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Tool Install Design Manager
🇺🇸 Peoria, Arizona, United States of America
World Wide Professional Solutions 🇺🇸 Peoria, Arizona, United States of America
Lead and integrate multidisciplinary design for semiconductor tool installation and hookup, coordinating equipment requirements and interfaces with facility utility systems and base-build infrastructure. Manage design deliverables, stakeholders, changes, and field support to ensure safe, constructible installation packages that meet project and manufacturing milestones.
Assistant Design Manager, FP
🇺🇸 Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, United States of America
Ahern 🇺🇸 Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, United States of America
Oversee quality control of fire protection design team deliverables and provide design support, potentially supervising one or two direct reports. Ensure fabrication documents are fitter-friendly and comply with applicable codes, project requirements, and company standards, while mentoring and training designers and collaborating with the Design Manager and organizational leaders.
Design Manager - Illinois Tollway
🇺🇸 Lisle, IL 60532, United States of America
Wsp In The U.s. 🇺🇸 Lisle, IL 60532, United States of America
Lead design quality and technical standards across the Illinois Tollway program, advising leadership on complex engineering issues, design risks, exceptions, and practical innovations. Manage and develop multidisciplinary staff, coordinate with stakeholders and technical specialists, and guide standards, quality processes, and continuous improvement.
Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Pelham, Alabama, United States of America
Gabriella White 🇺🇸 Pelham, Alabama, United States of America
Develop and pitch brand concepts, lead creative audits, and create graphic design assets for advertising, web, catalogs, collateral, and campaigns across the company’s brands. Manage catalog production from planning through press checks, maintain brand standards, coordinate with marketing teams, and assess the effectiveness of marketing materials.
Deputy Structural Design Manager
🇺🇸 Rocky Hill, CT 06067, United States of America
Hntb 🇺🇸 Rocky Hill, CT 06067, United States of America
Lead and coordinate structural engineering teams across firms and locations, providing technical oversight and ensuring design quality, consistency, and compliance for major infrastructure projects. Manage project scope, schedule, budget, client relationships, technical decisions, staffing, proposals, and team development.
Deputy Structural Design Manager
🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Hntb 🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Leads and coordinates structural engineering teams across firms and locations, overseeing design quality, technical decisions, project requirements, schedules, resources, and risk for major infrastructure projects. Manages client relationships and project delivery, supports proposals and business development, and mentors and develops project staff.
Deputy Structural Design Manager
🇺🇸 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America
Hntb 🇺🇸 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America
Lead and coordinate structural engineering teams across firms and locations, providing technical oversight, reviewing design decisions, resolving complex engineering issues, and ensuring compliance with project requirements and codes. Manage project scope, schedule, budget, staffing, client coordination, proposals, and delivery while mentoring teams and supporting business development.
Deputy Structural Design Manager
🇺🇸 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Hntb 🇺🇸 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Leads and coordinates structural engineering teams across firms and locations, providing technical oversight, reviewing design decisions, resolving complex engineering issues, and ensuring compliance with project requirements and codes. Manages project scope, schedule, budget, client coordination, staffing, proposals, and delivery while supporting business development and mentoring team members.
Utilities Design Manager | NYC, NY
🇺🇸 Newark, New Jersey, United States of America
Lvi Associates 🇺🇸 Newark, New Jersey, United States of America
Lead utility design consultants and coordinate with utility owners, contractors, and project teams to resolve conflicts across major transportation projects. Oversee relocation planning, investigations, cost estimates, schedules, and coordination with other design disciplines and right-of-way requirements.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America
Companycam 🇺🇸 Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America
Own graphic design projects from brief through final delivery, creating consistent visual assets for campaigns, product launches, web, social, email, print, and events. Collaborate with marketing and product teams, maintain design systems and brand standards, mentor teammates, and lead adoption of AI-enabled creative workflows.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America
Companycam 🇺🇸 Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America
Create and deliver high-quality visual assets for campaigns, product launches, web, social, email, events, and print while maintaining brand consistency. Build and evolve scalable design systems and asset libraries, collaborate across teams, mentor designers, and lead adoption of AI-enabled creative workflows.
Sr. Visual Designer (Production) [83961]
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Onward Search 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Lead the creation of high-quality visual presentations and marketing campaign assets, translating brand design systems into scalable frameworks that support speed, consistency, and quality. Produce design work, mentor the production team, collaborate across communications, brand, and marketing, and improve workflows and tools.
Design Manager - Illinois Tollway
🇺🇸 Lisle, IL 60532, United States of America
Wsp In The U.s. 🇺🇸 Lisle, IL 60532, United States of America
Lead design quality and technical standards across the Illinois Tollway program, advising leadership and coordinating multidisciplinary design teams. Develop and improve design guidance, oversee technical reviews and staff development, and promote practical innovations and consistent engineering decisions.
Principal Product Designer, Spending
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Chime 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead design for spending, savings, and investing experiences from concept through launch and iteration, creating polished mobile products that make complex financial decisions clear and intuitive. Set design direction, prototype and refine ideas using feedback, collaborate across disciplines, and mentor designers while raising the quality and consistency of the app.
Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Provo, Utah, United States of America
Angel 🇺🇸 Provo, Utah, United States of America
Develop visual brands and create cohesive design assets for theatrical releases and streaming projects across digital campaigns, print, merchandise, brand guides, and premiere events. Collaborate with designers, creative leaders, and filmmakers to align campaign voice and visuals, maintain brand consistency, and deliver work on tight deadlines.
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.