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Tool Install Design Manager, Peoria, AZ - Semiconductor
🇺🇸 Peoria, Arizona, United States of America
World Wide Professional Solutions 🇺🇸 Peoria, Arizona, United States of America
Lead and integrate engineering and design activities for semiconductor tool installation, ensuring alignment between manufacturing equipment and facility utility systems. Coordinate multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders to manage design deliverables, resolve technical conflicts, and support construction through startup.
Graphic Designer - Young Adults
🇺🇸 Middletown, Kentucky, United States of America
Southeast Christian Church 🇺🇸 Middletown, Kentucky, United States of America
Create compelling, social-first visual content for Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok to support the Young Adults ministry. Collaborate with the MarCom team and ministry leadership to translate vision and priorities into cohesive visual storytelling across digital and physical platforms.
UX Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Jd.com 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead end-to-end UX strategy and design for consumer shopping experiences across web and mobile, using discovery, design sprints, mapping, wireframing, and iterative design. Partner with product managers and cross-functional teams to identify customer problems, test hypotheses, deliver solutions, and build alignment through clear storytelling and presentations.
[Job-31843] Senior Product Designer, Brazil
🇧🇷 Brazil
Ci&t 🇧🇷 Brazil
You will lead product design initiatives to transform complex lending workflows into intuitive digital experiences. This involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to define UX strategy and developing scalable design foundations.
[Job-31843] Senior Product Designer, Colombia
🇨🇴 Colombia
Ci&t 🇨🇴 Colombia
You will lead product design initiatives to transform complex lending workflows and loan origination processes. This involves cross-functional collaboration to define UX strategy and creating scalable design foundations for diverse customer needs.
Senior UX Researcher
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett Llp 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Plan and lead qualitative and quantitative user research from recruitment and study design through analysis and reporting, creating artifacts such as personas, journey maps, service blueprints, and user flows. Partner with Practice Solutions Managers and the Data & Analytics team to turn findings into business requirements, improve digital and AI product experiences, maintain a research repository, and support product adoption.
Digital & Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Erie, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Essentra 🇺🇸 Erie, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Lead the concept, design, and production of creative assets for digital platforms and print campaigns, including websites, email, social media, exhibitions, and marketing collateral. Manage creative briefs from concept through production, coordinate translated assets, and collaborate with marketing colleagues to deliver campaigns across locations and platforms.
UX / UI Product Designer (eCommerce)
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
As Beauty Group 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead UI/UX design across websites, landing pages, mobile apps, and other digital experiences, including managing and evolving the website component library. Use customer insights, user behavior, performance data, and testing to improve accessible user journeys, engagement, and conversion while collaborating with internal teams and external partners.
Sr. Product Design Manager
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Nbcuniversal 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead and develop a small team of product designers while remaining hands-on in delivering production-ready discovery and playback experiences across TV, mobile, and web. Set design direction, align stakeholders around research and design decisions, and guide projects from ideation through launch in support of Peacock’s product strategy.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States of America
24 Seven Talent 🇺🇸 Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States of America
Develop and extend brand identities across multiple touchpoints, and create packaging concepts and production-ready artwork. Collaborate with the creative lead and design team, support client projects, and independently manage competing priorities and deadlines.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
Bridgestone Americas 🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
Manage architectural and engineering design, due diligence, construction documentation, permitting, and third-party design reviews for new, remodeled, and expanded retail locations. Lead related projects through construction completion, coordinate internal and external stakeholders, and oversee project schedules, budgets, consultants, and design standards.
Senior Innovation Engineer, WW AMZL Innovation and Design Engineering
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end development of mechatronic products for delivery stations, from ideation and design to on-site implementation. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define requirements, manage project timelines, and optimize workflows through automation and robotics.
Principal Product Designer, Spending
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Chime Financial, Inc 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead design across spending, savings, and investing experiences from early concepts through launch and iteration. Partner with product, engineering, and research teams to deliver intuitive, high-quality mobile experiences.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Kier Group 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary design delivery throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring solutions are safe, compliant, coordinated, buildable, and sustainable. Manage design reviews, assurance, risks, changes, technical queries, stakeholder relationships, and value engineering to meet programme, cost, quality, and handover objectives.
EHV/HV Substation Design Lead (Data Centers), Design Engineering EMEA
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Amazon Web Services (aws) 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Design and manage high- and medium-voltage substation systems and related electrical infrastructure for data centers across multiple regions. Coordinate with utilities, vendors, manufacturers, and project teams, and support projects from site selection through construction documentation, commissioning, and system validation.
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.