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Senior Visual Designer
🇫🇷 France
Tcl 🇫🇷 France
Lead the regional application of TCL’s product aesthetics and visual direction across European markets, creating visual assets and guiding design quality for product launches, trade shows, customer events, and retail experiences. Monitor European design and lifestyle trends, translate insights into design direction, and support customer and stakeholder engagement across regional teams and China-based headquarters.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 Tampa, Florida, United States of America
Cgs Federal (contact Government Services) 🇺🇸 Tampa, Florida, United States of America
Lead UX research, analysis, and design for websites and applications, including evaluating existing systems and creating wireframes, storyboards, site maps, and high-fidelity mockups. Collaborate with federal clients and engineering teams to deliver accessible, intuitive solutions, manage multiple projects, and develop scalable design resources.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 Miami, Florida, United States of America
Cgs Federal (contact Government Services) 🇺🇸 Miami, Florida, United States of America
Lead end-to-end UX research and design for websites and applications, including evaluating existing systems, creating wireframes and high-fidelity mockups, and delivering accessible, intuitive solutions. Collaborate with federal clients and engineering teams, manage multiple projects, develop scalable design resources, and mentor junior designers.
Senior UI/UX Designer II
🇺🇸 Miami, Florida, United States of America
Cgs Federal (contact Government Services) 🇺🇸 Miami, Florida, United States of America
Lead UX research, analysis, and design for websites and applications, including evaluating existing systems and creating wireframes, storyboards, site maps, and high-fidelity mockups. Collaborate with federal clients and engineering teams to deliver accessible, intuitive solutions, manage multiple projects, and develop scalable design resources.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Cgs Federal (contact Government Services) 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Lead end-to-end UX research and design for websites and applications, including evaluating existing systems, creating wireframes and high-fidelity mockups, and delivering accessible, intuitive solutions. Coordinate design work across clients and teams, communicate concepts through design artifacts, and develop scalable resources while mentoring junior designers.
Datacenter Design Engineering Director
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Cbre 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Lead consulting services and global portfolio strategy for major corporate real estate clients, including strategic planning, space rationalization, cost reduction, and consolidation initiatives. Direct team operations and development, advise executive stakeholders, and resolve complex business challenges while aligning property strategies with clients’ business goals.
Senior Design Manager
🇭🇰 R.C. Lee Hall, 6A Sassoon Road, Hong Kong
West Kowloon Cultural District Authority 🇭🇰 R.C. Lee Hall, 6A Sassoon Road, Hong Kong
The Senior Design Manager leads the strategic and technical management of architectural and design initiatives across the West Kowloon Cultural District. This role oversees design processes from conceptualization to construction, ensuring compliance with statutory requirements and project quality standards.
Technical Design Manager - Bridges, Structures + Ports
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Aecom 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Lead the design delivery of major infrastructure projects including bridges and marine structures while managing scope, program, and quality. Act as the primary interface between design, construction, and client teams to ensure integrated and constructible solutions.
Product Designer
🇨🇴 Bogota, Colombia
Majority 🇨🇴 Bogota, Colombia
Lead product features from problem definition through launch, translating research, product requirements, and data into clear user flows and polished interfaces. Build and contribute to scalable design systems, account for edge cases and regulatory requirements, prototype and iterate with AI tools, and collaborate closely with product, engineering, compliance, risk, and operations teams.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Zerra Dc 🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Lead electrical design management and quality assurance for Western Downs Digital Park, including design reviews, technical audits, and resolution of design discrepancies and interface risks. Coordinate electrical design with multidisciplinary teams, consultants, contractors, and suppliers, while supporting technical decisions and improving resilience, constructability, and whole-of-life value.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Zerra Dc 🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Lead mechanical design management and quality assurance for Western Downs Digital Park, including cooling architecture, heat-rejection strategy, and mechanical plant configuration for high-density data centre environments. Coordinate mechanical design with other disciplines and guide solutions through design reviews, constructability, commissioning, integrated systems testing, and operational handover.
Landscape Design Manager
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Fifth Season Landscapes 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Lead the design team and deliver high-quality landscape designs while meeting financial and timeline expectations. Manage projects from conception through delivery and work closely with the company directors.
Senior UI/UX Designer II
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Cgs Federal (contact Government Services) 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Lead UX research, analysis, and design across multiple websites and applications, from evaluating existing systems to delivering high-fidelity interface designs. Collaborate with federal clients and engineering teams to create intuitive, accessible solutions and scalable design resources, while guiding project work and mentoring junior designers.
Senior Product Designer (Mid-Senior)
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Revel 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead end-to-end product design, from user research and discovery through interaction flows, high-fidelity interfaces, and prototypes, translating user insights and product goals into intuitive, accessible experiences. Partner with product and engineering teams to validate concepts, deliver designs, evolve scalable design systems, and advocate for user needs throughout development.
Senior Product Designer (Mid-Senior)
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Revel 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Lead end-to-end product design, from user research and discovery through interaction flows, visual design, prototyping, and delivery. Collaborate with product and engineering teams to validate solutions, realize design intent, evolve design systems, and advocate for user needs.
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.