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Graphic Designer (Remote)
🌍 Remote
Hire Feed 🌍 Remote
Design and develop high-impact presentation decks for leadership and clients by translating complex data into visual narratives. Collaborate with experts to ensure brand consistency and create reusable templates to streamline the design process.
Graphic Designer
🇮🇳 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Iide 🇮🇳 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
The Graphic Designer will lead visual communication and branding execution across digital, social media, and offline touchpoints. They will manage multiple design projects simultaneously while collaborating with content, video, and marketing teams.
(Senior) Scent Design Manager - Fine Fragrance
🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Iff 🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
The Scent Design Manager is responsible for leading the creative development of fine fragrance projects and managing the end-to-end design process. They will collaborate with internal teams and clients to ensure olfactory excellence and alignment with brand objectives.
Head of Design (Architect) – High-End Residential Architecture (NY / South Florida Focus)
🇺🇸 Florida, United States
Talent Harbor 🇺🇸 Florida, United States
Lead high-level psychological discovery sessions with clients to align emotional outcomes with physical space design. Serve as the Conceptual Design Authority for ultra-luxury residential hospitality projects while managing outsourced construction partners.
Design Manager - Construction
🇺🇸 Santa Ana, California, United States
Erickson-hall Construction Co. 🇺🇸 Santa Ana, California, United States
Lead the design-build process from concept through completion, ensuring projects meet schedules, budgets, and technical requirements. Coordinate between designers, construction teams, and clients to optimize constructability and minimize risks.
Design Engineering Manager
🇺🇸 Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
Moog Inc. 🇺🇸 Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
You will be responsible for planning and directing design activities for new and heritage products while leading a multidisciplinary engineering team. This role involves driving product innovation, managing project schedules and budgets, and providing technical support to manufacturing and customers.
UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 Orlando, Florida, United States
Abacus Life 🇺🇸 Orlando, Florida, United States
The UI/UX Designer will establish and lead design standards while creating user-centered interfaces and experiences for digital products. They will also collaborate with marketing to optimize conversion paths and work closely with developers to ensure design integrity.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Odgroup. 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
The Design Manager leads and coordinates the design process from concept to completion for commercial office interiors. They ensure design solutions are practical, compliant, and aligned with client requirements and budget while managing multidisciplinary teams.
Graphic Designer
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Marsh 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
The role involves creating and formatting high-quality presentation templates and documents for clients while ensuring adherence to corporate branding. You will lead projects from concept development through to final print production and PDF submission.
Water Design Manager
🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Mott Macdonald 🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Lead and oversee the technical design and delivery of water and wastewater projects from concept through to detailed design. Provide technical governance, mentor design engineers, and partner with project managers to manage scope, quality, and client relationships.
Senior Product Designer
🇫🇷 Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Implicity 🇫🇷 Paris, Ile-de-France, France
You will lead the design of complex product features, ensuring they are intuitive for clinical users while collaborating closely with product managers and engineers. Additionally, you will contribute to the evolution of the design system and integrate AI-driven workflows to enhance product development efficiency.
Product Designer - LOTIS - Lake Orion
🇺🇸 Lake Orion, Michigan, United States
Vantage Plastics 🇺🇸 Lake Orion, Michigan, United States
The Product Designer creates 3D CAD models and 2D drawings for injection molded products, tooling, and automation fixtures. They lead small R&D projects and apply design-for-manufacturing principles to improve product reliability and cycle time.
Tooling Design Manager
🇺🇸 West Salem, Ohio, United States
Associated Materials Innovations 🇺🇸 West Salem, Ohio, United States
Leads a technical team in designing, building, and optimizing extrusion manufacturing tools and downstream equipment across multiple sites. Manages department budgets, project timelines, and coordinates with production to ensure operational efficiency.
Principal, Hardware Design Engineering (TPL)
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States
Celestica International Lp 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States
Lead the ideation, architecture, and implementation of next-generation hardware solutions for AI data centers. Act as the primary technical lead for customer-specific designs while driving strategic technology roadmaps and mentoring engineering teams.
Head of Design
🇸🇬 Singapore, Singapore
Paxocean 🇸🇬 Singapore, Singapore
Leads the engineering design function for data centre developments, overseeing MEP and CSA infrastructure from concept through commissioning. Manages a team of design engineers and drives design optimization for energy efficiency, reliability, and scalability.
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.