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Senior Visual Designer [209205]
🇺🇸 Dunwoody, Georgia, United States of America
Skill 🇺🇸 Dunwoody, Georgia, United States of America
Oversee the full design lifecycle across multiple workstreams, ensuring high-quality execution of digital and print solutions. Act as a creative lead in client meetings and mentor junior designers to foster a culture of excellence.
Quantitative UX Researcher
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Openai 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Design and execute quantitative research across the product lifecycle, partnering with cross-functional teams to identify high-impact opportunities. Lead rigorous studies and translate complex data into actionable recommendations for product decisions.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Florida, United States of America
52x Consulting Llc 🇺🇸 Florida, United States of America
The Senior Design Manager will lead all aspects of design management across a portfolio of large-scale mixed-use, office, retail, and commercial developments. This individual will oversee the design process from concept through construction and collaborate closely with development and construction leadership.
UX Lead / Senior Product Designer, Model & Simulation
🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Code Metal 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Lead end-to-end UX for a complex geospatial and simulation platform, conducting user research and translating technical requirements into intuitive workflows. Own the design system and collaborate closely with frontend engineers to ensure design fidelity.
Senior Graphic Designer (Social and Paid)
🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Creative Circle 🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer will lead design consultations, develop creative briefs, storyboards, and layouts for social and paid media, and manage projects end-to-end. This includes producing presentations and ensuring alignment with business objectives while guiding team members.
Senior Graphic Designer (Social and Paid)
🇺🇸 Portland, Oregon, United States of America
Creative Circle 🇺🇸 Portland, Oregon, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer will lead design consultations, develop creative briefs, and manage projects end-to-end, ensuring alignment with business objectives. They will collaborate with internal clients and cross-functional teams to deliver compelling design solutions.
Senior Graphic Designer (Social and Paid)
🇺🇸 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Creative Circle 🇺🇸 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer will lead design consultations, develop creative briefs, storyboards, and layouts for social and paid media, and manage projects end-to-end. This includes producing presentations and ensuring alignment with business objectives while guiding team members.
Senior Graphic Designer (Social and Paid)
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Creative Circle 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
As a Senior Graphic Designer, you will lead design consultations and develop creative briefs, storyboards, and layouts for social and paid media. You will manage projects end-to-end, including timelines and budgets, while guiding team members to ensure alignment with business objectives.
Senior Graphic Designer (Social and Paid)
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Creative Circle 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer will lead design consultations, develop creative briefs, and manage projects end-to-end, including timelines and budgets. They will collaborate with internal clients and cross-functional teams to deliver compelling design solutions for social and paid media.
Construction Design Manager Talent Community
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Clmi Group 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
The Design Manager will develop and coordinate design standards and guidelines, support leadership in prioritizing capital projects, and manage the design process to ensure compliance with budgetary and legal requirements. They will also coordinate with various stakeholders and provide direction to architectural firms.
UI/UX Designer, Sr
🇺🇸 Newberg, OR 97132, United States of America
A-dec Inc. 🇺🇸 Newberg, OR 97132, United States of America
The Senior UI/UX Designer creates cutting-edge design solutions for websites, mobile applications, and physical equipment interfaces. They lead creative direction and maintain the company's digital design system to ensure brand consistency across all products.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Philadelphia Eagles 🇺🇸 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Lead the creative strategy and visual identity of the organization across digital and physical environments. This includes executing high-level designs, art directing photoshoots, and mentoring junior design team members.
Service Design Manager
🇸🇪 Gothenburg, Västra Götaland County, Sweden
Foxway 🇸🇪 Gothenburg, Västra Götaland County, Sweden
As a Service Design Manager, you will own and continuously improve service value propositions across our circular product journeys. You will lead service improvement initiatives and ensure solutions are designed, implemented, measured, and continuously improved.
Sr. Staff Product Designer (Core UX)
South Korea, Seoul
Coupang South Korea, Seoul
The Senior Staff Product Designer will lead the development of high-quality customer experiences for Coupang's core e-commerce services. This role involves overseeing the design lifecycle and collaborating with various stakeholders to define release strategies for new product categories.
Lead Product Designer
🇫🇷 Paris, France
Smartop 🇫🇷 Paris, France
The Lead Product Designer will design simple and intuitive experiences for demanding users and ensure a coherent design vision across the platform. They will also evolve the design system and conduct user research to transform complex workflows into clear interfaces.
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.