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Principal Design Manager
🇦🇺 South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Stantec 🇦🇺 South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Lead technical teams in the design and delivery of water and wastewater projects in Queensland, ensuring outputs are on budget and high quality. Coordinate multidisciplinary activities, manage subcontractors, and develop strong relationships with utility clients.
Principal Product Designer, Games Discovery
🇫🇷 65400 Uz, France
Yahoo 🇫🇷 65400 Uz, France
Lead the design of discovery and acquisition experiences to convert casual visitors into engaged players across the Yahoo Games ecosystem. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize entry points and integrate AI-driven workflows into the design process.
Principal Product Designer
🇬🇧 Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Nisos 🇬🇧 Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Own the end-to-end design strategy and process for the Ascend platform, covering both new concepts and the evolution of existing surfaces. Collaborate cross-functionally to create intuitive product experiences for complex human digital risk workflows.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Ifs 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Own the end-to-end design process for defined feature areas, from initial problem framing to producing production-ready Figma files. Collaborate within cross-functional squads to design AI-driven features and contribute to the company's design system while ensuring accessibility standards.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Ifs 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Own end-to-end product design for feature areas, from problem framing to production-ready Figma files. Collaborate with cross-functional squads to design AI-driven features and evolve interface paradigms for industrial software.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Ifs 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Own the end-to-end design process for feature areas, from problem framing to production-ready Figma files. Collaborate with cross-functional squads to design AI-driven features and evolve interface paradigms for industrial software.
Principal Product Designer, Commerce Acquisition
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Dow Jones 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Define the long-term design strategy for subscriber acquisition across Dow Jones' portfolio of brands. Lead complex initiatives spanning paywalls, checkout, and identity while mentoring senior designers to elevate overall craft.
Principal Product Designer, Conversational Platforms
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Remitly 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
You will partner with content and engineering to design scalable conversational experiences across agentic AI platforms, messaging apps, and voice interfaces. You will also lead the design of complex customer-centric flows and help evolve the shared conversational design system.
Principal Product Designer
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Lawconnect 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Partner with Product Managers to transform user needs and business goals into validated design solutions through wireframing, prototyping, and testing. Map end-to-end user journeys and evolve the existing design system across web, desktop, and mobile platforms.
Principal Product Designer
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Corto Pty Ltd 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Partner with Product Managers to transform user needs and business goals into validated design solutions for legal products. Map end-to-end customer journeys and create wireframes and prototypes across web, desktop, and mobile platforms.
Principal UX Designer
🇺🇸 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Lutron Electronics 🇺🇸 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
The Principal UX Designer will drive end-to-end experience strategy and facilitate design thinking workshops to align senior stakeholders. They are responsible for structuring ambiguous problems into actionable plans and mentoring design teams to elevate strategic thinking.
Senior Director, Design Engineering
🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Celestica International Lp 🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Serve as the principal technical advisor for a key customer, designing innovative solutions using emerging technologies like AI/ML. Lead and mentor a high-performing engineering team while overseeing the full software development lifecycle and ensuring quality outcomes.
Principal Design Manager (Water Infrastructure)
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Arcadis 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Lead the design and construction of municipal water and wastewater infrastructure while managing multidisciplinary teams and project budgets. Foster client relationships and support business development through industry engagement and proposal preparation.
Principal UX Designer
🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
Backbase 🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
Lead the end-to-end design process by creating wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, and interactive prototypes for digital banking products. Facilitate client workshops to gather requirements and present design solutions to both internal and external stakeholders.
Principal Design Manager (Water Infrastructure)
🇺🇸 Irvine, California, United States of America
Arcadis 🇺🇸 Irvine, California, United States of America
Lead the design and construction of municipal water and wastewater infrastructure while managing multidisciplinary teams and project budgets. Drive business growth through client relationship management, business development, and industry representation.
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.