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Graphic Designer
🇪🇸 Alcobendas, Community of Madrid, Spain
Ria Money Transfer 🇪🇸 Alcobendas, Community of Madrid, Spain
The Senior Graphic Designer is responsible for conceptualizing and executing high-quality visual solutions across digital and print platforms to support brand identity and marketing goals. This includes leading campaigns, ensuring visual consistency across touchpoints, and mentoring junior designers.
Senior Product Designer — SuppCo
🇺🇸 United States
Function Health 🇺🇸 United States
Lead end-to-end product design for mobile and web experiences, focusing on high-stakes surfaces and the integration of SuppCo and Function Health. Own and scale the design system to enable an AI-accelerated engineering team to ship high-quality work independently.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States
Flatirondragados 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States
Lead the design process between design firms and internal teams to ensure cost-effective and optimized construction designs. Manage design risks, track contract change orders, and coordinate design packages to maintain the construction schedule.
Innovation Engineer, WW AMZL Innovation and Design Engineering
🇮🇹 Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Amazon 🇮🇹 Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Lead the end-to-end development of mechatronic products and automation technologies for Amazon Logistics Delivery Stations. This includes managing the lifecycle from ideation and conceptual design to testing and on-site implementation.
Senior Graphic Designer - Accent Group
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Accent Group Careers 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
The Senior Graphic Designer will develop and deliver creative concepts across print, digital, and retail platforms while managing projects from brief to finished artwork. Additionally, the role involves leading and mentoring the design team to ensure high creative standards and brand consistency.
Manager, Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Georgia, United States
Primo Brands 🇺🇸 Georgia, United States
Responsible for the technical design, specification, and installation of beverage equipment and utility systems. Leads energy and water reduction projects while managing outside firms and providing technical support for factory optimization.
Senior Product Designer (AI/SaaS)
🇪🇬 Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
York Towers 🇪🇬 Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
Lead the end-to-end design process to create intuitive AI-powered real estate experiences across web and mobile platforms. Build and maintain a scalable design system while collaborating with Product, Engineering, and AI teams to optimize user journeys.
Senior Product Designer - Subscriptions
🇸🇪 Stockholm, Sweden
Spotify 🇸🇪 Stockholm, Sweden
Lead the design of the subscriptions experience from early exploration through launch and iteration. Partner with cross-functional teams to translate complex user and business needs into intuitive digital experiences.
Product Design Manager
🇺🇸 Emeryville, California, United States
Everlaw 🇺🇸 Emeryville, California, United States
Lead and grow a team of product designers to create high-impact user experiences for an AI-powered litigation platform. Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to drive design strategy and ensure AI features are transparent and trustworthy.
Product Design Manager
🇺🇸 Pleasanton, California, United States
Everlaw 🇺🇸 Pleasanton, California, United States
Lead and grow a team of product designers to create intuitive, high-impact AI-powered user experiences for a litigation platform. Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to drive design strategy and ensure AI features are transparent and trustworthy.
Product Design Manager
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Everlaw 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Lead and grow a team of product designers to create high-impact user experiences for an AI-powered litigation platform. Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to drive design strategy and ensure AI features are transparent and trustworthy.
Product Design Manager
🇺🇸 Walnut Creek, California, United States
Everlaw 🇺🇸 Walnut Creek, California, United States
Lead and grow a team of product designers to create intuitive AI-powered user experiences for a litigation platform. Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to define design strategy and ensure AI features are transparent and trustworthy.
Product Design Manager
🇺🇸 Oakland, California, United States
Everlaw 🇺🇸 Oakland, California, United States
Lead and grow a team of product designers to create intuitive, AI-powered user experiences for a legal litigation platform. Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to drive design strategy and ensure AI features are transparent and trustworthy.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇷 Greece
First Achieve 🇬🇷 Greece
Lead the end-to-end design of mobile-first AI companionship experiences, focusing on conversational interfaces and monetization flows. Collaborate with product and engineering teams to turn complex technical challenges into polished, intuitive user experiences.
Senior Product Designer
🇳🇿 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Lightspeed Commerce, Inc. 🇳🇿 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
You will lead the design of the onboarding funnel to optimize merchant experiences and reduce manual effort. You will also collaborate with cross-functional teams to turn complex workflows into simple, user-friendly product features.
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.