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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.
Principal Product Designer, Retail
🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Lightspeed Commerce, Inc. 🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Lead the design of agentic AI experiences for retail merchants, defining new interaction patterns and trust models. Raise the overall craft bar of the design organization through direct hands-on contribution and strategic vision work.
Lead Product Designer, London, UK
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Careers At Eucalyptus 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
You will own a problem area across connected surfaces, from definition to delivery, driving commercial outcomes and creating user-centered design solutions. Your role involves researching, designing, testing, and iterating on solutions to improve patient outcomes.
MK Graphic Designer II
🇺🇸 Idaho Falls, Idaho, United States of America
Melaleuca: The Wellness Company 🇺🇸 Idaho Falls, Idaho, United States of America
The Graphic Designer visually communicates key messages of the company and its brands while producing high-quality design work that meets project objectives. They collaborate with project managers, copywriters, and other designers, taking ownership of projects and presenting work to the creative leadership.
Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Arrise 🇺🇸 United States of America
As a Graphic Designer, you will lead the creation and execution of premium visual designs for Live Casino games and related digital products. You will collaborate closely with various teams to ensure that every design delivers an engaging and polished player experience.
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Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
[solidcore] 🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Lead UX/UI design for client-facing digital experiences, focusing on creating intuitive and beautiful mobile-first experiences. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure designs meet business and client needs.
Design Manager and Senior BIM lead
🇮🇪 Dunshaughlin, County Meath, Ireland
Cpac Modular 🇮🇪 Dunshaughlin, County Meath, Ireland
Manage and lead the design process across multiple projects from early-stage concept to construction-ready detail. Oversee coordination between various design disciplines and ensure compliance with relevant regulations.
Lead Web Designer
🇺🇦 Ukraine
Creatio 🇺🇦 Ukraine
Create visually strong, modern UI for the company's website, landing pages, and digital platforms. Independently drive strategically important projects from concept to final, development-ready mockup.
Senior Product Designer - Growth (all genders)
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Shiftmove 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Lead end-to-end product discovery and design for marketing websites to improve conversion, activation, and expansion. Partner with Growth teams to run data-driven experiments and translate customer research into high-impact business outcomes.
Solutions Design Manager
🇺🇸 Westerville, OH 43081, United States of America
Dhl Supply Chain 🇺🇸 Westerville, OH 43081, United States of America
The Solutions Design Manager is responsible for designing complex logistics solutions and providing analytical support for large-scale projects. This role involves leading a team, developing tools and processes, and ensuring successful project outcomes.
Visual and Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Reston, Virginia, United States of America
Leidos 🇺🇸 Reston, Virginia, United States of America
As a Visual and Graphic Designer, you will lead the development of clear, compelling visual communications that simplify complex technical and operational concepts. You will partner with engineers, program leaders, and customer stakeholders to support cloud implementation, training, compliance, operations, and strategic initiatives.
Principal Design Systems Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Ethos Life 🇺🇸 United States of America
Build and lead the first AI-native design system at Ethos, creating a seamless pipeline from Figma to production. Establish scalable token strategies, component libraries, and documentation to ensure UI consistency and accessibility across the platform.
Design Manager
🇮🇪 Cork, County Cork, Ireland
Glanua 🇮🇪 Cork, County Cork, Ireland
The Design Manager will work as part of a team to deliver multiple projects while ensuring adherence to health, safety, and environmental standards. They will lead the construction team, manage project performance, and facilitate coordination among various engineering disciplines.
Design Manager
🇮🇪 Loughrea, County Galway, Ireland
Glanua 🇮🇪 Loughrea, County Galway, Ireland
The Design Manager will work as part of a team to deliver multiple projects, ensuring adherence to health, safety, environmental, and sustainability standards. They will lead the construction team in MEICA scope of works and collaborate with key stakeholders.
Senior Product Designer, London, UK (contract)
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Careers At Eucalyptus 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead end-to-end design for the UK product squad, covering everything from initial research and wireframes to final UI. Collaborate with product and engineering managers to create evidence-led patient experiences and define design workflows within the UK team.
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.