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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.
Senior Head of Design
🇦🇺 Cremorne TAS 7024, Australia
Seek 🇦🇺 Cremorne TAS 7024, Australia
Lead the design strategy and execution for the Hirer portfolio to create cohesive marketplace experiences. Drive the integration of AI and data-driven insights to improve customer outcomes and mentor a diverse team of design leaders.
Senior/Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Pulley 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Design and communicate user flows and specifications for stakeholders and engineers. Lead projects from concept to launch while ensuring high execution standards.
Senior Product Designer
🇨🇴 Colombia
Monks 🇨🇴 Colombia
As a Senior Product Designer, you will lead end-to-end design for customer-facing digital products, ensuring user-centered experiences across applications. You will collaborate with stakeholders to define and design solutions that meet business goals and user needs.
Product Design Manager, Enterprise
🇨🇦 Canada
Clio 🇨🇦 Canada
Lead design across Clio's Enterprise segment, shaping the design direction of AI-powered legal technology products. Manage and mentor a team of product designers while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality user experiences.
Physical Layer SW Design manager
🇨🇦 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Ericsson 🇨🇦 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Build and lead a new Physical Layer embedded software team in Ontario to support 6G development. Drive AI-enabled software practices and ensure the quality, performance, and delivery of L1 software products.
Product Design Manager, Enterprise
🇺🇸 United States of America
Clio 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead design across Clio's Enterprise segment, shaping the design direction of AI-powered legal technology products. Manage and mentor a team of product designers while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality user experiences.
Senior Product Designer, Business & Transaction Platform
🇮🇩 Special Capital Region of Jakarta, Java, Indonesia
Grab 🇮🇩 Special Capital Region of Jakarta, Java, Indonesia
Lead product design outcomes for the Business & Transaction Platform, creating intuitive interfaces and end-to-end flows for merchants. Facilitate discovery workshops and collaborate with cross-functional teams to align business goals with user-centered experiences.
Senior AI UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 Linthicum, Anne Arundel County, MD 21090, United States of America
Mdaedge 🇺🇸 Linthicum, Anne Arundel County, MD 21090, United States of America
Lead the design process for web applications, from user research to final delivery. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define product design strategy and ensure high-quality design outputs.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 Berkeley, California, United States of America)
Epoch Remote (🇺🇸 Berkeley, California, United States of America)
Define and own strategy across the website and data products while leading design projects from problem definition through delivery. Conduct user research and create design specifications, mock-ups, and prototypes.
Staff Product Designer, Core Treatments
🇺🇸 United States of America
Hims & Hers 🇺🇸 United States of America
You will own the design of core treatment categories from end to end, leading large, complex initiatives autonomously. You will partner with various teams to navigate tradeoffs and contribute to design systems.
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.