Design Leadership Jobs in Los Angeles, United States of America
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Design Manager - Interiors
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Arena Group Plc 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Lead client design meetings to establish creative direction and manage the design process from initial concept through to final execution. Collaborate with internal teams including renderers, CAD artists, and project managers to ensure designs are both visually stunning and buildable.
Design Manager, Data Centers - Remote (U.S.)
Remote (🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America)
Aecom Remote (🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America)
Lead data center due diligence and design teams to deliver high-quality projects across various disciplines including architecture, mechanical, and electrical engineering. Proactively manage project plans, client relationships, and technical proposals while identifying and resolving project issues.
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.
Art Director or Senior Graphic Designer (Freelance)
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Quigley-simpson & Heppelwhite 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Develop and execute creative concepts that align with brand objectives while collaborating with cross-functional teams. Ensure all deliverables maintain brand consistency and meet high standards of craftsmanship through the entire project life cycle.
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Head of Design - Agentic Experience
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Baker Tilly Us 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Lead end-to-end design for AI-powered products, starting with BT Compass, and establish interaction principles for AI reasoning, confidence, evidence, provenance, escalation, and human oversight. Partner with practitioners and cross-functional teams to research, prototype, launch, and improve products while building reusable design foundations and providing hands-on design leadership.
Head of Design
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Zealot 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Lead the Design department’s creative direction, operations, staffing, budget, and delivery across theatrical, television, and digital campaigns. Develop client relationships and new design revenue, while representing the department on the senior management team and coordinating with other company leaders.
Head of Design
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Zealot 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
The Head of Design leads the design department, overseeing creative direction, production standards, and financial performance. They are responsible for managing the team, building client relationships, and driving business growth through new design services.
Store Design Manager - WSS
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Foot Locker 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
The Store Design Manager leads the creative and technical development of store environments, overseeing the full design process from concept to construction. They collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure designs meet operational, financial, and brand standards while managing project documentation and vendor coordination.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Vanir Construction Management, Inc. 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Lead the design lifecycle for campus capital projects, overseeing planning, design deliverables, quality reviews, compliance, schedules, budgets, and DSA approvals. Coordinate the Capital Program Team, design consultants, and District stakeholders, and review construction changes and their impacts on project scope, cost, and schedule.
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.