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Product Designer
🇿🇦 Midrand, 1682, South Africa
Accenture 🇿🇦 Midrand, 1682, South Africa
You will lead multidisciplinary design teams to deliver product strategies that align user needs with business goals. The role involves implementing design operations, AI-enabled workflows, and fostering strong client relationships to drive measurable business outcomes.
Lead UX Designer
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Imc Trading 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
The Lead UX Designer will collaborate with traders and engineers to design high-reliability, information-dense interfaces for a trading platform. They will lead the evolution of shared design systems and advocate for user-centered design throughout the product lifecycle.
Lead UX Designer
🇺🇸 Santa Monica, California, United States of America
Activision Blizzard, Inc. 🇺🇸 Santa Monica, California, United States of America
The Lead UX Designer will define and shape the user experience for Call of Duty: Mobile by generating player insights and collaborating with product and development teams. You will create experience concepts, wireframes, and prototypes while establishing best practices for UX within the product team.
Senior Principal Engineer, Physical Design Engineering
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Analog Devices 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Lead the execution of complex SoC projects from specification to silicon, driving technical strategy and product roadmaps. Coordinate across hardware and software engineering domains to ensure high-quality, first-time-right silicon success.
Turbomachinery Aerodynamic Design Manager
🇺🇸 Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Gardner Cryogenics 🇺🇸 Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Serve as the Aerodynamics Domain Owner providing technical leadership for design strategy, performance prediction, and tool improvements for turbomachinery systems. Lead and mentor a team of four aero engineers while spending 75% of the time on active aerodynamic design for customer projects.
Sr Mgr, Design Engineering (RF/mm-wave)
🇺🇸 Richardson, Texas, United States of America
Qorvo, Inc. 🇺🇸 Richardson, Texas, United States of America
Manage the RF/mm-wave Design team and lead end-to-end new product development projects for MMIC, Multichip Modules, and Discrete components. Collaborate with cross-functional teams and external customers to optimize workflows and maximize productivity.
Senior Principal Engineer, Physical Design Engineering
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Analog Devices 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
You will lead SoC execution from specification to silicon, driving technical strategy and architecture for complex digital systems. You will also govern silicon sign-off and collaborate across hardware and software domains to ensure product success.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Redwood Materials 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead the full design and engineering lifecycle for BESS infrastructure and equipment installation from concept to production. Coordinate with internal stakeholders and external partners to manage funding, schedules, and permitting for greenfield and brownfield projects.
Lead Product Designer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Venn 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead the end-to-end design process from concept to execution while refining the company's design system. Collaborate with product managers and engineers to translate user insights into elegant visual solutions and measurable product improvements.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America
Nubank 🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America
Lead the design strategy and execution for adapting Nubank's unsecured lending products for the US market. Build scalable frameworks and playbooks to facilitate global expansion into new countries.
PCB Design Engineering Section Lead
🇺🇸 Hudson, Hillsborough County, NH 03051, United States of America
Bae Systems 🇺🇸 Hudson, Hillsborough County, NH 03051, United States of America
The PCB Design Engineering Section Lead will manage a department of designers and librarians across multiple sites to ensure high-quality PCB designs for military applications. Key responsibilities include overseeing project schedules, managing budgets, implementing process improvements, and ensuring adherence to IPC specifications.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Aecom 🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai Emirate, United Arab Emirates
The Senior Graphic Designer will lead the conceptualization and execution of creative design projects across digital and print media. Key duties include developing brand identity guidelines, creating visual content for digital platforms, and mentoring junior designers.
Senior Product Designer
🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brazil
Tractian 🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brazil
Lead end-to-end product initiatives across web and mobile platforms, transforming complex industrial data into simple interfaces. You will balance rigorous validation with fast iteration while articulating design trade-offs to executive leadership.
UI & UX Designer - Advanced
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Independence Pet Holdings 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Collaborate with product and engineering teams to envision and scale the wellness membership club experience. Lead design initiatives end-to-end, from discovery and validation through to build and iteration.
PCB Design Engineering Section Lead
🇺🇸 Hudson, Hillsborough County, NH 03051, United States of America
Bae Systems, Inc. 🇺🇸 Hudson, Hillsborough County, NH 03051, United States of America
Lead a department of PCB designers and librarians across multiple sites to ensure adherence to IPC specifications and project deadlines. Responsible for continuous improvement activities, design metrics tracking, and managing PCB designs using Cadence Allegro.
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.