Design Leadership Jobs in United States of America
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Design Manager
🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America
Vogo 🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America
Lead and scale the product design organization by managing a team of designers and driving strategic initiatives across traveler experiences. Oversee the end-to-end design process for web, iOS, and Android platforms while evolving the company's design system.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
Quavered 🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
The Design Manager will lead a multidisciplinary design team to create engaging educational experiences. Responsibilities include mentoring team members, overseeing design quality, and exploring new design technologies.
Sound Insulation Design Manager
🇺🇸 El Segundo, CA 90245, United States of America
Boutique Recruiting 🇺🇸 El Segundo, CA 90245, United States of America
The Sound Insulation Design Manager will lead a team of designers and oversee production efforts while managing client relationships. Responsibilities include conducting field visits, coordinating with subconsultants, and ensuring quality control of drawings.
Head of Design and Research
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Upside 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Own the quality, consistency, and polish bar across the consumer and payments experience. Lead a small team of designers and researchers to enhance the product's design and research practices.
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Head of Design and Research
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Upside 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Own the quality, consistency, and polish bar across the consumer and payments experience. Lead a small team of designers and researchers to enhance the product's design and research practices.
Head of Design and Research
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Upside 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Own the quality, consistency, and polish bar across the consumer and payments experience. Lead a small team of designers and researchers to enhance the product's design and research practices.
Project Manager (Design Manager) – Workplace
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Gensler 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Lead and manage multiple design teams and consultants for retail store projects. Oversee project delivery, maintain schedules and budgets, and ensure client satisfaction.
Design Manager (Remote)
Remote (🇺🇸 Santa Clara County, California, United States of America)
Coresite Remote (🇺🇸 Santa Clara County, California, United States of America)
The Design Manager manages the design process for capital expenditure projects across CoreSite's existing facilities, focusing on interior retrofit and improvement work. This role involves coordinating design timelines, deliverables, and budgets while ensuring minimal disruption to customers.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 United States of America
Modcorr 🇺🇸 United States of America
The Design Manager is responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing design activities across multiple detention facility projects. This includes managing design schedules, BIM standards, and document control while ensuring alignment with internal teams and regulatory requirements.
Senior Design Manager, Restaurant Architecture (US & Canada)
🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
Dairy Queen 🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
The Senior Design Manager provides design, food service equipment, and building systems direction to expedite plan completion and project commencement. They are responsible for managing accurate documentation and timely implementation of prototypical design and operational standards for new store development and reinvestment projects.
Traveling Design Manager - MSG - Pharmaceutical
🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Turner Construction Company 🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
The Design Manager leads the design process from schematic design through execution, ensuring client requirements are met. They also manage communication between design teams and construction teams, and oversee the timely delivery of design documents.
Head of Design and Production: Gallery Scale Works
🇺🇸 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 role involves overseeing the entire lifecycle from initial R&D to final onsite installation.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Towson, Maryland, United States of America
The Whiting-turner Contracting Company 🇺🇸 Towson, Maryland, United States of America
The Design Manager provides leadership for Comprehensive Design Services, ensuring design integration throughout project execution. They guide design decisions to meet program requirements, budget, and quality commitments while facilitating team coordination.
Technical Design Manager
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Icon Luxury Group 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Technical Design Manager oversees the technical design process from concept through production, ensuring products meet brand standards. Responsibilities include creating tech packs, managing specs, conducting fit sessions, and collaborating with design and production teams.
Head of Design – High-End Residential Architecture (NY / South Florida Focus)
🇺🇸 Florida, United States of America
Talent Harbor 🇺🇸 Florida, United States of America
Lead high-level psychological discovery sessions with clients to ensure design alignment. Protect the integrity of a proprietary lifestyle blueprint while focusing on high-impact spatial design.
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.