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Senior UX Designer, Alexa Enterprise and Emerging Design
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design process for complex Alexa Enterprise features, blending visual and voice interfaces to create intuitive B2B2C experiences. Collaborate with engineers, product owners, and stakeholders to develop concepts, maintain Figma libraries, and validate designs through user research.
Web Designer and SharePoint Administrator (Senior)
🇺🇸 Haymarket, Prince William County, VA 20168, United States of America
Qbe Llc (federal) 🇺🇸 Haymarket, Prince William County, VA 20168, United States of America
Lead the architecture, design, and administration of Microsoft SharePoint environments to support organizational collaboration and automated business processes. Ensure security compliance with DoD policies while providing technical oversight and training for the SharePoint program support team.
Senior Product Designer, CoreUX - Weights & Biases
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Weights & Biases 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design of CoreUX, focusing on cross-platform experiences, onboarding, and foundational in-product patterns. Shape and maintain the Weights & Biases design system while collaborating with Product and Engineering teams to solve complex MLOps workflows.
Principal Product Designer, Ecosystems
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Life360 Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Lead end-to-end product design for the Ecosystems team, focusing on integrating external partner data and experiences into the Life360 app. This includes rapid prototyping of AI-native concepts and developing scalable design frameworks to unify standards across platforms.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Aptitude Software 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Take end-to-end ownership of a product vertical to transform complex accounting logic into intuitive digital tools. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to lead product strategy, discovery, and the execution of polished user interfaces.
Senior Architect, Data Centre Design Engineering
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Amazon 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Lead the architectural design of prototypical data center facilities across the EMEA region. Manage external consultants and collaborate with internal engineering teams to ensure cost-effective and reliable implementation.
Lead Product Designer (Contract to Hire)
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Lob Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The Lead Product Designer will scale the product by designing systems and UX philosophies for the AI era. Responsibilities include driving roadmap prioritization, refining design processes with AI, and mentoring junior and mid-level designers.
Principal Product Designer, Real Estate
Remote (🇳🇱 Netherlands)
Olx Remote (🇳🇱 Netherlands)
Lead the craft and quality of the Real Estate vertical by defining interaction patterns and scalable design systems. Drive the evolution of AI-ready design foundations to enable machine-readable patterns and AI-assisted creation.
Principal Product Designer, Real Estate
Remote (🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
Olx Remote (🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
Lead the craft and quality of the Real Estate vertical by defining interaction patterns and maintaining a high bar for UX and visual design. Drive the evolution of design systems into AI-ready, machine-readable foundations to enable scalable and consistent customer experiences.
Principal Product Designer, Real Estate
Remote (🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands)
Olx Remote (🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands)
Lead the craft and quality of the Real Estate vertical by defining interaction patterns and scalable design systems. Drive the evolution of AI-ready design foundations to enable machine-readable patterns and automated workflows.
Principal Product Designer, Real Estate
Remote (🇵🇹 Portugal)
Olx Remote (🇵🇹 Portugal)
Lead the craft and quality of the Real Estate vertical by defining interaction patterns and scalable design systems. Drive the evolution of AI-ready design foundations to enable machine-readable patterns and AI-assisted creation.
Principal Product Designer, Real Estate
Remote (🇪🇸 Spain)
Olx Remote (🇪🇸 Spain)
Lead the craft and quality of the Real Estate vertical by defining interaction patterns and scalable design systems. Drive the integration of AI-ready design foundations to create intelligent, machine-readable customer experiences.
Principal Product Designer, Real Estate
Remote (🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal)
Olx Remote (🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal)
Lead the craft and quality of the Real Estate vertical by defining interaction patterns and scalable design systems. Drive the evolution of AI-ready design foundations to create intelligent, consistent, and machine-readable customer experiences.
Director, Design Engineering - DC Development (m/f/d)
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Digital Realty 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the technical delivery and design governance of complex, high-performance data center projects from inception through handover. Coordinate multi-disciplinary consultant teams and act as the primary technical authority for internal stakeholders and customers.
Senior Technologist, Mask Design Engineering ((Extensive IC Layout Design-22 years of expertise in custom/AMS across analog, digital, and mixed-signal domain)
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Sandisk 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Lead the development and optimization of advanced mask layouts for next-generation memory technologies across analog, digital, and mixed-signal domains. Perform design verification, including DRC and LVS, and implement full-chip power distribution and floorplanning strategies.
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.