Design Leadership Jobs in New York, United States of America
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Rail Design Manager
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Gft 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Rail Design Manager provides technical leadership and oversight for multidisciplinary design reviews and submittals on complex rail and transit infrastructure projects. They serve as the primary technical interface with the client to manage design priorities, resolve interdisciplinary comments, and mitigate risks related to construction and operations.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Stv 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead architectural design and client coordination from programming and conceptual design through documentation and construction administration, partnering with Project Designers, Project Architects, and consultants. Manage design schedules, interdisciplinary deliverables, reviews, scope changes, and team coordination while supporting project management, proposals, and staff development.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Stv 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Design Manager leads the design of architecture projects, serving as the primary client contact and coordinating between internal teams and consultants. They are responsible for managing the design schedule, overseeing technical documentation, and ensuring project milestones are met.
Product Design Manager, Treasury
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Stripe 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead and develop a design team shaping a unified Treasury experience across business banking, payments, money movement, and spending, guiding zero-to-one products from exploration through launch. Set a high bar for design craft and align product, engineering, legal, compliance, risk, and other stakeholders around ambitious, customer-focused solutions.
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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
🇺🇸 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.
Head of Design, Adobe Creative
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Adobe 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Define Adobe Creative’s design standards, practice, and AI-enabled workflows, and lead design from early creative development through final execution across campaigns, content, product launches, and experiences. Develop multidisciplinary design leaders and teams, direct internal and external creative partners, and represent design in executive and cross-functional forums.
Non-Train Control Systems (Non-TCS) Deputy Design Manager
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Wsp 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Deputy Design Manager will provide technical leadership and oversight for all non-train-control systems on the 6th Avenue / 63rd Street CBTC Project. This includes coordinating multidisciplinary design reviews, managing interfaces, and ensuring the Design-Builder's work complies with all project requirements and safety standards.
Senior Design Manager - Business Banking & Investments
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Mercury 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead design for Mercury’s Business Banking and Investments products, setting a high bar for visual and interaction quality across payments, accounts, and treasury experiences. Develop designers, partner with Product and Engineering to shape and ship ambitious product improvements, and remain accountable for customer and business outcomes.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Industrious 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Senior Design Manager will lead projects through all design phases, including test fits, construction documentation, and launch, while ensuring brand standards are met. They will also collaborate with cross-functional teams to innovate physical workplace products and manage design workflows.
Design Manager - Men's and Boys Performance Active
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Adjmi Apparel Group 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Co-own product creation workflows from concept through commercial adoption, coordinating calendars, milestones, and timing risks across design, product development, and fabric teams. Translate creative direction into product documentation and samples, manage costing and process improvements, and coordinate communication with internal teams and external partners using digital development platforms.
Architecture & Design Manager, RLA+D Studio
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Ralph Lauren 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Manage focal retail and hospitality projects across Ralph Lauren brands from design development through opening and punch-list completion. Coordinate design documentation, budgets, schedules, suppliers, consultants, construction partners, internal stakeholders, and site reviews.
Senior Product Design Manager
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Weather Company 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead and develop a team of product designers while setting the user experience vision and strategy for consumer app features. Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver polished, data-informed experiences, improve engagement, and evolve the design system across iOS, Android, and web.
Head of Design
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Narmi 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Set and execute a unified design vision across products, partnering with executive stakeholders, Product, Engineering, and other teams to deliver cohesive user experiences aligned with business goals. Lead and develop a team of 3–5 designers, improve design processes and systems, and oversee hiring and professional development.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 United States, 97-30 57th Avenue, New York, NY 11368, United States of America
Council On Foreign Relations 🇺🇸 United States, 97-30 57th Avenue, New York, NY 11368, United States of America
Produce polished, high-quality design across digital products, branding, editorial features, print publications, and organizational campaigns while maintaining CFR’s brand standards. Provide design feedback, lead complex initiatives, collaborate with freelance creatives and cross-functional teams, and develop reusable templates and design documentation.
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.