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Design Manager - Design Build
🇺🇸 Reston, Virginia, United States of America
Jacobs 🇺🇸 Reston, Virginia, United States of America
The Design Manager will lead the scoping, planning, and delivery of municipal and industrial water infrastructure projects. This includes managing teams through all phases of design and ensuring project quality and financial performance.
Senior Technology Design Manager - White Space Fit Out
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Coreweave 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Senior Technology Design Manager will lead and manage the design process for Data Center Fit Outs, ensuring designs meet CoreWeave project requirements. This role involves coordinating with internal teams and external consultants to ensure high-quality execution of designs.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Trust In Soda 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
As a Staff Product Designer, you'll define the overall user experience vision across multiple products and platforms. You'll lead the development of a scalable Design System and create innovative user experiences that simplify complex workflows.
Lead Design Manager, Resilient
🇺🇸 LaGrange, Georgia, United States of America
Interface 🇺🇸 LaGrange, Georgia, United States of America
The Lead Design Manager, Resilient is responsible for leading the design strategy and creating innovative designs for Interface’s resilient product portfolio. This role involves collaboration with a global design team and guiding the Senior Designer on projects to ensure alignment with company values.
Graphic Design Manager
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Sbh Fashion 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Graphic Design Manager will lead a small design team and oversee the execution of brand creative across digital and print channels. They will partner with the Art Director to translate brand initiatives into compelling visual communications.
Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Woods & Co 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Create engaging visual assets across print, digital, and social channels while maintaining a consistent brand identity. Collaborate with leadership and cross-functional teams on creative projects and contribute fresh ideas to enhance the customer experience.
Senior Product Designer, Marketplace Global App
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Ticketmaster 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design process for the global mobile app, focusing on fan experiences for searching, buying, and entering events. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate strategic business goals into pixel-perfect mobile deliverables.
UI/UX & Graphic Designer
🇭🇺 Érd, Pest, Hungary
Avl In Hungary 🇭🇺 Érd, Pest, Hungary
The UI/UX & Graphic Designer will lead the design and usability efforts at AVL, shaping user interfaces for both internal applications and external customer solutions. This role includes maintaining corporate design standards and creating visual materials for communication and marketing.
Senior Product Designer
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Deputy 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
As a Senior Product Designer, you will lead the design of innovative solutions that simplify and enhance the work experience for shift workers. You will collaborate with product managers and engineers to shape the product roadmap and ensure impactful execution.
MEP Design Manager
🇯🇲 Negril, Westmoreland, Jamaica
Thatcher Associates 🇯🇲 Negril, Westmoreland, Jamaica
The MEP Design Manager will lead design coordination across multidisciplinary project teams and manage consultant teams and design deliverables. They will ensure designs comply with project standards, regulations, and client expectations.
Lead Custom Logic Design Manager
🇨🇭 Zurich, Switzerland
Ir Search Bv 🇨🇭 Zurich, Switzerland
Direct a team of engineers in implementing a near-memory compute product, guiding them through the entire design cycle. Own the product roadmap, define specifications, and ensure successful tape-in and silicon of production-grade custom memory blocks.
Senior UX Researcher
🇬🇧 England, United Kingdom
Tata Consultancy Services 🇬🇧 England, United Kingdom
The Senior UX Researcher leads user research activities for digital pensions products, ensuring user insights inform design decisions. They collaborate with stakeholders and delivery teams to embed user-centred design practices throughout the project lifecycle.
Senior Product Designer (UX Specialist) - Media Company
🇧🇷 Brazil
Jobgether 🇧🇷 Brazil
Lead end-to-end product design initiatives for a complex digital platform, translating workflows into user-centered experiences. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to shape solutions that align with user needs and business goals.
Staff UX Design Manager, Geo
🇸🇬 Singapore
Google 🇸🇬 Singapore
Drive the UX capabilities of Google Maps Mobility and lead user experience innovation for new conversational AI frameworks. Provide leadership and mentorship to a team of UX designers while collaborating with Product and Engineering teams.
Lead Product Designer F/H
🇫🇷 93400 Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, France
Altavia 🇫🇷 93400 Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, France
Define and drive the overall product design vision and UX architecture for a B2B SaaS platform. Partner with the CPO to shape product strategy and manage a scalable design system while mentoring other 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.