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Senior Product Designer (AI Experiences)
🌍 Remote
Smartrecruiters Inc 🌍 Remote
The Senior Product Designer will lead the design of AI-driven experiences, focusing on conversational and multi-agent interactions. This includes owning the end-to-end design process from discovery to validation, ensuring high-quality user experiences across various platforms.
Senior Product Designer (AI Experiences)
🌍 Remote
Smartrecruiters Inc 🌍 Remote
The Senior Product Designer will lead the design of AI-driven experiences, focusing on conversational systems and multi-agent interactions. This role involves end-to-end experience design, including prototyping, validation, and defining agent behaviors.
Senior Product Designer (AI Experiences)
🌍 Remote
Smartrecruiters Inc 🌍 Remote
The Senior Product Designer will lead the design of AI-driven experiences, focusing on conversational and multi-agent interactions. This includes owning the end-to-end design process from discovery to validation, ensuring high-quality user experiences across various platforms.
Senior Product Designer (AI Experiences)
🌍 Remote
Smartrecruiters Inc 🌍 Remote
The Senior Product Designer will lead the design of AI-driven experiences, focusing on conversational and multi-agent interactions. This includes owning the end-to-end design process from discovery to validation, ensuring high-quality user experiences.
Senior Product Designer (AI Experiences)
🌍 Remote
Smartrecruiters Inc 🌍 Remote
The Senior Product Designer will lead the design of AI-driven experiences, focusing on conversational and multi-agent interactions. This includes owning the end-to-end design process from discovery to validation, ensuring high-quality user experiences across various platforms.
Senior Product Designer (Product Shaping and 0-to-1, AI-Powered Products)
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Doodle 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Lead design from problem framing to shipped solution, focusing on AI-driven and data-powered experiences. Create prototypes to test ideas and align teams while contributing to Doodle’s design system.
Mechanical Design Engineering Department Manager 3 (17535)
🇺🇸 United States
Northrop Grumman 🇺🇸 United States
Provide oversight and assistance to multiple programs within the Division portfolio, ensuring successful achievement of program goals. Lead improvements across the design department for employee engagement, hiring, development, and retention of top talent.
Staff Engineer, VLSI Design Engineering (SOC, Verification, UVM)
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Sandisk 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
The Staff Engineer will develop test plans and verification infrastructure for complex IP/Sub-Systems and lead major deliverables for SoCs. They will also create a verification environment using UVM methodology and drive functional coverage driven verification closure.
Fall 2026: Product Design Engineering Co-op, Advanced Development (July to December)
🇺🇸 Needham, Massachusetts, United States
Sharkninja 🇺🇸 Needham, Massachusetts, United States
In this role, you will generate new product concepts and collaborate with cross-functional teams to define solutions that enhance user experience. You will also lead design studies and build prototypes to test and iterate on design solutions.
Fall 2026: Product Design Engineering Co-op, Ninja (July to December)
🇺🇸 Needham, Massachusetts, United States
Sharkninja 🇺🇸 Needham, Massachusetts, United States
As a Product Design Engineering Co-op, you will develop and refine new product concepts while collaborating with cross-functional teams to create consumer-ready solutions. You will also lead design studies and build prototypes to inform design decisions.
Sr. Manager Physical Design Engineering
🇮🇪 County Cork, Municipal District of Cobh, Ireland
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc 🇮🇪 County Cork, Municipal District of Cobh, Ireland
Lead and manage a team of engineers focused on Microprocessor Physical Design implementation and signoff. Provide technical leadership across all facets of Physical Design to ensure high-quality results.
External Design Engineering Supervisor
🇺🇸 Akron, Ohio, United States
Firstenergy 🇺🇸 Akron, Ohio, United States
The Supervisor, External Design Engineering will manage transmission line design projects and oversee external engineering leads. Responsibilities include reviewing project cost estimates, ensuring compliance with engineering standards, and facilitating communication across teams.
External Design Engineering Supervisor
🇺🇸 Akron, Ohio, United States
Firstenergy 🇺🇸 Akron, Ohio, United States
The Supervisor, External Design Engineering will manage transmission line design projects and oversee external engineering leads. Responsibilities include reviewing project cost estimates, maintaining relationships with external firms, and ensuring compliance with engineering standards.
Senior Graphic Designer, AI Focus
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Newell Brands 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States
The Senior Graphic Designer will integrate AI into graphic design processes, optimizing workflows and enhancing creativity. They will also lead training on AI tools and collaborate with various teams to implement AI-driven insights.
Graphic Designer/Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Raftelis 🇺🇸 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
The Graphic Designer or Senior Graphic Designer will develop creative solutions to design and business challenges while collaborating with marketing teams. They will also assist in leading projects and contribute to defining the visual identity of the brand.
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.