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Product Design Manager
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Capital One 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead design projects by combining craft expertise and leadership to co-create innovative solutions for complex banking problems. Mentor junior designers and collaborate with cross-functional partners to influence product strategy and drive business advantage.
Head of Design
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Aspora 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Lead and scale all three design functions: product design, brand design, and marketing design. Establish design quality standards and ensure visual and tonal consistency across all markets and channels.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Jamestown, North Dakota, United States of America
Agri-cover, Inc. 🇺🇸 Jamestown, North Dakota, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer is responsible for executing marketing strategies and designing promotional materials. This includes providing leadership to junior designers, collaborating on projects, and overseeing the quality of final outputs.
Lead Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Findigs 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design of product features from discovery and research to shipping for renters and property managers. Co-own the Figma design system and integrate AI-assisted tools into the standard design workflow.
Design Technologist / BIM Lead - Product Platform
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
The American Housing Corporation 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
The role involves owning the digital production flow and design automation for a prefabricated residential product platform. Key duties include maintaining BIM libraries, automating BOM generation, and coordinating between architecture, engineering, and manufacturing teams.
Lead UX Designer
🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Athenahealth 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Lead UX efforts for athenaOne by designing and testing scalable web-based workflows for complex healthcare claim tasks. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to synthesize research and drive alignment through design narratives and prototypes.
Lead UI/UX Designer
🇷🇺 Uk, Уковское городское поселение, Nizhneudinsky Rayon, Russia
Solifi 🇷🇺 Uk, Уковское городское поселение, Nizhneudinsky Rayon, Russia
The Lead UI/UX Designer will define and champion the overall design vision and transform product requirements into engaging, user-friendly designs. They will also establish design best practices and ensure consistency across Solifi’s product portfolio.
Senior Product Design Manager, Payroll
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Gusto 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead end-to-end design for Payroll, shaping experiences that help small businesses pay their teams correctly and on time. Define and communicate the long-term UX vision for Payroll while collaborating with various teams to set strategy and roadmaps.
Senior UX Designer (BE)
🇧🇪 Belgium
Cluepoints 🇧🇪 Belgium
Lead UX discovery and definition activities, translating research insights into user journeys and actionable design hypotheses. Design scalable, data-rich interfaces that enhance decision-making and partner with teams to ensure clarity and trust in AI behavior.
Design Manager - Track
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Egis 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead and deliver major, complex railway infrastructure projects from inception to completion. Manage the engineering/design process, ensuring effective coordination among multidisciplinary teams.
Senior Web Designer
🇲🇹 Malta
Growth Leads 🇲🇹 Malta
The Senior Web Designer will lead the web design process from concept to final delivery, collaborating with stakeholders to enhance user experiences and support business goals. They will also establish modern design standards and best practices across projects.
Head of Design
🇮🇳 India
Aspora 🇮🇳 India
Lead and unify the product, brand, and marketing design functions under a single global vision. Establish design quality standards and drive the evolution of the design system across all customer-facing surfaces.
UI/UX Designer
🇵🇭 Manila, Capital District, Philippines
Leapfroggr 🇵🇭 Manila, Capital District, Philippines
Design UI/UX for web, iOS, and Android platforms. Collaborate closely with the Design Lead and engineers to ship designs and participate in user research.
Senior Product Designer, Advisor Experience, Wealth Planning - Private Bank Digital, Vice President
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Jpmorganchase 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will execute UX/UI design for advisor-facing investment experiences and lead design for critical investment journeys in wealth planning. They will collaborate with product managers and cross-functional teams to implement design solutions that align with business goals.
Principal Product Designer, Business Intelligence for QuickBooks and Mid-Market
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Intuit 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Define and drive the design vision for Business Intelligence initiatives while guiding strategic direction across partner teams. Lead design for complex efforts from concept to launch, utilizing AI tools and innovative solutions.
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.