Design Manager Jobs

OpenAI · San Francisco

A design management seat at OpenAI is exceptionally rare. This is a chance to lead the team defining how hundreds of millions of people interact with AI daily — the kind of role that reshapes a career and an entire product category.

Stripe · Toronto / Chicago / Atlanta / Remote (US/CA)

Managing Stripe's web presence team is a rare design leadership seat. The work here defines how millions of developers and businesses first encounter Stripe — high-visibility, craft-obsessed, and deeply influential.

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA / New York, NY

The person designing Anthropic's keynotes, product launches, and executive communications. If you've ever watched an Anthropic product demo and thought "that looks incredible" — this is the role behind it. $305K–$385K.

Apple · Singapore

A design management seat at Apple is rare air, and basing it in Singapore signals real investment in the region. Leading at this level means setting the bar for craft that millions will feel.

Apple · Cupertino

Designing the tools developers use every day is high-leverage, systems-level work. The role sits at the intersection of Xcode, documentation, and SDKs — a chance to shape the Apple ecosystem at its foundation.

Stripe · Remote in United States

Stripe's digital experiences team owns some of the most-visited fintech surfaces on the web, and leading it means setting the bar for craft at scale. A strong management role for a designer who thinks in systems and storytelling alike.

Stripe · Remote (US) / Atlanta / Chicago

Stripe sets the bar for design-led fintech, and this role carries that craft off-screen into events, environments, and the physical moments where people meet the brand. Leading experiential design at a company this design-obsessed is a rare remit for someone who thinks beyond the rectangle.

Meta · Los Angeles, CA

A leadership role overseeing Meta's creative design direction — this is one of the most influential design positions in tech. The person in this seat shapes how billions of people experience Meta's products visually.

Meta · Burlingame, CA

Leading design for XR technology at Meta — this manager shapes the interaction paradigms for spatial computing. One of the most strategically important design leadership roles in the industry.

Superhuman · Berlin

Growth design at a product that already converts on craft is a specific challenge — you're not optimizing dark patterns, you're finding the moments where great design also moves activation and retention. Berlin-based, hybrid, with three flagship products to pull from.

Canva · Sydney / San Francisco

Leading design research at one of the largest design platforms in the world. Canva has 190+ million users — the scale of research insights here is unmatched. A chance to shape how design democratization actually works at global scale.

Superhuman · San Francisco

Since the Grammarly/Coda/Superhuman merger, this is one of the larger product design orgs in the inbox + docs space, and a design ops lead now means stitching together three distinct product cultures. The job is operational but the surface area is rare: shared systems, shared talent, three flagship products with strong design DNA.

Canva · Seoul, South Korea

Regional design leads at Canva have unusual autonomy to shape product expression for their market. Korea is a discerning design audience, and this seat gets to translate a global system into something that feels native there.

Canva · Sydney, AU

Few companies have a richer research surface area than Canva — every conceivable creative use case at massive global scale. This leadership role anchors the Sydney design org and shapes how Canva learns from its audience.

Superhuman · Hub - San Francisco

Design operations rarely gets the spotlight, but at a newly merged platform it is the connective tissue that keeps a sprawling design team coherent. This is a builder role for someone who likes designing how designers work.

Oura · Hybrid - Helsinki, Uusimaa

Oura is rare in consumer hardware: an HQ in Helsinki that takes craft as seriously as its industrial design. Leading software design here means owning how millions of people interpret their bodies day to day — high-stakes, high-craft work alongside one of the strongest in-house design orgs in health tech.

Phantom · Remote (US)

Designing the wallet platform at Phantom means solving hard interaction problems — sending crypto, managing tokens, connecting to dApps — with the kind of polish that makes Phantom feel like a native iOS app. High craft bar.

Duolingo · New York, NY

Design management role leading team shaping experiences for millions of learners

Replit · Foster City, CA

Replit is one of the most design-forward developer tools companies, and they are hiring a Brand Design Lead to own their visual identity. The team ships incredibly polished work — their brand has become iconic in the dev tools space. A dream brief for a senior brand designer.

Duolingo · Pittsburgh, PA

Design management role leading team shaping experiences for millions of learners

Gusto · Denver, CO / San Francisco, CA / New York, NY / Los Angeles, CA / Seattle, WA

Gusto has always punched above its weight on brand — their illustrations and tone are distinctive in a sea of fintech sameness. A brand design manager here gets to shape visual identity for a product used by hundreds of thousands of businesses. Strong role for someone who wants brand leadership at scale.

Carta · SF / Santa Clara / Seattle / NYC

Design leadership at Carta — the platform that powers equity management for thousands of startups. Making cap tables and equity feel understandable is a seriously hard design challenge.

Gusto · San Francisco, CA

Design management at Gusto is a solid bet — the company treats design well and payroll is their bread and butter. It's a well-run team at a mature company, though the domain itself isn't the most creatively stimulating.

Chime · New York, NY / San Francisco, CA

Chime keeps quietly investing in design leadership, and a manager seat here is a real fintech product job — millions of users, real money in motion, a clear surface to ship to. Best for someone who wants to grow people while keeping hands on the canvas at a company with serious scale. NY or SF hybrid.

Hadrius · New York, NY

Hadrius is tackling financial compliance with AI — a massive, underserved market where good design can be a genuine differentiator. The $200-250K range plus equity signals they're serious about design leadership. First design lead hire at a YC company with real traction means shaping the product from the ground up.

Daylight Computer · Remote

Daylight is one of the few hardware startups pitching a genuine alternative to the glowing-screen default — a reflective, e-ink-like tablet for focus and calm. A brand design lead here writes the rulebook for a product that already has a devoted early audience. Small team, real aesthetic stance, rare category.

Away · NYC: Soho HQ

Away's product team has long been a benchmark for thoughtful, design-led travel goods. A Design Lead seat in Soho is a chance to set direction on a category-defining brand's next chapter — rare ground for industrial designers who care about retail-scale craft and material detail.