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Design Engineering Supervisor
🇺🇸 United States of America
Great Bend Industries 🇺🇸 United States of America
The Engineering Supervisor leads the design and development of hydraulic cylinder solutions, ensuring they meet customer requirements and company standards. This role also involves managing the engineering team and providing technical leadership throughout the product development process.
UX Product Designer - Aladdin Design, Director
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Blackrock 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead UX strategy for complex product areas across the Aladdin platform and partner closely with Product Management, Engineering, and business leaders to shape product vision from concept through delivery. Drive discovery through customer research, workshops, design sprints, and prototyping while championing design quality and systems thinking.
Visual Designer
🇺🇸 Burbank, California, United States of America
Wvu Medicine 🇺🇸 Burbank, California, United States of America
The Visual Designer is responsible for creating high-quality publications, advertisements, and digital communications to shape the visual image of the hospital. This includes coordinating with external vendors and advising leadership on signage and wayfinding.
Instructional Design Manager
🇵🇭 Manila, Capital District, Philippines
Nezda Global 🇵🇭 Manila, Capital District, Philippines
The Instructional Design Manager leads a cross-functional team to design and deliver high-quality learning programs and knowledge content. This role involves managing people, ensuring content accuracy, and enhancing learning experiences.
Lead Product Designer (YouTrack)
🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Jetbrains 🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
The Lead Product Designer will shape the evolution of project management and issue tracking in an AI-native world, designing tools that enhance user interaction with AI capabilities. They will lead a small design team, ensuring high design quality and coherence across the product.
Senior UX Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Echobox 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the end-to-end product design process from discovery to delivery to create intuitive workflows for publishers. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to turn complex problems into scalable, high-fidelity product experiences.
Senior Product Designer
🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Multibank Group 🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai Emirate, United Arab Emirates
The Senior Product Designer will design and enhance core user journeys, focusing on onboarding, trading flows, and portfolio management. They will lead design execution from concept to launch, ensuring user-centric decisions are made while balancing business goals and regulatory requirements.
Ux Ui Designer
🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Tropicfeel 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
The Ux Ui Designer will lead the design strategy and optimization of web touchpoints, ensuring a seamless and conversion-optimized experience. Responsibilities include driving experimentation strategies and managing web content for optimal performance.
Lead Product Designer (YouTrack)
🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain
Jetbrains 🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain
You will lead a small design team and shape the future of project management in an AI-native world. This includes designing user interactions with AI capabilities and ensuring a cohesive user experience across the product.
Lead Product Designer
🇧🇬 Sofiya, Bulgaria
Opentag 🇧🇬 Sofiya, Bulgaria
Lead the product design strategy and execution across web, mobile, and internal tools for B2B and B2C gaming platforms. Own the evolution of the design system and drive user research to translate complex requirements into scalable product experiences.
Design Manager - Infrastructure
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Mace 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Manage and coordinate multi-disciplinary design activities across project stages to ensure compliance with briefs, budgets, and schedules. Lead the resolution of technical queries, design clashes, and interface issues while maintaining design management systems.
Lead Product Designer (YouTrack)
🇦🇲 Yerevan, Armenia
Jetbrains 🇦🇲 Yerevan, Armenia
Lead a small design team to evolve project management and issue tracking tools within an AI-native framework. Balance high-level design quality and systemic coherence across a complex product while acting as an individual contributor on difficult problems.
UX Researcher (Senior/Staff-level)
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Synthesia 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead end-to-end strategic and tactical qualitative research to shape the transition from a single product to a multi-product AI platform. Establish research operations, build participant panels, and partner with product and data teams to influence executive-level decisions.
Senior Learning Design Manager (AI-Enabled)
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Vectra 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Lead the global learning organization's execution and serve as the onsite lead for the Bangalore team. Translate business goals into AI-enabled learning architectures, curricula, and production-ready content.
Digital Design Manager
🇪🇬 Cairo, Egypt
Silvaco 🇪🇬 Cairo, Egypt
Lead the micro-architecture specification and RTL design of digital controllers through the full project lifecycle. Manage development and verification teams while overseeing delivery schedules, resource planning, and customer engagement.
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.