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Product Designer
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Commonwealth Bank 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Lead discovery and research to inform product strategy while translating insights into user flows, wireframes, and polished UI designs. Collaborate with product managers and engineers in an agile environment to deliver scalable, customer-centric digital solutions.
Principal UX / UI Designer - Gurgaon, Chennai, Noida, Bangalore, Pune, Hyderabad
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Unitedhealth Group 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
The Principal UX/UI Designer will define experience strategies for complex products while leading hands-on design work and mentoring team members. They will partner with cross-functional teams to solve challenging design problems and ensure high-quality, user-centered solutions across Optum's digital platforms.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Baseten 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead end-to-end product design, including research, prototyping, and implementation while collaborating with engineering and product teams. You will evolve the design system and establish patterns to ensure consistency and high-quality user experiences across the platform.
UX Designer
🇫🇮 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
Vierityspalkki.fi 🇫🇮 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
Lead end-to-end design activities and develop design practices by combining user insights and business goals within complex product ecosystems. Collaborate with developers and product owners to iterate UI/UX concepts and support R&D projects with consistent design reviews.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Decagon 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Define and invent UX patterns for autonomous AI agents across chat, voice, and authoring interfaces. Lead end-to-end design initiatives from discovery and scoping through to launch and adoption in a high-ownership environment.
Design Manager - North Yorkshire
🇬🇧 Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom
Graham Group 🇬🇧 Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom
Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary design teams to deliver major construction projects, specifically Department for Education schemes. Manage the design process from tender to completion, ensuring compliance, buildability, and cost-effectiveness.
Circuit Design Engineering Asc Mgr, Secret Clearance
🇺🇸 Littleton, Colorado, United States of America
Lockheed Martin 🇺🇸 Littleton, Colorado, United States of America
Lead the development of Avionics Packages for the Initiation and Preset Subsystem of the D5LE2 Trident II missile. Manage personnel, coordinate functional groups, and communicate technical status to leadership and customers.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Fieldguide 🇺🇸 United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will lead end-to-end design for complex audit workflows and partner with Product and Engineering to shape strategy. They will drive design execution while balancing speed, usability, and the integration of AI-assisted features.
Senior Product Designer I (Enterprise)
Remote (🇺🇸 San Diego, California, United States of America)
Housecall Remote (🇺🇸 San Diego, California, United States of America)
Lead the design direction for key product initiatives by translating strategy into user-centered solutions and high-fidelity visuals. Collaborate cross-functionally to integrate AI capabilities thoughtfully while evolving the company's design system and processes.
Sr. Mechanical Design Engineer, Data Center Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
Amazon Web Services (aws) 🇺🇸 Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
Design and implement energy-efficient mechanical systems for next-generation data centers. Lead cross-functional teams through the project lifecycle from conception to implementation, focusing on facility-equipment integration and performance monitoring.
Sr. Mechanical Design Engineer, Data Center Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Amazon Web Services (aws) 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Design and implement energy-efficient mechanical systems for next-generation data centers. Lead cross-functional teams through the full project lifecycle from conception to implementation and performance monitoring.
Sr. Mechanical Design Engineer, Data Center Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Amazon Web Services (aws) 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Design and implement energy-efficient mechanical systems for next-generation data centers while leading cross-functional teams. Oversee the full project lifecycle from conception to implementation, including budget management and performance monitoring.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 Pleasanton, California, United States of America
Vagaro 🇺🇸 Pleasanton, California, United States of America
You will own the product direction of features from problem framing through delivery while operating as both a product lead and hands-on designer. You will partner closely with engineering to build solutions and validate outcomes as the single source of truth.
UX Designer
🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico
Scopely 🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico
Lead UX design efforts from concept to implementation for player-facing experiences, creating wireframes, mockups, and prototypes. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate complex use cases into simple, scalable solutions while maintaining the design system.
Principal Product Designer
🇲🇽 Hidalgo del Parral, Mexico
Customer.io 🇲🇽 Hidalgo del Parral, Mexico
The Principal Product Designer will shape the company's design vision and drive the strategic evolution of the design system. They will partner with product and engineering leadership to deliver high-quality, coherent experiences for developer and builder audiences.
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.