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Design Leadership - Future Opportunities
🇨🇦 Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Neo Financial 🇨🇦 Calgary, Alberta, Canada
You will partner with Founders and Product Directors to define the design vision and product strategy. Additionally, you will lead a team of designers, ensuring high-quality design outputs and fostering a culture of excellence.
Design Leadership - Future Opportunities
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Neo Financial 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The role involves strategic leadership in defining and driving the long-term design vision and product strategy, while also leading hands-on design work. Additionally, it includes building and mentoring a team of designers and championing the value of design across the organization.
Design Leadership - Future Opportunities
🇨🇦 Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Neo Financial 🇨🇦 Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Lead the long-term design vision and product strategy while remaining hands-on in creating high-fidelity mockups and prototypes. Build and mentor a team of designers and collaborate with executive leadership to drive design as a strategic business driver.
Project Design Manager
🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Cushman & Wakefield 🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Lead the design and project management process for non-traditional restaurant environments, ensuring brand standards are met across various atypical sites. Act as the primary liaison between architecture, kitchen design, and construction teams to translate operational needs into technical design solutions.
[Produto] Product Designer Pleno
🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brazil
Totvs 🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brazil
The Product Designer will work within the Design & UX Chapter, focusing on the Customer Journey and collaborating with Product Owners and Team Leaders to enhance products and systems. Responsibilities include managing the design process from discovery to delivery, ensuring usability and accessibility, and facilitating collaboration across teams.
Senior UX Researcher
Remote (🇧🇷 Brazil)
Pulse Labs Remote (🇧🇷 Brazil)
Lead and execute research projects ensuring sound research methodology and analysis with little to no oversight. Analyze research study responses and develop key findings and recommendations for customers.
Industrial Design Engineer, Worldwide Engineering & Innovation's (WWEI) Design Engineering team
🇺🇸 Cleburne, Texas, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Cleburne, Texas, United States of America
Lead the design and innovation of next-generation sortation and transportation systems, focusing on material flow and site layout. Collaborate with internal teams and external vendors to deliver cost-effective, high-quality engineering solutions for distribution centers.
Lead Product Designer, Family Experience
🇺🇸 United States of America
A Place For Mom 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead design for Consumer Experience and own end-to-end product design for various consumer workstreams. Partner with multiple teams to define problem framing, success criteria, and design intuitive workflows for families navigating senior care decisions.
Senior UX Researcher
Remote (🇲🇽 Mexico)
Pulse Labs Remote (🇲🇽 Mexico)
Lead and execute research projects while ensuring sound research methodology and analysis. Collaborate with customers to plan and deliver research projects, analyze data, and present findings.
Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Elliptic 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the design process within a cross-functional team to solve complex problems in the crypto industry. Create wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity UI designs while validating solutions through user research and testing.
Design Manager, Interaction Design Lead - LEGO® DESiGN
🇩🇰 7190 Billund, Denmark
The Lego Group 🇩🇰 7190 Billund, Denmark
Lead the design vision and lifecycle for interactive products that blend digital and physical play experiences. Manage project milestones, guide multidisciplinary teams, and advocate for interaction design culture within the organization.
Senior Design Manager
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Chanel 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead all phases of design coordination, construction project management, and procurement for luxury retail and corporate offices in Canada. Manage budgets, coordinate with cross-functional teams, and ensure brand image standards are maintained across all sites.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇲🇽 Mexico)
Fountain Remote (🇲🇽 Mexico)
Lead the design of Fountain’s CRM product from discovery through delivery, focusing on creating user-driven product experiences. Conduct user research to understand user needs and collaborate with product managers and engineers to deliver impactful features.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Teleskope 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead the design process for products, balancing user experience, feasibility, and business needs. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define product direction and ensure high-quality design implementation.
Lead Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Apron 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
The Lead Product Designer will own the design process end-to-end for the core payments product, enhancing user experience and driving innovation. They will also coach other designers and maintain a design system for consistency across the product.
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.