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Lead Graphic Designer
🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Dragons Group 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Lead and develop design teams, translate brand strategies into scalable design systems, and maintain consistent quality and processes across projects. Oversee end-to-end delivery for a key account, manage parallel workstreams, and collaborate with strategy and creative teams to improve efficiency and deliver cohesive outcomes.
Senior UX Researcher
🇹🇼 Taipei, Taiwan
Coupang 🇹🇼 Taipei, Taiwan
The Senior UX Researcher will lead the research strategy and roadmap to drive product innovation and customer experience improvements. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate customer behavior insights into actionable product decisions.
Creative Strategist & Graphic Designer (DTC /CPG) - Eastern Europe
🇷🇸 Serbia
Talent Hackers 🇷🇸 Serbia
The role involves leading creative communication and designing high-quality static and motion assets for advertising campaigns. You will also analyze performance data to refine creative strategies and manage project timelines across cross-functional teams.
Creative Strategist & Graphic Designer (DTC /CPG) Eastern Europe - (Remote)
Remote (🇷🇸 Serbia)
Talent Hackers Remote (🇷🇸 Serbia)
Lead creative communication and delivery, translating ad concepts into angles and producing static and motion assets for advertising campaigns. Review performance data, recommend improvements, coordinate with other departments, and manage project timelines to deliver high-quality work on time.
Senior Product Designer
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Costar 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Lead end-to-end design initiatives for complex B2B SaaS products while collaborating with product and engineering teams to align with business goals. Conduct user research and maintain design system consistency to deliver high-quality, user-centered experiences.
Analog Design Manager – Wide‑VIN Buck Regulators
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Texas Instruments 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Lead a 15-engineer team delivering multiple Wide-VIN buck regulator projects from specification through production, providing technical direction and mentoring. Coordinate with systems and cross-functional engineering teams to define competitive products and deliver high-quality, on-time designs with first-pass silicon success.
Content Design Manager, AI
🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Tiktok 🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Lead and develop a content design team, set content standards and strategy, and deliver clear, high-quality product writing across TikTok Monetization. Coordinate projects and resources with cross-functional stakeholders, improve team processes, and promote consistent content practices across teams and time zones.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Oscar Health 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Lead end-to-end design for complex internal products, from discovery and workflow analysis through prototyping, implementation, and iteration, partnering with product, engineering, research, and operational teams. Use AI tools responsibly to explore and test realistic solutions, refine validated concepts in Figma, and contribute to scalable design systems and team practices.
Senior Graphic Designer / Brand & Creative Lead
🇱🇹 Lithuania
Boldr 🇱🇹 Lithuania
Develop and evolve Boldr’s visual identity, then apply it consistently across digital and print materials, including websites, emails, packaging, campaigns, advertising, and sales collateral. Own creative projects from brief through delivery, guide visual assets and production, and build brand guidelines and reusable templates.
Lead Product Designer (Contract Talent)
🇺🇸 San Ramon, California, United States of America
Robert Half 🇺🇸 San Ramon, California, United States of America
The Lead Product Designer will drive product outcomes by framing problems, conducting research, and creating high-resolution designs within a product squad. They will collaborate closely with product management and engineering to envision future product directions and maintain a cohesive user experience.
Lead Product Designer
🇩🇰 1357 København K, Denmark
Opacity 🇩🇰 1357 København K, Denmark
Design new product features from initial sketches and user flows through final interfaces, and improve existing product areas. Work closely with developers, make product and UX decisions, develop the design system, maintain a high quality bar, and speak directly with customers to understand their problems.
Senior Graphic Designer / Brand & Creative Lead
🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brazil
Boldr 🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brazil
Develop and maintain Boldr’s visual identity and creative direction across digital and physical touchpoints, including websites, emails, packaging, campaigns, advertising, and sales materials. Own design projects from brief through delivery, create reusable brand systems, and collaborate with internal teams and external creatives to deliver clear, cohesive work.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇬🇧 Stretford, Trafford, England, United Kingdom
Club L London 🇬🇧 Stretford, Trafford, England, United Kingdom
Lead the creative development and execution of premium, fashion-led campaigns, content, editorial, CRM, social, paid media, and e-commerce experiences across channels and markets. Mentor and develop designers, manage creative workflows, improve processes, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to maintain brand consistency and deliver commercially effective work.
Electronic Product Design Manager
🇬🇧 Ashford, TN23 1QL, United Kingdom
Hūmia | Cabinet De Recrutement 🇬🇧 Ashford, TN23 1QL, United Kingdom
Design complete electronic and electromechanical products, taking them from concept through prototyping, testing, and industrialisation while integrating mechanical, electronic, usability, and manufacturing requirements. Lead a team of four engineers and technicians and collaborate with production, suppliers, and purchasing to bring products into manufacturing.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Tekmetric 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead experience strategy and own end-to-end design for key workflows, from problem framing and discovery through launch and iteration. Collaborate with product, engineering, and business partners to build customer-focused products, maintain design system consistency, and guide design team alignment and onboarding.
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.