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Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Lakewood, Colorado, United States
The Haskell Company 🇺🇸 Lakewood, Colorado, United States
The Senior Design Manager leads and inspires design teams to execute project management for large or complex projects from proposal through closeout. Responsibilities include managing project schedules, financial performance, and client relationships while ensuring compliance with contract requirements.
Senior Design Engineering Specialist
🇺🇸 Peoria, Illinois, United States
Caterpillar Inc. 🇺🇸 Peoria, Illinois, United States
The Senior Design Engineering Specialist will serve as the technical lead for the Medium Wheel Loader Operator Station, overseeing development, innovation, and analysis. The role involves collaborating with global suppliers and facilities to ensure successful execution of product initiatives and quality standards.
Industrial Design Manager
🇺🇸 Elkhart, Indiana, United States
Godfrey Marine 🇺🇸 Elkhart, Indiana, United States
The Industrial Design Manager will lead the development of interior and exterior designs for recreational boats while collaborating with engineering and product teams. They are responsible for concept creation, trend research, and ensuring designs meet brand standards and production requirements.
Banco de Talentos- Product Designer Senior (Espanhol Fluente)
🇧🇷 Brazil
Brq Digital Solutions 🇧🇷 Brazil
Lead the strategic product vision by translating business problems into actionable roadmaps and hypotheses. Direct multidisciplinary squads and manage high-level relationships with C-level stakeholders to define product governance and operational models.
Product designer ux
🇧🇷 Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil
Tributo Devido 🇧🇷 Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil
Transform complex tax flows into simple, intuitive interfaces for both client-facing platforms and internal operational tools. Lead the design process from research and prototyping to validation and implementation within a design system.
Senior Product Designer, Payments
🇺🇸 United States
Clio 🇺🇸 United States
Lead the end-to-end design process for financial workflows, from strategic discovery and prototyping to launch and iteration. Partner with Product and Engineering to define experience strategies and integrate trustworthy AI automation into the Billing ecosystem.
Lead Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Mateo, California, United States
Verkada 🇺🇸 San Mateo, California, United States
You will lead the design of web and mobile tools by collaborating with product managers and engineers to define product vision and deliver intuitive user experiences. Additionally, you will mentor junior designers, manage project scopes, and conduct user research to ensure high-quality product releases.
Senior Product Designer, AI
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Maintainx (an Autodesk Company) 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
You will lead end-to-end design for AI-powered product surfaces across web and mobile platforms. You will collaborate with product managers and engineers to translate complex workflows into intuitive tools for frontline workers.
Senior/Staff Product Designer
🇪🇸 Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
Joppy 🇪🇸 Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
Define the strategic direction and deliver a unified, AI-first design system across complex product domains. Lead design initiatives from conception to launch while mentoring junior designers to elevate team impact.
Senior Design Engineering Specialist
🇺🇸 Decatur, Illinois, United States
Caterpillar Inc. 🇺🇸 Decatur, Illinois, United States
The Senior Design Engineering Specialist provides global technical leadership for the design, development, and validation of structural systems within the Load & Haul product portfolio. This role involves mentoring engineering teams, driving technical excellence, and ensuring products meet high standards for safety, durability, and manufacturability.
Graphic Designer
🇨🇴 Bogota, Capital District, RAP (Especial) Central, Colombia
Xploy Solutions 🇨🇴 Bogota, Capital District, RAP (Especial) Central, Colombia
The role involves architecting and evolving the brand identity and design systems across all global touchpoints. The designer will lead multi-channel campaigns and mentor junior designers while partnering with executive leadership.
Lead Graphic Designer - Beauty & Hair Care Brands
🇳🇬 Nigeria
Snappycx 🇳🇬 Nigeria
The Lead Graphic Designer will personally create and deliver visual assets including email campaigns, landing pages, and product packaging while providing creative direction to freelancers. They will collaborate with developers and vendors to ensure brand consistency and high-quality execution across all digital and print materials.
Design Manager - Water Sector
🇬🇧 Reading, England, United Kingdom
Stantec 🇬🇧 Reading, England, United Kingdom
Lead a multidisciplinary team to deliver complex water sector projects from initial concept to detailed design. Act as the technical lead collaborating with Project Managers to ensure service excellence and best value for major UK clients.
Design Manager - Water Sector
🇬🇧 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Stantec 🇬🇧 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Lead a multidisciplinary team to deliver water sector projects from initial concept to detailed design. Act as the technical lead collaborating with Project Managers to ensure service excellence and best value for major UK clients.
Design Manager - Water Sector
🇬🇧 High Wycombe, England, United Kingdom
Stantec 🇬🇧 High Wycombe, England, United Kingdom
Lead a multidisciplinary team to deliver water sector projects from initial concept to detailed design. Act as the technical lead collaborating with Project Managers to ensure service excellence and best value for major UK clients.
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.