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Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Stell 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead product design from initial concepts through launch, creating Figma prototypes and defining interactions for complex engineering software. Design AI-assisted workflows and large-scale requirements management features, collaborate closely with engineering, and iterate based on customer feedback.
UI/UX & Web Designer
🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Syndicatebleu 🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Lead the design of websites, landing pages, digital tools, microsites, and interactive experiences, from initial concepts through launch. Collaborate with strategists, developers, clients, and creative leads while managing design systems, project timelines, documentation, and implementation quality.
Core Product Designer
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Snap Inc. 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Conceive and pitch new Snapchat features, then lead their end-to-end design and execution, including visual and interaction design, prototyping, and communicating decisions to company leaders and cross-functional teams. Identify user needs, improve existing products, and define short- and long-term roadmaps for assigned product areas.
Lead UX Designer
🇺🇸 Reynoldsburg, Ohio, United States of America
Victoria’s Secret & Co. 🇺🇸 Reynoldsburg, Ohio, United States of America
Lead the design of complex digital shopping experiences, collaborating with product, engineering, research, and business partners to create intuitive, accessible, and effective solutions. Contribute to and advocate for scalable design systems, mentor designers, use research and metrics to improve products, and align design work with user needs and business goals.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Sls Consultants 🇺🇸 Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Lead design delivery for a 1.5 GW hyperscale data center campus, coordinating architecture, engineering, and specialty consultants across civil, utility, building, and infrastructure disciplines. Manage schedules, design packages, technical reviews, stakeholder alignment, consultant performance, and risks while ensuring owner requirements and quality standards are met.
Sr UX Designer
🇺🇸 Reynoldsburg, Ohio, United States of America
Victoria’s Secret & Co. 🇺🇸 Reynoldsburg, Ohio, United States of America
Lead the design and continuous improvement of accessible, intuitive digital experiences, using research, testing, site metrics, and design systems to develop and validate solutions. Collaborate with product, engineering, research, business, and brand partners; present design decisions, contribute to roadmap planning, and mentor and support other designers.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Trm Labs 🇺🇸 United States of America
You will lead end-to-end design for core workflows across public and private sector products, focusing on the integration of AI agents into user experiences. You will collaborate closely with product managers and engineers to build, test, and ship high-quality, data-heavy interfaces.
Senior UI Designer (Contractor)
🇸🇪 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Arrowhead Game Studios 🇸🇪 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Lead the design and development of intuitive, accessible UI systems for Helldivers 2, including combat HUDs, inventory, strategy planning, and social features. Collaborate with designers, artists, and engineers to take UI work from wireframes through implementation, optimize it for performance and usability, and contribute to design decisions and team knowledge-sharing.
Design Manager - Defense
🇦🇺 Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Core Talent 🇦🇺 Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Lead multidisciplinary building design coordination and delivery from concept through construction, managing scope, schedule, budget, risk, change, and design interfaces. Drive BIM and digital engineering, engage Defence stakeholders and project partners, and provide technical leadership while embedding safety, security, quality, and sustainability.
UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Haystack 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Develop and maintain design systems and style guides for consistent digital experiences, including transportation signage, and use user research and testing to improve experiences continuously. Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to align user needs with business objectives, present concepts and findings to senior leadership, and establish UX processes and quality practices.
I-270 Design Manager (PE I) - Denver
🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
State Of Colorado 🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Lead and oversee design development for the I-270 Corridor Improvements Project, including coordinating engineering disciplines, preparing and reviewing plans, specifications, and estimates, and ensuring compliance with applicable standards and environmental commitments. Advance community enhancement projects through planning, procurement, funding, coordination, and budget oversight, and provide design support during construction.
Senior UX UI Designer
🇺🇸 Sacramento, California, United States of America
Sbm Management Services, Lp 🇺🇸 Sacramento, California, United States of America
Lead UX/UI strategy and design decisions, translating business needs and complex concepts into intuitive interfaces across desktop, web, and mobile platforms. Conduct research, create design artifacts and production-ready front-end code, approve final designs, and guide other designers while collaborating with stakeholders and developers.
Product Design Manager
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Mirage 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
You will lead and grow the product design team while setting the vision, strategy, and quality standards for all design work at Mirage. You will also partner with executive, product, and engineering teams to translate complex AI capabilities into intuitive user experiences.
Senior Product Designer, Space
🇺🇸 Costa Mesa, California, United States of America
Anduril Industries 🇺🇸 Costa Mesa, California, United States of America
You will own the design process for spacecraft mission planning and sensor network command and control experiences. This involves leading discovery, defining design principles, and collaborating with engineers and operators to deliver high-craft technical solutions.
Contract Design Manager
🇺🇸 Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America
Ascension 🇺🇸 Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America
Develop category negotiation strategies and manage contracts throughout their lifecycle, using market research and trend analysis to guide decisions and improve outcomes. Engage stakeholders and end-users, monitor contract performance, communicate relevant updates, and lead associate hiring, onboarding, development, and coaching.
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.