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Design Manager
🇺🇸 Tempe, Arizona, United States
Okland Construction 🇺🇸 Tempe, Arizona, United States
Lead the design management process from planning through construction document completion to ensure coordinated and constructible outcomes. Facilitate multidisciplinary coordination meetings and drive the resolution of design-related issues and risks.
Alternate Delivery Design Manager - Transportation (Multiple Locations)
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States
Burns & Mcdonnell 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States
Manage the pursuit, design, and delivery of transportation alternate delivery projects while leading multidisciplinary teams. Support business development efforts and ensure projects meet company quality, safety, and budget standards.
Alternate Delivery Design Manager - Transportation (Multiple Locations)
🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Burns & Mcdonnell 🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Manage the pursuit, design, and delivery of transportation alternate delivery projects while leading multidisciplinary teams. Support business development efforts and ensure projects meet safety, quality, and budget standards.
Alternate Delivery Design Manager - Transportation (Multiple Locations)
🇺🇸 Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Burns & Mcdonnell 🇺🇸 Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Manage the pursuit, design, and delivery of transportation alternate delivery projects while leading multidisciplinary teams. Support business development efforts and ensure projects are completed safely and in accordance with company quality standards.
Alternate Delivery Design Manager - Transportation (Multiple Locations)
🇺🇸 Norfolk, Virginia, United States
Burns & Mcdonnell 🇺🇸 Norfolk, Virginia, United States
Manage the pursuit, design, and delivery of transportation alternate delivery projects while leading multidisciplinary teams. Support business development efforts and ensure projects are completed safely and in accordance with company quality standards.
Alternate Delivery Design Manager - Transportation (Multiple Locations)
🇺🇸 Orlando, Florida, United States
Burns & Mcdonnell 🇺🇸 Orlando, Florida, United States
Manage the pursuit, design, and delivery of transportation alternate delivery projects while leading multidisciplinary teams. Support business development efforts and ensure projects are completed safely and in accordance with company quality standards.
Alternate Delivery Design Manager - Transportation (Multiple Locations)
🇺🇸 Springdale, Arkansas, United States
Burns & Mcdonnell 🇺🇸 Springdale, Arkansas, United States
Manage the pursuit, design, and delivery of transportation alternate delivery projects while leading multidisciplinary teams. Support business development efforts and ensure projects are completed safely and in accordance with company quality standards.
Alternate Delivery Design Manager - Transportation (Multiple Locations)
🇺🇸 St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Burns & Mcdonnell 🇺🇸 St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Manage the pursuit, design, and delivery of transportation alternate delivery projects while leading multidisciplinary teams. Support business development efforts and ensure projects meet safety, quality, and budget standards.
Alternate Delivery Design Manager - Transportation (Multiple Locations)
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States
Burns & Mcdonnell 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States
Manage the pursuit, design, and delivery of transportation alternate delivery projects while leading multidisciplinary teams. Support business development efforts and ensure projects meet company quality and safety standards.
Alternate Delivery Design Manager - Transportation (Multiple Locations)
🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States
Burns & Mcdonnell 🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States
Manage the pursuit, design, and delivery of transportation alternate delivery projects while leading multidisciplinary teams. Support business development efforts and ensure projects meet company quality and safety standards.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Bland 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
You will own the product's visual language, interaction model, and design system while collaborating closely with the lead designer and product manager. This role involves implementing frontend polish directly in the codebase and contributing to the architecture of complex, AI-driven product surfaces.
Digital Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Upwardly Global 🌍 Remote
The Product Designer will lead end-to-end design projects, including user flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity prototypes for an AI-powered career platform. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure design solutions are user-centered, accessible, and aligned with business goals.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States
Hubspot 🇺🇸 United States
Lead the design of a cohesive, AI-powered prospecting experience across HubSpot's marketing, sales, and service product suites. Partner with cross-functional leadership to define product vision, influence direction, and drive alignment across multiple teams.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Get Engaged 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States
The Design Manager will lead high-priority design projects from end-to-end while managing the internal graphic design team's workflows and priorities. They are responsible for ensuring creative quality, maintaining brand standards, and collaborating with account and strategy teams to deliver effective assets.
Staff Product Designer
🇧🇷 Brazil
Deel 🇧🇷 Brazil
Lead end-to-end product design initiatives and drive the adoption of the Deel UI/Design System. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality user experiences while mentoring other product designers.
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.