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Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Ladders 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Define the vision for search and discovery, and lead product design from discovery through production while collaborating with cross-functional teams on AI-assisted and personalized experiences. Connect design decisions to customer and business outcomes, advance the design system, prototype new concepts, and mentor other designers.
Design Manager, ADA
🇺🇸 United States of America
Ladders 🇺🇸 United States of America
Represent the company in client and subcontractor interactions, support regulatory negotiations and public meetings, and establish project execution, safety, and quality plans. Lead program teams and oversee business, technical, fiscal, and administrative functions while managing requirements, budgets, schedules, deliverables, and project risks.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Ladders 🇺🇸 United States of America
Define product initiatives with cross-functional teams and lead design from strategy through execution, producing high-quality user experiences, interactions, and prototypes. Use AI-enabled workflows, user research, and design systems to explore ideas, address user needs, and maintain high design standards.
Senior Interaction Designer
🇬🇧 Salford, England, United Kingdom
Uk Home Office 🇬🇧 Salford, England, United Kingdom
Lead interaction design for complex services, using user evidence, prototypes, journey maps, and accessibility standards to create simple and effective experiences. Manage, mentor, and support interaction designers while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders to guide design decisions.
Senior Interaction Designer
🇬🇧 Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Uk Home Office 🇬🇧 Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Lead interaction design for complex services, using user needs, research evidence, prototypes, and journey maps to create simple, effective, and accessible experiences. Manage, mentor, and support designers while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders to guide design decisions.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Criterion Capital 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead and coordinate the design process for office-to-hotel conversions, managing consultants and stakeholders while ensuring designs meet project goals, budgets, schedules, quality standards, and regulatory requirements. Oversee design documentation, approvals, value engineering, sustainability, and design support during construction.
UX Designer - Figma, Financial Services
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Hays 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the end-to-end redesign of product platforms by researching user needs, facilitating discovery, and creating user journeys, flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity interfaces. Test and refine designs with users, collaborate with product and engineering teams, and deliver implementation-ready specifications and assets.
Senior Design Manager
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Sigmar Recruitment 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Lead Data Centre design projects from concept through completion, coordinating clients, consultants, and multidisciplinary teams while ensuring technical, operational, regulatory, and sustainability requirements are met. Manage design development, resources, budgets, timelines, procurement, contract administration, construction delivery, site inspections, and resolution of technical issues.
Senior UI Designer (Contractor)
🇸🇪 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Arrowhead Game Studios 🇸🇪 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Lead the design and development of complex, high-impact UI systems including HUD, inventory, and social menus. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure cohesive, accessible, and immersive UI solutions that align with the creative vision.
Staff Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Moniepoint 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
You will lead the end-to-end design process for financial products, from discovery and research to final UI execution. Additionally, you will mentor junior designers and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure intuitive and accessible user experiences.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Costain Group 🇬🇧 Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
The Design Manager will lead the design delivery of major potable water transfer projects, managing teams from feasibility through to construction and commissioning. They will collaborate with project management, construction, and operational stakeholders to ensure efficient, value-for-money design outcomes.
MEP Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Criterion Capital 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead and coordinate MEP design across office-to-hotel conversion and residential projects, integrating building services with architectural and structural designs while meeting operational, regulatory, cost, and programme requirements. Manage external design teams, budgets, approvals, documentation, and quality control, and provide technical guidance throughout design and construction.
Staff Product Designer
Remote (🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom)
Moniepoint Group Remote (🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom)
Lead end-to-end design for financial products, from research and discovery through prototyping and final UI, while partnering with product managers and engineers to deliver effective experiences. Develop scalable design systems, advocate for accessibility, use research and data to improve products, and mentor junior designers.
Senior Design Manager Mechanical - Data Center Design シニアデザインマネージャー機械
🇯🇵 Japan
Specialized Group 🇯🇵 Japan
Lead mechanical design for critical data center infrastructure projects, coordinating with project managers and engineers to integrate mechanical systems with HVAC, electrical, and plumbing systems. Ensure compliance with local regulations and industry standards, oversee design quality and documentation, manage vendors and material specifications, resolve technical issues, and guide engineering teams.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Nve Experience Agency 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead complex design work and develop visual systems for brand experiences and campaigns, translating creative concepts into cohesive expressions across physical and digital touchpoints. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and clients, uphold craft and production quality, mentor junior designers, and help guide selected projects from concept through implementation.
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.