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Product Designer
🇨🇦 Canada
Fellow - Ai Meeting Assistant 🇨🇦 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 are responsible for creating high-fidelity prototypes, shipping front-end improvements, and owning the product roadmap for their team.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Aecom 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
The Senior Design Manager will lead design management projects, oversee sub-consultant contracts, and manage financial processes including invoicing and cash flow. They are also responsible for mentoring junior staff and ensuring design quality and compliance across international projects.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Aecom 🇬🇧 Bristol, England, United Kingdom
The Senior Design Manager will lead design management projects across the UK and internationally while managing sub-consultant contracts and financial processes. They are also responsible for mentoring junior team members and ensuring all design outputs meet quality and contractual standards.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Aecom 🇬🇧 Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
The Senior Design Manager will lead design management projects, oversee sub-consultant contracts, and manage financial processes including invoicing and cash flow. They will also mentor junior team members and ensure all design outputs meet quality and contractual standards.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Aecom 🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
The Senior Design Manager will lead design management projects, oversee sub-consultant contracts, and manage financial processes including invoicing and cash flow. They are also responsible for mentoring junior team members and ensuring all design outputs meet quality and contractual standards.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Olathe, Kansas, United States
Garmin 🇺🇸 Olathe, Kansas, United States
The Senior Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design process for the Garmin Connect application, from initial wireframing to final pixel-perfect execution. Responsibilities include collaborating with cross-functional teams to create usable interaction solutions and mentoring junior designers.
Principal Product Designer, Yahoo Everywhere
🇫🇷 Uz, Occitania, France
Yahoo 🇫🇷 Uz, Occitania, France
Lead design strategy for Yahoo Everywhere by creating concepts for new surfaces and acting as the final design decision-maker for partner integrations. Collaborate with business leads to shape deals and ensure brand consistency across diverse platforms like OEMs, apps, and ambient screens.
Design Manager, Preschool
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States
Spin Master Ltd 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States
The Design Manager leads a team of designers to execute global toy projects from concept through production while ensuring quality, cost, and schedule adherence. They coordinate with cross-functional teams to drive productivity and implement design for manufacturing processes.
Regional Design Manager
🇳🇱 Amstelveen, North Holland, Netherlands
Sisk Group 🇳🇱 Amstelveen, North Holland, Netherlands
Lead and manage the regional design function for data center projects, ensuring design solutions meet client expectations and strategic objectives. Oversee technical governance, stakeholder collaboration, and the integration of sustainability and digital standards across the business unit.
VDC Manager , DC Design Engineering
🇮🇳 Mumbai City, Maharashtra, India
Amazon Web Services (aws) 🇮🇳 Mumbai City, Maharashtra, India
Lead the creation and coordination of federated BIM models for complex data center facilities. Manage clash detection, resolution, and constructability reviews to optimize design and ensure building code compliance.
MEP Design Manager
🇪🇬 Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
Csi Global 🇪🇬 Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
The MEP Design Manager will build, lead, and mentor a multidisciplinary design team in Egypt to produce high-quality MEP packages for US projects. They are responsible for establishing BIM and quality-control workflows while acting as the primary technical liaison between the Egypt team and US offices.
Sr Engineer, Design Engineering (Onsite)
🇺🇸 East Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Pratt & Whitney 🇺🇸 East Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Lead the design of rotors for Military Development Fan/LPC programs, supporting production ramp and final validation tests. Responsibilities include addressing technical issues, executing engineering changes, and managing quality notifications and non-conformance analysis.
Senior Product Designer (in person)
🇺🇸 Westfield, Indiana, United States
Sep 🇺🇸 Westfield, Indiana, United States
Lead the design direction for cross-functional client teams, creating end-to-end user experiences from conceptual models to high-fidelity prototypes. Integrate AI into product workflows and conduct generative and evaluative research to align business objectives with user needs.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States
Skiffra 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States
Lead the design of field-based software for high-stakes industrial environments, focusing on usability for non-desk workers. Establish a scalable design system and language that ensures low-friction adoption across various physical job sites.
Design Manager (Water/Wastewater)
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States
Carollo Engineers 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States
The Design Manager is responsible for planning and conducting complex engineering work for water and wastewater projects, overseeing budgets, schedules, and quality standards. They lead a multidisciplinary team of engineers and maintain high-level relationships with clients and industry officials.
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.