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Senior Product Designer, Trading
🇺🇸 Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States of America
Robinhood 🇺🇸 Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States of America
Lead and execute the product design strategy for core trading surfaces to improve interaction speed and simplify complex financial concepts. Collaborate with engineering, product management, and legal teams to guide projects from initial concept to final production.
Graphic Designer (French Services) (Telework/Hybrid)
🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Cbc/radio-canada 🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
The Graphic Designer is responsible for leading the creative direction for graphic and infographic concepts across various visual content and marketing campaigns. They will oversee the entire project life cycle, from planning and development to final implementation, while coordinating the work of contributors.
Senior Design Manager
🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Wasael Property Management 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
The Senior Design Manager is responsible for leading projects through RIBA stages 0-5, ensuring delivery meets time, quality, and budget objectives. They manage consultant teams, oversee tender processes, and provide design support throughout the project lifecycle.
Design Manager
🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Wasael Property Management 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
The Design Manager will lead and manage the design engineering aspects of projects, acting as the primary client interface to ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget. They are responsible for coordinating with consultants, contractors, and stakeholders while maintaining high standards of quality, safety, and regulatory compliance.
Senior Product Designer, Ads
🇺🇸 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Kayak 🇺🇸 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Lead end-to-end design for web and mobile platforms, focusing on ads and partner-facing products within an agile team. Collaborate with product managers and engineers to translate user needs into design decisions that improve outcomes for travelers and advertisers.
Lead Product Designer
🇱🇹 Vilnius, Vilnius city municipality, Lithuania
Nord Security 🇱🇹 Vilnius, Vilnius city municipality, Lithuania
Lead and mentor a team of Product Designers while maintaining a hands-on role in creating wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs. Drive the overall design strategy and vision while collaborating with product and engineering teams to ensure a seamless user experience.
Principal Product Designer
🇧🇷 Criciúma, Santa Catarina, Brazil
Thomson Reuters 🇧🇷 Criciúma, Santa Catarina, Brazil
Define and communicate the design vision and strategy for cloud, web, mobile, and AI-driven products. Lead design initiatives by influence, collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure user-centered experiences and business impact.
Staff Product Designer
Remote (🇮🇳 India)
Moniepoint Remote (🇮🇳 India)
You will lead the end-to-end design process for financial products, from discovery and research to final UI execution. Additionally, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams, mentor junior designers, and champion user-centered design principles.
Senior Design Manager (m/f/d)
🇩🇪 Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
Equinix 🇩🇪 Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
The Senior Design Manager leads the design process for a portfolio of datacenter projects, ensuring technical excellence, resilience, and cost management. They coordinate across internal and external teams to deliver projects on time while maintaining global design standards.
Design Manager
🇳🇴 Oslo, Norway
Capstone Recruitment Uk 🇳🇴 Oslo, Norway
Lead the end-to-end design process for data center projects from post-concept through detailed design and construction. Manage multidisciplinary teams and external stakeholders to ensure technical compliance and seamless design integration.
Head of Design - Decarbonisation
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Alternative Heat Ltd 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Lead a multi-disciplinary design team to develop commercially viable decarbonisation and net zero solutions for large-scale commercial and public sector buildings. Oversee the full project lifecycle from initial assessment and options appraisal through to detailed design and technical assurance.
Product Designer
🇪🇸 Spain
Dkb Code Factory Gmbh 🇪🇸 Spain
Lead the end-to-end design of business account opening and product application flows from discovery to production. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate complex requirements into intuitive, accessible digital banking experiences.
Design Manager
🇦🇱 Tirana, Rruga Fezaj, 1042, Tirana Municipality, Albania
Balfin Development 🇦🇱 Tirana, Rruga Fezaj, 1042, Tirana Municipality, Albania
The Design Manager leads the team of Design Coordinators and oversees the entire design process from concept to implementation. They ensure projects meet quality standards, budget constraints, and technical requirements while managing relationships with consultants and stakeholders.
Senior Product & Design Manager - Mitre
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Pentland Brands 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the long-term product and design strategy for the Mitre brand while translating consumer insights into innovative product ranges. Manage the end-to-end product creation process, including design briefs, critical paths, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure market readiness.
European Senior Product Designer
🇭🇺 Budapest, Hungary
Provident Pénzügyi Zrt 🇭🇺 Budapest, Hungary
Lead end-to-end product design for native mobile and responsive web applications across European markets. Collaborate with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to deliver intuitive, accessible, and data-informed digital experiences.
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.