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Design Engineering - Lead Designer NPI
🇩🇴 Santo Domingo, Distrito Nacional, Dominican Republic
Eaton Corporation 🇩🇴 Santo Domingo, Distrito Nacional, Dominican Republic
The Lead Designer is responsible for creating static and dynamic designs, including components, assemblies, and technical documentation for prototype construction. They must execute design activities independently and ensure all materials meet technical and safety standards.
Advanced Specialist, UX Researcher
🇺🇸 Sacramento, California, United States of America
Uxr Hunt 🇺🇸 Sacramento, California, United States of America
Lead end-to-end user research to shape product strategy and improve customer experiences. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and execute studies, synthesize findings, and communicate insights that influence product design and decisions.
Prototype Engineering Design Manager
🇺🇸 Dearborn, Michigan, United States of America
Ford 🇺🇸 Dearborn, Michigan, United States of America
Lead a team of product engineering designers to create high-fidelity functional prototypes for concept and pre-production vehicles. Collaborate with design, engineering, and marketing teams to manage build plans, budgets, and technical feasibility.
Physical Security Engineer, Data Center Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Amazon Web Services (aws) 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Lead the design of physical security elements for data center projects and collaborate with various security organizations within AWS. Manage multiple projects simultaneously and communicate designs to stakeholders and consultants.
Advanced Specialist, UX Researcher
🇺🇸 Trenton, New Jersey, United States of America
Uxr Hunt 🇺🇸 Trenton, New Jersey, United States of America
Lead end-to-end user research to shape product strategy and improve customer experiences. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and execute studies, synthesize findings, and communicate insights that influence product design and decisions.
UX Researcher - Digital Experience (Corporate & Institutional Banking)
🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
Uxr Hunt 🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
Lead end-to-end UX research and discovery efforts that align with business and product objectives. Partner with product managers, designers, and business stakeholders to define problems and guide decisions.
Senior Analyst - Graphic Designer
🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
Accenture In India 🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
Lead the design of impactful campaigns across various media including social, web, print, and video. Collaborate with marketing, product, and business teams to bring original ideas to life through compelling designs.
Senior Product Designer, Design Systems
🇵🇱 Warszawa, 83-433 Nowe Polaszki, Poland
Netflix 🇵🇱 Warszawa, 83-433 Nowe Polaszki, Poland
Lead efforts to ensure all components meet quality standards and are built to scale effectively. Partner with engineering to translate design guidance into structured logic for AI tools to generate UI.
Staff UX Researcher, Research Recruiting & ResearchOps
🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
Teradata 🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
Lead high-impact UX research and deliver rapid discovery studies. Build and maintain a high-quality research participant panel and stand up ResearchOps infrastructure.
Senior Manager, Design/Process Engineering, Design Engineering
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Amazon 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
You will lead end-to-end design for new delivery stations and work to improve existing delivery station processes. This includes managing multiple projects, driving technology integration, and providing design direction to meet strategic objectives.
Design Manager - Design Build
🇺🇸 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Jacobs 🇺🇸 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
The Design Manager will lead the scoping, planning, and delivery of municipal and industrial water infrastructure projects, ensuring quality and financial performance. They will manage multi-disciplinary teams and interface with clients to meet project expectations.
Product Designer – Kansas City (Hybrid)
🇺🇸 Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Littler 🇺🇸 Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
The Product Designer is responsible for shaping product identity and delivering intuitive user experiences across a diverse portfolio of software. This includes owning the product design system, establishing user-experience standards, leading user discovery, and partnering with engineering to ensure quality delivery.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States of America
Space Foundation 🇺🇸 Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer will lead creative development and brand stewardship across all visual communications, ensuring consistency with brand standards. They will also manage production vendors and oversee the quality of print, fabrication, and installation.
Sr. UX Visual Designer, Enterprise and Emerging Design
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead end-to-end visual and voice interface design for complex AI-driven products within the Alexa ecosystem. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver polished assets and contribute to shared design systems and Figma libraries.
Sr. UX Designer, Alexa Enterprise and Emerging Design
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design process for complex Alexa Enterprise features, blending visual and voice interfaces to create intuitive B2B2C experiences. Collaborate with cross-functional teams and contribute to Figma libraries to maintain and extend design systems.
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.