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Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 Bentonville, Arkansas, United States of America
Walmart 🇺🇸 Bentonville, Arkansas, United States of America
You will lead the development of scalable design systems and foundational components to ensure consistency across global product experiences. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to integrate AI-native workflows and drive innovation throughout the product design lifecycle.
Staff Interaction Designer
🇺🇸 Sunnyvale, California, United States of America
Intuitive 🇺🇸 Sunnyvale, California, United States of America
Lead the design of seamless and intuitive interaction models for da Vinci Multiport Systems, unifying physical interactions with digital platforms. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop a cohesive design vision and detailed UI specifications for complex surgical workflows.
Product Designer - UX Strategist (Senior/Lead)
🇯🇵 Japan
Gotymex 🇯🇵 Japan
Lead the design of simple, scalable, and easy-to-navigate features focusing on UX journeys and strategy. Collaborate with a multinational design team to deliver high-quality fintech products from concept to final execution.
Product Designer - UX Strategist (Senior/Lead)
South Korea, Seoul
Gotymex South Korea, Seoul
Lead the design of simple, scalable, and easy-to-navigate features focusing on UX journeys and strategy. Collaborate with a multinational design team to deliver high-quality, data-driven fintech products from concept to final execution.
Staff VLSI Design Engineering
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Sandisk 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Lead the development and execution of comprehensive verification strategies and test plans for complex IP blocks and SoC designs. Drive functional coverage-driven verification closure while mentoring junior engineers and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure design quality.
Staff, VLSI Design Engineering (Verification, NAND, Memory, System Verilog) with 8 to 12 years of experience
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Sandisk 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Lead the development and execution of comprehensive verification strategies for complex IP blocks and SoC designs. Mentor engineering teams while collaborating across disciplines to ensure design quality and silicon success.
[HCM] Product Designer Lead (Focus UX)
🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Geek Up 🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Lead the UX direction for complex product areas, transforming ambiguous problem spaces into structured, buildable solutions. Manage the end-to-end UX workstream, including research, stakeholder alignment, and mentoring other designers to maintain a high quality bar.
Product Designer - UX Strategist (Senior/Lead)
🇭🇰 R.C. Lee Hall, 6A Sassoon Road, Hong Kong
Gotymex 🇭🇰 R.C. Lee Hall, 6A Sassoon Road, Hong Kong
The role focuses on designing simple, scalable features and UX journeys for fintech products. The designer will collaborate with a multinational team to deliver high-quality, data-driven design solutions from concept to final execution.
Lead Design Manager, for COWI in North America
🇨🇦 Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
Cowi 🇨🇦 Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
Oversee and coordinate multidisciplinary design activities for major underground and infrastructure projects, specifically supporting the Fraser River Tunnel Project. Act as the central point of design integration, managing interfaces, risks, and client relations to ensure compliant and safe delivery.
Lead Design Manager, for COWI in North America
🇨🇦 North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Cowi 🇨🇦 North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Oversee and coordinate multidisciplinary design activities for major underground and infrastructure projects, specifically supporting the Fraser River Tunnel Project. Act as the central point of design integration, managing interfaces, risks, and client liaison to ensure compliant and safe delivery.
Senior Engineer, Systems Design – Systems Integration & Test, Flow Cytometry
🇸🇬 Singapore
Thermo Fisher Scientific 🇸🇬 Singapore
Lead system-level integration and hands-on engineering testing for the Flow Cytometry platform to ensure complex subsystems work together effectively. Drive root-cause investigations for integration issues and perform technical risk assessments for sustaining changes.
Senior Engineer, Systems Design – Systems Integration & Test
🇸🇬 Singapore
Thermo Fisher Scientific 🇸🇬 Singapore
Lead and execute system integration activities by bringing together multidisciplinary subsystems into stable, reproducible configurations. Perform hands-on engineering testing and root-cause investigations to identify and resolve interface and performance issues.
Manager, Mechanical Design Engineering 2
🇹🇭 Laem Chabang City Municipality, Si Racha District, Thailand
Celestica International Lp 🇹🇭 Laem Chabang City Municipality, Si Racha District, Thailand
The manager leads the development and maintenance of mechanical systems while managing cross-functional teams and project financials. They are responsible for ensuring robust product development through design reviews, simulation, and support throughout the manufacturing process.
Lead Product Designer
🇮🇳 Film and Television Institute of India, Vishnushastri Chiplunkar Path, Erandwane, Pune - 411004, Maharashtra, India
Sourcingxpress 🇮🇳 Film and Television Institute of India, Vishnushastri Chiplunkar Path, Erandwane, Pune - 411004, Maharashtra, India
Lead a team of designers to own the end-to-end design and testing strategy for digital customer journeys across web and mobile platforms. Partner with product and analytics teams to validate hypotheses through A/B testing and ensure adherence to the organizational design system.
Sr Product Designer- A New Day Sweaters
🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
Target 🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer leads the design and development process for sweaters, ensuring brand cohesion and alignment with merchant strategies. They are responsible for trend forecasting, fabric selection, and collaborating with sourcing and technical teams to execute high-quality product lines.
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.