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Brand Visual Designer
🇸🇬 Singapore
Sierra 🇸🇬 Singapore
Establish and lead Sierra's brand presence in the APAC region by localizing global campaigns and creating culturally resonant visual content. Collaborate with the US brand team and regional GTM leads to produce high-impact presentations, event collateral, and scalable brand systems.
Senior Staff Product Designer, Risk
🇺🇸 United States of America
Stripe 🇺🇸 United States of America
This role involves leading design across critical Risk experiences and shaping the strategy for new products. You will collaborate with various teams to create user-friendly experiences that help businesses onboard and manage risk effectively.
Lead UX Designer
🇺🇸 South Jordan, Utah, United States of America
Cricut 🇺🇸 South Jordan, Utah, United States of America
Lead the design work for software applications for both desktop and mobile devices. Collaborate with product managers and developers to drive solutions through to completion.
Senior Product Designer (UX/UI)
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Grüns 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead UX/UI design across the full funnel for the Ü Snacks brand portfolio, focusing on conversion and user experience. Manage and mentor a direct report while collaborating with cross-functional teams to create high-quality digital experiences.
Lead UX Designer
🇺🇸 South Jordan, Utah, United States of America
Cricut 🇺🇸 South Jordan, Utah, United States of America
Lead the design of software applications for desktop and mobile platforms to create intuitive and compelling user experiences. Collaborate with product managers and developers to evolve design processes and deliver high-quality product solutions.
Senior / Staff Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Recraft 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Independently drive end-to-end design projects from research and concept to launch and iteration for a professional AI creative tool. Collaborate closely with engineers to prototype ideas and advocate for design decisions to leadership.
Senior Product Designer (UX/UI)
Lead UX/UI design across the full ecommerce funnel to drive conversion and optimize user flows for the Ü Snacks brand portfolio. Own and evolve the cross-brand design system while managing and mentoring a direct report.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Gifthealth 🇺🇸 United States of America
The Senior Product Designer leads the end-to-end design of complex digital products and features, ensuring alignment with business and customer outcomes. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to translate user needs into scalable design solutions.
Forward-Deployed Product Designer - FDPSD (US Remote)
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Tailor Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Lead product design for customer deployments and translate complex workflows into clear product experiences. Collaborate with engineers and product managers to ensure successful implementations and build reusable design patterns.
Project Design Manager
🇺🇸 Maryland Heights, Missouri, United States of America
Cushman & Wakefield 🇺🇸 Maryland Heights, Missouri, United States of America
The Project Design Manager leads and mentors a team of design professionals, overseeing design projects from initial sketch through construction. They ensure design deliverables meet safety, functionality, and aesthetic standards while managing timelines and budgets.
Senior UX Product Designer - Remote
Remote (🇺🇸 West Des Moines, Iowa, United States of America)
Unitedhealth Group Remote (🇺🇸 West Des Moines, Iowa, United States of America)
Lead end-to-end UX design for complex enterprise products, focusing on data-rich workflows and analytics dashboards. Partner with product, engineering, and research teams to align design decisions with business goals and technical constraints.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Underdog 🇺🇸 United States of America
As a Senior Graphic Designer, you will lead campaign design from brief through delivery, ensuring visual consistency across all channels. You will collaborate closely with Marketing and Product teams to bring the Underdog brand to life through exciting and energetic executions.
Senior UX Design Manager, Amazon Customer Service
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Lead and mentor a multi-disciplinary UX design team to deliver high-quality customer service experiences globally. Drive UX strategy and roadmaps in close partnership with product and tech leaders using qualitative and quantitative evidence.
Design Manager (industrial water/wastewater)
🇺🇸 United States of America
Brown And Caldwell 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead the planning and execution of design projects for industrial water and wastewater clients, coordinating with project managers to develop scope and timelines. Manage design resources and delivery teams to ensure high-quality outputs and adherence to project milestones.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Sweco 🇬🇧 Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
As Design Manager, you will lead a multi-disciplinary engineering team to deliver engineering design solutions for water non-infrastructure projects. You will manage project plans, ensure design quality, and collaborate with other functions to achieve project goals.
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.