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Senior Solutions Design Manager
🇬🇧 Coventry, England, United Kingdom
Ea First 🇬🇧 Coventry, England, United Kingdom
Lead the UK solutions design function and its team, owning end-to-end logistics solution design from customer engagement through sign-off and mobilisation. Develop operationally robust and commercially competitive proposals, guide complex bids, and improve design methods while evaluating emerging technologies.
Senior Product Designer
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Teckro Limited 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Lead the end-to-end design process from discovery to delivery while driving the adoption of AI tools to automate routine tasks. You will collaborate with stakeholders to define complex problems and mentor team members on design best practices.
Freelance Principal UX Researcher
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Red Badger 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
The Principal UX Researcher will lead strategic discovery across multi-team client programs and establish research standards and operations. They are responsible for turning customer insights into actionable roadmap decisions while managing and coaching other researchers.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇬🇧 Trafford, England, United Kingdom
Club L London 🇬🇧 Trafford, England, United Kingdom
Lead the creative development and execution of visual identities across campaigns, content, and digital touchpoints to drive engagement and commercial performance. Mentor junior designers and collaborate with cross-functional teams to refine design processes and maintain high creative standards.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Autoloto Inc. 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead end-to-end design for complex web and mobile products, including research, prototyping, accessible interfaces, design systems, and developer-ready specifications. Create onboarding, training, marketing, sales, and investor-facing visual materials in collaboration with Engineering, Training, and Marketing teams.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Linesight 🇺🇸 Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Manage design package delivery, coordinating project partners and leading the design team to meet scope, schedule, resource, and quality requirements. Maintain reporting, change authorization, and design documentation, while reviewing packages to identify improvements and share lessons learned.
Design Engineering Manager
🇺🇸 Canton, Ohio, United States of America
Search Masters, Inc. 🇺🇸 Canton, Ohio, United States of America
Lead, mentor, and develop engineering and technical staff while setting performance expectations and fostering accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Manage engineering projects from concept through implementation, coordinating teams, timelines, budgets, compliance, quality, and safety.
Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Columbia, Missouri, United States of America
University Of Missouri-columbia 🇺🇸 Columbia, Missouri, United States of America
Conceptualize and produce creative assets for print, digital, out-of-home advertising, executive presentations, and other campaign and brand needs. Collaborate with the creative team, incorporate client and leadership feedback, uphold university brand guidelines, and review deliverables for quality and alignment with project objectives.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 England, United Kingdom
Fortem Solutions 🇬🇧 England, United Kingdom
Lead and coordinate design across bidding, pre-construction, and construction stages for large-scale social housing retrofit and capital works projects, ensuring compliance, collaboration, and delivery of coordinated design information. Manage design teams, consultants, surveys, budgets, design changes, client reviews, and sustainability requirements, while identifying opportunities for decarbonisation and design efficiency.
Senior HV Electrical Design Manager - Substations & OHL
🇬🇧 New Waltham, North East Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom
Laing O'rourke 🇬🇧 New Waltham, North East Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom
Lead design development for the Grimsby West 400kV substation, managing technical interfaces and design risks while guiding design decisions through pricing, early contractor involvement, and construction. Coordinate with National Grid, WSP, internal specialists, designers, suppliers, and project stakeholders to improve buildability, safety, quality, and programme performance.
Design Manager
🇮🇪 Avoca, County Wicklow, Ireland
Icds Group 🇮🇪 Avoca, County Wicklow, Ireland
Lead and coordinate the design process from pre-construction through project delivery, managing architects, engineers, consultants, and subcontractors. Review design information and progress, resolve coordination issues, ensure compliance and buildability, and collaborate with construction, project management, commercial, and procurement teams.
Vision Digital Product Designer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Fp Inc. 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead complex, cross-functional design initiatives and create prototypes, user flows, and brand-forward digital experiences across web, mobile, and editorial touchpoints. Align design strategy with business goals, guide stakeholders, establish outcome metrics, and advance design practices through research, AI experimentation, and scalable standards.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Unfold Talent 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead design management from tender and pre-construction through project completion, coordinating consultants, subcontractors, clients, and project teams. Review and coordinate design information for buildability, compliance, cost, and programme, while managing changes, risks, bids, and design close-out.
Product Designer @ Spond
🇳🇴 Oslo, Norway
Spond 🇳🇴 Oslo, Norway
You will lead UX/UI design across iOS, Android, and web platforms, taking ownership of the design process from initial concept to final implementation. You will also collaborate with product managers and developers to conduct user research, build interactive prototypes, and ensure high-quality, accessible product delivery.
Design Engineering Manager
🇬🇧 Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Universal Business Team 🇬🇧 Leeds, England, United Kingdom
The Design Engineering Manager will lead the in-house design team to ensure high-quality, coordinated design outputs across a diverse portfolio of projects. They are responsible for establishing robust design governance, managing resource planning, and acting as a technical authority for clients and project delivery teams.
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.