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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.
Senior Visual Designer
🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Opusclip 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end brand upgrade and marketing web experience, defining the visual language and driving it to live launch. Own the roadmap for brand and web workstreams, designing and building production-ready, conversion-optimized pages.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Livanova 🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Lead end-to-end UX for implantable medical device platforms, from discovery and user research to high-fidelity UI delivery. Maintain a scalable design system and collaborate cross-functionally to ensure safety and usability across the product portfolio.
Lead Sales Compensation Design Manager
🇺🇸 Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Workiva Inc. 🇺🇸 Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Design and optimize global sales incentive compensation plans while serving as a strategic advisor to sales leadership. Manage the sales compensation cost model, conduct financial analysis, and partner with Finance and Accounting for forecasting.
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 to evaluate and evolve transportation networks. Partner with product managers and engineers to transform planning challenges into intuitive, map-based digital experiences.
Product Design Manager
🇺🇸 United States of America
Solace 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead and develop a team of Product Designers while remaining actively involved in design work. Collaborate with Product Managers and Engineering to shape product strategy and enhance user experiences.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Apollo.io 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead the design of Apollo's Extension and Admin surfaces, creating intuitive AI-powered experiences and agentic workflows. Collaborate with AI engineers and PMs to translate model capabilities into user-centric interaction models while maintaining a cohesive design system.
Senior Product Designer (AI/SAAS)
🇪🇬 Egypt
Dwelleo 🇪🇬 Egypt
Lead the end-to-end product design process, transforming complex workflows into intuitive experiences across web and mobile platforms. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative, user-centric solutions that impact millions of users.
Product Designer
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Distilled 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Lead design initiatives for Daft.ie to simplify the property buying and selling experience through user-centered solutions. Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to identify user problems and implement AI-enabled design workflows.
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.