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Mechanical Design Engineering Manager
🇺🇸 Florida, United States of America
Meshgrid Hr 🇺🇸 Florida, United States of America
The Mechanical Design Engineering Manager will oversee the design of custom medium-voltage products and ensure designs meet customer needs and manufacturing requirements. They will also lead an engineering team, improve design processes, and support product standardization.
Principal Product Designer, Energy
🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Dow Jones 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
The Principal Product Designer will set design strategy across multiple product areas and work directly with executive leadership to resolve strategic conflicts. This role involves identifying company-wide opportunities and establishing design practices that become industry benchmarks.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom
Arc Partnership 🇬🇧 Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom
Lead the coordination and delivery of design across a diverse portfolio of projects. Ensure design information is planned, coordinated, and delivered on program to the required quality standards.
Principal Product Designer
🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Olx 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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.
Principal Product Designer
🇪🇸 Spain
Olx 🇪🇸 Spain
Lead the design quality across business units and establish design systems and governance. Mentor the design team and influence product strategy through design-led thinking.
Machine Design Engineering Group Leader
🇺🇸 Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America
Oak Ridge National Laboratory 🇺🇸 Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America
Provide technical leadership and oversight for centrifuge machine design activities to advance enrichment technologies. Manage group assignments, approve design outputs, and drive continuous process improvements within a research and deployment environment.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Xyz Reality 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
As a Senior Product Designer, you'll own and shape key experiences across the XR headset and web platform. You'll lead design from early discovery through to delivery, creating tools for high-pressure construction environments.
Senior Product Designer II- Consumer Experiences
🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Compass Real Estate - Peninsula 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will lead discovery work to understand consumer behaviors and design intuitive consumer experiences across web and mobile platforms. They will collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to create a coherent end-to-end experience for home buyers and sellers.
Senior Product Designer II - Consumer Experiences
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Compass Real Estate - Peninsula 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead discovery work to understand consumer behaviors and design intuitive consumer experiences across web and mobile platforms. Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to create a coherent end-to-end experience for home buyers and sellers.
Electrical Design Manager
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Gaylor Electric 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Oversees a team of design engineers and virtual designers to deliver coordinated electrical installation designs for large-scale construction projects. Manages project leadership during preconstruction, ensuring compliance with codes, standards, and financial performance.
UXUI Design Manager
🇯🇵 Japan
Harman International 🇯🇵 Japan
Lead UX/UI design activities across multiple automotive product areas and platforms, ensuring clarity, usability, and executional quality. Collaborate with software development, engineering, and product teams to align UX/UI concepts with technical feasibility and implementation.
Lead Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Prolific 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
You will lead the design vision, strategy, and execution across three cross-functional teams, overseeing participant experiences and authenticity. Additionally, you will be the hands-on designer responsible for the outcomes of a core participant domain.
Freelance Web Designer – UI/UX Revamp
🇨🇭 Nyon, Vaud, Switzerland
Twine 🇨🇭 Nyon, Vaud, Switzerland
The successful candidate will lead the redesign of Carrd, Shopify, and LinkedIn pages to create a unified visual identity. They will ensure a seamless user experience and collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and iterate on design concepts.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Xyz Reality 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the end-to-end design of experiences across XR headsets, web platforms, and mobile tools for the construction industry. Translate complex BIM workflows into intuitive spatial interaction patterns while collaborating with product, engineering, and hardware teams.
Lead UI/UX designer
🇺🇦 Ukraine
Gypsy Collective 🇺🇦 Ukraine
The Lead UI/UX Designer will lead the design team, manage project coordination, and optimize design processes across multiple products and brands. They will also provide hands-on support during high workload periods and ensure the quality of design deliverables.
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.