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Senior Solutions Design Manager Europe & MEA – Warehouse Design
🇩🇪 Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Dhl Supply Chain 🇩🇪 Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Lead and develop complex technical and commercial warehouse solutions across Europe and the Middle East and Africa, modeling operational scenarios and advising customers on innovative solutions and cost-benefit options. Collaborate with commercial teams, business development, and key account managers to build commercial frameworks that support growth, contract retention, continuous improvement, sustainability, and innovation.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇨🇦 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Russell Food Equipment Limited 🇨🇦 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
The Senior Graphic Designer will lead the design process from concept to completion while ensuring brand consistency across all marketing channels. They will also collaborate with the marketing team and provide guidance to junior staff to foster professional growth.
Sr./Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Runway 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead design projects for new features and improvements across web and mobile products, creating and iterating on concepts and prototypes for creative workflows. Collaborate with product, engineering, and research teams to improve products and processes while maintaining consistent visual design and user experience.
Senior Product Designer - Design Systems
🇺🇸 Irving, Texas, United States of America
Peterson Technology Partners 🇺🇸 Irving, Texas, United States of America
Own significant design-system initiatives, turning recurring product experience problems into reusable standards, patterns, and structured specifications that support consistent implementation. Define and prototype complex agentic interactions, including delegation, oversight, accessibility, failure, and recovery, while partnering with design leadership and engineering on governance and platform architecture.
Content Design, Vice President- Design Systems
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Jpmorgan Chase & Co. 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
You will lead content design initiatives for design systems, creating scalable strategies and reusable content patterns to ensure intuitive customer experiences. You will also collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate content guidance into agentic AI workflows and maintain high standards across digital products.
Senior UI Designer- Freelance
🇺🇸 Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Vml 🇺🇸 Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
The Senior UI Designer will lead visual design direction and execution across digital platforms while scaling design systems. They will partner with cross-functional teams to deliver cohesive experiences and integrate AI tools to improve design efficiency.
Sr. Design Engineering Manager
🇺🇸 Jefferson City, Missouri, United States of America
American Plastics, Llc 🇺🇸 Jefferson City, Missouri, United States of America
Lead and develop a team of design engineers while designing and optimizing plastic components and products for functionality, manufacturability, quality, and cost-effectiveness. Oversee CAD modeling, prototyping, material selection, design documentation, and collaboration with manufacturing and other cross-functional teams.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Securityscorecard 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Lead end-to-end design of complex AI-enabled cybersecurity workflows, grounding interactive prototypes in the existing codebase and design system. Use research, analytics, accessibility practices, and cross-functional collaboration to improve enterprise experiences and strengthen the design system and the team's AI prototyping capabilities.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Securityscorecard 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Lead end-to-end design for complex AI-enabled cybersecurity workflows, using research, product analytics, and rapid code-based prototyping grounded in the existing product and design system. Strengthen accessible, reusable design patterns, build the design team's AI prototyping capabilities, and partner with Product and Engineering to turn ambiguous problems into evidence-based solutions.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 Stamford, Connecticut, United States of America
Securityscorecard 🇺🇸 Stamford, Connecticut, United States of America
Lead end-to-end design for complex AI-enabled cybersecurity workflows, using research, analytics, and rapid code-based prototyping grounded in the existing product and design system. Improve enterprise design patterns and accessibility, strengthen the design system, build the team’s AI prototyping skills, and partner with Product and Engineering to deliver evidence-based solutions.
Senior Staff Product Designer - Consumer Group, Credit Karma
🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Intuit 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Lead end-to-end design strategy and delivery for Credit Karma’s consumer engagement and personal finance experiences across web and mobile, translating complex financial concepts into accessible, scalable products. Mentor designers, extend design systems, and collaborate with product, engineering, research, and data partners to deliver impactful experiences informed by customer insights and business goals.
Senior Staff Product Designer - Consumer Group, Credit Karma
🇺🇸 Oakland, California, United States of America
Intuit 🇺🇸 Oakland, California, United States of America
Lead end-to-end design strategy and delivery for Credit Karma engagement features across web and mobile, translating complex financial concepts into accessible, scalable experiences. Use customer research and data to guide design, extend design systems, influence stakeholders, and mentor designers while advancing high-impact initiatives.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America
Securityscorecard 🇺🇸 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America
Lead end-to-end design for complex AI-enabled cybersecurity workflows, using research, usability testing, and product analytics to validate and refine solutions. Build codebase-grounded prototypes with AI, strengthen accessible design-system patterns, and collaborate with Product and Engineering while advancing the design team's AI prototyping skills.
Head of Design, Product Design
🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America
Bitgo 🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America
Lead and mentor the design team while remaining hands-on, owning and shipping product design work, including the retail mobile experience and design system. Establish design as an early strategic partner across product and engineering, improve design processes and craft, and represent design internally and externally.
Finance Manager, Worldwide Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
Lead financial modeling, ROI and NPV analysis, and evaluation of building design decisions across Amazon’s worldwide operations fulfillment network. Partner with cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders to assess network impacts, improve financial processes, facilitate reviews, and support team development.
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.