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Electromechanical Design Manager
🇺🇸 Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Schneider Electric 🇺🇸 Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
The Electromechanical Design Manager leads a team of designers to drive innovation, manage technical operations, and ensure the successful delivery of high-quality technical solutions. They oversee project scheduling, resource allocation, and design processes while collaborating cross-functionally to support product development and manufacturing.
Electronics Products Radio Frequency (RF) Product Design Engineering Senior Manager
🇺🇸 El Segundo, CA 90245, United States of America
Boeing 🇺🇸 El Segundo, CA 90245, United States of America
The senior manager will lead a team of RF product design engineers, overseeing technical activities, departmental planning, and process improvements. They are responsible for managing supplier relationships, developing direct reports, and ensuring the successful execution of engineering strategies.
Remote Aviation Design Manager
Remote (🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America)
Lochner Remote (🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America)
Lead and manage the technical design function, overseeing Design Leads and staff to ensure high-quality project deliverables. Implement and enforce design standards, quality control procedures, and resource allocation across aviation projects.
VDC Mechanical Design Manager
🇺🇸 Saint Petersburg, Florida, United States of America
Power Design 🇺🇸 Saint Petersburg, Florida, United States of America
Lead the virtual design and coordination process for construction projects from preconstruction through completion. Manage BIM deliverables, clash detection, and constructability reviews while collaborating with operations and engineering teams.
Electronics Products Digital and Power Product Design Engineering Senior Manager
🇺🇸 El Segundo, CA 90245, United States of America
Boeing 🇺🇸 El Segundo, CA 90245, United States of America
The manager will lead teams performing digital and power product design engineering while developing departmental strategies and technical goals. They are responsible for acquiring resources, managing supplier relationships, and overseeing process improvements and corrective actions.
Product Designer
🇨🇱 188 0000 Monte Patria, Chile
Banco Bci 🇨🇱 188 0000 Monte Patria, Chile
Design and improve digital products by balancing user experience with the bank's business goals across multiple channels. Lead user research, create high-fidelity prototypes, and use data analysis to optimize conversion and customer satisfaction.
Product Design Manager
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Bolt 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Lead the Product Design team across four incentive domains while acting as a player-coach for the Bolt Plus team. Define design strategies, establish quality standards, and oversee the end-to-end design process for mobile and web platforms.
Regional Design Manager
🇳🇱 Amstelveen, North Holland, Netherlands
Sisk Group 🇳🇱 Amstelveen, North Holland, Netherlands
Lead and manage the regional design function for data center projects, ensuring design solutions meet client expectations and statutory requirements. Oversee technical governance, resource planning, and the integration of sustainability and digital standards across the business unit.
Senior Product Designer
🇨🇦 Canada
Athennian 🇨🇦 Canada
You will lead product discovery and translate complex B2B workflows into intuitive, modern experiences while shaping AI-powered capabilities. You will collaborate closely with product, engineering, and executive teams to drive design quality and differentiate the product in the market.
Senior Product Designer II - Order Quality
🇨🇦 Wasaga Beach, Ontario, Canada
Instacart 🇨🇦 Wasaga Beach, Ontario, Canada
The Senior Product Designer will lead end-to-end design initiatives for Order Quality, collaborating with product managers and engineering teams to improve consumer and shopper experiences. They will serve as a domain expert, balancing high-level strategic vision with detailed execution and cross-functional stakeholder communication.
Integrated Design Manager
🇺🇸 Frederick County, Maryland, United States of America
Aligned Data Centers 🇺🇸 Frederick County, Maryland, United States of America
Lead day-to-day design management activities and integrate architectural, civil, structural, and MEP systems from land enablement to turnover. Ensure design alignment with project scope, schedule, cost, and quality while managing third-party design teams.
Principal UX Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Cengage 🇺🇸 United States of America
Define and drive the web experience strategy across complex systems to translate business needs into scalable user experiences. Lead end-to-end design work from discovery to delivery while partnering with Marketing, Product, and Engineering teams.
UX Designer
🇺🇸 Irving, Texas, United States of America
Citi 🇺🇸 Irving, Texas, United States of America
The UX Lead Analyst will research, define, and design intuitive digital products while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high-fidelity prototypes. They are responsible for ensuring design consistency, accessibility compliance, and providing ongoing support to development teams throughout the product lifecycle.
Civil Infrastructure - Transportation Project Manager / Design Manager Rail
🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain
Aecom 🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain
Lead the design process for civil infrastructure projects with a focus on rail, managing multidisciplinary teams from planning through to execution. Oversee design stages, ensure quality standards, manage budgets, and maintain accurate project documentation.
Art Director/ Sr Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Intellectual Capital Investments (peter Arnell) 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Develop and execute sophisticated creative concepts and design systems across brand identity, digital products, and print media. Collaborate with leadership to translate high-level direction into polished, production-ready work in a fast-paced environment.
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.