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Senior Product Designer
🇸🇬 Singapore
Okx 🇸🇬 Singapore
Lead end-to-end design for DeFi products, translating research and cross-functional input into user workflows, interactions, prototypes, and polished experiences. Advocate for users throughout product development, use qualitative and quantitative data to guide decisions, elevate design quality, and mentor other designers.
Design Manager - Renewable and Utilities
🇦🇺 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Consolidated Power Projects 🇦🇺 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Lead and coordinate design inputs across electrical primary and secondary, overhead line, civil, and structural disciplines for high-voltage infrastructure and renewable energy projects. Serve as a central technical reference point, resolving design challenges and ensuring integrated, compliant, efficient designs meet client and industry requirements.
Engineering Design Manager
🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
Orica 🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
You will lead the engineering and design drafting team to provide plant and product engineering services while transitioning the centre into a broader shared-services provider. This involves managing project timelines, budgets, and quality standards while partnering with global stakeholders to define engineering requirements.
UX/UI Design Manager - Digital Solutions
🇦🇺 Mulbring NSW 2323, Australia
Orica 🇦🇺 Mulbring NSW 2323, Australia
The UX/UI Design Manager leads and mentors a team of designers while overseeing the evolution of the Orica Digital Solutions design system. This role collaborates with product and engineering teams to align design priorities with strategic business objectives and ensure a consistent user experience.
Senior UX Researcher
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Okta 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
You will lead end-to-end research initiatives for the Access Management ecosystem, translating complex product questions into actionable insights. Additionally, you will build and manage a dedicated user panel while empowering cross-functional teams to conduct their own evaluative studies.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Morson Edge 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead multidisciplinary teams in planning and delivering water-sector projects from concept through detailed design, including clean water, wastewater, flood risk, and urban drainage initiatives. Oversee technical delivery across design-and-build, detailed design, and owner's engineer services, collaborating with project managers, clients, and internal and external stakeholders.
UX/UI Design Manager - Digital Solutions
🇦🇺 Kurri Kurri, New South Wales, Australia
Orica 🇦🇺 Kurri Kurri, New South Wales, Australia
Lead and develop the UX/UI design team, establish design practices, and own the design system across Orica Digital Solutions. Partner with product, technology, and business teams to prioritize design work, apply user research, improve workflows, and deliver consistent, usable digital products.
UX DESIGNER (REMOTO)
Remote (🇵🇹 Portugal)
Itrtech Group Remote (🇵🇹 Portugal)
Lead the full UX process, from research and discovery through prototyping, usability testing, and validation, including fieldwork, interviews, and analysis. Create user journeys, personas, flows, wireframes, mock-ups, and Figma interfaces; collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and support implementation of accessible, consistent transactional portal experiences.
Preconstruction / Design Manager - MEP
🇺🇸 Portland, Oregon, United States of America
Skanska 🇺🇸 Portland, Oregon, United States of America
Lead MEP preconstruction and design coordination from project pursuit through construction, including detailed cost estimating, estimate reviews, and coordination across civil, structural, architectural, and MEP disciplines. Collaborate with design teams, operations, business development, and subcontractors to manage value options, procurement planning, project risks, and scope, cost, schedule, and quality objectives.
Lead Design Manager
🇳🇴 Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway
Ikm Consultants As 🇳🇴 Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway
Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary design activities, resources, interfaces, budgets, and deliverables to meet project requirements, schedules, and quality expectations. Serve as the primary design link among the client, project management, production, technical disciplines, and external consultants, ensuring integrated and buildable solutions.
Print Graphic Designer
🇵🇭 Philippines
Kdci Outsourcing 🇵🇭 Philippines
Create and adapt production-ready artwork for print and large-format materials, including billboards, signage, trade show displays, banners, and marketing collateral, while following brand guidelines and production specifications. Manage project files and deadlines, prepare accurate files for production handoff, and coordinate requirements and timelines with account teams, creative leads, designers, and vendors.
Visual Designer, Illustration and Motion - 12-month contract
🇸🇬 Singapore
Ocbc 🇸🇬 Singapore
Lead the creation of illustration and motion assets for consumer banking platforms, ensuring they align with brand standards and performance constraints. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop reusable visual systems and interactive elements that enhance the customer experience.
System Hardware Board Design Engineering Lead (PCB) (Onsite)
🇺🇸 Milpitas, California, United States of America
Cisco 🇺🇸 Milpitas, California, United States of America
The Lead Hardware Board Design Engineer will define board-level architecture and lead complex hardware initiatives from requirements through manufacturing release. They will collaborate across cross-functional teams to solve technical challenges in signal integrity, power, and thermal management while mentoring engineering staff.
Design & Engineering Lead – Fabrication & Delivery
🇦🇺 Eagle Farm QLD 4009, Australia
Bishopp 🇦🇺 Eagle Farm QLD 4009, Australia
Lead allocated projects from initial scope and concept through design, engineering, estimating, fabrication, and construction-ready handover. Coordinate internal and external technical resources, review designs and documentation, resolve production and construction issues, and improve design-to-fabrication processes.
Senior Product Designer
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Costar Group 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Lead end-to-end design for complex B2B SaaS experiences, from discovery and research through prototyping and shipped detail, aligning decisions with user needs, product strategy, and business outcomes. Partner with product, engineering, and other teams to prioritize opportunities, improve the design system and design quality, influence product direction, and mentor less experienced designers.
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.