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Senior Interaction Designer

🇬🇧 Leeds, England, United Kingdom

The role involves providing design leadership and hands-on interaction design for complex digital products and services. You will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders to develop design concepts grounded in user needs.

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Senior Product Designer

🇲🇹 Malta

Lead end-to-end product design for sportsbook web and mobile applications, from discovery and wireframing to high-fidelity UI and interactive prototypes. Collaborate with Product Managers and Engineers to maintain design systems and optimize conversion funnels using data-driven insights.

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Senior Product Designer

🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom

Lead end-to-end product design for sportsbook web and mobile applications, from discovery and wireframing to high-fidelity UI and interactive prototypes. Collaborate with product managers and engineers to optimize conversion funnels and maintain scalable design systems.

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Senior Product Designer

🇸🇪 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Lead end-to-end product design for sportsbook web and mobile applications, from discovery and wireframing to high-fidelity UI. Collaborate with product managers and engineers to optimize conversion funnels and maintain scalable design systems.

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Senior Manager, Product Design Engineering, Pixel Phones

🇹🇼 New Taipei, Taiwan

Google is looking for a Senior Manager in Product Design Engineering to lead the design of the next generation of Pixel phones. The ideal candidate will have experience in mechanical engineering, product design, and leading multiple engineering teams. The role involves collaborating with vendors and external sources to manufacture parts and managing varied responsibilities across the product.

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UX Design Manager, Ecosystems Growth

🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel

Lead and mentor a high-performing design team while defining product strategy and conceptualizing ecosystem-level UX. Collaborate with Engineering and Product Management to align business goals with design innovation and validate strategies using analytics.

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Sr. UX Designer (Creative Labs)

🇹🇼 New Taipei, Taiwan

The role involves creating innovative user experiences across VR, AR, AI, and Web 4.0 platforms by blending business strategy with human-centered design. Responsibilities include leading user research, developing design artifacts, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to implement high-quality product experiences.

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Senior Staff UX Design Manager, Gmail

🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America

You will drive the strategy and execution of an agentic Gmail experience by integrating AI into legacy workflows. Additionally, you will manage a design team while collaborating with cross-functional leaders to ensure cohesive, high-quality user experiences across desktop and mobile.

$236,000 - $330,000Full-timeSenior
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Design Manager

🇦🇺 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Lead and mentor the Switchboard Design team to deliver high-quality, compliant, and cost-effective designs. Oversee end-to-end project delivery while collaborating with production and procurement to ensure manufacturability.

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Product Designer, Staff

South Korea, Seoul

Lead company-wide design challenges by establishing interaction models, experience principles, and a global product language for AI-driven products. Drive the overall quality bar of the design team through the creation of scalable patterns, systems, and mentorship of other designers.

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Product Designer, Staff

South Korea, Seoul

Lead company-wide design challenges by establishing interaction models, experience principles, and a global product language for AI-driven products. Responsible for scaling design quality through systems and patterns while directly executing high-level UI/UX for core projects.

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Associate Director - Design Engineering - MEP

🇬🇧 Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Provide technical leadership and oversight for the Electrical Design function to ensure safe and compliant high-quality solutions. Manage the MEP design team, oversee technical assurance, and contribute to net zero carbon objectives.

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Design Manager - Interiors

🇺🇸 Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America

Manage all phases of corporate interior projects from set-up through construction administration, ensuring they are delivered on time and on budget. Lead project teams and maintain client relationships while overseeing scheduling, budgets, and financial performance.

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Senior Graphic Designer, Apparel

🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America

The role involves partnering with the Creative Director to develop and execute design concepts across brand, fashion, and experiential activations. The designer will lead the creation of key assets and evolve the Insomniac visual language across digital and physical touchpoints.

$110,000 - $130,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer - Labrnyth

🇦🇷 Argentina

The Senior Product Designer will own the end-to-end user experience for platform surfaces, from discovery to build-ready prototypes. They will establish design standards, maintain accessibility and brand consistency, and eventually grow into the company's design leader.

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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.