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Senior Product Designer II, Growth
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Brigit 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The role involves driving end-to-end product design from opportunity framing through implementation, co-leading product areas with product management using research and data to shape vision and priorities. Responsibilities also include owning major product surfaces, mentoring peers, and evolving the design system and research practices.
Senior Product Designer
🇿🇦 Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa
Absa Group 🇿🇦 Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa
Senior Product Designers solve complex customer and business problems across multiple projects by leveraging their specialized design skills and deep understanding of customer behavior. They are responsible for leading the definition of design approaches, executing high-quality designs within their discipline, and ensuring alignment with established standards.
Graphic Designer
Remote (🇨🇷 San José, San Jose Province, Costa Rica)
Beyondsoft Consulting Remote (🇨🇷 San José, San Jose Province, Costa Rica)
The Senior Designer will lead design development across various digital formats, translating briefs into polished, on-brand visual solutions optimized for platform fit and quality. This role involves partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver production-ready creative, maintaining design systems, and ensuring brand consistency at scale.
Sr Graphic Designer- Nike
🇺🇸 Tampa, Florida, United States of America
Fanatics 🇺🇸 Tampa, Florida, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer will be responsible for creating apparel graphics for the licensed sports business, leading design efforts against seasonal creative stories within the assortment. This role involves developing and maintaining presentation decks, creating special art request graphic concepts, and conducting local trend shopping and research for various apparel embellishment techniques.
Section Manager - Test Facilities Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Evendale, Hamilton County, Ohio, United States of America
Ge Aerospace 🇺🇸 Evendale, Hamilton County, Ohio, United States of America
This role leads the Test Facilities Design Engineering section strategy focused on Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost (SQDC), owning the end-to-end execution of test facilities systems and reducing test time lost to disruptions. Responsibilities also include driving workforce planning, leading and mentoring teams, and fostering continuous improvement to meet SQDC objectives.
Senior Product Designer (Contract)
Remote (🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America)
Pip Labs Remote (🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America)
The role involves leading end-to-end product design for 0 to 1 and early-stage product surfaces, translating ambiguous ideas into clear UX, flows, and interfaces, and partnering closely with product and engineering to ship quickly. The designer will also contribute to product experience, visual/brand direction, and deliver production-ready designs for web-based applications.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Boulder Care Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The Senior Product Designer will lead end-to-end design for patient, clinical, and growth initiatives, encompassing discovery, research, prototyping, visual design, and production. This role involves conducting research to understand user needs and translating those insights into elegant, data-driven design solutions while partnering with Product to run impactful experiments.
MGR DESIGN ENGINEERING 1
🇺🇸 Newport News, Virginia, United States of America
Huntington Ingalls 🇺🇸 Newport News, Virginia, United States of America
The role involves designing major components or functional system portions to improve products and facilitate manufacturing, requiring the development of preliminary layouts and investigation of design factors like manufacturability and material availability. Responsibilities also include leading a team, managing workloads, reporting on schedule/cost/quality performance, and evaluating design changes, specifically for the Virginia Class model conversion process (Catia to NX).
Sr. Manager Silicon Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Santa Clara County, California, United States of America
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc 🇺🇸 Santa Clara County, California, United States of America
The manager will lead and mentor a team of design verification engineers, defining and driving the verification strategy for AMD's DFT IP to ensure first-pass silicon success for next-generation products. This includes overseeing test plan execution, ensuring coverage closure, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to resolve technical issues.
Principal UX Designer, Fire TV and Tablet UX Design
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
This role involves setting the vision and strategy for agentic integrations across Fire TV and Tablet experiences, while empowering other designers and contributing key design artifacts. Responsibilities include leading end-to-end design from concept through UI, systems design, and prototyping across various product lines.
Lead UX_UI Designer
🇺🇸 Westminster, Colorado, United States of America
Caterpillar Inc. 🇺🇸 Westminster, Colorado, United States of America
This role involves setting the experience direction for a complex, customer-facing digital platform by translating product vision into clear UX strategies and principles. The Lead Designer will serve as the design authority, guiding decisions, ensuring design quality, and coaching other designers across multiple product pods.
Lead Product Designer - eCommerce
🇸🇬 Singapore
The Economist Group 🇸🇬 Singapore
This role involves leading and managing a team of designers across e-commerce and subscriptions, connecting product and business strategy through end-to-end design for key initiatives. Responsibilities include championing research, building a product vision, ensuring high-quality design delivery, and mentoring reports.
ASIC and Logic Design Engineering Manager (Teradyne, North Reading)
🇺🇸 North Reading, MA 01864, United States of America
Teradyne 🇺🇸 North Reading, MA 01864, United States of America
The Logic Design Manager will lead a team of 4-6 engineers in designing and verifying FPGAs for next-generation products, requiring close collaboration with other engineering disciplines. This involves leading multiple simultaneous development projects, managing schedules, budgets, staffing, and contributing to RTL code implementation when necessary.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇿🇦 Cape Town, City of Cape Town, South Africa
Moo 🇿🇦 Cape Town, City of Cape Town, South Africa
This role involves creating bespoke designs for Business Customers across the full product range while adhering to brand guidelines and acting as a communication lead for partnering teams to manage timelines and troubleshoot issues. The Senior Graphic Designer will also independently design or delegate and project manage Sales Enablement resources, catalogs, and tools, while consistently meeting strict turnaround times.
Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America
Children’s National Hospital 🇺🇸 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America
The Graphic Designer will lead high-impact creative projects, providing strategic design solutions and mentorship while taking ownership of complex design campaigns and collaborating with stakeholders to develop innovative visual concepts. Responsibilities include developing collateral, designing various digital and print advertisements, managing production vendors, and ensuring brand integrity across all platforms.
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.