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Senior Graphic Designer
🇮🇳 Yelahanka taluku, India
Gallagher 🇮🇳 Yelahanka taluku, India
Deliver high-quality visual materials and branding collateral while ensuring design integrity and alignment with templates. Lead and mentor junior designers, manage multiple projects simultaneously, and collaborate with stakeholders to meet client expectations.
Graphic Designer - PPT
🇮🇳 Yelahanka taluku, India
Gallagher 🇮🇳 Yelahanka taluku, India
The Senior Graphic Designer creates high-quality, visually compelling communication materials and business presentations using structured templates. They are also responsible for leading and mentoring a design team to ensure design integrity and adherence to client branding standards.
Senior Staff Product Designer, Risk
🇺🇸 United States of America
Stripe 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead the design strategy for Risk experiences, focusing on onboarding, compliance, and the creation of new AI-driven product surfaces. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to establish design standards and build trust through high-quality user interfaces.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
Maintainx Remote (🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
Lead the end-to-end design process for AI-powered maintenance and asset management surfaces across web and mobile platforms. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to simplify complex workflows and contribute to the scalability of the company's design system.
Product Design Manager
🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Maintainx 🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Lead and grow a team of 4-6 product designers to create intuitive, AI-powered workflows for maintenance and asset management. Partner with Product and Engineering leads to translate strategy into high-quality design execution across web and mobile platforms.
Brand Product Designer - Duomo
🇺🇦 Kyiv, Ukraine
Duomo 🇺🇦 Kyiv, Ukraine
Lead the entire design lifecycle from discovery and hypothesis formation to UI prototyping and development handoff. Improve product interfaces by analyzing user behavior, conducting UX audits, and collaborating with product and engineering teams.
Technical Design Manager Data Center
🇮🇹 Milan, Italy
Aecom 🇮🇹 Milan, Italy
Lead and coordinate multi-disciplinary design teams to deliver complex hyperscale, colocation, and enterprise data center projects across Europe. Oversee all project phases from site due diligence and conceptual design through to construction documentation and client delivery.
Lead Project Manager, MEP Design Engineering
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Wsp In The U.s. 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead MEPFP project teams from inception through completion, providing technical oversight and managing project plans, budgets, and schedules. Maintain communication with clients and stakeholders, proactively resolving issues and managing expectations.
Senior Product Designer, AI & Emerging Technology Focus
🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Whoop 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design of AI-first product experiences, translating complex data into intuitive and trustworthy interfaces. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create human-centered workflows and prototypes for health and performance tracking.
Senior Product Designer (Growth)
🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Whoop 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design of digital experiences focused on acquisition, conversion, and retention within ecommerce journeys. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement data-driven experiments and scalable platform architectures.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
Quavered 🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
The Design Manager will lead a multidisciplinary design team to create engaging educational experiences. Responsibilities include mentoring team members, overseeing design quality, and exploring new design technologies.
Senior UX Researcher
🇺🇸 Tustin, California, United States of America
Vesync 🇺🇸 Tustin, California, United States of America
Lead end-to-end research to shape product strategy and inform design decisions. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate user insights into product development and enhance research operations.
Staff Product Designer, Contractors
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Gusto 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
As a staff product designer, you will drive the design strategy and execution for contractor products, leading the entire product development process. You will partner with cross-functional teams to deliver solutions that meet customer and business needs.
Senior UX Designer - Tieto Banktech (m/f/d)
🇱🇻 Riga, Latvia
Tieto 🇱🇻 Riga, Latvia
Design intuitive digital tools for AML, fraud detection, and regulatory compliance within the banking sector. Lead the end-to-end design process from discovery and problem framing to detailed interaction design and validation.
Design Engineering Architect
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Cadence 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
The role involves leading Front End Design projects and providing technical leadership to a team of RTL design engineers. Responsibilities include defining microarchitectural features, overseeing RTL development, and 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.