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Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Manhattan Beach, CA 90266, United States of America
Pride Resource Partners Llc 🇺🇸 Manhattan Beach, CA 90266, United States of America
Lead the design activities for the School Upgrade Program and critical repair projects, ensuring compliance with educational and building standards. Manage the full design process from conception to handoff, coordinating with architects, consultants, and the Division of State Architects.
Principal Product Designer
🇵🇹 Portugal
Olx 🇵🇹 Portugal
Lead the quality of interaction, UX, and visual design across business units while defining and governing design systems. Mentor the design team and influence product strategy through design-led thinking.
Senior Manager UX Designer
🇵🇱 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Appnovation Technologies 🇵🇱 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
The role involves bridging the gap between technical innovation and business challenges by building predictive models and deriving actionable insights. You will define strategic direction, influence multiple teams, and lead AI governance and rapid prototyping initiatives.
Senior UI UX Designer
🇮🇳 Navi Mumbai, Thane Subdistrict, India
Arcot Ai Solutions Private Limited 🇮🇳 Navi Mumbai, Thane Subdistrict, India
Own the end-to-end design process for a portfolio of AI-driven SaaS products, from research and wireframing to polished UI. Lead and manage a team of approximately five designers, setting quality standards and overseeing their professional growth.
Senior Manager UX Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Appnovation Technologies 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead the design of AI-first platforms and agentic AI experiences, focusing on conversational UX and assistant behaviors. Own specific design system patterns and ship them as code into the engineering pipeline to ensure compliant, scalable delivery.
Senior Product Designer - Design Systems
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Procore Technologies 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Lead the evolution of Procore's Design System by creating scalable components and AI-forward infrastructure for web and mobile platforms. Partner with product and engineering teams to drive adoption and ensure a consistent, human-centered user experience.
Lead UI/UX Designer
🇳🇱 Maasdijk, South Holland, Netherlands
Ridder 🇳🇱 Maasdijk, South Holland, Netherlands
You will lead the entire design process, from user research to interaction and visual design, and handover to developers. You will collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, agronomists, and customers to create a modern user experience.
Principal Product Designer
🇳🇱 Netherlands
Olx 🇳🇱 Netherlands
Lead the quality of interaction, UX, and visual design across business units while defining and governing design systems. Mentor and elevate the design team, ensuring high-quality execution and alignment with product strategy.
Digital Design Manager
🇬🇧 Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom
Severn Trent 🇬🇧 Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom
Lead a team of Digital Designers to deliver innovative 3D modelling solutions for complex water and wastewater treatment projects. Oversee BIM implementation, manage Autodesk licenses, and drive the organization's digital engineering standards and strategy.
Lead Graphic Designer
🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Footasylum 🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
The Lead Graphic Designer owns the graphics and artwork process from brief to final sign-off across print and digital platforms. They are responsible for leading the graphics team, managing priorities, and ensuring all assets maintain brand consistency.
Senior Product Designer
🇧🇪 Antwerp, Belgium
November Five 🇧🇪 Antwerp, Belgium
Lead end-to-end design processes from research and framing to UI, prototyping, and handoff for a diverse portfolio of clients. Contribute to the team's design standards and component libraries while maintaining high visual and interaction quality.
Design Systems & Operations Lead
🇺🇸 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Pnc 🇺🇸 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
This role leads the intersection of Design Operations and Design Systems to scale design quality and delivery effectiveness across the organization. It involves owning the design delivery ecosystem, governing the design system roadmap, and executing high-impact product design initiatives.
Product Design Manager, Visibility & Spend Control
🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Rocket Money 🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Lead the design vision and roadmap for Visibility and Spend Control features while managing and mentoring a small team of designers. Balance hands-on IC design work with leadership to ship experiences that help users make smarter financial decisions.
Machine Design Engineering Group Leader
🇺🇸 Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America
Oak Ridge National Laboratory 🇺🇸 Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America
The Machine Design Engineering Group Leader will provide technical leadership and oversight of centrifuge machine design activities, ensuring high-quality design outputs and continuous process improvements. This role involves collaboration with various stakeholders to execute project scopes according to approved schedules and budgets.
Data Center Design Manager / Project Manager
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Arup 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Lead the effective and efficient delivery of data center projects, managing the performance of the technical team. Ensure high-quality technical deliverables and effective integration across disciplines while handling client expectations.
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.