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Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Cbts 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead product design from discovery through delivery, translating research and insights into user-centered experiences, flows, wireframes, prototypes, and polished interfaces. Partner with product and engineering teams on prioritization and roadmaps, and improve design quality through critique, collaboration, and stewardship of design patterns.
Design Engineering Manager
🇺🇸 Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States of America
Eaton Corporation 🇺🇸 Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States of America
The Design Engineering Manager leads Continuous Improvement Engineering teams to support product lines and maintain design standards. This role collaborates with cross-functional teams to resolve technical issues and oversees the Engineering Change Order process and automation systems.
Product Designer
🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Bluesky Hr Consultancy Inc. 🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Lead design outcomes in a cross-functional team, discovering user needs and translating insights into end-to-end experiences across mobile and web. Communicate design decisions, evolve the design system, validate solutions through prototyping, and support design quality by coaching peers and influencing stakeholders.
Product Designer (AI-Native)
🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Hypersolid 🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Lead visual and motion craft across key projects, setting quality standards for art direction, interface design, typography, and motion. Build and promote spec-driven, AI-native workflows, including machine-readable Figma systems and code-based prototypes, while collaborating with teams and presenting design direction to senior stakeholders and clients.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Mitie 🇬🇧 Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Lead and coordinate design management across design-and-build projects from concept through construction, testing, commissioning, and handover. Manage design documentation, technical compliance, stakeholder and supplier coordination, tender and cost support, and project reporting on risks and non-compliance.
Principal Product Designer - Design Systems
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Twinkl Educational Publishing 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Set the design system’s direction, scope, governance, and measures of success, while designing and delivering components, tokens, modules, and templates across web and mobile products. Drive adoption and accessibility, collaborate with engineering and research teams, lead high-stakes product design work, and mentor colleagues through influence rather than direct management.
Sales & Design Manager – Pump Rental Services
🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Combuzz Hr Solutions 🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai Emirate, United Arab Emirates
The Sales & Design Manager will lead technical sales and solution design for pump rental services across the MENA region. They are responsible for developing new business, managing client relationships, and coordinating between design, sales, and operations teams.
Junior Graphic Designer - Freelance
🇲🇹 Malta
Growth Leads 🇲🇹 Malta
You will create high-quality visual assets including web graphics, social media content, and email banners to support brand identity. You will collaborate with product owners and content editors to brainstorm ideas and ensure all designs align with brand guidelines.
Junior Graphic Designer - Freelance
🇲🇹 Malta
Growth Leads 🇲🇹 Malta
Create polished graphics for websites, social media, YouTube, and email campaigns, including infographics and banners. Maintain brand consistency while collaborating with Product Owners and Content Editors to develop ideas, refine briefs, and incorporate feedback.
UX Designer (III) [AQ-19806]
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Aquent 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead design outcomes for mature projects, complex programs, or emerging areas, developing scalable solutions and guiding long-term user experience and product strategy. Create production-ready specifications, prototypes, user flows, and assets while collaborating with UX and cross-functional teams to deliver user-centered solutions.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Tdm Recruitment 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead design across multiple live residential building safety remediation and re-cladding projects, coordinating consultants and specialist subcontractors from feasibility through delivery. Manage regulatory submissions, maintain the golden thread, ensure compliant and buildable designs, control design changes, and align design programmes with construction.
Assistant Design Manager - Interior Design - Residential & Villas
🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Tint Tone & Shade 🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Lead luxury residential and villa design projects from concept through completion, overseeing design quality, technical documentation, schedules, and coordination with project, site, and specialist teams. Manage client relationships, mentor a multidisciplinary design team, and support business development and strategic growth.
Lead Product Designer
🇨🇦 Canada
Metamask 🇨🇦 Canada
Own the end-to-end Prediction Markets experience, from early concepts through launch and iteration, including market discovery, comprehension, trading, and position management. Partner with Product and Engineering to shape the product, prototype rapidly with AI, and improve the experience through strong visual and interaction design, research, and data.
Senior Product Designer
🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal
Iterable 🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal
You will lead the evolution of the Aurora design system by defining component contracts, structured specifications, and machine-readable design intent. You will also partner with engineering teams to ensure consistent, accessible, and high-quality product experiences across Figma, code, and AI-assisted workflows.
Lead Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Metamask 🇺🇸 United States of America
Own the end-to-end Prediction Markets experience, from early concepts through launch and iteration, including market discovery, trading, and position management. Partner with Product and Engineering, use AI to prototype quickly, and apply research and data to make complex market mechanics clear while maintaining a high bar for visual and interaction design.
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.