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Senior Manager, System Co-Design Manager - SCG Team
🇺🇸 Santa Clara County, California, United States of America
Nvidia 🇺🇸 Santa Clara County, California, United States of America
Lead the product co-design and verification process, focusing on speed, reliability, and power compliance for future product roadmaps. Drive cross-functional collaboration to define operational benchmarks and ensure high-quality product delivery across diverse market sectors.
Head of Design
🇮🇳 Mumbai City District, India
Nuhome Furnishings 🇮🇳 Mumbai City District, India
Lead NuHome’s creative direction and design team, developing and curating curtain and upholstery collections, including artistic digital-print collections. Oversee exhibition stall design and execution, approve brand marketing content, and coordinate with catalogue teams, vendors, and partners.
Lead Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Motorway 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
You will lead complex design challenges across the full product lifecycle, from discovery to delivery, while mentoring team members and shaping design culture. You will also pioneer the integration of AI into design workflows and collaborate closely with engineering and product teams to drive business outcomes.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
The Whiting-turner Contracting Company 🇺🇸 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Lead and coordinate design efforts from project pursuit and inception through construction and closeout, ensuring design decisions meet program, budget, schedule, quality, and sustainability requirements. Facilitate collaboration among clients, designers, builders, and project teams; manage design reviews and decision logs; and support construction-phase design issues and business development.
Product Designer
🇪🇸 Spain
Dkb Code Factory Gmbh 🇪🇸 Spain
Lead end-to-end design of business account opening and product application journeys, from discovery and research through prototyping, validation, and production-ready handoff. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, contribute to design systems and best practices, advocate for customer needs, and use post-release metrics to improve product outcomes.
Design Manager - Water
🇺🇸 Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America
Wharton-smith 🇺🇸 Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America
The Design Manager leads planning, budgeting, risk analysis, and stakeholder engagement during the pursuit and preconstruction phases of water and wastewater projects. They collaborate closely with estimating and operations teams to ensure successful project delivery, constructability, and seamless transitions into construction.
Lead Designer, Design Systems & Structures
🇺🇸 Culver City, CA 90232, United States of America
Apple 🇺🇸 Culver City, CA 90232, United States of America
Lead the design, development, and evolution of content design systems across Apple Services to ensure a cohesive user experience. Partner with cross-functional teams to operationalize content structures and leverage emerging technologies to improve design efficiency at scale.
UI & UX Designer
🇨🇳 Jinjiang City, Fujian, China
格兰达公司 🇨🇳 Jinjiang City, Fujian, China
Lead the design of intuitive embedded and physical interfaces for small smart devices, producing wireframes, visual designs, prototypes, animations, and mockups suited to constrained hardware. Support research and usability testing, collaborate with developers and hardware and firmware engineers, and coordinate with industrial design, brand, research, and engineering teams throughout product development.
Primary Design Manager
🇬🇧 Stafford, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom
Ge Vernova 🇬🇧 Stafford, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom
Lead and coordinate global engineering teams to deliver high-quality primary plant designs for HV/EHV substation projects. Ensure all engineering outputs comply with regulatory standards, safety requirements, and project milestones throughout the lifecycle.
Staff Product Designer - Expert Experience
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Parloa 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
You will lead the design vision for expert-facing workflows, including AI agent setup and configuration tools. You will partner with cross-functional teams to translate this vision into usable, technically feasible product experiences.
Design Manager
🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
Accenture 🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
Lead the end-to-end design and development of scalable, outcome-driven learning experiences across various digital and instructor-led formats. Manage design teams, vendors, and cross-functional stakeholders while utilizing learning analytics to ensure high-quality delivery and business impact.
Lead Product Designer (Contract Talent)
🇺🇸 San Ramon, California, United States of America
Robert Half 🇺🇸 San Ramon, California, United States of America
Lead product design within a product squad, from framing problems and conducting research through prototyping, high-fidelity design, and envisioning future product directions. Collaborate with product, engineering, research, and other teams to deliver human-centered experiences and influence product outcomes across the user journey.
Design Manager
🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
Accenture In India 🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
Lead end-to-end instructional and learning experience design for digital, blended, and instructor-led programs, from needs analysis and curriculum mapping through development and continuous improvement. Manage design teams, vendors, stakeholders, project delivery, and quality, using learning analytics and emerging technologies to improve learning outcomes and business impact.
Senior Product UI/UX Designer | Remote
Remote (🇮🇳 Noida, Dadri, India)
Neo Media Group Ltd Remote (🇮🇳 Noida, Dadri, India)
Lead end-to-end design for complex web and mobile products, translating business and user needs into research-informed journeys, flows, prototypes, and polished interfaces. Maintain design systems, document specifications, collaborate with developers, review implementation quality, and recommend improvements to product workflows and AI-enabled experiences.
Staff Product Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Adobe 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Lead the design strategy and vision for AI-powered experiences within the D-ALP team to enhance content creation and management. Mentor designers and foster a culture of design excellence while integrating Generative AI into the product lifecycle.
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.