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Senior Product Designer- Haircare
🇨🇳 Jinjiang City, Fujian, China
飞利浦 🇨🇳 Jinjiang City, Fujian, China
Lead the front-end innovation and industrial design for handheld consumer electronics, focusing on user-centered design and ergonomics. Drive projects from conceptual ideation through to mass production while ensuring brand consistency and hardware-software integration.
Security Design Manager
🇦🇺 New South Wales, Australia
Securitas Australia 🇦🇺 New South Wales, Australia
Lead the design and implementation of physical security systems across the APAC region for global infrastructure portfolios. Provide technical oversight and partner with stakeholders to ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget.
Senior Design Manager
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Parsons Corporation 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
The Senior Design Manager will lead and manage complex, multidisciplinary design programs, ensuring delivery within scope, schedule, and budget. They are responsible for establishing design vision, coordinating technical interfaces, and managing stakeholder relationships throughout the project lifecycle.
Lead PMC Design Manager | Relocation to Armenia
🇷🇺 Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Cpj Limited 🇷🇺 Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Lead and oversee all design-related activities for a major mixed-use development project in Armenia. Coordinate architects, engineers, and consultants to ensure technical delivery and compliance with regulatory requirements.
Hotel Development/ Design Manager
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Urban Property Group 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Lead the end-to-end design and development delivery of hotel projects from concept to handover. This includes managing HMA requirements, brand standards, FF&E procurement, and coordinating multi-disciplinary consultant teams.
Product Designer Senior IA-first
🇫🇷 Fresnes, Ile-de-France, France
La Grande Ourse - Agence Ux/ui 🇫🇷 Fresnes, Ile-de-France, France
Lead the end-to-end product cycle by integrating AI functionalities into digital interfaces while managing UX/UI design and design systems. Facilitate product strategy workshops and mentor junior designers to align business, tech, and user needs.
Product Designer - Letaido
🇺🇸 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Ahrefs 🇺🇸 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Own the end-to-end design of the Letaido AI agent experience and workspace, including shaping the product roadmap. Establish new design patterns for agentic work and lead projects with engineers and data scientists from sketch to release.
Product Designer
🇰🇷 Seoul, South Korea
Mirae Asset Securities 🇰🇷 Seoul, South Korea
Establish customer-centric product strategies and UX directions based on user research and data analysis. Lead the end-to-end product design process from problem definition to execution, including the management of design systems.
Design Engineering Architect — Memory Modeling Portfolio
🇰🇷 Seongnam-si, South Korea
Cadence 🇰🇷 Seongnam-si, South Korea
Serve as the primary Korea-based expert for UFS/Unipro/MPHY/RMMI protocol stacks, providing technical leadership and debugging support for customers. Collaborate with the global R&D team to translate customer needs into product features and mentor junior design engineers.
【LINEヤフーグループ】Product Designer｜国内最大級デジタルサービス
🇯🇵 Chuo, Japan
Gaidoor株式会社 🇯🇵 Chuo, Japan
Lead the user experience design and product growth for large-scale digital services within the LINE Yahoo group. Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and business teams to manage the entire product development lifecycle from research to release.
Senior Engineer, Systems Design – Systems Integration & Test, Flow Cytometry
🇸🇬 Singapore, Singapore
Thermo Fisher Scientific 🇸🇬 Singapore, Singapore
The Senior Engineer will lead systems integration activities for the Flow Cytometry platform, coordinating interfaces across various subsystems including microfluidics, optics, and electronics. They are responsible for planning and executing engineering tests, troubleshooting cross-functional issues, and assessing technical risks to ensure product performance.
Senior Engineer, Systems Design – Systems Integration & Test
🇸🇬 Singapore, Singapore
Thermo Fisher Scientific 🇸🇬 Singapore, Singapore
Lead and execute system integration activities by bringing together multidisciplinary subsystems into controlled configurations. Perform hands-on engineering testing, troubleshooting, and root-cause investigations to ensure system stability and performance.
Technical Design Manager (Grid)
🇺🇸 United States
Contemporary Amperex Technology Usa Inc 🇺🇸 United States
Lead the design, engineering, and commissioning of HV and MV substations and cable connections for large-scale energy storage and renewable plants. Manage relationships with consultants and contractors while performing techno-economic analyses and power system stability studies.
Senior Product Designer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Loblaw Digital 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Senior Product Designer will partner with Product, Tech, and Research teams to optimize eCommerce web and app journeys for various grocery and beauty banners. Responsibilities include leading problem discovery, creating high-fidelity interfaces, and ensuring accessibility and scalability through design systems.
Principal Product Designer
🇳🇿 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Halter 🇳🇿 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Lead the design vision and strategy for a significant area of the farmer-facing product experience. Own the end-to-end process from discovery and prototyping to final launch in collaboration with Product and Engineering teams.
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.