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Solution Design Manager
🇲🇾 Selangor, Malaysia
Ambition 🇲🇾 Selangor, Malaysia
Analyze customer requirements and design tailored warehouse solutions, including RFQ proposals, cost models, material handling equipment evaluations, and automation opportunities. Present solutions to customers, support commercial bids and implementation handovers, and lead regional solution re-engineering initiatives.
Sr Product Designer (Enterprise)
🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Onecredit 🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Lead end-to-end design for complex enterprise products, including research, prototyping, usability testing, and the evolution of a scalable design system. Partner with product, engineering, and business teams to shape product direction, maintain design-to-code parity, and improve user and business outcomes.
Store Design Manager - Luxury Retail
🇨🇭 Switzerland
Luxury Experts 🇨🇭 Switzerland
Lead the development and delivery of global retail design concepts and international boutique, renovation, relocation, and pop-up projects, ensuring consistent luxury brand standards. Coordinate stakeholders and external partners, oversee project timelines, budgets, and quality, and mentor a Retail Designer.
Primary Design Manager
🇬🇧 Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom
Ge Vernova 🇬🇧 Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom
Lead global engineering teams and deliver primary plant designs for HV/EHV substation projects, ensuring high-quality, timely outputs that meet customer and regulatory requirements. Coordinate integrated design with other engineering disciplines, review vendor documentation, engage with clients and suppliers, and provide technical leadership and design governance throughout the project lifecycle.
HEAD OF DESIGN - TEXTILES - BEDROOM & BATHROOM / PREMIUM BRAND
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
House Of Fashion Associates 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Lead the design of premium bedding and bathroom textile collections for UK and export markets, including creating CAD designs and colorways, researching trends, and developing exclusive customer designs. Manage a small team and the end-to-end sampling and approval process, work with suppliers and internal teams, and support product launches, trade shows, and showrooms.
Project Engineer-E3-Civil-Design Engineering
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Tata Consulting Engineers Limited 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
The Project Engineer will lead the geometric and pavement design for highway infrastructure projects while supervising a team of engineers and designers. They are responsible for coordinating across multiple engineering disciplines and ensuring all project deliverables meet technical standards and client requirements.
Project Design Manager | Dublin
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Kirby Group Engineering 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Lead engineering and design teams delivering large-scale data center and mission-critical projects safely, on time, within budget, and to required quality standards. Coordinate with technical and non-technical stakeholders, support contract negotiations, and oversee design and construction processes.
Design Manager
🇨🇭 Zurich, Switzerland
Globalengineer Gmbh 🇨🇭 Zurich, Switzerland
Lead technical execution of development programs and variant projects, coordinating design managers, designers, and engineers while managing work breakdown structures, milestones, schedules, budgets, risks, and performance. Conduct design reviews, approve technical data packages, coordinate engineering work, manage interfaces with program management, supply chain, and production, support customer reviews and acceptance, and perform FMEA and configuration management activities.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇮 Gibraltar
B2spin 🇬🇮 Gibraltar
You will build and maintain a scalable gamification design system and integrate AI-driven workflows to optimize design production. Additionally, you will lead end-to-end product design projects while ensuring high-quality motion craft across a multi-brand portfolio.
Design Manager - Special Projects
🇫🇷 Paris, France
Polène Paris 🇫🇷 Paris, France
Lead the design and development of special projects while managing a team of two designers. Oversee the creative process and product development in collaboration with internal workshops and cross-functional teams.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Aj Group 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Manage external consultants and engineering teams to deliver data centre designs and high-quality documentation across all RIBA stages. Oversee design reviews and approvals, help appoint design professionals, and present design proposals and emerging technologies to stakeholders and senior leaders.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇲🇾 Malaysia
Bank Islam Malaysia Berhad 🇲🇾 Malaysia
The Senior UI/UX Designer will lead end-to-end product design for digital channels while maintaining design systems and ensuring consistency. They will also mentor junior designers and collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business needs into intuitive user experiences.
Staff UX Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Okta 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Lead user experience strategy and execution for the Okta Research & Development business unit while overseeing design across the product portfolio. Facilitate co-creation workshops and mentor junior designers to ensure cohesive, human-centered design outcomes.
Content Design, Vice President- Design Systems
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Jpmorganchase 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Develop and govern scalable content strategies, models, standards, and reusable patterns for design systems, ensuring product teams can create clear, inclusive, accessible, and compliant customer experiences. Lead discovery and alignment with design, product, engineering, and risk partners, and translate editorial guidance into structured rules that support templates, platforms, and AI-assisted workflows.
Lead Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Highlevel 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead design strategy and execution for product areas, translating customer needs, business goals, and technical constraints into polished, scalable experiences. Partner with cross-functional teams to guide discovery, improve design quality and standards, mentor designers, and measure product impact.
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.