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Senior Product Designer
🇵🇭 Taguig, Southern Manila District, Philippines
Youtrip 🇵🇭 Taguig, Southern Manila District, Philippines
Lead strategic product initiatives from discovery through delivery across B2B and B2C products, ensuring high-quality user experiences. Take end-to-end ownership of complex product features and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful solutions.
Senior Graphic Designer 5W934Y93
Remote (🇺🇸 Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America)
Icreatives Remote (🇺🇸 Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America)
The Senior Graphic Designer will develop broadcast, retail, digital, and integrated campaigns, collaborating on celebrity-driven work for a leading home goods retailer. They will create style frames, presentation boards, and visual storytelling for broadcast productions.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Creative Recruiters 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
The Senior Graphic Designer will act as the driving force behind the studio's creative output, developing baseline concepts and executing high-quality layouts across diverse media. They will also lead and mentor an internal Midweight Designer while collaborating with marketing teams on major campaigns.
Highway Design Engineering Project Manager CM
🇺🇸 City of Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Creighton Manning 🇺🇸 City of Syracuse, New York, United States of America
The Highway Project Manager is responsible for managing client relations, staffing, project scheduling, and overseeing project documents for quality assurance. They also lead project meetings and provide technical guidance to junior engineers.
Staff Product Designer
🇸🇬 Singapore
Airwallex 🇸🇬 Singapore
Partner with cross-functional teams to define problems, map user flows, and launch new products. Indirectly lead a team of designers and product managers while building strong relationships with stakeholders.
Design Manager
🇵🇭 Makati, Southern Manila District, Philippines
Red Engineering Design 🇵🇭 Makati, Southern Manila District, Philippines
The Design Manager leads and coordinates team members for a specific business unit, overseeing the design process from concept to execution. They are responsible for setting design strategies, mentoring staff, and collaborating with stakeholders to deliver high-quality solutions.
Sr. Dir, Design Engineering
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Github, Inc. 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Define the technical and organizational vision for design engineering, focusing on AI-native workflows and front-end architecture. Lead a team of design engineers to scale GitHub's design systems and design-to-code ecosystem.
Product Designer
🇮🇳 Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Noon 🇮🇳 Gurgaon, Haryana, India
As a Product Designer, you will lead the design charter for Darkstore, Fulfillment, and Supply Chain products, translating complex operational workflows into intuitive digital experiences. You will create and maintain design systems, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs for internal applications.
Senior Design Manager, Toys & Hardlines, Japan
🇯🇵 Minato, Tokyo, Japan
Nbcuniversal 🇯🇵 Minato, Tokyo, Japan
Lead the design direction and approval processes for toys and hardlines products in the Japanese market. Manage relationships with licensees and internal teams to ensure brand integrity and drive product innovation.
Senior Design Manager, Toys & Hardlines, Japan
🇯🇵 Minato, Tokyo, Japan
Nbcuniversal 🇯🇵 Minato, Tokyo, Japan
Lead the design direction and approval processes for Toys and Hardlines products specifically for the Japanese market. Manage relationships with licensees and internal teams to ensure brand integrity and drive product innovation.
Industrial Design Manager
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
Lumina Personnel 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
The Industrial Design Manager will lead the industrial design function, overseeing product design strategy and managing the development of innovative products from concept through production. This role involves collaboration with various teams to ensure successful product delivery while balancing user needs and business objectives.
AI Product Designer (Builder)
🇲🇾 Malaysia
Deriv.com 🇲🇾 Malaysia
Lead the end-to-end process of taking product problems from research and design to a working frontend implementation using AI coding tools. Contribute to making the company's design system AI-native by refining documentation, APIs, and agent instructions.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Butterflymx 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead end-to-end design processes for major product features across various platforms. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create cohesive hardware-software experiences and maintain design standards.
Electrical Design Manager
🇺🇸 Austell, Cobb County, Georgia, United States of America
Gaylor Electric, Inc. 🇺🇸 Austell, Cobb County, Georgia, United States of America
The Electrical Design Manager leads a team in overseeing multiple construction projects, ensuring compliance with codes and standards while providing innovative solutions. They manage project plans, schedules, and budgets, and collaborate with various stakeholders.
Senior Manager, Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Waddell, Maricopa County, AZ 85355, United States of America
Ermco-eci 🇺🇸 Waddell, Maricopa County, AZ 85355, United States of America
The Senior Manager, Design Engineering oversees the design, development, and manufacturing of three-phase transformers, leading engineering efforts and ensuring alignment with organizational goals. This role involves managing cross-functional collaboration and driving the execution of engineering strategies to deliver high-quality transformer designs.
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.