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Communications Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Allwyn North America 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
The Communications Graphic Designer will lead the visual development of pitch materials, RFPs, and presentation decks while ensuring brand consistency across all channels. They will also design trade show environments and translate complex data into compelling visual graphics.
Senior Design Manager - Public Realm
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Qiddiya | القدية 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Lead the planning, design coordination, and delivery of public realm projects across assigned districts. Manage multidisciplinary consultant teams to ensure designs align with masterplans, citywide standards, and technical requirements.
Senior Design Manager - Public Realm
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Qiddiya | القدية 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Lead the planning, design coordination, and delivery of public realm projects across assigned districts and citywide initiatives. Manage multidisciplinary consultant teams to ensure designs align with masterplans, technical standards, and the Public Realm Design Manual.
RTL Design Manager
🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
Amd 🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
Manage a team focused on the design and implementation of high-performance, low-power SOCs and SOC Chiplets. Lead technical efforts in microarchitecture development, RTL implementation, and IP integration to ensure design quality and synthesis readiness.
Senior Architect / Design Manager
🇦🇪 Sharjah, Sharjah Emirate, United Arab Emirates
One Works S. P. A 🇦🇪 Sharjah, Sharjah Emirate, United Arab Emirates
The Senior Architect will lead the architectural design and delivery of the Sharjah Airport project, managing the design team and coordinating with stakeholders. They are responsible for ensuring compliance with project scope, budget, and quality standards from concept through to construction and handover.
Senior Design Manager - Public Realm
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Qiddiya Investment Company 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
The Senior Design Manager will lead the planning, design coordination, and delivery of public realm projects across assigned districts. They are responsible for managing consultant teams, ensuring compliance with design standards, and integrating public realm requirements with wider infrastructure programs.
Senior Design Manager - Public Realm
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Qiddiya Investment Company 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
The Senior Design Manager will lead the planning, design coordination, and delivery of public realm projects across assigned districts. They are responsible for managing consultant teams, ensuring compliance with design standards, and integrating public realm requirements with wider infrastructure programs.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Alexandria, Virginia, United States of America
Woovl - One-stop Solution 🇺🇸 Alexandria, Virginia, United States of America
Lead the design of innovative digital products by collaborating with product owners and engineers. Conduct user research and create high-fidelity prototypes to ensure designs are intuitive and accessible.
Head of Design
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Dataiku 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead the global design team to shape and evolve the Dataiku brand across all digital, physical, and experiential touchpoints. Partner with marketing and executive leadership to ensure a cohesive visual identity and integrate AI tools into creative workflows.
UI/UX Designer Principal
🇺🇸 Virginia, United States of America
General Dynamics Information Technology 🇺🇸 Virginia, United States of America
The role involves providing subject matter expertise in UX design and Information Architecture to create intuitive, scalable, and user-friendly enterprise applications. You will lead the design of user interfaces, conduct user research, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure consistent navigation and functionality across the product ecosystem.
Design Manager - Edinburgh
🇬🇧 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Graham Group 🇬🇧 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary design teams from tender stage through to project completion for mixed-use residential developments. Manage external consultants, ensure compliance with budgets and quality standards, and optimize buildability and project efficiency.
Head Of Design
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Harmony Fire 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead and establish the design function for the Building Fabric division, overseeing technical quality and compliance for passive fire and building fabric works. Manage a team of designers and surveyors while collaborating with pre-construction and delivery teams to ensure buildable and competitively priced designs.
RTL Design Manager
🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc 🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
The SOC Design Manager will lead a team in the design and implementation of high-performance, low-power SOCs and chiplets. Responsibilities include project planning, team management, cross-functional stakeholder coordination, and improving design methodologies through automation.
Senior UX / Digital Product Designer (Mensch), Schwerpunkt FinTech
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Taikonauten Gmbh 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
You will lead the end-to-end UX and product design process, from initial problem framing and discovery to final delivery and validation. You are responsible for creating high-quality UX concepts, facilitating workshops, and ensuring design decisions are effectively communicated to stakeholders and development teams.
AI Graphic Designer
🇮🇳 Mumbai, Mumbai Suburban District, India
Weekday Ai 🇮🇳 Mumbai, Mumbai Suburban District, India
Lead visual design across brand identities, campaigns, and digital platforms while integrating AI-assisted workflows into the creative process. Collaborate with strategy and copy teams to develop compelling visual systems and mentor junior designers.
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.