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CSA Design Manager
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Apto 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Lead civil, structural, and architectural due diligence activities, including site assessments and design evaluations. Manage CSA design permitting processes and ensure compliance with local and international codes during all phases of design and construction.
Senior Design Manager
🇶🇦 Qatar
Power International Holding 🇶🇦 Qatar
Lead the creative direction and manage the design process from concept to execution, ensuring compliance with contract specifications and brand standards. Collaborate with cross-functional teams and mentor junior designers to deliver high-quality, technically feasible design solutions.
Senior UI/UX Designer UK - Remote
Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
Indigo Slate Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
Lead the UX design for complex enterprise-grade workflow and document-processing applications, focusing on data-dense environments. Translate business requirements into user journeys, wireframes, and high-fidelity designs while establishing scalable design patterns.
Silicon Design Engineering Leader
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Lead SOC design execution from planning to tape-out, managing both technical deliverables and global design teams. Responsible for people management, including hiring, performance appraisals, and career development for the engineering team.
Senior UX Researcher
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Shine 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Lead high-impact qualitative and quantitative research on strategic product questions and coach team members on research methods. Build and maintain shared research infrastructure while championing a customer-centered culture across the organization.
Senior Product Designer
🇮🇳 Mumbai City District, India
Ketto 🇮🇳 Mumbai City District, India
Lead the end-to-end user experience of the Meta Go digital platform, focusing on the mobile application. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define requirements and validate the user experience.
Technical Design Manager
🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
Latinem Private Limited 🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
Lead the full interior design lifecycle for luxury villas, ensuring the design vision is consistently executed. Manage a team of designers and collaborate with clients and consultants to align the design with project goals.
Senior Product Design Manager [T500-26405]
🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
Marriott Tech Accelerator 🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
The Senior Product Design Manager will provide creative and strategic direction for digital experiences at Marriott Tech Accelerator. This role involves leading design teams, ensuring high-quality design standards, and collaborating with product and engineering teams.
Senior UI Designer (LY-CR11)
🇮🇳 Mumbai City District, India
Lemon Yellow Llp 🇮🇳 Mumbai City District, India
The Senior UI Designer will lead the creation of user interfaces for web and mobile products, ensuring consistency with brand and design systems. Responsibilities include owning end-to-end UI design for key projects and mentoring junior designers.
Senior Product Design Manager [T500-26439]
🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
Marriott Tech Accelerator 🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
The Senior Product Design Manager will provide creative and strategic direction for digital experiences at Marriott Tech Accelerator. This role involves leading design teams, ensuring high-quality design standards, and collaborating with product and engineering teams.
Head of Design - Decarbonisation
🇬🇧 Solihull, Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, England, United Kingdom
Alternative Heat Ltd 🇬🇧 Solihull, Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, England, United Kingdom
The Head of Design – Decarbonisation leads a multi-disciplinary design team to develop compliant and commercially viable decarbonisation solutions for large buildings. This role oversees the full project lifecycle and ensures compliance with regulations while driving the creation of net zero solutions.
Head of Design - Decarbonisation
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Alternative Heat Ltd 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
The Head of Design – Decarbonisation leads a multi-disciplinary design team to develop compliant and commercially viable decarbonisation solutions. This role oversees the full project lifecycle and ensures alignment with client and regulatory requirements.
Senior Product Designer (StudyGo)
🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Futurewhiz 🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Lead the development of StudyGo from initial idea to final user experience, focusing on AI-driven learning solutions. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to design user journeys and coach other designers within the design guild.
Design Manager - Design Build
🇺🇸 Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America
Jacobs 🇺🇸 Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America
The Design Manager will lead and manage teams through all phases of design, ensuring projects meet scope, schedule, budget, and quality expectations. They will also be accountable for project completion and client satisfaction while adhering to Jacobs' business policies.
Sr Product Designer
🇺🇸 Eden Prairie, Minnesota, United States of America
Homeservices Of America 🇺🇸 Eden Prairie, Minnesota, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will lead design initiatives from concept to execution, ensuring exceptional user experiences. This role involves collaborating with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to create impactful designs.
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.