Design Leadership Jobs
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Design Systems Lead
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Perplexity 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Lead will bootstrap and own a semantic token system and the design system repository on GitHub to ensure product coherence across platforms. They will bridge the gap between design and engineering by managing contributions, documentation, and accessibility standards.
Design Manager
🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico
3pillar 🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico
The Design Manager is responsible for ensuring that the design effort aligns with client business objectives and creating outstanding designs that delight end users. They will manage a team of Product Designers and collaborate with global delivery teams to deliver high-quality products.
Design Manager Presencial CDMX
🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico
Mobiik 🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico
Manage the design system governance, version control, and ensure overall system consistency. Act as the primary point of contact for app implementers.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Plano, Texas, United States of America
The Whiting-turner Contracting Company 🇺🇸 Plano, Texas, 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.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Walter Lilly 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Manage and coordinate the design process across multiple projects from tender stage through to completion. Support preconstruction activities and ensure design information is fully integrated and delivered on programme.
IS Design Manager
🇺🇸 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America
Enfra 🇺🇸 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America
The IS Design Manager oversees the design production throughout the project life cycle, ensuring efficient delivery and adherence to client expectations. This role includes managing design tasks, mentoring junior staff, and facilitating communication among team members.
IS Design Manager
🇺🇸 Coppell, TX 75019, United States of America
Enfra 🇺🇸 Coppell, TX 75019, United States of America
The IS Design Manager oversees the design production throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring efficient delivery and adherence to client expectations. They manage design tasks, mentor junior staff, and facilitate communication among team members and clients.
IS Design Manager
🇺🇸 Westmont, IL 60559, United States of America
Enfra 🇺🇸 Westmont, IL 60559, United States of America
The IS Design Manager oversees the design production throughout the project life cycle, ensuring efficient delivery and adherence to client expectations. This role includes managing design tasks, mentoring junior staff, and facilitating communication among team members and clients.
IS Design Manager
🇺🇸 Tempe, Arizona, United States of America
Enfra 🇺🇸 Tempe, Arizona, United States of America
The IS Design Manager oversees design production throughout the project life cycle, ensuring efficient delivery and adherence to client expectations. This role includes managing design tasks, mentoring junior staff, and facilitating communication among team members.
Senior Design Manager
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Parsons Corporation 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
The Senior Design Manager will lead strategic, technical, and managerial oversight for multi-disciplinary design delivery across major programs and infrastructure portfolios. They will ensure design governance and integrated delivery from planning through to construction documentation.
Senior Design Manager
🇸🇦 Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Parsons Corporation 🇸🇦 Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
The Senior Design Manager provides strategic and technical leadership for multi-disciplinary design across major infrastructure programs and asset portfolios. They are accountable for design governance, technical assurance, and managing the end-to-end delivery from strategic planning to construction documentation.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Walter Lilly 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Manage and coordinate the design process for prestigious landmark and heritage projects from tender through to completion. Collaborate with architects, consultants, and subcontractors to ensure designs are compliant, buildable, and aligned with project objectives.
Design Manager - Infrastructure
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Mace 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Manage and coordinate multi-disciplinary design activities across project stages to ensure compliance with briefs, budgets, and schedules. Lead the resolution of technical queries, design clashes, and interface issues while maintaining design management systems.
Senior Learning Design Manager (AI-Enabled)
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Vectra 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Lead the global learning organization's execution and serve as the onsite lead for the Bangalore team. Translate business goals into AI-enabled learning architectures, curricula, and production-ready content.
Senior Design Manager - Infrastructure
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Mace 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Lead and develop a multi-disciplinary design team to deliver major mixed-use and infrastructure projects in Saudi Arabia. Oversee the entire design process from concept to construction, ensuring compliance with technical standards, budgets, and safety requirements.
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.