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Design Lead, Design Systems
🇺🇸 Glendale, California, United States
Softline Solutions 🇺🇸 Glendale, California, United States
The Design Lead will own and evolve the design system infrastructure across three consumer brands, ensuring consistency and scalability. They are responsible for producing high-fidelity visual work and partnering closely with engineering to ensure design quality is maintained through implementation.
Principal Product Designer, Transit Operations
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Via 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Lead the design of complex, interconnected workflows for the Transit Operations platform to improve efficiency for dispatchers and operators. Partner with product and engineering teams to translate business requirements into intuitive, scalable, and high-quality user experiences.
Civil Design Manager - Site Design
🇺🇸 Kansas, United States
Olsson 🇺🇸 Kansas, United States
The Civil Design Manager will lead quality assurance and quality control processes while providing senior-level design reviews for site development projects. They are responsible for directing project staff on technical aspects and acting as a consultative resource for clients.
Design Manager, Preschool
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States
Spin Master 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States
The Design Manager leads a team of designers to execute global toy projects from concept through production while ensuring adherence to cost, quality, and schedule. They coordinate with cross-functional teams to drive productivity and implement design for manufacturing strategies.
MEP Design Manager
🇪🇬 Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
Csi Global 🇪🇬 Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
Lead the recruitment and development of a multidisciplinary MEP design team in Egypt to support US projects. Manage project delivery, ensure compliance with US codes, and coordinate technical workflows between Egypt and US offices.
Mobile Product Designer
🇳🇴 Bryne, Norway
Mobile Career 🇳🇴 Bryne, Norway
Own the end-to-end experience of iOS and Android mobile apps, adapting desktop features for mobile platforms. Collaborate closely with engineers and product leads to create high-fidelity mockups, prototypes, and refine key user flows.
Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Columbus, Ohio, United States
Peak Retirement Planning, Inc. 🇺🇸 Columbus, Ohio, United States
The Graphic Designer will create marketing materials, social media content, and branded assets while maintaining brand consistency across all channels. They will also collaborate with the marketing and leadership teams to develop visual campaigns and support ad hoc design requests.
Process/Design Engineer Amazon Logistics, EU Design Engineering
🇮🇹 Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Amazon 🇮🇹 Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Lead the end-to-end design and layout optimization of new and existing delivery stations, integrating automation and new technologies. Partner with cross-functional teams to drive standardization and improve safety, quality, and cost across the EU logistics network.
Product Designer, Design Systems
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Assembled 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Lead the development of Assembled's next-generation design system, defining visual and interaction foundations for AI-native products. Establish governance, documentation, and reusable patterns to ensure cohesive and accessible experiences across desktop and mobile.
Senior Design Manager - Electrical
🇮🇳 Mumbai City, Maharashtra, India
Jacobs 🇮🇳 Mumbai City, Maharashtra, India
Lead electrical engineering activities for data center projects, including the preparation of Basis of Design, SLDs, and equipment layouts. Coordinate with interdisciplinary stakeholders and manage the full design lifecycle from concept through procurement and site troubleshooting.
Principal Design Manager
🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Jacobs 🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Lead the delivery of major transportation projects including bus rapid transit, roads, highways, and rail. Strengthen key client relationships and mentor multidisciplinary teams to ensure successful project outcomes and business growth.
Staff Visual Designer, Design Lab
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Datadog 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Define and evolve Datadog's visual language and quality bar across product surfaces, specifically for AI-driven experiences. Lead exploratory concept work and translate bold visual ideas into scalable patterns within the design system.
Graphic Designer (Remote)
🌍 Remote
Hire Feed 🌍 Remote
The role focuses on designing high-impact presentation decks for leadership and clients by translating complex data into visual narratives. Responsibilities include collaborating with experts to create engaging slides and maintaining brand consistency through reusable templates.
Senior Transmissions Design Manager (Onsite)
🇺🇸 East Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Pratt & Whitney 🇺🇸 East Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Lead and develop a high-performing transmissions engineering team to advance complex gearbox solutions from concept through production. Coordinate multidisciplinary teams for root cause investigations and drive testing and validation activities for aerospace hardware.
Product Designer
🇨🇦 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Fellow - Ai Meeting Assistant 🇨🇦 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
The Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design process from initial concept to shipped product across web, desktop, mobile, and Chrome extensions. They will be responsible for creating high-fidelity prototypes, shipping front-end improvements, and owning the product roadmap for their team.
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.