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Senior Innovation Engineer, WW AMZL Innovation and Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
Lead end-to-end development and deployment of mechatronic technologies for Amazon delivery stations, including requirements, design, testing, validation, and field implementation. Coordinate with engineering, robotics, operations, vendors, and other teams to assess customer needs, manage project plans and budgets, and develop scalable automation solutions.
Design Manager
🇨🇦 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Recruitment Partners Inc. 🇨🇦 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Lead and support design coordinators, coordinate schedules and priorities across internal and third-party design teams, and review external design work as needed. Support tender planning and resource allocation, improve processes, communicate with clients, and monitor progress to ensure timely delivery of design packages.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Torrance, California, United States of America
24 Seven Talent 🇺🇸 Torrance, California, United States of America
Lead design projects from concept through production across digital and print, creating integrated campaigns, brand assets, design systems, templates, and guidelines. Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders, present creative concepts, mentor junior designers, and contribute to a collaborative creative culture.
Graphic Designer - Young Adults
🇺🇸 Middletown, Kentucky, United States of America
Southeast Christian Church 🇺🇸 Middletown, Kentucky, United States of America
Create social-first visual content for Southeast Young Adults across Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, and other platforms, while supporting ministry events, campaigns, services, and in-room experiences. Collaborate with the social media coordinator, MarCom team, and ministry leaders to develop concepts, adapt designs to platform needs, manage projects, and use performance insights to improve creative work.
UX Researcher
🇵🇱 Wrocław, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Renesas Electronics 🇵🇱 Wrocław, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Lead end-to-end UX research for Altium 365, including participant recruitment, interviews, contextual inquiries, diary studies, surveys, and testing concepts, prototypes, and live features. Build and maintain a searchable insights repository, communicate actionable findings, and strengthen research practices across design and product teams.
UX Researcher
🇵🇱 Katowice, Metropolis GZM, Poland
Renesas Electronics 🇵🇱 Katowice, Metropolis GZM, Poland
Lead end-to-end UX research for Altium 365, including participant recruitment, interviews, contextual inquiries, diary studies, surveys, and testing concepts, prototypes, and live features. Build and maintain a searchable insights repository, communicate actionable findings, and help designers and product managers use research effectively in product decisions.
UX Researcher
🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal
Renesas Electronics 🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal
Lead end-to-end UX research for Altium 365, including participant recruitment, interviews, contextual inquiries, diary studies, surveys, and testing concepts, prototypes, and live features. Build and maintain a searchable insights repository, communicate actionable findings, and help designers and product managers apply research evidence in product decisions.
Senior Product Designer, Colombia
🇨🇴 Colombia
Ci&t 🇨🇴 Colombia
Design and deliver user experiences that simplify loan applications, mortgage processes, and home transactions, from discovery and interaction design through visual execution. Lead design strategy and cross-functional alignment, build scalable design foundations, and help elevate the design team's craft.
Senior UX Designer, Health Ecosystem
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Google 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead end-to-end UX design for Google Health’s third-party integration ecosystem, including consumer connection flows, privacy and data controls, and standardized data presentation. Define developer-facing experiences and partner with Product Management, Engineering, and UX Research to turn complex technical systems into clear, user-focused solutions.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Disturbia 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
The Design Manager will lead, support, and develop a team of ten designers while overseeing operational performance and workflow. They are responsible for translating creative vision into actionable priorities and ensuring design output aligns with commercial goals and critical-path deadlines.
Senior Product Designer - Híbrida no Itaim Bibi, SP
🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brazil
Fcamara 🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brazil
Develop high-quality product and user experience designs for the group’s public-facing digital properties, ensuring consistency, scalability, and alignment with business strategy, technical constraints, and the design system. Lead complex cross-functional projects, mentor less experienced designers, use prototypes and data to improve user experiences, and communicate design decisions to stakeholders.
Design Engineering Team Leader (m/f/d)
🇩🇪 Bavaria, Germany
W. L. Gore & Associates 🇩🇪 Bavaria, Germany
Lead and develop the equipment Design Engineering team, prioritizing its project and operational portfolio while supporting manufacturing and R&D equipment needs. Set and execute the local equipment strategy and CapEx plan, drive project delivery and continuous improvement, and foster team performance, communication, and alignment with business and functional leaders.
Product Designer Pleno
🇧🇷 Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
Ademicon 🇧🇷 Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
Conduct user research, analyze product and business data, and contribute to product roadmaps in collaboration with product managers and technical leads. Design and validate web and mobile experiences, apply and improve the design system, and maintain usability and quality while accounting for technical and business requirements.
Senior Product Designer, Brazil
🇧🇷 Brazil
Ci&t 🇧🇷 Brazil
Design end-to-end experiences that simplify loan applications, mortgage processes, and home transactions, from discovery and interaction design through visual execution. Lead design strategy and cross-functional alignment, create scalable design foundations, and help elevate the design team's craft.
Senior UX Designer, Health Ecosystem
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Google 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the end-to-end UX design for Google Health's integration ecosystems, focusing on consumer flows and third-party app connections. Partner with cross-functional teams to translate complex back-end architectures into intuitive, benefit-forward customer solutions.
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.