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Senior Architect / Design Manager
🇦🇪 Sharjah, Sharjah Emirate, United Arab Emirates
One Works S. P. A 🇦🇪 Sharjah, Sharjah Emirate, United Arab Emirates
The Senior Architect will lead the architectural design and delivery of the Sharjah Airport project, managing the design team and coordinating with stakeholders. They are responsible for ensuring compliance with project scope, budget, and quality standards from concept through to construction and handover.
Senior Design Manager - Public Realm
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Qiddiya Investment Company 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
The Senior Design Manager will lead the planning, design coordination, and delivery of public realm projects across assigned districts. They are responsible for managing consultant teams, ensuring compliance with design standards, and integrating public realm requirements with wider infrastructure programs.
Senior Design Manager - Public Realm
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Qiddiya Investment Company 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
The Senior Design Manager will lead the planning, design coordination, and delivery of public realm projects across assigned districts. They are responsible for managing consultant teams, ensuring compliance with design standards, and integrating public realm requirements with wider infrastructure programs.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Alexandria, Virginia, United States of America
Woovl - One-stop Solution 🇺🇸 Alexandria, Virginia, United States of America
Lead the design of innovative digital products by collaborating with product owners and engineers. Conduct user research and create high-fidelity prototypes to ensure designs are intuitive and accessible.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Village of Patchogue, New York, United States of America
Tilray Brands, Inc. 🇺🇸 Village of Patchogue, New York, United States of America
Lead the design execution for the Tilray Beverages portfolio, translating brand strategy into packaging, retail, and digital assets. Manage the end-to-end process from early concept exploration to final production files and press approvals.
Sr. Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America
Indiana University Foundation 🇺🇸 Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer will collaborate with the Art Director to develop brand-aligned creative assets across print and digital platforms. They are responsible for translating marketing and fundraising strategies into effective visual communications while managing projects from concept to final production.
Senior UX Researcher
🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain
Garaje De Ideas 🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain
Define and execute end-to-end research for complex B2B digital products to transform findings into actionable design and product strategy recommendations. Facilitate strategic workshops and ensure research documentation complies with ethics and data privacy regulations.
Senior UX / Digital Product Designer (Mensch), Schwerpunkt FinTech
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Taikonauten Gmbh 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
You will lead the end-to-end UX and product design process, from initial problem framing and discovery to final delivery and validation. You are responsible for creating high-quality UX concepts, facilitating workshops, and ensuring design decisions are effectively communicated to stakeholders and development teams.
Senior Product Designer, Growth & Promotions
🇺🇸 United States of America
Underdog 🇺🇸 United States of America
You will lead the end-to-end design of growth and promotion experiences, transforming complex mechanics into intuitive, engaging products. You will collaborate closely with product, engineering, and marketing teams to drive user engagement and maintain brand consistency.
Senior Product Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Hevo Data 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Own the end-to-end UX for complex, high-stakes data workflows and maintain the company's design system. Design AI-native products and collaborate with product and engineering teams to simplify technical experiences for data engineers.
Senior Graphic Designer (Motion & Video)
🇪🇬 Cairo, Egypt
Ellithy Group Of Companies 🇪🇬 Cairo, Egypt
The role involves creating high-volume performance creative across static and motion formats for paid channels and social media. Responsibilities also include designing OOH branding, website visuals, and evolving the overall brand system.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇪🇬 Alexandria, Egypt
Tasheed Developments 🇪🇬 Alexandria, Egypt
Lead visual design projects to support the brand and real estate portfolio, creating marketing collateral and digital assets. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate project concepts into compelling visual narratives across various channels.
Senior Product Designer – XR, Spatial UX
🇵🇱 Poland
Lucid Reality Labs 🇵🇱 Poland
Lead the end-to-end design of immersive XR products, focusing on spatial interactions, user flows, and premium visual interfaces. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to translate complex business requirements into intuitive VR, AR, and MR experiences.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Trading212 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
You will define early feature concepts and create wireframes, high-fidelity designs, and functional prototypes. Additionally, you will collaborate with engineers to ensure accurate implementation and use data to iterate on design decisions.
Senior Product Designer
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Trading212 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
You will brainstorm and define early feature concepts while creating wireframes, high-fidelity designs, and functional prototypes. Additionally, you will collaborate with engineers to ensure design accuracy and use data and user feedback to iterate on your work.
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.