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Design Manager (Substation Engineering)
🇺🇸 Sacramento, California, United States of America
Hdr 🇺🇸 Sacramento, California, United States of America
The Design Manager is responsible for the technical execution of substation projects, leading technical teams, and ensuring project deliverables meet quality standards. They will partner with Project Managers to manage scope, schedule, and budget while providing technical guidance and mentorship to team members.
Infrastructure Design Manager
🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Parsons Corporation 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Lead the infrastructure design team from concept to tender stage, ensuring high-quality outputs for roads and utilities. Provide technical oversight, manage design delivery strategies, and coordinate between disciplines to meet project objectives.
Infrastructure Design Manager
🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Parsons Corporation 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Lead the infrastructure design team from concept to tender stage, ensuring high-quality delivery of roads and utilities projects. Provide technical oversight, manage design briefs, and coordinate across disciplines to align with project objectives and standards.
Infrastructure Design Manager
🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Parsons Corporation 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Lead the infrastructure design team from concept to tender stage, ensuring high-quality delivery of roads and utilities projects. Provide technical oversight, manage design briefs, and coordinate across disciplines to align with project objectives and standards.
Head of Design – Japan Data Center Development & Delivery
🇯🇵 Japan
S-ai 🇯🇵 Japan
Lead the technical direction and engineering lifecycle for high-density AI data centers in Japan, establishing the Basis of Design for hyperscale clusters. Manage local A&E partners, ensure regulatory compliance, and build a multidisciplinary engineering team in Tokyo.
Product Designer
🇨🇱 188 0000 Monte Patria, Chile
Banco Bci 🇨🇱 188 0000 Monte Patria, Chile
Design and improve digital banking products by balancing user experience with business objectives across multiple channels. Lead user research, create high-fidelity prototypes, and use data analysis to optimize conversion and customer satisfaction.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Divisions Maintenance Group 🇺🇸 Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
You will own the product design lifecycle from brainstorming to launch while representing end-users in a leadership capacity. Additionally, you will collaborate with developers and product managers to create interactive prototypes and identify critical success metrics.
4 Senior Product Designer
🇨🇴 Medellín, Valle de Aburrá, Colombia
Katapult Labs 🇨🇴 Medellín, Valle de Aburrá, Colombia
Design the core visual identity and user experience for an early-stage consumer product. Partner with the product lead to translate strategic decisions into polished, culturally relevant designs.
RQ11362 - UX Designer - Senior
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Maarut 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The UX Designer will lead user experience design activities across four delivery phases including discovery, alpha, beta, and live. They are responsible for facilitating user research, creating prototypes, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver user-centered solutions.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Abby Care 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Lead end-to-end product design initiatives from discovery to delivery while shaping product strategy and design architecture. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build scalable design systems and deliver intuitive, AI-assisted solutions for family caregivers.
SR UX DESIGNER
🇺🇸 Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America
Autozone 🇺🇸 Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America
The Sr. UX Designer will lead visual design for digital marketing while grounding decisions in user experience foundations. They will create high-impact digital campaigns and promotional assets from initial concept through to high-fidelity execution.
Security Design Manager
🇸🇦 Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia
Critical Project Resourcing Ltd 🇸🇦 Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia
Lead the security interface between the client and supply chain to produce and assure security design deliverables. Provide specialist advice and Line of Defence assurance throughout the design and delivery lifecycle of a major rail project.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Glenview, Illinois, United States
Wespath 🇺🇸 Glenview, Illinois, United States
The Senior Graphic Designer creates visually impactful graphics, presentations, and data-driven content to communicate Wespath's value proposition and strengthen brand identity. They manage projects from concept to delivery, providing creative leadership for digital initiatives and collaborating with internal clients.
Founding Product Designer
🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Gumloop 🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
The Founding Product Designer will lead design efforts across the entire product, owning the process from initial concept to final delivery. They will collaborate closely with engineering and brand teams to evolve the design system and product vision.
Expert User Interface/User Experience (UI/UX) Designer
🇺🇸 Loudoun County, Virginia, United States
Triaem, Llc 🇺🇸 Loudoun County, Virginia, United States
The UI/UX Designer will lead the end-to-end design process, from conducting user research and creating wireframes to developing high-fidelity prototypes. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including engineers and stakeholders, to ensure design feasibility and maintain consistent design systems across digital products.
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.