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Design Manager - High Security Electronic Security Systems
🇬🇧 Blackburn, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Morson Talent 🇬🇧 Blackburn, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Lead a team of design engineers to oversee the design and technical governance of integrated electronic security systems for critical infrastructure. Manage technical risks, support bids and tenders, and ensure compliance with industry standards and security requirements.
Senior UX Designer
🇬🇧 Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Harvey Nash 🇬🇧 Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Lead the end-to-end design of customer journeys for investment and pension products from discovery through to delivery. Collaborate with product, research, and engineering teams to create intuitive digital experiences and influence product direction.
Senior Design Systems Designer
🇪🇸 Sant Cugat del Vallès, Catalonia, Spain
Fluidra 🇪🇸 Sant Cugat del Vallès, Catalonia, Spain
You will lead the strategy, evolution, and adoption of a unified global mobile design system, including managing design tokens, component libraries, and documentation. You will also partner with regional design, product, and engineering teams to ensure consistency and scalability across the digital ecosystem.
Design Manager – Data Centres
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Leap29 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
The Design Manager will lead and coordinate multidisciplinary design teams across mechanical, electrical, structural, and BIM disciplines for large-scale data centre projects. They are responsible for managing the full design lifecycle, ensuring technical excellence, and coordinating with clients and contractors to mitigate risks.
Senior Design Manager
🇨🇿 Czech Republic
Onsemi 🇨🇿 Czech Republic
Lead the architecture, development, and delivery of complex analog and mixed-signal IP blocks while managing multi-disciplinary teams. Oversee the entire IP execution lifecycle from concept definition and design reviews to tape-out and silicon bring-up.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom
Sphere Solutions 🇬🇧 Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom
Lead the design process for a £40m construction project from pre-construction through to completion. Coordinate multidisciplinary teams, manage design information flow, and ensure compliance with building regulations and project milestones.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇵🇭 Philippines
Virtual Staff 365 🇵🇭 Philippines
Lead the development of high-quality visual concepts, brand strategies, and multi-channel creative assets for technical industry clients. Oversee creative direction, digital design, and print production while collaborating with account managers and project leads.
Facade Design Manager
🇦🇺 River Of Life City Church, Slacks Creek, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Mcnab 🇦🇺 River Of Life City Church, Slacks Creek, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Lead and mentor the design team while managing workload forecasting, resource allocation, and the delivery of high-quality shop drawing packages. Coordinate with external engineering consultants and internal stakeholders to ensure technical excellence and project momentum.
Staff Product Designer, Agentic Experiences
Remote (🇺🇸 Boise, Idaho, United States of America)
Affirm Remote (🇺🇸 Boise, Idaho, United States of America)
Lead the design of AI and agentic initiatives to create proactive, conversational, and intuitive consumer experiences. Partner with cross-functional teams to define the design language and roadmap for Affirm's future AI-driven interactions.
Sr Product Designer, Adobe Express
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Adobe 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Own the complete content submission experience using an agentic-first approach to simplify workflows for creators. Design new patterns for content discovery and prioritization within conversational experiences and lead search and discovery tagging efforts.
Staff User Experience (UX) Researcher
🇺🇸 Acton, Massachusetts, United States of America
Insulet Corporation 🇺🇸 Acton, Massachusetts, United States of America
Lead and manage the global digital and service-based customer experience research roadmap by designing and executing complex qualitative and quantitative studies. Collaborate with cross-functional partners to translate user insights into strategic business and product outcomes while mentoring other researchers.
Senior UX Researcher
🇸🇬 Singapore
Thermo Fisher Scientific 🇸🇬 Singapore
Lead end-to-end UX research initiatives to provide tactical and strategic insights for both physical and digital scientific products. This includes managing research plans, conducting mixed-method studies, and synthesizing findings into actionable recommendations for product leadership.
Technical Design Manager
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
Catl 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
Lead all aspects of power system network design, including feasibility studies, technical specifications, and optimization for large-scale energy storage plants. Support project delivery through design, construction, and commissioning while managing technical standards and contractor deliverables.
Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States of America
Matic Robots 🇺🇸 Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States of America
Design marketing and brand assets across various digital and physical channels including social media, email, and web. Collaborate with product and leadership teams to translate complex robotics and AI concepts into compelling visual stories.
Staff Product Designer, Agentic Experiences
Remote (🇺🇸 Boulder, Colorado, United States of America)
Affirm Remote (🇺🇸 Boulder, Colorado, United States of America)
Lead the design of AI and agentic initiatives to create proactive, conversational, and intuitive consumer experiences. Partner with cross-functional teams to define the design language for AI-driven interactions and build hybrid search and discovery interfaces.
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.