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Buildings & Facilities Design Manager Southwest Division
🇺🇸 Los Angeles County, California, United States of America
Mott Macdonald 🇺🇸 Los Angeles County, California, United States of America
The Buildings & Facilities Design Manager will lead and grow the Southwest Division's buildings practice by overseeing multidisciplinary engineering teams and driving project delivery excellence. They are responsible for developing growth strategies, managing client relationships, and securing new business across key infrastructure and facility sectors.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Vanir Construction Management, Inc. 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Lead the design lifecycle for campus capital projects, overseeing planning, design deliverables, quality reviews, compliance, schedules, budgets, and DSA approvals. Coordinate the Capital Program Team, design consultants, and District stakeholders, and review construction changes and their impacts on project scope, cost, and schedule.
Senior Senior SharePoint Developer and Visual Designer
🇺🇸 Fairfax County, Virginia, United States of America
Meridian Systematics 🇺🇸 Fairfax County, Virginia, United States of America
The role involves developing and maintaining SharePoint sites while integrating graphic design and UX principles to enhance functionality and visual identity. You will collaborate with leadership to translate business requirements into digital products and manage site administration and security.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 Suffolk, England, United Kingdom
Dragados Uk & Ireland 🇬🇧 Suffolk, England, United Kingdom
Manage, coordinate, integrate, and assure the multidisciplinary design for West Suffolk Hospital, ensuring it meets contractual requirements and is safe, buildable, operational, and maintainable. Lead the design team and supply chain, develop and implement design management plans, coordinate design packages and interfaces, and provide assurance of compliance.
UX Designer
🇵🇹 Portugal
Decskill 🇵🇹 Portugal
Lead the UX design process from discovery through delivery, translating user needs and business goals into design solutions. Create wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity UI specifications while collaborating with product managers, developers, and stakeholders and promoting strong UX practices.
Design Engineering Manager
🇬🇧 Witney, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Orion Electrotech 🇬🇧 Witney, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Lead and develop the Engineering team, own the new product development pipeline from initial brief through production release, and establish effective project governance, resource planning, and risk management. Oversee design workflows, change control, and documentation while partnering with Operations, Quality, Purchasing, Sales, manufacturing teams, and suppliers to improve product performance and deliver commercial results.
Senior UX Designer – Speaking Tutor (IC25 Tier – Advanced Specialist)
🇪🇸 Spain
Hcltech 🇪🇸 Spain
Lead end-to-end UX design for an AI-powered speaking practice product, including onboarding, voice conversations, feedback, and progress tracking. Establish design direction and scalable Figma patterns, validate experiences through research and analytics, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to launch and improve the product.
Senior UX Designer – Student Experience (Maternity Cover)
🇪🇸 Spain
Hcltech 🇪🇸 Spain
Lead end-to-end UX design for student-facing mobile features, creating inclusive, motivating experiences that support learning progress, engagement, activation, and retention. Collaborate with product, engineering, learning design, research, and analytics teams to prototype, test, localize, and iteratively deliver cohesive experiences.
Senior Product Designer, Support
🇸🇬 Singapore
Grab 🇸🇬 Singapore
Design user-centered experiences for internal and enterprise web tools and mobile applications, leading design initiatives across complex problem areas in collaboration with Product, Analytics, Engineering, and Business teams. Contribute to product strategy and design-system improvements while promoting design excellence, collaboration, feedback, and knowledge sharing.
Senior Environmental Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America
Newground 🇺🇸 Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America
Lead environmental graphic design programs from concept through production, including brand identity, signage, wayfinding, retail communications, and exhibits. Collaborate with clients and multidisciplinary teams, guide junior staff, and coordinate production partners to deliver high-quality work aligned with project goals and brand standards.
Senior Environmental Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Clayton, MO 63105, United States of America
Newground 🇺🇸 Clayton, MO 63105, United States of America
Lead environmental graphic design programs from concept through production, including brand identity, signage, wayfinding, retail communications, artistic displays, and exhibits. Collaborate with clients and multidisciplinary teams, guide junior staff, coordinate production and installation, and support project planning and business development.
UX Designer, Google Health
🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Google 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Lead end-to-end design for AI-powered health experiences across platforms, including wearables and multimodal interactions, from defining product goals through prototyping and execution. Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to incorporate user feedback and business requirements, communicate design concepts, and advocate for user-centered improvements.
Head of Design, Product Design
🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America
Bitgo 🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America
You will lead the design team while maintaining a hands-on role in product design, owning the design system, and contributing to business strategy. You are responsible for mentoring designers, establishing a high craft bar, and ensuring design is integrated early into product and engineering workflows.
Staff Product Designer, New Bets
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Doordash Usa 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead design for Meals for Work, shaping consumer and enterprise experiences for workplace dining, catering, recurring company-paid meals, and grocery benefits. Clarify ambiguous cross-team problems, guide projects from concept through launch, and increase team capacity through reusable tools, workflows, frameworks, mentorship, and collaboration.
Lead Product Designer
🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Secfi 🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Lead product design at Secfi, shaping the AI financial planner, portfolio value tracker, equity planning tools, onboarding, and financing flows. Drive the new brand identity into the product, website, and design system while helping establish design standards and practices as the team grows.
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.