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Senior Technology Design Manager - White Space Fit Out
🇺🇸 Sunnyvale, California, United States of America
Coreweave 🇺🇸 Sunnyvale, California, United States of America
The Senior Technology Design Manager will lead and manage the design process for Data Center Fit Outs, ensuring designs meet CoreWeave's project requirements. This role involves collaboration with internal teams and external consultants to maintain high-quality standards throughout the design and construction phases.
Senior Graphic Designer - Corporate Marketing (Kansas City)
🇺🇸 Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Burns & Mcdonnell 🇺🇸 Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer will lead the creative development of integrated marketing campaigns and translate complex ideas into compelling visual stories. This role involves collaborating with marketing teams to shape brand initiatives and drive business growth.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇵🇰 Islamabad, Islamabad Capital Territory, Pakistan
Nysonian Inc. 🇵🇰 Islamabad, Islamabad Capital Territory, Pakistan
The Senior Graphic Designer will create campaigns and brand initiatives, translating briefs into distinct concepts. They will design high-performing social media ads and own UI/UX design, ensuring consistency across various platforms.
Senior Visual Designer, Emerging Creative
🇵🇦 Panama City, Distrito de Panamá, Panama
Netflix 🇵🇦 Panama City, Distrito de Panamá, Panama
Create high-fidelity visual and product designs across TV, mobile, and web surfaces to enhance Netflix's brand and user experience. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to build immersive, story-driven interfaces and scalable design systems.
Senior Web Designer
🇳🇬 Lagos, Lagos Island, Nigeria
Dotyeti 🇳🇬 Lagos, Lagos Island, Nigeria
The Senior Web Designer will lead and collaborate on high-level project concepts and strategy, providing expert guidance in web and app design. They will also work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless execution of design projects.
Senior Product Designer, Drafting
🇨🇦 Canada
Clio 🇨🇦 Canada
As a Senior Product Designer, you will lead the end-to-end design process, from strategic discovery through development and launch. You will partner with Product and Engineering to define and execute experience design strategy and success metrics.
Senior Quantitative UX Researcher
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Cnn 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
The Senior Quantitative UX Researcher will design and execute research to uncover user insights by integrating attitudinal and behavioral data. This role involves translating complex data into actionable insights to inform product decisions.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Baton 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will own end-to-end design projects, collaborating with product managers and engineers to create intuitive solutions for complex logistics problems. They will also maintain and evolve the design system while ensuring clarity and usability in AI-driven interfaces.
Senior Graphic Designer - Hybrid Role
🇺🇸 El Segundo, CA 90245, United States of America
Radiant Systems Inc 🇺🇸 El Segundo, CA 90245, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer will lead high-level design and brand campaigns for both print and digital, overseeing the entire project lifecycle from concept through execution. They will collaborate with global teams and outside agencies to identify creative needs and support brand launches.
Senior Mixed Methods UX Researcher, Google Lens
🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Uxr Hunt 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Influence stakeholders across organizations to support research-based, user-centric solutions. Drive ideas to improve products and services through research-driven insights and recommendations.
Senior Analyst - Graphic Designer
🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
Accenture In India 🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
Lead the design of impactful campaigns across various media including social, web, print, and video. Collaborate with marketing, product, and business teams to bring original ideas to life through compelling designs.
Senior Product Designer
🇵🇱 Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
Ig India 🇵🇱 Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
You will own the entire design process from ideation to implementation, including UX, UI, prototyping, and research. Collaborate closely with product managers and developers to create high-quality, customer-centric solutions.
Senior Product Designer, Design Systems
🇵🇱 Warszawa, 83-433 Nowe Polaszki, Poland
Netflix 🇵🇱 Warszawa, 83-433 Nowe Polaszki, Poland
Lead efforts to ensure all components meet quality standards and are built to scale effectively. Partner with engineering to translate design guidance into structured logic for AI tools to generate UI.
Senior Manager, Design/Process Engineering, Design Engineering
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Amazon 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
You will lead end-to-end design for new delivery stations and work to improve existing delivery station processes. This includes managing multiple projects, driving technology integration, and providing design direction to meet strategic objectives.
Senior Product Designer
🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
Teradata 🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
Own end-to-end product experience design for core platform experiences, ensuring seamless handoffs between various user personas. Design workflows for complex tasks, balancing usability and technical constraints while collaborating with cross-functional teams.
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.