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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.
Engineering Manager, Frontend Platform & Design Systems
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Zocdoc 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead and manage a high-performing team of frontend engineers focused on design systems and accessible component libraries. Own the strategy and roadmap for Zocdoc's design system and ensure it is the preferred foundation for feature development across all product teams.
Product Design Manager
🇺🇸 United States of America
Solace 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead and develop a team of product designers while remaining hands-on in the design craft. Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to shape strategy and raise the quality of user experiences across multiple product areas.
Regional Solutions Design Manager - Des Plaines, IL
🇺🇸 Des Plaines, Illinois, United States of America
Cma Cgm 🇺🇸 Des Plaines, Illinois, United States of America
Manage the Air & Ocean Solutions pipeline and lead the design and implementation of complex supply chain solutions. Serve as the regional subject matter expert for the Infor Nexus platform to drive customer value and business growth.
Pre-Construction and Design Manager
🇺🇸 Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
National Church Residences 🇺🇸 Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
Lead pre-construction efforts for a development pipeline exceeding $50 million, managing relationships between architects, consultants, and general contractors. Responsible for aligning project designs with budgets, managing procurement, and ensuring compliance with funder and design standards.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
The Greenridge Group 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Oversee the planning, design, and coordination of major school modernization and capital improvement projects for the Los Angeles Unified School District. Lead multidisciplinary teams and collaborate with stakeholders to ensure projects meet budget, schedule, and California building codes.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Faro Health Inc. 🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Lead the design of intelligent product experiences for clinical trial authoring, focusing on integrating AI into complex clinical workflows. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to turn ambiguous product ideas into intuitive, polished user interfaces and reusable interaction patterns.
Product Designer
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Distilled 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
The Product Designer will lead design initiatives for Daft.ie, focusing on enhancing the home buying and selling experience. They will collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to identify user problems and deliver innovative solutions.
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.