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Lead Product Designer
Remote (🇧🇷 Brazil)
Circle Remote (🇧🇷 Brazil)
Own a product area end-to-end by identifying opportunities, framing problems, and shipping high-quality experiences. Collaborate with product managers and engineers to drive product strategy and raise the design craft standard across the team.
Lead Product Designer, Marketplace
Remote (🇪🇸 Spain)
Circle Remote (🇪🇸 Spain)
Own the end-to-end design of the Discover marketplace, focusing on AI-driven discovery experiences for both creators and consumers. You will identify opportunities, set design direction, and prototype rapidly to build trust and engagement at scale.
Lead Product Designer, Marketplace
Remote (🇵🇹 Portugal)
Circle Remote (🇵🇹 Portugal)
Own the end-to-end design of the Discover marketplace, focusing on AI-driven discovery experiences for both creators and consumers. You will identify opportunities, set design direction, and prototype rapidly to bridge the gap between concept and shipped product.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom
Hubexo 🇬🇧 Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom
Lead the end-to-end design of complex workflows for SaaS products, from initial discovery and research to final delivery. Collaborate with product management, engineering, and AI teams to ensure design consistency and commercial effectiveness.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Go Media 🇺🇸 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer will lead the visual identity and brand systems across GO Media's portfolio, creating assets for marketing, product, and sales. This role involves hands-on production of digital and print materials, including landing pages, pitch decks, and event signage.
Design Engineering Lead
🇺🇸 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Schneider Electric 🇺🇸 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
The Design Engineering Lead will oversee the design and optimization of HVAC and mechanical systems while providing leadership to a team of engineers. They are responsible for defining project scopes, managing budgets, and ensuring technical compliance across all project phases.
Solutions Design Manager - Remote within NORTAM
Remote (🇺🇸 Des Plaines, Illinois, United States of America)
Cma Cgm Remote (🇺🇸 Des Plaines, Illinois, United States of America)
The Regional AOS Solution Design Manager manages the Air & Ocean Solutions pipeline and leads solution design activities to support regional growth. This role partners with cross-functional teams to implement and optimize supply chain solutions while serving as the regional subject matter expert for the Infor Nexus platform.
Sr. Product Designer, Merchant AI-first Support
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Pinterest 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead end-to-end design for Merchant AI Assistant experiences, including onboarding and catalog management workflows. Partner with cross-functional teams to define cohesive patterns that integrate conversational AI into the advertiser experience.
Lead Product Designer
Remote (🇮🇹 Italy)
Circle Remote (🇮🇹 Italy)
Own a product area end-to-end by identifying opportunities, framing problems, and shipping high-quality experiences. Collaborate with product managers and engineers to drive product strategy and raise the design craft standard across the team.
Lead Product Designer, Marketplace
Remote (🇳🇱 Netherlands)
Circle Remote (🇳🇱 Netherlands)
Own the end-to-end design of the Discover marketplace, focusing on AI-driven discovery experiences for both creators and consumers. You will identify opportunities, set design direction, and prototype rapidly to bridge the gap between concept and shipped product.
Lead Product Designer
🇳🇱 Netherlands
Circle 🇳🇱 Netherlands
Own a product area end-to-end by identifying opportunities, framing problems, and shipping high-quality experiences. Collaborate with product managers and engineers to drive product strategy and raise the design craft standard across the team.
UX Designer
🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico
Scopely 🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico
Lead UX design efforts from concept to implementation for player-facing experiences while collaborating with cross-functional teams. Develop wireframes, mockups, and prototypes to translate complex use cases into intuitive, scalable mobile game solutions.
Staff Product Designer, Auth0
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Okta 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead the design of systems for securing AI agents and identity primitives within the Emerging Products team. Responsibilities include prototyping at volume using AI tools and refining components directly within the React and Next.js codebase.
Lead Product Designer (Commerce)
🇺🇸 United States of America
Highlevel 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead the design strategy and execution for specific product pillars, translating business goals and customer needs into polished product experiences. Partner with product and engineering leaders to shape vision and mentor other designers to raise the overall bar for craft and quality.
Integrated Design Manager
🇺🇸 United States of America
Aligned Data Centers 🇺🇸 United States of America
The Integrated Design Manager leads daily design management activities, ensuring alignment with project objectives for scope, schedule, cost, and quality. They act as the primary integrator for architectural and specialty systems while managing third-party design teams and stakeholder review cycles.
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.