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Design Manager - Design Build
🇺🇸 Hampton, Virginia, United States of America
Jacobs 🇺🇸 Hampton, Virginia, United States of America
The Design Manager will lead the scoping, planning, and delivery of municipal and industrial water infrastructure projects. This includes managing teams through all phases of design and ensuring project quality and financial performance.
Design Manager - Design Build
🇺🇸 Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States of America
Jacobs 🇺🇸 Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States of America
The Design Manager will lead the scoping, planning, and delivery of municipal and industrial water infrastructure projects, ensuring quality and financial performance. They will manage multi-disciplinary teams and interface with clients to meet project expectations.
Design Systems Lead
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Imprint 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Design Systems Lead will own the strategy, evolution, and execution of Imprint's design system while collaborating with various teams to enhance product development. This role involves mentoring a team and advocating for design systems across the organization.
Advanced Specialist, UX Researcher
🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Pearson 🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Lead end-to-end user research to shape product strategy and improve customer experiences. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and execute studies, synthesize findings, and communicate insights effectively.
Advanced Specialist, UX Researcher
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Pearson 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Lead end-to-end user research to shape product strategy and improve customer experiences. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and execute studies, synthesize findings, and communicate insights that influence product design and decisions.
Advanced Specialist, UX Researcher
🇺🇸 Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
Pearson 🇺🇸 Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
Lead end-to-end user research to shape product strategy and improve customer experiences. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and execute studies, synthesize findings, and communicate insights effectively.
Advanced Specialist, UX Researcher
🇺🇸 City of Albany, New York, United States of America
Pearson 🇺🇸 City of Albany, New York, United States of America
Lead end-to-end user research to shape product strategy and improve customer experiences. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and execute studies, synthesize findings, and communicate insights that influence product design and decisions.
Advanced Specialist, UX Researcher
🇺🇸 Boise, Idaho, United States of America
Pearson 🇺🇸 Boise, Idaho, United States of America
Lead end-to-end user research to shape product strategy and improve customer experiences. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and execute studies, synthesize findings, and communicate insights that influence product design and decisions.
Advanced Specialist, UX Researcher
🇺🇸 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America
Pearson 🇺🇸 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America
Lead end-to-end user research to shape product strategy and improve customer experiences. Partner with cross-functional teams to design and execute studies, synthesize findings, and communicate insights that influence product design and decisions.
Advanced Specialist, UX Researcher
🇺🇸 Salem, Oregon, United States of America
Pearson 🇺🇸 Salem, Oregon, United States of America
Lead end-to-end user research to shape product strategy and improve customer experiences. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design studies, synthesize findings, and communicate insights that influence product design and decisions.
Advanced Specialist, UX Researcher
🇺🇸 Montgomery, Alabama, United States of America
Pearson 🇺🇸 Montgomery, Alabama, United States of America
Lead end-to-end user research to shape product strategy and improve customer experiences. Partner with cross-functional teams to identify learning goals and drive data-backed decisions through mixed-method research.
Advanced Specialist, UX Researcher
🇺🇸 Bismarck, North Dakota, United States of America
Pearson 🇺🇸 Bismarck, North Dakota, United States of America
Lead end-to-end user research to shape product strategy and improve customer experiences. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design studies, synthesize findings, and communicate insights that influence product design and decisions.
Advanced Specialist, UX Researcher
🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Pearson 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Lead end-to-end user research to shape product strategy and improve customer experiences. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and execute studies, synthesize findings, and communicate insights that influence product design and decisions.
Advanced Specialist, UX Researcher
🇺🇸 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Pearson 🇺🇸 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Lead end-to-end user research to shape product strategy and improve customer experiences. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify learning goals and drive data-backed decisions through mixed-method research.
Advanced Specialist, UX Researcher
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Pearson 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Lead end-to-end user research to shape product strategy and improve customer experiences. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design studies, synthesize findings, and communicate insights that influence product design and decisions.
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.