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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.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Gamechanger 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design process and ship features across mobile and web platforms. Collaborate with cross-functional team members to influence the product from conception to execution through a user-centered approach.
Staff Product Designer, New Content Experiences
🇵🇦 Panama City, Distrito de Panamá, Panama
Netflix 🇵🇦 Panama City, Distrito de Panamá, Panama
The role involves translating ambiguous needs into clear experience visions and scalable design systems for new content experiences like livestreams and podcasts. The designer will partner with cross-functional leaders to shape product strategy and advocate for global members.
Lead Graphic Designer
🇬🇧 Rochdale, England, United Kingdom
Footasylum 🇬🇧 Rochdale, England, United Kingdom
You will own the graphics and artwork process from brief to final sign off across print and digital. You will lead the graphics team day to day, juggle priorities, and ensure every asset feels unmistakably Footasylum.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Hays 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
As Project Manager / Design Manager, you will oversee multiple capital works projects from concept to completion, ensuring timely and budget-compliant delivery. You will collaborate with various stakeholders to lead design development and project handover.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Struction Solutions 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
The Senior Design Manager will lead design activities for the School Upgrade Program and critical repair projects, ensuring compliance with LAUSD standards. This role involves managing multiple projects from conception to execution while coordinating with various stakeholders.
UX designer
🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Ing Hubs Romania 🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
The role involves creating digital services and interaction designs to improve customer journeys for liquidity and information management services. The designer will maintain the design library and lead the organization toward a higher level of UX maturity.
Sr. Dir, Design Engineering
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Github 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Senior Design Engineering leader will define the technical and organizational vision for design, engineering, and AI-powered workflows at GitHub. They will lead a team to innovate and elevate user experiences while collaborating with various stakeholders.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Gamechanger 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design process and ship features across mobile and web platforms. Collaborate with cross-functional team members to influence the product from conception to execution through a user-centered approach.
Sr. Dir, Design Engineering
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Indra 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Senior Director of Design Engineering will define the technical and organizational vision for integrating design, engineering, and AI workflows to enhance developer experiences. They will lead a team to innovate and establish standards for front-end architecture and design systems.
Industrial Design Manager
🇺🇸 Clemmons, NC 27012, United States of America
Design Observer 🇺🇸 Clemmons, NC 27012, United States of America
Lead industrial design execution for assigned product platforms and NPD programs, ensuring alignment to design intent and user needs. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate customer insights into manufacturable solutions.
Principal Product Designer | UX/UI & AI Experience Design
🇷🇴 Bucharest, Romania
Human Intelligence 🇷🇴 Bucharest, Romania
Lead the UX/UI strategy and complete product design lifecycle for AI-powered platforms across healthcare, education, and wellbeing. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to transform complex AI technology into intuitive, human-centered digital experiences.
Principal Product Designer | UX/UI & AI Experience Design
🇺🇦 Kyiv, Ukraine
Human Intelligence 🇺🇦 Kyiv, Ukraine
Lead the UX/UI strategy and complete product design lifecycle for AI-powered platforms across healthcare, education, and wellbeing. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to transform complex AI technology into intuitive, human-centered digital experiences.
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.