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Tailored Clothing Design Manager
🇺🇸 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Peter Millar 🇺🇸 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Lead the Sartorial category strategy by managing seasonal assortments, fabric selection, and pricing architecture. Oversee the end-to-end development process from concept to production while collaborating with cross-functional teams and external partners.
Senior Product Designer II - Consumer Experiences
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Compass 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead the design of consumer-facing web and mobile experiences for a real estate platform, focusing on the home search and agent-connection journey. Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to create scalable, brand-coherent design systems and high-fidelity prototypes.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Port Washington, NY 11050, United States of America
Kiss Beauty Group 🇺🇸 Port Washington, NY 11050, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer leads the creative development and execution of packaging, advertising, branding, editorial, and marketing design for C&H Cosmetics brands. This role involves collaborating with various teams to deliver innovative visual solutions that strengthen brand identity and support business growth.
Principal UX Designer, AWS Search, Security, Observability, & Governance
🇺🇸 Santa Clara County, California, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Santa Clara County, California, United States of America
Define and own the end-to-end design strategy for Amazon OpenSearch, focusing on search, observability, and agentic AI experiences. Lead the architecture of AI design patterns and drive 'design-as-code' practices by committing directly to production codebases.
Senior Product Designer, Remix Planning
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Via 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design of complex planning workflows for transit agencies. Collaborate with product managers and engineers to create intuitive, map-based experiences for customers.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Ethos Life 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead design strategy and vision across multiple business units while directing the work of other designers. Build and iterate on products while managing executive stakeholders across engineering, product, and marketing.
Principal Product Designer, FinTech
🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Engine 🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
As a Principal Product Designer, you will lead projects from vision to execution, focusing on creating simple and effective payment experiences and billing portals. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and deliver features that meet user needs.
Lead Product Designer, London, UK
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Eucalyptus 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
You will own a problem area across connected surfaces, from definition to delivery, driving commercial outcomes. Your role involves researching, designing, testing, and iterating to create impactful user-centered design solutions.
Lead UX Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Digital Gurus 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
You will lead UX across a portfolio of homeware and retail brands, improving digital shopping experiences. This includes building a multi-brand design system and delivering production-ready UI and prototypes.
Principal Product Designer, Retail
🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Lightspeed Commerce 🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Define new interaction patterns for agentic AI and lead design for the AI experience end-to-end. Raise the craft bar across the organization and shape the mobile strategy with design thinking.
Lead Product Designer (f/h/n)
🇫🇷 Paris, France
Hublo 🇫🇷 Paris, France
Lead and grow a team of Product Designers while defining the design strategy for a SaaS HR platform for healthcare. Ensure a consistent, high-quality user experience through close collaboration with Product and Engineering teams.
Snr. Civil Engineer, Design Engineering
🇮🇳 Mumbai, Mumbai Suburban District, India
Amazon 🇮🇳 Mumbai, Mumbai Suburban District, India
Lead the civil design and construction for enterprise data center campus projects, managing external consultants and internal stakeholders. Develop conceptual designs, maintain design standards, and optimize earthworks and utilities to reduce construction schedules and costs.
Lead Sales Compensation Design Manager
🇺🇸 United States of America
Workiva 🇺🇸 United States of America
Design competitive incentive compensation plans for all sales roles globally and serve as a trusted advisor to global sales leadership. Monitor and evaluate the ongoing effectiveness of the sales compensation program and provide data-driven recommendations for optimization.
Pre-Construction and Design Manager
🇺🇸 Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
National Church Residences 🇺🇸 Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
Lead pre-construction efforts on a development pipeline valued over $50 million, managing relationships with architects, consultants, and general contractors. Ensure compliance with design requirements and manage budgets and schedules for funding applications.
Senior UX Designer, Monetization
🇺🇸 Irvine, California, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Irvine, California, United States of America
Lead design work for the Monetization team to help streamers monetize through viewer engagement. Collaborate with cross-functional partners to develop hypotheses and mentor junior designers on best practices.
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.