Design Leadership Jobs
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Design Leadership - Future Opportunities
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Neo Financial 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The role involves strategic leadership in defining and driving the long-term design vision and product strategy, while also leading hands-on design work. Additionally, it includes building and mentoring a team of designers and championing the value of design across the organization.
Design Leadership - Future Opportunities
🇨🇦 Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Neo Financial 🇨🇦 Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Lead the long-term design vision and product strategy while remaining hands-on in creating high-fidelity mockups and prototypes. Build and mentor a team of designers and collaborate with executive leadership to drive design as a strategic business driver.
Project Design Manager
🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Cushman & Wakefield 🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Lead the design and project management process for non-traditional restaurant environments, ensuring brand standards are met across various atypical sites. Act as the primary liaison between architecture, kitchen design, and construction teams to translate operational needs into technical design solutions.
Design Manager (Remote)
🇺🇸 United States of America
Coresite 🇺🇸 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.
Senior Design Manager
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Chanel 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead all phases of design coordination, construction project management, and procurement for luxury retail and corporate offices in Canada. Manage budgets, coordinate with cross-functional teams, and ensure brand image standards are maintained across all sites.
Product Design Manager, Design Systems
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lyft 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Product Design Manager will set the strategy and roadmap for Lyft Product Language across various surfaces and lead the AI transformation of the design system. They will manage a team of designers and ensure quality standards are met across platforms.
Indretningsarkitekt - Design Manager
🇩🇰 1357 København K, Denmark
United Capital Aps 🇩🇰 1357 København K, Denmark
You will have full design responsibility from overall concept development to the selection of specific materials and details. This includes kitchen design, bathrooms, walls, doors, handles, tiles, grout colors, and everything in between.
Head of Design
🇺🇸 Redwood City, California, United States of America
Bellota Labs 🇺🇸 Redwood City, California, United States of America
Lead and manage the design organization across UI/UX, Game Art, and Graphic Design while establishing a collaborative design culture. Shape the visual identity and player experience across the gaming ecosystem, ensuring designs meet usability and business objectives.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Southfield, Michigan, United States of America
Barton Malow 🇺🇸 Southfield, Michigan, United States of America
The Design Manager will lead technical matters related to design and engineering for project pursuits and execution, ensuring the design meets the Owner's criteria and the needs of the construction team. This role involves managing design scope, schedule, and quality across projects while collaborating with various stakeholders.
Design Manager - Renewables/Solar
🇺🇸 Southfield, Michigan, United States of America
Barton Malow 🇺🇸 Southfield, Michigan, United States of America
The Design Manager will lead technical matters related to design and engineering for renewable energy and solar projects, ensuring alignment between design and construction. This role involves managing design scope, schedule, and quality while collaborating with various stakeholders.
New Development Design Manager
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Upward On 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The New Development Design Manager will oversee the design and development process from pre-development to project launch, ensuring that the product meets market demands. This includes reviewing architectural plans, advising on finishes, and coordinating with various teams throughout the project lifecycle.
Senior Design Manager - Architecture
🇲🇾 Selangor, Malaysia
Woh Hup Group 🇲🇾 Selangor, Malaysia
Lead and manage the architectural design process for large-scale Data Centre projects, ensuring design intent is effectively translated into construction execution. Coordinate with various stakeholders to resolve design-related issues and ensure compliance with project requirements and standards.
Product Design Manager, Design Systems
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lyft 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead the strategy, vision, and execution of the Lyft Product Language (LPL) across product, marketing, and brand surfaces. Manage a team of designers and illustrators while integrating AI into system tooling and workflows.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Sphere Solutions 🇬🇧 Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
As Design Manager, you will manage and coordinate the design process throughout all project phases, ensuring projects are delivered safely and efficiently. You will liaise with clients, consultants, and internal teams to drive project success.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Wigan, England, United Kingdom
We Are Footprint 🇬🇧 Wigan, England, United Kingdom
The Design Manager will lead and oversee design delivery across multiple projects while managing and mentoring design teams. Collaboration with stakeholders to align design outcomes with business objectives is also a key responsibility.
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.