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Product Designer, Identity
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Openai 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead the design direction for identity, account security, and administrative experiences across consumer and enterprise products. Define new interaction models and mental models for human-to-agent and agent-to-agent authorization and trust.
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 intuitive user experiences. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define product strategy while maintaining high standards for visual and interaction design.
Design Manager Major Projects
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Mott Macdonald 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Design Manager is responsible for the technical integrity and coordination of multidisciplinary design solutions on major projects. Key duties include managing design budgets, leading interdisciplinary reviews, and ensuring contract-compliant technical delivery.
Design Manager - Federal Government Sector
🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Arcadis 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
The Design Manager will lead multidisciplinary design teams to deliver high-quality, compliant, and cost-controlled projects for federal clients. They are responsible for managing project budgets, schedules, and client relationships while ensuring adherence to federal standards and design workflows.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Grid Dynamics 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design of complex enterprise applications and data visualization platforms for desktop and mobile. Collaborate with engineering and customers to translate large datasets into intuitive dashboards and reporting tools.
Staff Product Designer
You will own the end-to-end product experience for Walrus, leading discovery and design processes to create intuitive developer tools. You will partner with engineering and product teams to define complex technical workflows, establish design systems, and ensure high-quality implementation.
Manager, Design - Systems & Infrastructure
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Figma 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead and grow the team responsible for Figma's internal design systems, foundations, and infrastructure. Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to evolve the operating model and ensure quality and coherence across the product suite.
Manager, Design - Systems & Infrastructure
🇺🇸 United States of America
Figma 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead and grow the team responsible for Figma's internal design systems, foundations, and infrastructure. Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to evolve the operating model and ensure coherence across the product suite.
Founding Product Designer, Hazel AI
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Altruist 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design of Hazel AI, focusing on agentic workflows for wealth management and administrative tasks. You will develop new interaction patterns for AI-assisted work and maintain the company's design system, Ethos.
UI/UX Designer - Chicago
🇺🇸 United States of America
Photon 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design process from user research and ideation to prototyping and implementation. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create intuitive, accessible, and visually consistent user interfaces for web and mobile applications.
Senior Staff Product Designer, Data & AI
🇨🇦 Canada
Stripe 🇨🇦 Canada
You will lead complex product design initiatives at the intersection of data, AI, and platform infrastructure. This role involves shaping both shared systems and net-new products while driving clarity across cross-functional teams.
Design Manager - Data Center
🇺🇸 Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
Gilbane Building 🇺🇸 Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
Lead the integration of design and construction teams to deliver coordinated and cost-effective data center designs. Oversee design progression, risk management, and the transition from preconstruction to execution.
Graphic Design Manager
🇺🇸 Santa Ana, California, United States of America
Nis America, Inc. 🇺🇸 Santa Ana, California, United States of America
The Graphic Design Manager oversees the daily operations, workflow, and creative output of the design team while ensuring brand consistency across packaging and digital assets. The role combines strategic leadership and task delegation with hands-on design production for high-priority projects.
Forward Deployed Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Scale Ai 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead end-to-end product design for the Public Sector business unit, focusing on mission-critical AI tools for government and defense customers. This involves working on-site with clients to translate ambiguous requirements into high-fidelity mockups and deployable user experiences.
Forward Deployed Product Designer
🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Scale Ai 🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design of mission-critical AI tools for government and defense customers, focusing on planning, operations, and analytical workflows. The role involves working on-site with stakeholders to translate ambiguous requirements into high-fidelity mockups and collaborating with engineers in code to refine the shipped experience.
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.