Design Leadership Jobs
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Head of Design, Product Design
🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America
Tempoatlas 🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America
Lead and mentor the design team while remaining hands-on in product design, owning retail mobile experiences and the design system. Represent design in strategy and roadmap decisions, improve cross-functional UX practices, and establish scalable systems and processes that raise product quality.
Content Design Manager
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Common Wealth Retirement 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Content Design Manager will lead creative content development and visual storytelling to support marketing campaigns, member education, and advisor engagement. They will maintain and evolve the brand's visual identity while collaborating with cross-functional teams to produce high-quality digital and print assets.
RTL Design Manager
🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc 🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Lead a high-performance engineering team to own the design and implementation of blocks while meeting functional, timing, area, and power requirements. Guide verification efforts and implement automation to improve design team efficiency.
Store Design Manager - WSS
🇺🇸 Gardena, California, United States of America
Foot Locker 🇺🇸 Gardena, California, United States of America
Lead the creative and technical design of WSS stores, including concepts, floor plans, fixtures, construction documents, and design standards for new builds, remodels, and special projects. Coordinate with internal teams and vendors, review plans, conduct site visits, and ensure designs meet brand, customer experience, operational, and financial goals.
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 - Structural
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Walter P Moore 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Manage structural design work for major commercial building projects, including office buildings, healthcare facilities, and sports venues. Serve clients such as architects, developers, institutions, and contractors on projects across the United States and internationally.
Assistant Design Manager - Facilities
🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Hdr 🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Support multidisciplinary teams in planning, permitting, designing, procuring, and constructing solid waste and resource recovery facilities. Coordinate technical deliverables, project schedules and budgets, regulatory and consultant activities, client relationships, and bid and construction administration.
Content Design, Vice President- Design Systems
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Jpmorgan Chase & Co. 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
You will lead content design initiatives for design systems, creating scalable strategies and reusable content patterns to ensure intuitive customer experiences. You will also collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate content guidance into agentic AI workflows and maintain high standards across digital products.
Head of Design, Product Design
🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America
Bitgo 🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America
Lead and mentor the design team while remaining hands-on, owning and shipping product design work, including the retail mobile experience and design system. Establish design as an early strategic partner across product and engineering, improve design processes and craft, and represent design internally and externally.
Buildings & Facilities Design Manager Southwest Division
🇺🇸 Los Angeles County, California, United States of America
Mott Macdonald 🇺🇸 Los Angeles County, California, United States of America
The Buildings & Facilities Design Manager will lead and grow the Southwest Division's buildings practice by overseeing multidisciplinary engineering teams and driving project delivery excellence. They are responsible for developing growth strategies, managing client relationships, and securing new business across key infrastructure and facility sectors.
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.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 Suffolk, England, United Kingdom
Dragados Uk & Ireland 🇬🇧 Suffolk, England, United Kingdom
Manage, coordinate, integrate, and assure the multidisciplinary design for West Suffolk Hospital, ensuring it meets contractual requirements and is safe, buildable, operational, and maintainable. Lead the design team and supply chain, develop and implement design management plans, coordinate design packages and interfaces, and provide assurance of compliance.
Head of Design
🇬🇧 Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Stars 🇬🇧 Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Lead and develop a multidisciplinary design team while setting the agency’s creative vision and standards across web, digital marketing, brand, campaigns, and performance creative. Provide senior creative direction for major projects and pitches, collaborate across agency departments, strengthen client relationships, and improve the design function’s processes and capabilities.
Assistant Design Manager - Facilities
🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Hdr 🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Support multidisciplinary teams in planning, permitting, designing, procuring, and delivering solid waste and resource recovery facilities. Coordinate technical work, schedules, budgets, documentation, consultants, clients, regulatory agencies, and construction-phase activities.
Technical Design Manager
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Janie And Jack Llc 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Own fit, construction, and technical execution across apparel categories, maintaining standards and ensuring products meet design, quality, safety, and manufacturability requirements. Lead technical problem-solving with internal teams and suppliers, use customer and product-performance data to address systemic issues, and manage and develop technical design support.
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.