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UX/UI Design Manager
🇦🇺 Mascot NSW 2020, Australia
Transport For Nsw 🇦🇺 Mascot NSW 2020, Australia
Lead end-to-end UX/UI design across Transport's digital ecosystem, shaping cohesive customer journeys for web and mobile platforms. Collaborate with product managers and engineers to deliver human-centred designs while mentoring team members and governing the design system.
Sr. Design Manager, Communications
🇺🇸 Atlanta, TX 75551, United States of America
Wsb 🇺🇸 Atlanta, TX 75551, United States of America
Lead a team of communications engineers and specialists to plan and design broadband infrastructure while ensuring regulatory compliance. Manage business development, departmental budgets, and client relationships to ensure project quality and timely delivery.
Design Manager
🇳🇱 Delft, South Holland, Netherlands
Kitech Recruitment B.v. - Engineers 🇳🇱 Delft, South Holland, Netherlands
Lead a multidisciplinary design team of 12-14 specialists to deliver large-scale international greenhouse projects. Drive a strategic transformation from 2D to 3D CAD and optimize the chain from design to engineering and procurement.
Electrical Design Manager (MEP) - Tier 1 Main Contractor
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Premises Recruitment Ltd 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the electrical design and technical engineering delivery for a portfolio of high-value building projects from preconstruction to completion. Manage relationships with clients, consultants, and subcontractors while ensuring technical compliance and design quality.
Senior Graphic Designer for Pharma
🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Dragons Group 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Lead the design and execution of digital content and marketing materials for pharmaceutical and healthcare clients while maintaining high visual standards. Mentor a Mid-level Graphic Designer and help establish scalable design systems and processes.
SAP Functional Product Designer
🇺🇸 Dearborn, Michigan, United States of America
Ford Motor Company 🇺🇸 Dearborn, Michigan, United States of America
Lead the modernization of the Vehicle Invoicing and Drafting application from legacy Mainframe/COBOL to SAP S4 HANA. Guide the transition by validating system integrator solutions and managing long-term support and enhancements.
Senior Design Manager
🇶🇦 Qatar
Power International Holding 🇶🇦 Qatar
Lead the creative direction and manage the design process from concept through to project execution, ensuring compliance with contract specifications. Oversee design deliverables, mentor junior designers, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize value engineering and user experience.
Packaging Graphic Designer / 2 days ago
🇸🇬 Singapore
Filipino Contractors 🇸🇬 Singapore
Lead the creation and refinement of packaging artwork, mock-ups, and final art files for factory handoff. Support the design of licensed stickers and decals while ensuring strict adherence to brand guidelines.
Head of Design Department
🇻🇳 Phường Cao Lãnh, Cao Lãnh, Đồng Tháp Province, Vietnam
Star Global - Us-patented 3d/360 Smart Digital Twin Platform 🇻🇳 Phường Cao Lãnh, Cao Lãnh, Đồng Tháp Province, Vietnam
Lead the Design Department in guiding the visual experience and creative quality for 3D/360 digital technology products. Manage the design team, plan workflows, and collaborate with Marketing and Technology teams to implement UI/UX and digital projects.
Group Director, Design Engineering - Front End
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Cadence Design Systems 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Lead and mentor a team of RTL design engineers to develop microarchitectural features for IPs and subsystems. Oversee the full design cycle from RTL development and optimization to pre-silicon verification and signoff.
Brand / Environmental Graphic Designer
🇯🇵 Japan
Gensler 🇯🇵 Japan
Lead the development of brand and environmental graphic design projects, including wayfinding and brand activation, while managing designers to ensure creative excellence. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality client presentations and production deliverables.
Product Designer L1 (Consumer Facing / Marketing) (Bangkok - Based)
🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
Agoda 🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
The role involves leading discovery phases, testing prototypes with users, and designing intuitive, scalable customer journeys for consumer-facing products. The designer will collaborate with product managers and engineers to ensure a cohesive and customer-centric user experience across the platform.
UX Researcher & Service Designer
🇵🇪 Lima, Lima Metropolitan Area, Peru
Frice Consulting 🇵🇪 Lima, Lima Metropolitan Area, Peru
Lead the UX research process by gathering strategic evidence to understand user needs and behaviors. Map current processes in physical locations and design future flows to improve digital products and services.
Network Design Manager, BR Transportation team
🇧🇷 Brazil
Amazon 🇧🇷 Brazil
The role focuses on supporting transportation excellence through data collection, monitoring operational metrics, and executing improvement initiatives. Key duties include writing strategic documents and leading weekly stakeholder meetings to ensure operational goals are met.
Design Manager - Healthcare - Senior
🇺🇸 Oakland, California, United States of America
Gensler 🇺🇸 Oakland, California, United States of America
Lead and deliver a variety of healthcare project types through all phases while serving as the primary point of contact for clients. Manage cross-functional teams, project budgets, and consultant coordination to ensure high-quality design and client satisfaction.
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.