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Lead UX Designer
🇺🇸 Needham, Massachusetts, United States of America
Sharkninja 🇺🇸 Needham, Massachusetts, United States of America
Lead end-to-end UX design for connected mobile app experiences while setting design direction and quality standards. Mentor junior designers and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure intuitive and integrated product experiences.
Lead Design Engineering
🇷🇴 Codlea, Brașov, Romania
D-career 🇷🇴 Codlea, Brașov, Romania
The Lead Design Engineer manages and coordinates sub-projects, ensuring product development from concept to series production. They act as the key technical contact for clients, organizing design reviews and ensuring project objectives, deadlines, and costs are met.
Khyaal- Graphic Designer
🇮🇳 Mumbai City District, India
Nexthire 🇮🇳 Mumbai City District, India
The Senior Graphic Designer will own and execute end-to-end design for marketing campaigns, social media, and digital products. They will also collaborate with cross-functional teams to maintain brand consistency and lead visual direction for creative projects.
Sr. SW UX Designer
🇨🇳 Suzhou, Anhui, China
Logitech 🇨🇳 Suzhou, Anhui, China
Lead design initiatives for software experiences with hardware connections while coordinating with multidisciplinary teams. Communicate design thinking to senior leadership and engineering partners through wireframes, prototypes, and specifications.
Mechanical Product Designer (Wireless Outdoor)
🇹🇼 Taipei, Taiwan
Ubiquiti 🇹🇼 Taipei, Taiwan
Lead the mechanical architecture and enclosure development for outdoor, IP-rated devices while ensuring reliability under extreme environmental conditions. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize thermal paths, antenna placement, and manufacturing readiness for high-volume production.
Mechanical Product Designer (Automotive/Fleet)
🇹🇼 Taipei, Taiwan
Ubiquiti 🇹🇼 Taipei, Taiwan
Drive the creation and evaluation of new product concepts while leading the selection of materials and manufacturing processes. Develop precise 3D models and engineering drawings while resolving production issues to ensure product integrity.
UX Designer
🇬🇧 Basingstoke, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
Unum 🇬🇧 Basingstoke, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
Lead the end-to-end UX design process by collaborating with cross-functional teams to define user needs and create actionable design solutions. Conduct user research, develop personas, and design high-fidelity wireframes and prototypes while ensuring accessibility compliance.
Design Engineering Manager
🇺🇸 Garland, Texas, United States of America
Teledyne Technologies Incorporated 🇺🇸 Garland, Texas, United States of America
The Design Engineering Manager leads a multidisciplinary team in the development of electronic products for aerospace and defense applications. This role oversees technical execution, ensures design quality standards, and collaborates with cross-functional teams to meet performance and reliability objectives.
787 Systems Design Engineering Senior Manager
🇺🇸 North Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America
Boeing 🇺🇸 North Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America
The Senior Manager will lead engineering teams in the development, support, and optimization of complex mechanical, electrical, and electronic systems for the 787 aircraft. Responsibilities include managing project plans, overseeing technical approaches, and maintaining relationships with global partners and suppliers.
787 Systems Design Engineering Senior Manager
🇺🇸 North Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America
Boeing 🇺🇸 North Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America
The Senior Manager will lead engineering teams in the development and support of complex mechanical, electrical, and hydraulic systems for the 787 program. Responsibilities include managing project plans, optimizing designs for production and reliability, and overseeing relationships with global partners and suppliers.
Staff Product Designer - Consumer
Remote (🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom)
Kraken Remote (🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom)
You will lead the design direction for complex, high-priority areas within the flagship Kraken app to shape the future of the platform. This involves partnering with product and engineering teams to define strategy, mentor designers, and ensure design excellence across the product ecosystem.
Staff Product Designer - Consumer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Kraken Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
You will lead the design direction for complex, high-priority areas within the flagship Kraken app to shape the future of the product. This role involves partnering with product, engineering, and leadership to influence strategy while mentoring other designers to ensure design excellence.
Lead Product Designer - AirHelp Mobile App
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Airhelp 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
You will own the end-to-end product design for the AirHelp mobile app, defining its evolution and delivering value to millions of travelers. You will lead the design process by collaborating with product and engineering teams to test hypotheses, validate solutions, and improve the product based on user behavior.
Lead Product Designer - AirHelp Mobile App
🇵🇱 Gdańsk, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
Airhelp 🇵🇱 Gdańsk, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
You will own the end-to-end product design for the AirHelp mobile app, defining its evolution and delivering value to millions of travelers. You will collaborate with product and engineering teams to define problems, test hypotheses, and translate validated ideas into production-ready designs.
Lead Product Designer - AirHelp Mobile App
🇵🇱 Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
Airhelp 🇵🇱 Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
You will own the end-to-end product design for the AirHelp mobile app, defining its evolution and delivering value to millions of travelers. You will collaborate with product and engineering teams to define problems, test hypotheses, and ship high-quality, scalable design 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.