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Senior Motion Graphic Designer
🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Momo (m_service) 🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
The Senior Motion Graphic Designer is responsible for leading and developing the motion language for the MoMo brand across all touchpoints. This includes creating motion concepts, storyboards, and ensuring that the motion aligns with brand guidelines and effectively communicates messages.
Graphic Designer
Remote (🇮🇳 India)
Fetchjobs.co Remote (🇮🇳 India)
The Graphic Designer will lead the development and maintenance of visual identities for various brands and create a wide range of creative assets. They will also integrate AI-powered creative tools to enhance productivity and oversee the visual launch of a new clothing and lifestyle brand.
Lead Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Jpmorganchase 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Drive product design excellence within a dedicated product squad, balancing craft with business impact. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create customer-focused products and services.
FPGA Firmware Design Manager
🇺🇸 Milpitas, California, United States of America
Kla 🇺🇸 Milpitas, California, United States of America
Lead the architecture, design, implementation, verification, and maintenance of FPGA firmware for advanced inspection and metrology systems. Manage a team of FPGA firmware engineers, setting project priorities and fostering a culture of technical excellence and collaboration.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Affinity (crm) 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead the design process for major product areas from strategy to execution, ensuring high-quality user experiences. Conduct user research and testing to inform design decisions and collaborate closely with Product Managers and Engineers.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Affinity (crm) 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead the design process for major product areas from initial strategy to high-fidelity execution. Conduct user research and testing to inform product decisions and collaborate with Product Managers and Engineers to ensure quality implementation.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
The Tsui Group 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Lead the design activities for the School Upgrade Program and critical repair projects, ensuring compliance with functional, budgetary, and legal requirements. Coordinate between architects, consultants, and District personnel from project conception through final handoff to execution.
Senior Visual Designer
🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
Google 🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
As a Visual Designer, you will collaborate with a multi-disciplinary UX team to create industry-leading user experiences from concept to execution. You will leverage user insights to build beautiful and innovative products that enhance user navigation.
STAFF PRODUCT DESIGNER
🇧🇷 Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil
Tiflux 🇧🇷 Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil
The Staff Product Designer will lead the technical evolution of the platform, focusing on enhancing user experience and ensuring design consistency. Responsibilities include conducting usability analyses, managing design projects from discovery to delivery, and collaborating with product and development teams.
Equipment Design Manager
🇺🇸 Houston, Texas, United States of America
Liquidpower Specialty Products Inc. (a Berkshire Hathaway Company) 🇺🇸 Houston, Texas, United States of America
Lead and manage the Equipment Design team to achieve performance, quality, and delivery objectives while ensuring designs meet safety and operational requirements. Oversee key programs and drive continuous improvement and innovation in injection equipment design.
Design Manager
🇨🇦 Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Bird Construction 🇨🇦 Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
The Design Manager leads and manages the design process for projects from commencement to finalization, ensuring compliance with contractual obligations and industry standards. They are responsible for supervising the design team, managing schedules, and maintaining client relationships.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 United States of America
Switch 🇺🇸 United States of America
The Senior Design Manager leads design coordination for complex, large-scale data center projects, managing the design process from kickoff through permitting and construction handoff. This role involves overseeing schedules, quality, and documentation while serving as a primary escalation point for design-related decisions.
Staff UX Researcher, Personalization
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Ōura 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Own end-to-end research to understand how members experience personalized biometric insights and design rapid experiments for validating personalization changes. Lead research into emerging problem spaces and help define what 'trustworthy' means operationally for Oura's personalization surfaces.
FPGA Firmware Design Manager
🇺🇸 Milpitas, California, United States of America
Kla 🇺🇸 Milpitas, California, United States of America
Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of FPGA firmware for advanced semiconductor inspection and metrology systems. Manage and mentor a team of engineers while driving technical standards and collaborating across functions to deliver complex products.
Staff UX Researcher, Personalization
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Ōura 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead end-to-end research to drive the strategy for personalized, trustworthy health guidance and biometric insights. Partner with design, product, and data science teams to integrate rapid experimentation and AI-driven recommendation research into the product roadmap.
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.