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Civil Design Manager
🇺🇸 Katy, Texas, United States
Pcl Construction 🇺🇸 Katy, Texas, United States
The Civil Design Manager leads civil design development for utility-scale solar projects, overseeing grading, drainage, and stormwater management from concept to construction. They manage external engineering consultants and ensure project compliance with environmental regulations, schedules, and budget requirements.
Senior Product Designer, D2C - PDEGO
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Sony Music Entertainment 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
The Senior Product Designer will own the design vision for D2C products, including internal management tools and consumer-facing artist storefronts. They will lead discovery, research user needs, and integrate data-driven insights to optimize the ecommerce experience.
Senior UX Researcher
🇺🇸 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Vanguard 🇺🇸 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
The Senior UX Researcher designs and conducts complex user experience research studies to support interface design and usability improvements across web and mobile platforms. They also mentor junior staff, present findings to leadership, and negotiate the adoption of usability recommendations.
Sr. UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Motion Recruitment 🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
The role involves constructing, testing, and implementing technical information technology solutions while leading the design and development of complex systems. You will interact with customers to understand business environments and define project scope, deliverables, and implementation plans.
Technical Design Manager
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Garan, Incorporated 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
The Technical Design Manager will lead a team of designers to oversee the development of children's apparel, ensuring fit, construction, and technical standards are met. They will manage cross-functional workflows, prioritize seasonal workloads, and partner with global factories to maintain production timelines.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Pigment 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Lead and develop a team of Product Designers while overseeing design operations and maintaining high standards for UX quality. Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to align priorities and shape the overall design strategy and impact.
Product Designer
🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico
Parrot Software 🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico
Lead the full product lifecycle from problem discovery to launch by translating business objectives into measurable solutions. Conduct continuous discovery through data analysis, customer interviews, and stakeholder collaboration to define product roadmaps and requirements.
Senior Product Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Mumzworld 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
You will lead end-to-end product design for native iOS and Android apps while managing internal platforms for operations and commercial teams. This role involves conducting user research, maintaining design systems, and leveraging AI-driven workflows to iterate on features that improve business metrics.
Medium Voltage Mechanical Design Manager
🇨🇦 Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
Industrial Electric Manufacturing 🇨🇦 Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
The manager will oversee the design and standardization of custom medium voltage products while leading the mechanical engineering team. They are responsible for ensuring design quality, regulatory compliance, and efficient delivery to production.
Advanced Tool Design Manager
🇺🇸 New Kensington, Pennsylvania, United States
Weiss-aug 🇺🇸 New Kensington, Pennsylvania, United States
The Advanced Tool Design Manager leads the design, development, and validation of complex progressive stamping dies and precision tooling systems. This role provides strategic direction for tooling innovation, manages engineering resources, and ensures operational excellence through data-driven manufacturing analytics.
Lead Product Designer - Design Foundations, Interstate
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Cox Enterprises 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States
You will own and evolve the Interstate B2B design system, setting the design direction and quality standards for the organization. Additionally, you will shape AI-assisted design tooling and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure consistency and efficiency across all products.
Head of Design
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Class 3 Technologies 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
You will own the design direction across both product and brand, building a unified system that translates complex climate risk data into actionable insights. You will lead the experience architecture for the Iris platform while establishing the visual and narrative identity for the company.
Head of Design
🇫🇮 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
Housemarque 🇫🇮 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
Define and drive the long-term strategy for the Design craft while leading, coaching, and developing senior design talent. Partner with creative and game directors to ensure the design organization is equipped to realize ambitious creative visions.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Outsystems 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Lead end-to-end design for a low-code platform, focusing on human-AI interaction and developer workflows. Collaborate cross-functionally with Product and Engineering teams to deliver scalable, validated digital products.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇪🇬 Egypt
Hire Africa 🇪🇬 Egypt
The Senior Graphic Designer creates high-quality visual assets across digital, print, and branding channels to support strategic business objectives. They lead projects from concept to execution while mentoring junior designers and maintaining brand consistency.
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.