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Lead Product Designer
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Lyrebird Health 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Own the entire product design lifecycle from discovery and problem framing to shipping UI and maintaining the design system. Lead the design discipline by setting standards, partnering with product and engineering, and mentoring other designers.
Principal Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lseg 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the user experience across the Phoenix platform ecosystem by developing end-to-end workflows that bridge current BAU systems and future-state capabilities. Collaborate with product, engineering, and operations teams to create scalable, system-level design solutions that reduce complexity and improve operational efficiency.
MEP Design Manager
🇸🇦 Tabuk, Tabuk Province, Saudi Arabia
Parsons Corporation 🇸🇦 Tabuk, Tabuk Province, Saudi Arabia
The MEP Design Manager will lead technical oversight, planning, and multidisciplinary integration for large mission-critical facilities. They are responsible for ensuring MEP solutions align with operational readiness, constructability, and performance requirements throughout the project lifecycle.
Structure Design Manager
🇸🇦 Tabuk, Tabuk Province, Saudi Arabia
Parsons Corporation 🇸🇦 Tabuk, Tabuk Province, Saudi Arabia
The Structure Design Manager will lead a team of structural engineers and digital delivery specialists to oversee the full lifecycle of major infrastructure projects. Responsibilities include setting technical direction, ensuring code compliance, managing budgets, and coordinating with multidisciplinary project teams.
Architectural Design Manager
🇸🇦 Tabuk, Tabuk Province, Saudi Arabia
Parsons Corporation 🇸🇦 Tabuk, Tabuk Province, Saudi Arabia
Lead the planning, design, and technical delivery of complex architectural projects across commercial, infrastructure, and transportation sectors. Manage the full project lifecycle, ensuring design excellence, technical compliance, and effective multidisciplinary coordination.
Package Design Engineering - Director
🇲🇾 Shah Alam, Petaling, Malaysia
Renesas Electronics 🇲🇾 Shah Alam, Petaling, Malaysia
The Director will lead assembly sustaining engineering and high-volume manufacturing operations for advanced semiconductor packaging technologies. This role involves driving yield performance, process stability, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure successful NPI-to-HVM transitions.
Sr. ICT Design Engineer, Data Center Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Lead the design, development, and delivery of scalable ICT infrastructure for global data center programs from concept through construction. Drive engineering standards, cross-discipline coordination, and technical innovation to ensure high-performance and cost-efficient data center builds.
Avionics Design Manager
🇺🇸 Longmont, Colorado, United States of America
Ursa Major 🇺🇸 Longmont, Colorado, United States of America
Lead an integrated engineering team in the development, verification, and production of FPGA-based digital designs and avionics hardware. Manage technical execution, resource planning, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure mission-critical systems meet schedule and quality requirements.
Fire Sprinkler Design Manager
🇺🇸 Duluth, GA 30095, United States of America
Century Fire Protection Llc 🇺🇸 Duluth, GA 30095, United States of America
The Design Manager leads the fire sprinkler design department, overseeing project quality, team performance, and compliance with NFPA standards and local codes. They are responsible for mentoring staff, coordinating with project managers, and ensuring the timely delivery of accurate, constructible designs.
Lead Product Designer
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Lyrebird Health 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
You will own the entire product design lifecycle from discovery and strategy to shipped UI while setting the design standards for the organization. Additionally, you will lead the design system architecture and mentor team members to ensure high-quality, consistent product delivery.
Lead Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Bite Engineering 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
You will own the entire design function, leading the transformation of the product's beta into a high-quality user experience. This involves collaborating with founders and engineering to define product vision, conduct user research, and establish design systems.
UX Designer - Developer Experience (DevEx)
🇮🇩 Mall of Indonesia, Jalan Boulevard Barat, Kelapa Gading, North Jakarta 14240, Indonesia
Xendit 🇮🇩 Mall of Indonesia, Jalan Boulevard Barat, Kelapa Gading, North Jakarta 14240, Indonesia
You will lead product design for developer-facing surfaces including dashboards, API references, and documentation. You will collaborate closely with engineering and product management to reduce friction and improve the developer experience.
Project Engineer-E3-Mechanical-Design Engineering
🇮🇳 Bidhannagar, Rajarhat, India
Tatacons02 🇮🇳 Bidhannagar, Rajarhat, India
The Project Engineer will lead a team of engineers and designers to deliver project requirements, including scope, cost, and schedule management. They are responsible for performing detailed engineering design, reviewing technical work, and ensuring compliance with quality and safety standards.
Civil Infrastructure - Transportation Project Manager / Design Manager Highways
🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain
Aecom 🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain
Lead the design process for civil infrastructure and highway projects from planning through execution. Manage multidisciplinary teams while ensuring project quality, budget adherence, and accurate documentation.
Senior Design Manager - Based in Newcastle / Irish Construction Experience
🇦🇺 Newcastle NSW 2300, Australia
White Space Recruitment 🇦🇺 Newcastle NSW 2300, Australia
Lead and manage multiple complex projects and project teams within a new Newcastle studio. Act as the primary client-facing lead across various project stages, ensuring strong design delivery and technical compliance.
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.