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Structural Design Manager
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Webuild 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Review permanent structural design packages for code compliance and constructability, and lead the structural design and development of temporary works. Coordinate with design, procurement, construction, planning, and other stakeholders; provide technical support and on-site engineering guidance throughout project execution.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Medium 🇺🇸 United States of America
Partner with product, engineering, design, and leadership to shape strategy and initiatives, then create and ship high-quality designs, interactions, and prototypes. Conduct user research, use AI design tools to explore ideas, contribute to the design system, and uphold a high design bar through collaboration.
Product Designer - Instagram
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Instagram 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead the vision and end-to-end design of Instagram’s AI-native internal product platform, bringing prototyping, design review, organizational memory, and collaboration into a coherent system. Set quality and design-system standards, align senior leaders and cross-functional partners, and mentor designers while shaping how teams work.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Meta 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Turn broad concepts into useful product experiences, designing clear user flows, interfaces, and visual systems for Meta products. Partner with product managers, engineers, researchers, and content strategists from conception through launch, while contributing to product strategy and communicating design decisions to teams and leaders.
Sr./Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Runway 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead design projects for new features and improvements across mobile and web products, and create, iterate on, and prototype concepts for creative workflows. Partner with product, engineering, and research teams to improve products and processes and maintain consistent visual design and user experience.
Technical Design Manager
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Janie And Jack Llc 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Own fit, construction, and technical execution across apparel categories, maintaining standards and ensuring products meet design, quality, safety, and manufacturability requirements. Lead technical problem-solving with internal teams and suppliers, use customer and product-performance data to address systemic issues, and manage and develop technical design support.
Head of Design
Remote (🇬🇧 Leeds, England, United Kingdom)
Fynity Remote (🇬🇧 Leeds, England, United Kingdom)
Lead the multidisciplinary Design function, setting creative standards and providing strategic direction across UX/UI, digital products, brand, campaigns, and motion. Develop the team and oversee resourcing, budgets, client partnerships, pitches, cross-functional collaboration, and improvements to creative processes.
Senior Hydraulic Design Manager
🇸🇬 Singapore
Ramboll 🇸🇬 Singapore
Lead multidisciplinary planning and design for water infrastructure, flood resilience, and climate adaptation projects from early assessment through detailed design and implementation support. Provide technical and project leadership, coordinate clients and stakeholders, ensure quality and regulatory compliance, and contribute to proposals and the development of the team’s capabilities.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Filton, South Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom
Rowden 🇬🇧 Filton, South Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom
Lead product direction and roadmap, translating customer and end-user needs into requirements and priorities. Deliver hardware products from concept through production while managing teams, cost, schedule, quality, technical and supply-chain risks, and customer relationships.
Product Designer | Early-Stage MusicTech Portfolio Company
🇮🇳 Bengaluru Urban, - 560080, Karnataka, India
Peak Xv Partners 🇮🇳 Bengaluru Urban, - 560080, Karnataka, India
Lead the evolution of the platform’s user experience by designing and shipping end-to-end music-making experiences, simplifying complex workflows, and maintaining a high standard of craft. Collaborate with founders and cross-functional teams, scale the design system, and use data and design thinking to identify opportunities and influence the product roadmap.
Freelance, UX Researcher
Plan and lead evaluative and generative UX research for client projects, including usability studies and in-depth interviews, while managing study setup, screeners, and participant recruitment. Synthesize findings into actionable insights and deliverables, communicate with stakeholders, and complete studies on time while validating AI-assisted research outputs.
Senior Product Designer
🇵🇪 Lima, Lima Metropolitan Area, Peru
Encora 🇵🇪 Lima, Lima Metropolitan Area, Peru
Design user-centered digital experiences for web and mobile, leading product design from research through validation and creating accessible, visually compelling interfaces. Develop prototypes and design systems, validate solutions through user testing, support end-to-end service design and branding, and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders.
Senior Manager, Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Dyersburg, Tennessee, United States of America
Ermco-eci 🇺🇸 Dyersburg, Tennessee, United States of America
Lead multiple engineering teams responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing three-phase distribution transformers, while managing product scope, budgets, resources, and project delivery. Drive engineering strategy execution, cross-functional collaboration, regulatory compliance, safety, performance measurement, and the development of managers and senior engineers.
Mechanical Design Manager
🇺🇸 Reno, Nevada, United States of America
Brightpath Associates Llc 🇺🇸 Reno, Nevada, United States of America
Manage mechanical design projects from planning through completion, overseeing scope, schedule, budget, quality, and consultant performance. Coordinate with project teams and design professionals, lead design reviews, resolve issues, and support cost-effective facility design and project standards.
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, collaborating with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to define goals and deliver high-quality solutions. Communicate designs through flows, wireframes, mockups, and prototypes; incorporate user feedback and business requirements; and advocate for user-centered improvements.
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.