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Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Spotnana 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Design traveler-facing and partner experiences, focusing on polished interfaces and AI-powered conversational tools. Lead design initiatives and mentor other designers while collaborating with product managers and engineers to solve complex user problems.
UX Designer I / II
🌍 Remote
Renewed Vision 🌍 Remote
The role involves leading the end-to-end design process across desktop, mobile, and web platforms to create intuitive user experiences. Responsibilities include conducting user research, creating high-fidelity mockups, and collaborating with product managers and developers to ensure design integrity.
Design Manager, Transmission
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Acciona 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Lead the planning, coordination, and delivery of HV/MV transmission and substation designs ensuring they are safe, compliant, and cost-effective. Manage multidisciplinary interfaces across civil and electrical teams while mentoring engineering staff to uplift technical capability.
Design Manager, AMER
🇺🇸 United States of America
Yondr Group 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead the design management function for data center projects in the AMER region, ensuring consistency across vendors and adherence to global standards. Oversee the entire design lifecycle from early site due diligence and master planning through to construction support and quality assurance.
Design Manager
🇫🇮 Seinäjoki, South Ostrobothnia, Finland
Cts Group 🇫🇮 Seinäjoki, South Ostrobothnia, Finland
Lead the coordination and integration of multidisciplinary design activities for large-scale data center projects from pre-construction to handover. Act as the primary interface between clients, consultants, and construction teams to ensure alignment with technical standards and project goals.
Graphic Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 Alexandria, Virginia, United States of America)
Zero Prostate Cancer Remote (🇺🇸 Alexandria, Virginia, United States of America)
The Graphic Designer will lead the creation of on-brand visual assets for print and digital channels, including social media, web landing pages, and annual reports. They will manage projects from concept to completion while collaborating with cross-functional teams to align with strategic objectives.
Principle UX Designer
🇺🇸 Liberty Lake, Washington, United States of America
Itron, Inc. 🇺🇸 Liberty Lake, Washington, United States of America
Lead the strategy and execution of user experience design for global enterprise solutions focused on distributed energy management. You will conduct user research, create high-fidelity prototypes in Figma, and mentor other designers to drive inclusive, human-centered design.
Design Manager- Energy
🇺🇸 Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States of America
Interstates 🇺🇸 Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States of America
The Design Manager leads design teams from project pursuit through commissioning, focusing on constructable design packages for power and distribution systems. They serve as the primary technical contact for clients and ensure all deliverables meet quality, budget, and code standards.
Design Manager- Energy
🇺🇸 Sioux Center, IA 51250, United States of America
Interstates 🇺🇸 Sioux Center, IA 51250, United States of America
Leads design teams through the full project lifecycle from pursuit to commissioning, focusing on power and distribution systems. Acts as the primary technical contact for clients to ensure the delivery of constructable and code-compliant design packages.
Design Manager- Energy
🇺🇸 Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America
Interstates 🇺🇸 Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America
Leads design teams through the full project lifecycle from pursuit to commissioning, focusing on power and distribution systems. Serves as the primary technical contact for clients and ensures the delivery of constructable, code-compliant design packages.
Design Manager- Energy
🇺🇸 United States of America
Interstates 🇺🇸 United States of America
Leads design teams through the full project lifecycle from pursuit to commissioning, focusing on power and distribution systems. Acts as the primary technical contact for clients to ensure the delivery of constructable and code-compliant design packages.
Sr. Staff Product Designer, Identity Security Platform & Systems
🇺🇸 Santa Clara County, California, United States of America
Servicenow 🇺🇸 Santa Clara County, California, United States of America
Lead end-to-end design for Identity Security platform initiatives, focusing on AI product surfaces and scalable design systems. Partner with engineering and product management to architect AI-ready frameworks and ensure high-fidelity delivery of complex enterprise workflows.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Hinge Health 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead the design vision and strategy for the Outcomes pod, focusing on member-facing progress tracking and pain logging. Translate complex clinical data into simple, motivating interfaces while collaborating with Product, Engineering, and Data teams.
Senior Visual Designer
🇺🇸 Tysons, VA 22103, United States of America
Alarm.com 🇺🇸 Tysons, VA 22103, United States of America
The role involves leading the visual design efforts to create high-quality design assets. The designer will be responsible for maintaining visual consistency across various platforms.
Product Designer (UX/UI, Consumer Mobile & Web Apps) @ food health intelligence company
🌍 Remote
Greenchoice, Pbc 🌍 Remote
Lead the UX and UI design for mobile and web experiences to improve onboarding, search, and engagement. Identify user friction points and collaborate with engineering to implement scalable design systems and product improvements.
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.