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Owala Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Lehi, Utah, United States of America
Trove Brands 🇺🇸 Lehi, Utah, United States of America
Develop high-impact creative solutions across digital, print, and retail platforms to enhance brand visibility and growth. Lead art direction for photo and video shoots while mentoring junior designers to maintain the Owala brand identity.
Digital Design Manager
🇬🇧 Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Grant Thornton Uk Llp 🇬🇧 Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Lead the digital design capability by delivering high-quality, brand-aligned content across web, social, motion, and interactive formats. Drive the adoption of AI-enabled tools and establish scalable design standards and workflows across the firm.
Principal UX Designer
🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Workday 🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Architect an AI-driven transformation by building custom agents and scalable operating structures for internal design teams. Lead the product design execution for high-stakes, complex agentic Workday products to ensure high-caliber user experiences.
Product Design Manager
🇬🇷 Piraeus, Greece
Navarino 🇬🇷 Piraeus, Greece
Lead the Product Design capability and manage a team of designers and researchers to shape customer experiences across the product portfolio. Partner with leadership to drive product strategy, establish design standards, and foster a culture of customer empathy.
Principal, Design Engineering - Power
🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Celestica 🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
The Principal, Design Engineering - Power is responsible for architecting, implementing, and supporting power system solutions for various products. This includes leading the design of DC-DC switch-mode power supplies and ensuring compliance with power, thermal, and safety requirements.
Lead Product Designer — Platform & Experience
🇨🇦 Canada
Futurefit Ai 🇨🇦 Canada
Own the visual language, design system, and interaction coherence across all platform surfaces for job seekers, staff, and employers. Lead the end-to-end design of complex feature initiatives and ensure accessibility standards are met by default.
Project Design Manager
🇺🇸 Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America
Cushman & Wakefield 🇺🇸 Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America
The Design Manager balances high-level team leadership and mentorship with the active execution of complex design projects. Key duties include overseeing resource allocation, establishing design standards, and performing technical QA/QC for space plans and documents.
Project Design Manager
🇺🇸 Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America
Cushman & Wakefield 🇺🇸 Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America
The Design Manager balances high-level leadership of a design team with the active execution of complex design projects. Key duties include mentoring staff, optimizing Revit workflows, and ensuring technical compliance with IBC and ADA codes.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
Thrivent 🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
Lead the design strategy and execution for Salesforce-based advisor and employee experiences, focusing on scalable and platform-centric solutions. Drive cross-functional alignment between Product, Engineering, and Business teams while mentoring junior designers to elevate organizational design maturity.
Staff Product Designer, New Business
🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Warner Bros. Discovery 🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Lead the design vision and end-to-end execution of original, high-impact experiences for CNN's new business initiatives. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to synthesize business goals into user-centered product experiences across various platforms.
Senior Graphic Designer (Branding Focus)
Remote (🇨🇴 Colombia)
Outsourcing Advantage Remote (🇨🇴 Colombia)
Lead end-to-end branding and graphic design projects to shape the visual identity of diverse clients. Create marketing collateral and collaborate directly with clients to present professional design solutions.
Senior Graphic Designer (Branding Focus)
🇪🇬 Egypt
Outsourcing Advantage 🇪🇬 Egypt
Lead end-to-end branding and graphic design projects to shape the visual identity of diverse clients. Create marketing collateral and collaborate directly with clients to present professional design solutions.
Senior Graphic Designer (Branding Focus)
🇵🇭 Philippines
Outsourcing Advantage 🇵🇭 Philippines
Lead end-to-end branding and graphic design projects to shape the visual identity of diverse clients. Create marketing collateral and collaborate directly with clients to present creative solutions.
Senior Graphic Designer (Branding Focus)
🇿🇦 South Africa
Outsourcing Advantage 🇿🇦 South Africa
Lead end-to-end branding and graphic design projects to shape the visual identity of diverse clients. Create marketing collateral and collaborate directly with clients to present and implement creative solutions.
Senior Graphic Designer (Branding Focus)
🇺🇦 Ukraine
Outsourcing Advantage 🇺🇦 Ukraine
Lead end-to-end branding and graphic design projects to shape the visual identity of diverse clients. Create marketing collateral and collaborate directly with clients to present professional design solutions.
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.