Design Leadership Jobs
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Product Designer, Outdoor [Contract]
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Spin Master Ltd 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
You will lead the development and innovation of seasonal outdoor, water, and backyard play toys from initial ideation through to production. This involves creating 2D concept boards, 3D mockups, and managing the product development cycle in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
Head of Design
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Aru Labs Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The Head of Design will lead the overall design direction, visual identity, and design systems across all brand touchpoints. They will manage the design function, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and oversee the quality of creative output for marketing, product, and campaigns.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Bedford, MK40 1SU, United Kingdom
Tiptopjob 🇬🇧 Bedford, MK40 1SU, United Kingdom
Manage the mechanical design function and lead a team of five engineers, splitting time between team leadership and hands-on design engineering. Deliver designs for new machines, upgrades, and spare parts to agreed timelines and KPIs, prepare drawings and parts documentation, and coordinate with electrical design, software and controls, and manufacturing teams.
Retirement & Wealth - Sr. Product Designer (Remote)
Remote (🇺🇸 Oak Brook, DuPage County, IL 60523, United States of America)
Inspira Financial Remote (🇺🇸 Oak Brook, DuPage County, IL 60523, United States of America)
Lead product design from discovery through delivery, using research, data, and user-centered methods to create intuitive experiences for Retirement & Wealth products. Collaborate with product, engineering, content, and QA teams; maintain scalable design systems; and use AI tools responsibly to improve design workflows and influence product direction.
Senior Airfield Civil Engineer & Design Manager
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Jacobs 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Lead and manage aviation and airfield design efforts across project stages, including planning, design reviews, submittals, construction administration, and occasional site inspections. Coordinate stakeholders, guide design teams, present design solutions, and ensure projects meet requirements for quality, cost, schedule, sustainability, constructability, and operational needs.
Senior Airfield Civil Engineer & Design Manager
🇺🇸 Houston, Texas, United States of America
Jacobs 🇺🇸 Houston, Texas, United States of America
Lead and manage aviation and airfield design across project stages, including planning, design submittals, reviews, and construction administration, while overseeing schedules, budgets, and design quality. Coordinate with stakeholders, guide design teams through project constraints, present design solutions, and occasionally inspect construction work for compliance.
Senior Airfield Civil Engineer & Design Manager
🇺🇸 San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Jacobs 🇺🇸 San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Lead and manage aviation and airfield design efforts across project stages, coordinating stakeholders and ensuring deliverables meet project requirements, budgets, and schedules. Guide design teams, present design solutions, review submittals, and occasionally inspect construction to verify compliance with the design.
Design Manager Professional (45806)
🇺🇸 Portland, Oregon, United States of America
Jacobs 🇺🇸 Portland, Oregon, United States of America
Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary design teams, project plans, schedules, production workflows, stakeholder and trade partner engagement, and staffing and cost changes for advanced manufacturing projects. Ensure coordinated deliverables, technical quality, documented reviews, and effective customer design reviews throughout project delivery.
Building Envelope Design Manager
🇺🇸 Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Lf Driscoll 🇺🇸 Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Lead the building-envelope design-assist process from project pursuit through construction, coordinating owners, design teams, specialty trades, manufacturers, and field teams. Oversee technical reviews, budgeting, procurement, schedules, mockups, testing, quality assurance, and the coordination of enclosure systems with other building components.
Senior Product Designer (Mid-Senior)
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Revel 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Lead end-to-end product design, from user research and discovery through interaction flows, high-fidelity interfaces, and prototypes. Collaborate with product and engineering teams to validate solutions, deliver the intended experience, evolve design systems, and advocate for user needs.
Lead Product Designer, Design Systems
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Salesforce 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead the creation and maintenance of a next-gen AI-first design system that scales across Salesforce products. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define design standards, mentor junior designers, and integrate system components into development workflows.
Schedule Design Manager
🇬🇧 Luton, LU1 2YN, United Kingdom
Easyjet 🇬🇧 Luton, LU1 2YN, United Kingdom
Lead the end-to-end design and development of easyJet’s future schedules, balancing long-term commercial value, strategic priorities, and operational resilience. Manage planning scenarios and milestones, guide analysts and planners, and establish governance and improved methods to support clear, evidence-led decisions and controlled handovers.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Mello 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Lead creative direction and manage in-house and freelance designers delivering merchandise design sprints, while keeping projects on schedule. Review all deliverables for quality, maintain design standards, coordinate with cross-functional teams, and improve sprint processes as demand grows.
UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Cloud And Things 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead user-centered design for complex mobile experiences that improve bus and subway rider experiences, and develop and maintain design systems and style guides across digital platforms. Partner with research, product, engineering, creative teams, and stakeholders to apply user insights, present design findings, document UX practices, and improve quality through testing.
Senior Design Manager, Industrial Manufacturing Construction
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Je Dunn Construction 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Leads design delivery from early planning through project completion, coordinating design partners, internal disciplines, clients, trade partners, and regulatory stakeholders. Manages design scope, contracts, budgets, schedules, documentation, quality, and change control while supporting business development and resolving project challenges.
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.