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Graphic Designer
🇦🇺 Newcastle NSW 2300, Australia
Henderson Advocacy 🇦🇺 Newcastle NSW 2300, Australia
Create high-converting digital assets, social media content, and marketing collateral to support brand growth and lead generation. Maintain brand consistency across all touchpoints and evolve the company's visual identity.
Sr Visual / UI Designer (All Genders)
🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain
Zooplus Se 🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain
Lead the development of scalable UI and design systems to enhance the branded customer experience across web and app platforms. Collaborate with stakeholders and data teams to translate research into high-fidelity prototypes and inclusive digital experiences.
Lead UX Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Payu Payments 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Lead the design team in creating fintech experiences for banks and issuers across various Wibmo products. Define design best practices and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to drive product discovery and outcome ownership.
Graphic Designer Lead
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Gathern 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Lead the creative design execution to ensure high-quality, brand-aligned visual outputs across all marketing and product touchpoints. Oversee multi-channel adaptation and mentor designers while collaborating with Brand, Growth, and CX teams.
UX Designer
🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Fortive 🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
The UX Designer will lead the end-to-end design process, from conducting user research and discovery to creating high-fidelity prototypes. They will collaborate with product, engineering, and QA teams to deliver intuitive, accessible designs that meet business objectives.
System Design Engineering Integrated Project Team (IPT) Lead
🇺🇸 Lynchburg, Virginia, United States of America
Bwxt 🇺🇸 Lynchburg, Virginia, United States of America
Lead a cross-functional system design team for project PELE, managing schedules, budgets, and technical challenges. Coordinate with procurement, quality, and suppliers to ensure components meet technical and delivery requirements.
Senior UX designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Dover Corporation 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Dover is a diversified global manufacturer seeking a Senior UX Designer to drive the UX strategy for digital products, ensuring solutions are usable, intuitive, consistent, and delightful. The ideal candidate should have a strong portfolio and experience in leading the design, architecture, and optimization of websites and/or applications.
Product Design Engineering Supervisor
🇺🇸 Oxnard, California, United States of America
Dover Corporation 🇺🇸 Oxnard, California, United States of America
OPW is seeking a Design Engineering Team Lead to lead the Cryogenic Experts design and drafting team, responsible for managing resources and priorities, and liaising between engineering, sales, quality, and production teams. The role involves reinforcing corporate commitment to safety and environmental awareness, and being a technical expert and point of contact for shop floor leads.
Founding Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Listen Labs 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead end-to-end design for all customer-facing experiences and evolve the company's design system and visual language. Collaborate with product and engineering teams to translate complex research workflows into intuitive AI-powered user experiences.
Senior Product Designer, School Organization Dashboard
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Clever 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead the design and information architecture for the School Organization Dashboard, ensuring a cohesive user experience across the platform. Manage the evolution of the Dewey design system and implement AI-driven troubleshooting workflows for administrators.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇦🇷 Argentina
Brainlabs 🇦🇷 Argentina
Lead the design team in producing a high volume of digital and print assets while ensuring strict adherence to brand guidelines. Act as the primary creative voice in client meetings, presenting design strategies and mentoring junior designers.
Senior Product Designer, Consumer Product
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Hinge Health 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design process for consumer product areas, bridging business goals with user needs to create intuitive experiences. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable components and optimize product strategies using data-driven insights.
Privacy by Design Engineering Manager
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
General Motors 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Lead a privacy engineering function to embed data protection and regulatory compliance into enterprise data, AI platforms, and vehicle systems. Partner with legal and engineering teams to translate policy requirements into scalable technical controls and reusable privacy services.
Consumer Experience Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Morristown, New Jersey, United States of America
Sanofi 🇺🇸 Morristown, New Jersey, United States of America
Lead the creation of world-class consumer user experiences for Sanofi products by collaborating with product and engineering teams. Drive the unified user experience through design thinking, prototyping, and the implementation of product design standards.
AI-Forward UX Designer
Remote (🇵🇰 Pakistan)
The Plum Tree Group Remote (🇵🇰 Pakistan)
Lead end-to-end UX design for client applications by integrating generative AI tools to accelerate prototyping and research. Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business requirements into intuitive, AI-forward digital experiences.
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.