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Lead Product Designer ( Híbrido Barcelona)
🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Slashmobility 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Lead the end-to-end design of complex digital products from discovery to delivery and evolution. Focus on accelerating digital transformation and generating measurable value for the business.
Lead Product Designer - Restaurant Product
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Opentable 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead the design strategy for the Front of House and Table Management System, managing the product lifecycle from problem framing to delivery. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate AI workflows and ensure high-quality, accessible user experiences for restaurant partners.
Senior Product Designer
🇦🇲 Yerevan, Armenia
Buymie 🇦🇲 Yerevan, Armenia
You will lead end-to-end design processes, including research, ideation, and the delivery of intuitive UI for web and mobile platforms. Additionally, you will maintain design systems, mentor junior designers, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive data-informed design decisions.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Matter Intelligence 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
The Product Designer will lead user research and translate complex sensing data into clear information architecture and interfaces. They will build and maintain a coherent design system to turn high-dimensional intelligence into actionable operational decisions.
Senior Interior Design Manager
🇸🇬 Singapore, Singapore
Vallan 🇸🇬 Singapore, Singapore
Lead the design quality and delivery of luxury hospitality projects from concept through to final site compliance. Coordinate between architects, designers, and operations teams to ensure design intent is executed on-time and on-budget.
Senior UX Product Designer, Engagement
🇵🇱 Warszawa, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
Hellofresh 🇵🇱 Warszawa, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
Lead the end-to-end design of engagement experiences including loyalty, rewards, and referrals to deepen customer relationships. Partner with cross-functional teams to drive experimentation and integrate AI-native workflows into the design lifecycle.
Senior UX Product Designer, Engagement
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Hellofresh 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead the end-to-end design of engagement experiences including loyalty, referrals, and discovery to deepen customer relationships. Partner with cross-functional teams to translate behavioral insights and commercial goals into scalable, AI-enhanced product directions.
[Coupang Pay] Staff Product Designer (FinTech UX)
🇰🇷 Seoul, South Korea
Coupang 🇰🇷 Seoul, South Korea
Lead end-to-end design projects for innovative financial services by collaborating with product, business, data, and engineering teams. Contribute to product vision and roadmaps while identifying and solving user experience issues based on qualitative and quantitative data.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 Gloucester, England, United Kingdom
Sphere Solutions 🇬🇧 Gloucester, England, United Kingdom
Lead and manage the design process for a £40 million construction project from pre-construction to completion. Coordinate multidisciplinary consultant teams and ensure design information is compliant, buildable, and delivered on schedule.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Sphere Solutions 🇬🇧 Bristol, England, United Kingdom
The Senior Design Manager will lead and coordinate the design process across multiple construction projects from pre-construction through to completion. They are responsible for managing stakeholder relationships, ensuring regulatory compliance, and overseeing design deliverables to meet programme milestones.
Head Design & Engineering - Process
🇮🇳 Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India
Tata Steel 🇮🇳 Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India
Lead the overall engineering execution of projects from conceptualization to delivery, ensuring first-time-right implementation. Manage process scope, interface management, and implement sustainability and safety solutions while monitoring global technology developments.
SR Manager Solutions Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Gwinnett County, Georgia, United States
Id Logistics Us 🇺🇸 Gwinnett County, Georgia, United States
Lead the end-to-end solution development lifecycle for new business opportunities, from RFI/RFP analysis to final operational handoff. Design and optimize warehouse, eCommerce, and distribution solutions using engineering principles and automation technologies.
Graphic Designer
🇮🇳 India
Netrolynx Ai 🇮🇳 India
The role involves designing professional presentation decks for leadership, sales, and clients while maintaining strict brand consistency. The designer will collaborate with subject matter experts to translate complex data and strategic insights into engaging visual narratives.
Product Designer (Hybrid Barcelona)
🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Wizeline 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Own the design strategy for entire products and contribute to scalable platform patterns and frameworks. Lead cross-team initiatives and mentor other designers to ensure high-quality, accessible, and business-aligned user experiences.
Director Mechanical Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Secaucus, New Jersey, United States
Zt Systems 🇺🇸 Secaucus, New Jersey, United States
Lead the mechanical engineering team in designing and developing advanced server and rack-level systems from concept to production. Collaborate with cross-functional teams and engage with customers and suppliers to deliver tailored mechanical solutions.
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.