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Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
C3 Industries 🇺🇸 Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer leads concept development and visual execution for marketing campaigns, focusing primarily on High Profile retail promotions while also supporting CPG brands like Cloud Cover and Galactic. This role involves designing across multiple channels, including print, digital, packaging, and environmental graphics, while ensuring strict adherence to brand consistency and creative excellence.
Military Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Houston County, Alabama, United States of America
Aalis Management Consulting 🇺🇸 Houston County, Alabama, United States of America
The Military Graphic Designer will be responsible for designing executive-level briefings and visual products, including graphics, infographics, and video content, to support DoD Aviation leadership. This role also involves maintaining SharePoint and collaboration tools while translating complex military concepts into visual formats.
Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America
The Raymond Corporation 🇺🇸 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America
The Graphic Designer will elevate the brand through high-impact visual storytelling across digital, print, motion, and video channels, partnering with marketing, sales, HR, and leadership. This role involves designing marketing assets, leading video production end-to-end, and creating materials for internal communications and sales enablement.
Sr. Innovation & Design Engineer, Worldwide Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Bellevue, Washington, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Bellevue, Washington, United States of America
The engineer will invent, design, and implement engineering solutions for complex material flow and human/machine efficiency issues across the global Amazon supply chain. Key duties include leading design and innovation efforts for the transportation network via equipment specification, process design, and site layout, while collaborating with internal teams and external vendors.
Principal UX Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America)
Zearn Remote (🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America)
This role is responsible for leading the strategic design of the Educator app onboarding experience, transforming complex challenges into intuitive designs that drive teacher adoption and sustained engagement. This involves owning the end-to-end design strategy, partnering with Product Management, and conducting rigorous research to inform product direction.
Staff Product Designer, Workspaces
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Linktree 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
The Staff Product Designer will lead the design of Linktree's Workspaces platform, focusing on enabling agencies and large organizations to manage multiple Linktrees, collaborate, and launch campaigns at scale. This involves designing systems for profile management, collaboration, permissions, and ensuring seamless integration across the Linktree ecosystem.
Senior UX Designer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Sun Life 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Senior UX Designer will drive UX strategy, champion human-centered design practices, and lead the production of design specifications across project timelines. They will create best-in-class digital experiences based on client, business, and technical inputs across multiple platforms.
Senior UX Designer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Sun Life 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Senior UX Designer will drive UX strategy, champion human-centered design practices, and lead the production of design specifications across project timelines. They will create best-in-class digital experiences by developing concepts, storyboards, and interactive prototypes based on client, business, and technical inputs.
Lead Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Cortex 🌍 Remote
The Lead Product Designer will drive the design vision and execution for major features, setting a new standard for user experience across critical product surfaces. Responsibilities include proactively resolving complex UX issues, owning the design system in Figma, and executing high-fidelity prototypes for validation.
Staff AI Product Designer, Gemini Assistant, GeminiApp
🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Deepmind 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
This role involves leading the design of user interfaces and consumer experiences for Gemini across diverse platforms, ensuring natural and efficient interaction with AI models. The designer will also contribute to product strategy by collaborating with Product and Engineering teams to define direction and influence key cross-functional decisions.
Senior Graphic Designer (Branding Focus)
🇨🇴 Colombia
Outsourcing Advantage 🇨🇴 Colombia
The Senior Graphic Designer will lead end-to-end branding and graphic design projects, taking ownership of visual identity creation and marketing collateral development. This role requires direct collaboration with clients to shape their visual identity and ensure design assets are compelling and effective.
Senior Graphic Designer (Branding Focus)
🇩🇴 Dominican Republic
Outsourcing Advantage 🇩🇴 Dominican Republic
The Senior Graphic Designer will lead end-to-end branding and graphic design projects, taking ownership from concept through final delivery, while also creating marketing collateral like flyers and brochures. This role requires direct collaboration with clients to shape their visual identity and ensure design assets are compelling and effective.
Senior Graphic Designer (Branding Focus)
🇪🇬 Egypt
Outsourcing Advantage 🇪🇬 Egypt
The Senior Graphic Designer will lead end-to-end branding and graphic design projects, taking ownership of visual identity initiatives from concept through final delivery. This includes creating marketing collateral and collaborating directly with clients to ensure compelling and effective design assets.
Senior Graphic Designer (Branding Focus)
🇿🇦 South Africa
Outsourcing Advantage 🇿🇦 South Africa
The Senior Graphic Designer will lead end-to-end branding and graphic design projects, taking ownership of visual identity initiatives from concept through final delivery. This includes creating marketing collateral and collaborating directly with clients to ensure design assets are compelling and effective.
Senior Graphic Designer (Branding Focus)
🇺🇸 Lebanon, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Outsourcing Advantage 🇺🇸 Lebanon, Pennsylvania, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer will lead end-to-end branding and graphic design projects, taking ownership from concept through final delivery, while also creating marketing collateral like flyers and brochures. This role requires direct collaboration with clients to shape their visual identity and ensure design assets are compelling and effective.
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.