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Senior Integrated Design Manager
🇺🇸 Ohio, United States of America
Aligned Data Centers 🇺🇸 Ohio, United States of America
Lead integrated design management across multiple complex projects, ensuring alignment between schedule, cost, and constructability. Provide technical authority and mentorship to junior design managers while coordinating with construction teams to meet business objectives.
Sr. UX Designer, IMDb
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
The Senior UX Designer will own end-to-end design for customer-facing experiences across web and mobile platforms. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate complex requirements into intuitive designs while driving decisions through research and data.
Senior Product Designer, Direct to Consumer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Zynga 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead the design of high-impact mobile commerce experiences, from initial discovery and prototyping to post-launch iteration. Collaborate with product and engineering teams to build scalable design systems and champion UX excellence across the organization.
(Senior) Product Designer (m/f/d)
🇩🇪 Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Dataguard 🇩🇪 Munich, Bavaria, Germany
You will lead the unification of separate security and compliance products into a single, cohesive platform experience while embedding AI into customer workflows. This involves defining information architecture, evolving the design system, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful, business-focused design solutions.
Senior Product Designer, Acquisition & Conversion
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Tin Can 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
You will own the visual design for growth experiences including e-commerce sites, campaign pages, and acquisition programs. You will partner with product and brand teams to turn customer insights and performance data into clear, beautiful, and high-converting design improvements.
Senior Integrated Design Manager
🇺🇸 Ohio, United States of America
Aligned Data Centers 🇺🇸 Ohio, United States of America
The Senior Integrated Design Manager provides technical leadership across multiple projects, integrating schedule, cost, and constructability early in the design process. They are responsible for mentoring staff, maintaining accountability for third-party design teams, and ensuring design decisions align with long-term business objectives.
Sr. UX Designer, People Engagement Experience (PEX)
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
The Senior UX Designer will lead the end-to-end design of employee-facing products and features while driving the long-term design vision for the PEX organization. They will collaborate with cross-functional partners to transform fragmented systems into intuitive, cohesive user journeys.
Senior UX Designer, Design Systems, People Engagement Experience (PEX)
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
The Senior UX Designer will lead the strategy and creation of scalable design system components, patterns, and templates for employee-facing products. They will collaborate closely with engineers and designers to integrate AI-powered tools and ensure a unified, high-quality user experience across platforms.
Senior Product Designer
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Cloudfactory 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
The Senior Product Designer will shape end-to-end user experiences by transforming complex needs into scalable design solutions. They will lead user research, create high-fidelity prototypes, and mentor junior designers while collaborating with Engineering and Product Management.
(Senior) Product Designer (m/f/d)
🇩🇪 München, 04938 München, Germany
Dataguard 🇩🇪 München, 04938 München, Germany
The role focuses on unifying separate security and compliance products into a single platform experience and embedding AI into customer workflows. You will lead the design process from discovery to high-fidelity handoff while evolving the design system.
Intermediate to Senior Civil Design Technologist
🇨🇴 Colombia
Wsp Chile Y Argentina 🇨🇴 Colombia
Responsible for the 3D design and drafting of land development and municipal infrastructure projects for Canadian clients. This includes developing projects from preliminary concepts to final engineering plans and coordinating regulatory approvals and cost estimates.
Senior Visual Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Abelcine 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Senior Visual Designer will define and evolve the visual identity for studio programming by creating scalable design systems and motion graphics. They will collaborate with production teams to translate complex data and strategic information into compelling on-screen visual stories.
Senior Design Manager (Building Services)
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Wsp In The Uk & Ireland 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary Building Services design teams to deliver technically robust and compliant solutions for complex aviation projects. Manage design delivery plans, technical assurance processes, and stakeholder relationships to ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget.
Senior Design Manager (Building Services)
🇬🇧 Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Wsp In The Uk & Ireland 🇬🇧 Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary Building Services design teams to deliver technically robust and compliant solutions for major projects at Heathrow Airport. Manage design delivery plans, technical assurance processes, and stakeholder relationships to ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget.
Senior Design Manager (Building Services)
🇬🇧 Basingstoke, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
Wsp In The Uk & Ireland 🇬🇧 Basingstoke, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
Lead the planning and coordination of multidisciplinary Building Services designs for major projects, primarily at Heathrow Airport. Ensure technical quality, compliance, and efficiency while mentoring senior engineers and managing design delivery plans.
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.