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Senior Graphic Designer
🇬🇧 Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Signature Recruitment 🇬🇧 Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Lead digital and brand design across website journeys, landing pages, mobile experiences, and advertising campaigns, while maintaining consistent brand execution across digital and offline channels. Build design systems and asset libraries, manage agency requests, produce marketing collateral, and support testing and performance-led improvements.
Senior Design Manager
🇫🇷 France
Leap29 🇫🇷 France
Lead multidisciplinary design teams and coordinate design delivery for complex data centre projects from concept through construction and completion. Manage stakeholder relationships, design reviews, programme, quality, risks, and deliverables while supporting business growth.
Design Manager - Special Projects
🇫🇷 Paris, France
Polène Paris 🇫🇷 Paris, France
Lead the design and development of special projects, including collaborative products, upcycling initiatives, exceptional objects, and gifts, while managing two designers. Oversee product development and technical specifications, coordinating with product management, internal workshops, artisans, suppliers, and cross-functional teams to meet delivery milestones.
Lead UX Designer App H/F
🇫🇷 Paris, France
Nexton 🇫🇷 Paris, France
Lead user research and ideation for employee-facing products, then create high-fidelity interfaces that follow the existing design system. Own the user experience vision, maintain consistency across user journeys and interfaces, and collaborate with product, design, and development teams throughout project phases.
Senior UX Designer
🇬🇧 Crewe, Cheshire East, England, United Kingdom
Bentley Motors 🇬🇧 Crewe, Cheshire East, England, United Kingdom
Lead end-to-end UX/UI design for Bentley’s digital products and services, ensuring experiences meet customer needs, business objectives, and accessibility and technical requirements. Champion UX standards and collaboration through playbooks, forums, stakeholder presentations, Volkswagen Group initiatives, and mentoring.
Lead, Design Systems & Design Operations
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Cibc 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
You will lead the strategy, roadmap, and governance of the Wealth design system to ensure consistent digital experiences across web and mobile platforms. Additionally, you will partner with technology and product teams to implement scalable design operations and modern design-to-code workflows.
(Senior) Design Manager (m/w/d)
🇩🇪 Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Cushman & Wakefield 🇩🇪 Munich, Bavaria, Germany
You will lead the design process from concept to handover, coordinating external partners and ensuring design quality, budget adherence, and project feasibility. Additionally, you will support brokers with workplace concepts, develop AI-supported planning processes, and manage client relationships.
Lead UX Designer App H/F
🇫🇷 Paris, France
Nexton 🇫🇷 Paris, France
The Lead UX Designer will define the design strategy and lead user research to identify needs within industrial BtoE contexts. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to create high-fidelity interfaces while ensuring consistency across all product user journeys.
Sr. Systems Engineer (R&D Design Engineering)
🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
Det-tronics (detector Electronics, Llc) 🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
Own system architecture and requirements development and management, ensuring traceability through verification and validation across new product development and sustaining projects. Lead technical project work, coordinate cross-functional teams and reviews, manage risk, and help define future products and system designs.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 England, United Kingdom
Kier Group 🇬🇧 England, United Kingdom
Lead design management and provide strategic direction and technical assurance across complex projects from concept through handover. Manage design programmes, budgets, resources, and change control; lead client and consultant engagement; and mentor Design Managers.
Design Manager - Commercial Interiors
🇮🇳 Mumbai City District, India
Flipspaces 🇮🇳 Mumbai City District, India
Lead a team of 3–5 designers across multiple commercial interior projects, owning design quality, timelines, client presentations, and technical drawing reviews. Coordinate with project and execution teams to ensure designs are approved, coordinated, budget-aligned, and accurately delivered on site, while mentoring designers and supporting business development pitches.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇮🇳 Mumbai City District, India
Catering Collective 🇮🇳 Mumbai City District, India
Lead end-to-end visual identity and design across print, digital, packaging, and experiential environments for luxury, lifestyle, and hospitality brands. Collaborate with marketing, production, and spatial design teams, and provide creative direction and feedback to junior designers.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Disturbia 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead, coach, and manage a team of ten designers, including performance reviews, workload allocation, capacity planning, and hands-on support. Translate the Design Director’s creative vision into team priorities, track output and delivery through reports, and collaborate with Buying and Garment Technology to improve product development and workflow.
Senior Design Manager
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Rsp India 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Lead architectural project deliverables from development through documentation, reviewing AutoCAD drawings and ensuring accuracy, quality, and compliance with project standards. Coordinate stakeholders, timelines, submissions, and team members while resolving drawing issues and providing technical guidance and mentorship.
Senior Product Designer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Robert Half 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead end-to-end design across multiple product initiatives, from problem framing and research through high-fidelity UI, delivery, and handoff. Partner with product and engineering, use AI tools to accelerate design exploration and research synthesis, and strengthen team capability through critique, pairing, and case studies.
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.