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Senior Engineer, Digital Design Engineering
🇹🇷 Istanbul, Turkey
Analog Devices 🇹🇷 Istanbul, Turkey
You will lead block-level digital design and verification efforts while ensuring performance, timing closure, and power optimization. Additionally, you will mentor junior engineers and collaborate with customers to provide technical solutions.
CPU Cache Subsystem Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 City of Poughkeepsie, New York, United States of America
Google 🇺🇸 City of Poughkeepsie, New York, United States of America
Lead and manage a front-end design team to develop next-generation CPU subsystems, focusing on micro-architecture and RTL design. Collaborate with cross-functional teams including architecture, software, verification, and physical design to ensure project milestones and PPA goals are met.
Concept Design Manager
🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Upnext Uae 🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Lead the architectural concept design process from initial vision through to developed concept, including building forms and visual identity. Mentor the design team and present creative proposals to senior stakeholders and clients.
Senior Graphic Designer (Real Estate Development Exp Only)
🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Major Developments 🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai Emirate, United Arab Emirates
The Senior Graphic Designer will transform creative concepts into high-quality marketing collateral, branding, and visual assets for real estate development projects. The role involves collaborating with marketing teams and CGI artists to execute designs across print, digital, and physical event formats.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 Chester, Cheshire West and Chester, England, United Kingdom
Watkin Jones Group 🇬🇧 Chester, Cheshire West and Chester, England, United Kingdom
You will coordinate design deliverables across multiple disciplines and manage the design process from concept through to delivery. This involves ensuring compliance with scopes, identifying value engineering opportunities, and supporting sustainability initiatives.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Bw: Workplace Experts 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
The Senior Design Manager will lead the design and technical management process across multiple projects from inception through to completion. They are responsible for coordinating consultants and subcontractors, managing tender bids, and ensuring technical compliance and quality control.
CPU Cache Subsystem Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Google 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Lead and manage a front-end design team to develop CPU functional units and micro-architecture for next-generation subsystems. Collaborate with cross-functional teams including software, verification, and physical design to ensure high-quality RTL delivery that meets performance, power, and area goals.
CPU Cache Subsystem Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Google 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Lead and manage a front-end design team to develop micro-architecture and RTL for next-generation CPU subsystems. Collaborate with cross-functional teams including architecture, verification, and physical design to ensure high-quality productization and PPA goals.
CPU Cache Subsystem Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Portland, Oregon, United States of America
Google 🇺🇸 Portland, Oregon, United States of America
Lead and manage a front-end design team focused on CPU functional units, specifically micro-architecture and RTL for next-generation CPU subsystems. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality designs that meet performance, power, area, and schedule goals.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Mateo, California, United States of America
Sonar 🇺🇸 San Mateo, California, United States of America
You will lead product design for your squad, creating intuitive experiences for both human and AI agent users. You will collaborate closely with product managers and engineers to define problems, validate technical feasibility, and ensure high-quality delivery throughout the development lifecycle.
Senior UX Researcher
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Ucl 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
You will lead complex research across the university's digital estate to turn user insights into meaningful product improvements. Additionally, you will mentor other researchers and champion user-centred design practices across the organization.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 West Midlands, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom
Volkerwessels Uk 🇬🇧 West Midlands, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom
The Senior Design Manager will serve as the principal point of contact for managing design aspects of tenders and active projects. They are responsible for leading the design service throughout both the bid and delivery stages to ensure professional and sustainable outcomes.
Senior UI/UX Product Designer
🇮🇳 India
Hsv Digital 🇮🇳 India
The Senior UI/UX Product Designer will own the end-to-end design process, from research and wireframing to high-fidelity visual design and developer handoff. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to create intuitive, scalable digital products that meet business and user requirements.
Senior Motion Graphic Designer
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
Jobgether 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
Create dynamic motion graphics, 3D assets, and visual content for marketing campaigns and social media. Integrate AI-powered tools into creative workflows while collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure brand consistency.
Senior UX Designer
🇸🇪 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Qred Bank Ab 🇸🇪 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Lead end-to-end UX research initiatives and synthesize data to uncover user friction points across web and mobile platforms. Drive continuous discovery and contribute to the shared design system to ensure scalable framework consistency.
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.