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Interior Design Manager
🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
J - Design 🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Lead the design team and oversee concepts, proposals, layouts, visuals, materials, and technical details for office and workplace interior projects. Coordinate with clients and cross-functional project teams from concept through construction, while reviewing deliverables, resolving design issues, and mentoring team members.
Art Director & Graphic Designer
🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Eden, House Of Art 🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Set the artistic direction and manage the brand’s visual identity across events, exhibitions, publications, artist branding, digital products, campaigns, and artwork. Lead and mentor the creative team, integrate AI tools into studio workflows, and collaborate with marketing, curatorial, event, product, and other teams to deliver cohesive work from concept through execution.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Common Good Partners 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Lead design coordination and programme management across construction projects, working with consultants, project managers, procurement teams and site teams. Resolve design issues, support buildability and value engineering, coordinate approvals and documentation, manage safety-in-design risks, and contribute to tenders.
Design Manager – AI & Creative
🇮🇳 Mumbai City District, India
Bennett Coleman & Co. Ltd. (the Times Of India) 🇮🇳 Mumbai City District, India
Lead and deliver visual design and art direction across print, digital, social, branded content, events, and advertising campaigns, maintaining high standards of craft and brand consistency. Manage and mentor the creative team, develop AI-assisted workflows, and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver effective, original work on schedule.
Lead UX Designer
🇳🇱 Netherlands
Actai 🇳🇱 Netherlands
Design polished, intuitive user interfaces and build and maintain UI components and design systems. Refine layouts, typography, spacing, and visual consistency while collaborating with product and engineering teams to deliver pixel-perfect experiences and continuously improve the product interface.
Design Manager, PDS Projects
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Jll 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
The Interior Design Manager will lead the design process from concept to execution, ensuring compliance with statutory regulations and project quality standards. They will act as the primary interface between clients, consultants, and contractors to manage project delivery and resolve technical issues.
Associate Design Manager
🇬🇧 Epsom, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Atkinsréalis 🇬🇧 Epsom, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
You will lead multidisciplinary design teams to deliver infrastructure projects from inception to completion while ensuring safety, quality, and commercial requirements are met. Additionally, you will manage technical interfaces, build client relationships, and drive innovation and continuous improvement across the practice.
Principal UX Designer, Senior Talent and Transformation (STT)
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
The Principal UX Designer will set the UX vision and strategic product roadmap while leading the design of end-to-end product experiences. They will also facilitate executive work sessions, mentor junior designers, and drive the adoption of design best practices across the organization.
Design Manager
🇧🇩 Dhaka, Dhaka Metropolitan, Bangladesh
Nextjobz 🇧🇩 Dhaka, Dhaka Metropolitan, Bangladesh
Lead design and product development for woven and denim products, from concept and sample development through final approval, ensuring designs meet buyer requirements and are feasible for bulk production. Coordinate with merchandising, technical, fabric, pattern, inspection, and washing teams to improve product quality, meet timelines, resolve development challenges, and guide the design team.
Physical Design Engineering Lead
🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Highbrow Technology Inc 🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Lead hands-on ASIC physical design and RTL-to-GDSII implementation, from floorplanning through placement, clock tree synthesis, routing, timing closure, and physical signoff. Collaborate with RTL, STA, DFT, verification, and other teams to optimize implementation and improve physical design flows and methodologies.
Head of Design
🇺🇸 Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States of America
Axiamatic 🇺🇸 Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States of America
You will own the design vision and experience for Axiamatic, translating complex enterprise data into simple, actionable user interfaces. Additionally, you will build and lead the design team while remaining hands-on with critical product workflows.
Senior UX/UI & Graphic Designer (Media Graphics)
Remote (🇵🇹 Portugal)
Apolo - P2p Crypto Learning Remote (🇵🇹 Portugal)
Shape and improve APOLO’s user experience and product interfaces by designing user journeys, flows, prototypes, responsive layouts, and scalable design systems. Define and maintain the company’s visual identity across marketing, social media, investor materials, and platform communications while collaborating with product, engineering, marketing, and leadership teams.
Senior Product Designer
🇧🇷 Brazil
Jobgether 🇧🇷 Brazil
Lead product design from discovery through delivery, shaping strategy and creating intuitive, scalable experiences that simplify loan applications, lending operations, and home transactions. Facilitate alignment across product and engineering teams, build reusable design foundations, maintain high craft standards, and use AI tools to accelerate research and delivery.
Lead UX Designer
🇨🇭 Switzerland
Actai 🇨🇭 Switzerland
Design polished, intuitive user interfaces and build and maintain UI components and design systems. Refine layouts, typography, spacing, and visual consistency while collaborating with product designers and engineers to deliver pixel-perfect experiences and continuously improve the product interface.
UX Designer
Remote (🇨🇭 Switzerland)
Jobgether Remote (🇨🇭 Switzerland)
Lead UX work across client projects, translating business goals into user journeys, information architecture, interaction models, and production-ready digital experiences. Collaborate with clients and multidisciplinary teams, facilitate alignment, and improve usability, engagement, conversion, navigation, and onboarding.
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.