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Design Manager - Interiors
🇺🇸 Oakland, California, United States of America
Gensler 🇺🇸 Oakland, California, United States of America
Manage all phases of corporate interior projects, including project set-up, design, and construction administration. Oversee project scheduling, budgets, financial performance, and client relationships while leading diverse project teams.
Senior Project Manager - Design Engineering + Construction
🇺🇸 Oakland, California, United States of America
Cybercoders 🇺🇸 Oakland, California, United States of America
Lead complex capital projects from concept to handover within the life sciences, pharmaceutical, and food and beverage sectors. Coordinate multidisciplinary design engineering and construction management to deliver compliant, on-time, and on-budget facilities.
Design Manager - Healthcare - Senior
🇺🇸 Oakland, California, United States of America
Gensler 🇺🇸 Oakland, California, United States of America
Lead and deliver a variety of healthcare project types through all phases while serving as the primary point of contact for clients. Manage cross-functional teams, project budgets, and consultant coordination to ensure high-quality design and client satisfaction.
Senior Product Design Manager
🇺🇸 Oakland, California, United States of America
Fivetran 🇺🇸 Oakland, California, United States of America
Lead and coach the dbt product design team while defining the UX strategy for technical data products. Drive the integration of Fivetran and dbt Labs design cultures and operationalize AI across the design lifecycle.
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Design Manager - Senior
🇺🇸 Oakland, California, United States of America
Gensler 🇺🇸 Oakland, California, United States of America
Lead and manage design teams through conceptual development and technical execution for commercial and institutional projects. Coordinate directly with clients, consultants, and contractors to ensure project approvals and successful delivery.
Senior Product Design Manager
🇺🇸 Oakland, California, United States of America
Fivetran 🇺🇸 Oakland, California, United States of America
Lead the dbt product design team by managing designers and defining the UX strategy for technical data products. Drive the integration of Fivetran and dbt Labs design cultures while shaping AI-powered and agentic product experiences.
How design hiring is changing in 2026
Design hiring has changed. Craft alone is no longer enough. Top teams now expect designers to ship live code, work alongside AI tools, and prototype fast.
Whether you are a Product Designer shipping features or a Graphic Designer guiding AI-generated visuals, the strongest roles reward deep craft and tool fluency together.
DesignJobs lists roles from companies leading the shift, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Vercel, and Linear. Spend less time searching, more time on the work.
Across all roles, the biggest differentiator is technical literacy. For Product Designers, this means "vibe coding" and functional prototyping. For Brand Designers, it's managing generative identity systems. The ability to leverage AI to move faster while maintaining human-centered quality is what separates top candidates today.
The design world is increasingly distributed, though many AI leaders now favor hybrid hubs. While companies like Figma, Notion, and Anthropic often prioritize collaboration in SF or London, we also feature truly remote-first teams like PostHog and Supabase. Use our "Remote Only" toggle on the main jobs page to filter for positions that allow you to work from anywhere.
While not a strict requirement for every role, it is becoming the standard for Design Engineering and high-growth Product roles. Being able to express design intent through code allows you to iterate at the speed of thought. We recommend designers bridge the gap using tools like Cursor, v0, and Replit to stay competitive.
Our AI Job Matcher analyzes your specific skill set, portfolio style, and career goals to surface roles you might miss with a traditional keyword search. It is designed to understand the nuance of your "design vibe" and match it with the culture of hiring teams at companies like Google and Perplexity.
Absolutely. In 2026, we are moving beyond "chatbots" to autonomous agents. Agentic UX involves designing systems that take action on behalf of the user. Your portfolio should demonstrate how you handle agentic trust, error states in autonomous flows, and "human-in-the-loop" verification points.
Yes! We feature a wide range of entry-level and junior design jobs across all categories. While the market is competitive, companies are actively seeking early-career designers who demonstrate technical agency and a willingness to master AI-assisted workflows.
We prioritize listings with transparent salary data. In 2026, compensation for roles like Design Engineering has seen significant growth due to the scarcity of hybrid "design-dev" talent. For deeper insights, check out our 2026 Design Salary Guide.
In 2026, the term Product Orchestrator refers to senior designers who direct AI-integrated systems rather than handcrafting every screen. While a Senior Product Designer focuses on the craft and technical agency, an Orchestrator focuses on cross-functional strategy, data logic, and aligning generative outcomes with business ROI.
Yes. High-growth companies like OpenAI look for portfolios that prove you can design for safety. This means showing how users can edit, override, or approve AI-generated outputs, ensuring the human remains the final decision-maker in the workflow.