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Design Manager – Water Infrastructure
🇦🇺 Newcastle-Maitland, New South Wales, Australia
Aecom 🇦🇺 Newcastle-Maitland, New South Wales, Australia
Lead multidisciplinary project delivery teams to ensure water infrastructure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to quality standards. Manage overall design delivery and make critical design project decisions while collaborating with clients and contractors.
Visual Designer
🇨🇦 Township of Langley, British Columbia, Canada
Trinity Western University 🇨🇦 Township of Langley, British Columbia, Canada
The Visual Designer creates brand-consistent visual assets across print and digital channels to support institutional priorities and marketing campaigns. They collaborate with the Creative Lead and various departments to translate creative briefs into polished design solutions while maintaining brand standards.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Jamestown, North Dakota, United States of America
Agri-cover, Inc. 🇺🇸 Jamestown, North Dakota, United States of America
Responsible for designing promotional materials, executing marketing strategies, and providing leadership to junior designers. The role involves creating digital and print assets, coordinating photo and video shoots, and developing product packaging and tradeshow displays.
Senior Product Designer
🇮🇳 Chennai, India
Tekion 🇮🇳 Chennai, India
The Senior Product Designer will lead the design of complex, high-impact features from discovery to delivery while ensuring scalable and intuitive user experiences. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to define product strategy and mentor junior designers to uphold high design standards.
Graphic Designer II
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Tekion 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
The Graphic Designer II creates brand-aligned visual assets for marketing, product, and internal communications while leading design projects. They collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate complex ideas into engaging designs and provide art direction for various media.
Graphic Designer (Brand Experience & Events)
🇵🇭 Philippines
Outsourcey 🇵🇭 Philippines
Lead the visual direction of client projects from concept to execution across digital, print, and environmental formats. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop brand-aligned assets and mentor junior creatives to ensure design excellence.
[쿠팡페이] Staff Product Designer
South Korea, Seoul
Coupang South Korea, Seoul
The Staff Product Designer will lead the end-to-end product experience, from strategy to execution, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to define product direction. They are responsible for establishing design standards, optimizing product performance through data-driven insights, and ensuring high-quality design delivery.
Senior Product Designer, Omnicommerce
🇸🇬 Singapore
Grab 🇸🇬 Singapore
Lead product design outcomes for Dine In and Loyalty experiences within the Omnicommerce team for both consumer and merchant interfaces. You will own the discovery and delivery of solutions while ensuring alignment between business goals and user-centric design.
Senior Product Designer, Omnicommerce
🇸🇬 Singapore
Grab 🇸🇬 Singapore
Lead product design outcomes and strategy for cross-functional teams within the Dine In and Loyalty experiences. Ensure stakeholder alignment while applying design-thinking frameworks to deliver impactful, user-centric product solutions.
Mechanical Design Manager
🇺🇸 Kent, Washington, United States of America
Stoke Space 🇺🇸 Kent, Washington, United States of America
Lead a team of engineers through the design, development, integration, and testing of critical stage fluids system hardware. Manage the technical roadmap and provide technical coaching in structures, fluids, and design for manufacturing.
Director, Package Design Engineering
🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Renesas Electronics 🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
The Director of Package Design Engineering will lead package technology development, R&D, and global OSAT management for AI and datacenter power packaging. This role involves defining technology roadmaps, managing R&D budgets, and ensuring the qualification and production ramp-up of advanced power packaging solutions.
Copy of Director, Package Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Renesas Electronics 🇺🇸 Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
The Director will lead package technology development, NPI, and global OSAT management for power packaging solutions including SiC and GaN technologies. They are responsible for defining technology roadmaps, managing R&D budgets, and ensuring high-quality production transitions.
Associate Director - Design Manager, Water Infrastructure
🇦🇺 Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Aecom 🇦🇺 Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary water infrastructure design projects from concept through to construction. Manage project scope, budgets, and technical outputs while collaborating with clients and stakeholders to ensure high-quality delivery.
Design Manager – Water Infrastructure
🇦🇺 Newcastle-Maitland, New South Wales, Australia
Aecom 🇦🇺 Newcastle-Maitland, New South Wales, Australia
The Design Manager will lead multidisciplinary project delivery teams to ensure water infrastructure projects are completed within quality, time, and budget constraints. They will act as the primary decision-maker for design delivery while collaborating closely with clients and contractors.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America
Nubank 🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America
Lead the creation of 0-1 product experiences and evolve the global visual identity and illustration system. Architect core interaction patterns for the homepage and unify the design language across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia.
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.