business Analytics - Evernorth - Remote
🇺🇸 Connecticut, United States of America
Cigna Healthcare 🇺🇸 Connecticut, United States of America
Lead an Innovation Lab to translate business strategies into operational processes through simulation, rapid testing, and data-driven insights. Oversee a high-performing team to improve business performance and enhance customer experiences across the enterprise.
Program Design Manager - Aviation
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Colliers Engineering & Design 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Lead all design-related activities for the Airport Authority, overseeing the integration of planning, design development, and delivery across multiple consultants. Manage BIM implementation, stakeholder coordination, and the fulfillment of overarching organizational goals for large-scale aviation projects.
Experience Designer Lead Senior - Design Systems
🇺🇸 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Pnc 🇺🇸 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Lead and mentor a pod of designers to maintain and evolve enterprise design systems, ensuring consistency and scalability across digital experiences. Drive the design system strategy, roadmap, and governance while coordinating with engineering and accessibility partners.
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.