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Senior Packaging Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Pocono Township, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Sanofi 🇺🇸 Pocono Township, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Lead packaging artwork development from approved design concepts through production release, ensuring brand consistency, regulatory compliance, technical accuracy, and supply continuity. Coordinate cross-functional teams and external partners, manage post-launch artwork changes and resources, and improve artwork workflows, governance, and operational efficiency.
Senior Packaging Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Morristown, New Jersey, United States of America
Sanofi 🇺🇸 Morristown, New Jersey, United States of America
Lead packaging artwork development from approved design concepts through production release, ensuring brand consistency, regulatory compliance, technical accuracy, and supply continuity. Coordinate cross-functional teams and vendors, manage post-launch artwork changes and resources, and improve artwork workflows and operational efficiency.
Founding Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Govwell 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
You will define the design vision and build the design function from the ground up, establishing principles and systems for the core platform. You will also lead the redesign of product experiences and integrate AI-native features while partnering closely with engineering and product leadership.
Founding Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Clera 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
You will own the end-to-end design of an agentic integration platform and implement the production frontend using React and TypeScript. You will establish the design language, component systems, and UX patterns while collaborating directly with product leadership.
Staff Product Designer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Mindlance 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead complex digital product design initiatives across teams, creating high-fidelity prototypes, user flows, and accessible web and mobile experiences. Set design direction, collaborate with senior stakeholders and cross-functional partners, and connect design decisions to business objectives and measurable outcomes.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Aylin White 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead design development for new data centre buildings and major infrastructure upgrades, managing and challenging multidisciplinary teams across MEP, civil, structural, architectural, controls, and specialist disciplines. Coordinate with delivery and operations teams through design, construction, commissioning, and handover, while providing technical leadership and supporting junior Design Managers.
Design Manager - Luxury Fashion Brand
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Mode Search Ltd. 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the design function and take creative ownership of the main line collections across ready-to-wear, tailoring, knitwear, and additional product categories. Set a cohesive seasonal vision, guide and mentor designers, and collaborate with the Creative Director and product and production teams to deliver commercially relevant collections that support the brand’s evolution and international growth.
UX Designer
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Sensis 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Lead UX design work across new and existing projects, including ideation, user research, stakeholder interviews, usability testing, and the creation of user journeys, personas, sitemaps, wireframes, and prototypes. Explain and defend design decisions, provide and receive feedback, recommend improvements, and collaborate with agency teams and clients.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Trimble Inc. 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Lead product design from concept through launch across the AI-powered platform, creating intuitive experiences for complex construction workflows. Collaborate with product, engineering, and stakeholders on discovery and validation, and improve the design system and practices.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Trimble Inc. 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Lead product design from concept through launch across the AI-powered platform, creating intuitive experiences for complex construction workflows. Partner with product, engineering, and stakeholders to conduct discovery and validation, improve the design system, and apply emerging AI interaction patterns to real-world industry problems.
Lead UX Designer
🇺🇸 Baltimore, Windsor County, Vermont, United States of America
Dmi 🇺🇸 Baltimore, Windsor County, Vermont, United States of America
The Lead UX Designer will define UX strategy and design activities for the eMMA modernization project while ensuring solutions meet user needs and accessibility standards. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to create wireframes, prototypes, and design systems while maintaining documentation and usability standards.
Design Manager - Illinois Tollway
🇺🇸 Lisle, IL 60532, United States of America
Wsp 🇺🇸 Lisle, IL 60532, United States of America
The Design Manager will lead design excellence for the Illinois Tollway, overseeing multidisciplinary teams and ensuring technical standards are met across complex transportation projects. They will act as a trusted technical advisor, managing design quality, innovation, and stakeholder consensus to support the program's strategic objectives.
Head of Design Management
🇬🇧 Warrington, England, United Kingdom
United Infrastructure Ltd 🇬🇧 Warrington, England, United Kingdom
Lead and develop the UK Design Management team, overseeing resourcing, performance, and delivery of complex power transmission and distribution design projects. Ensure strong technical governance, safety, sustainability, commercial and risk management, while building client relationships and supporting business development.
Head of Design Management
🇬🇧 Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom
United Infrastructure Ltd 🇬🇧 Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom
Lead and develop the UK Design Management team, overseeing resourcing, performance, and delivery of complex power transmission and distribution projects. Provide design governance and senior escalation, while managing safety, sustainability, risk, commercial matters, client relationships, and business development.
Head of Design
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Hobbs London 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the seasonal creative direction and design of Hobbs collections, including colour palettes, prints, key shapes, fabrics, and product opportunities, balancing creativity with commercial needs. Partner with buying, merchandising, and product leadership on collection reviews and sign-off, while managing and developing a high-performing design team.
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.