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UX Designer
🇷🇴 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Accenture 🇷🇴 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Lead and execute end-to-end UX/UI design activities, including user research, journey mapping, and high-fidelity prototyping. Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to deliver intuitive, user-centered digital solutions across various industries.
Staff Product Designer
🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Delivery Hero 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
You will lead the end-to-end design process for the order tracking product to ensure a seamless experience across multiple global brands. Additionally, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to define product strategy, leverage data insights, and advocate for design excellence.
Design Manager
🇦🇿 Baku, Azerbaijan
Rox Group 🇦🇿 Baku, Azerbaijan
Lead and coordinate the full architectural design process for large-scale real estate projects from concept through construction. Manage design consultants, monitor budgets and schedules, and ensure compliance with technical standards and legislation.
Senior UX/UI Designer - Design Systems & Developer Handover
🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Multibank Group 🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
The role involves evolving and maintaining the company's design system and creating end-to-end user experiences for financial products. The designer will lead the developer handover process and partner with frontend engineers to ensure consistency and scalability.
Services Design Manager
🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Lendlease 🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Lead the design of multiple building services packages and act as the primary design point of contact for the client. Manage consultant design teams and coordinate with cost planning and construction teams to ensure technical requirements and compliance are met.
Product Designer
🇱🇹 Vilnius, Vilnius County, Lithuania
Outcraft Ai 🇱🇹 Vilnius, Vilnius County, Lithuania
Own the end-to-end design of core surfaces including campaign setup, agent configuration, and analytics. Lead problem discovery and collaborate with PMs and Engineering to build a design system for AI agent interactions.
Head of Design, AI-First
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Puffy 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Lead the design function to transform web design into an AI-native operation, owning the design system, toolchain, and roadmap. Partner with the CRO team to implement high-volume, high-quality design variants that drive conversion lift.
Head of Design, AI-First
🇨🇦 Canada
Puffy 🇨🇦 Canada
Lead the design function to transform web design into an AI-native operation, owning the design system, toolchain, and roadmap. Partner with the CRO team to implement high-volume, high-quality design variants that drive conversion lift.
Head of Design, AI-First
🇸🇬 Singapore, Singapore
Puffy 🇸🇬 Singapore, Singapore
Lead the design function to transform web design into an AI-native operation, owning the design system, toolchain, and roadmap. You will manage a team of three as a player-coach to improve conversion and reduce design-to-development handoff time.
Data Center Design Manager
🇪🇸 Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
Dayone 🇪🇸 Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
The Data Center Design Manager will lead and coordinate the end-to-end design development of mission-critical data center projects across the EMEA region. This role involves managing multidisciplinary teams, external consultants, and project risks to ensure the delivery of innovative and operationally robust infrastructure.
UX RESEARCHER H/F
🇫🇷 Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Nexton 🇫🇷 Paris, Ile-de-France, France
You will lead user research initiatives by defining methodologies, conducting studies, and analyzing data to inform product decisions. Additionally, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate user insights into the design and development process.
BIM / Design Engineering - Lead
🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Wasael Property Management 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Lead the implementation and management of BIM and digital engineering strategies across projects to ensure effective coordination and model quality. Manage BIM Execution Plans, multidisciplinary model coordination, and compliance with ISO 19650 standards throughout the project lifecycle.
Lead Product Designer, Growth
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Monzo 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Lead the design of high-quality web experiences to help customers discover Monzo's value while using data to inform design decisions. Partner with product, engineering, and research teams to turn complex problems into effective, user-centered solutions.
Design Manager
🇮🇪 Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
Falcon Green 🇮🇪 Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
Responsible for the technical management of building projects and leading multidisciplinary design teams. Ensures projects meet deadlines while maintaining health, safety, quality, and commercial returns.
Graphic Design Manager
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Smile Train Bangladesh 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Lead the organization's design function by executing visual identity and creative strategies across digital, social, and print channels. Manage the design ecosystem and mentor creative staff to ensure brand consistency and high-quality visual storytelling.
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.