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Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Omada Health Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Lead the end-to-end design process for new care programs, transforming ambiguous 0-to-1 problems into shipped mobile experiences. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate behavioral science and AI into human-centered health solutions.
Product Designer Senior
🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brazil
Intera 🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brazil
As a Senior Product Designer, you will lead product design initiatives, ensuring high-quality experiences and actively contributing to product evolution. You will translate customer needs and business objectives into clear and intuitive experiences while collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Visual Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Bayone Solutions 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead design projects across a portfolio of XR devices and experiences, developing user-centric solutions. Communicate designs to build excitement and consensus across teams and gain support for design strategy.
Sr. ICT Design Engineer, Data Center Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Amazon Web Services (aws) 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
As a Senior ICT Design Engineer, you will lead the design and delivery of ICT systems for AWS data centers, ensuring high performance and scalability. You will also mentor junior engineers and drive the adoption of best practices across multiple projects.
Sr. ICT Design Engineer, Data Center Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
Amazon Web Services (aws) 🇺🇸 Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
As a Senior ICT Design Engineer, you will lead the design and delivery of ICT systems across multiple data center builds, ensuring high performance and scalability. You will also mentor junior engineers and drive the adoption of best practices and emerging technologies.
Sr. ICT Design Engineer, Data Center Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Amazon Web Services (aws) 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
As a Senior ICT Design Engineer, you will lead the design and delivery of ICT systems across multiple data center builds. You will also mentor junior engineers and drive the adoption of best practices and emerging technologies.
Sr. ICT Design Engineer, Data Center Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Amazon Web Services (aws) 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
As a Senior ICT Design Engineer, you will lead the design and delivery of ICT systems for AWS data centers, ensuring high performance and scalability. You will also mentor junior engineers and drive the adoption of best practices across multiple projects.
Sr. ICT Design Engineer, Data Center Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Herndon, Virginia, United States of America
Amazon Web Services (aws) 🇺🇸 Herndon, Virginia, United States of America
The Senior ICT Design Engineer will lead the design and delivery of scalable ICT systems across multiple data center builds. This role involves driving design standards, coordinating with various engineering disciplines, and mentoring junior engineers.
Lead UX Designer
🇺🇸 Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States of America
Billiontoone 🇺🇸 Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States of America
The Lead UX Designer will own the complete UX vision and strategy for the prenatal diagnostic platform, Unity, leading the design process from research through final production. This role involves transforming scientific complexity into intuitive digital experiences and advocating for user-centered design across the organization.
Senior Engineer, Mixed Signal Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Chandler, Arizona, United States of America
Analog Devices 🇺🇸 Chandler, Arizona, United States of America
Perform analog and mixed signal circuit analysis, design, and verification to integrate design blocks into larger systems. Lead the product development lifecycle from defining requirements and floor planning to lab evaluation and debugging.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Torrance, California, United States of America
Jr286 🇺🇸 Torrance, California, United States of America
Lead the design and execution of high-performance hard and soft goods across various sports categories, balancing innovation with aesthetic appeal. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate consumer insights and brand DNA into detailed tech packs and final products.
Head of Design
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Permitflow 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Build and lead PermitFlow's design organization, evolving it into a strategic partner across the business. Define the design strategy and ensure quality standards while doing hands-on design work.
Staff Product Designer, Growth
Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)
Deel Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)
The Staff Product Designer will lead design initiatives across growth-focused projects, ensuring alignment with user needs and business goals. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to create impactful user experiences and mentor other designers.
Graphic Designer + Landing Page Developer
Remote (🇨🇴 Colombia)
Pavago Remote (🇨🇴 Colombia)
Design and develop high-performing, conversion-focused landing pages and digital marketing assets. Optimize user experience and conversion rates to drive measurable business results and lead generation.
Graphic Designer + Landing Page Developer
Remote (🇸🇻 El Salvador)
Pavago Remote (🇸🇻 El Salvador)
Design and develop high-performing, conversion-focused landing pages and digital marketing assets. Optimize user experience and conversion rates to drive measurable business results and lead generation.
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.