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Senior UX Designer, Google Ads, AdMob
🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Google 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Lead the design strategy and execution for mobile app advertising and monetization using AI. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate user needs into cohesive product outlooks through high-fidelity mockups and prototypes.
Senior UX Researcher, YouTube Shopping Ads, AdsTube
🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Google 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Lead strategic UX research for AdsTube and Shopping Ads to optimize the creator ecosystem and B2B advertiser tools. Collaborate with Engineering and Product Management to translate user insights into product designs and business strategies.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Southampton, England, United Kingdom
Tilbury Douglas 🇬🇧 Southampton, England, United Kingdom
The Design Manager will lead and manage the design process from tender through to construction, ensuring alignment with programme, cost, and quality requirements. They will drive innovative design solutions and manage client relationships throughout the pre-construction phase.
Design Manager (Civils)
🇬🇧 Birstall, Charnwood, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom
M Group Water 🇬🇧 Birstall, Charnwood, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom
You will provide design leadership across infrastructure projects, coordinating multidisciplinary teams to deliver high-quality designs. Additionally, you will manage design programmes and act as the primary technical interface with clients and stakeholders.
Graphic Designer & Social Media Coordinator
🇹🇭 Thailand
Secure Iq Services 🇹🇭 Thailand
You will create compelling visual content from existing assets and distribute it across social media platforms to drive qualified leads. This role involves transforming CAD drawings, photography, and 3D renders into engaging marketing materials for various social media channels.
Graphic Designer & Social Media Coordinator
🇹🇭 Thailand
Secure Iq Services 🇹🇭 Thailand
You will create compelling visual content from existing assets and distribute it across social media platforms to drive qualified leads. This role involves transforming CAD drawings, photography, and 3D renders into engaging marketing materials.
Supply Chain Network Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Florida Crystals / Asr Group 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
The role is responsible for owning the end-to-end supply chain network design for packed products, focusing on cost-to-serve modelling and stock positioning. It involves managing inter-site product flows and creating network performance dashboards to inform strategic leadership decisions.
Head of Design
🇫🇷 Reims, Marne, France
Justmarkets 🇫🇷 Reims, Marne, France
Lead the company's visual identity by unifying brand art direction with product design across all touchpoints. Manage a multidisciplinary design team and drive the integration of Generative AI tools to scale creative output.
Senior Product Designer (contract)
🇺🇸 Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
Mindgrub 🇺🇸 Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will lead the creation of high-quality, human-centered user experiences for web and native mobile applications. Responsibilities include conducting generative research, creating design systems, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to solve complex business challenges.
UX Researcher
🇺🇸 Arlington County, Virginia, United States of America
Accenture Federal Services 🇺🇸 Arlington County, Virginia, United States of America
Lead generative and evaluative research studies to improve a large enterprise data platform. Synthesize qualitative and quantitative data into insights that shape design, content, and customer-facing strategies.
Graphic Designer & Social Media Coordinator
🇲🇾 Malaysia
Secure Iq Services 🇲🇾 Malaysia
You will create compelling visual content from existing assets and distribute it across social media platforms to drive qualified leads. This role involves transforming CAD drawings, photography, and 3D renders into engaging marketing materials.
Graphic Designer & Social Media Coordinator
🇲🇾 Malaysia
Secure Iq Services 🇲🇾 Malaysia
You will create compelling visual content from existing assets and distribute it across social media platforms to drive qualified leads. This role involves transforming CAD drawings, photography, and 3D renders into engaging marketing materials.
UX Researcher, AI e-Commerce (m/f/n)
🇵🇱 Warszawa, 83-433 Nowe Polaszki, Poland
Inpost 🇵🇱 Warszawa, 83-433 Nowe Polaszki, Poland
You will lead end-to-end research and analytical projects, from defining the problem to presenting recommendations. Your insights will influence product and business development while monitoring market trends.
Freelance Senior SaaS Web Designer, Fully Remote
Remote (🇺🇸 Clearwater, Florida, United States of America)
Pacemate™ Remote (🇺🇸 Clearwater, Florida, United States of America)
Lead the visual redesign of PaceMate.com by creating high-fidelity homepage and interior page concepts. Develop a comprehensive design system and reusable components to ensure a sophisticated, enterprise-ready B2B healthcare experience.
Product Designer
🇩🇰 1357 København K, Denmark
Famly 🇩🇰 1357 København K, Denmark
Lead the design of communication features to deepen parent engagement within the Famly platform. Collaborate with autonomous product teams to translate user research and data into high-fidelity designs and durable design systems.
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.