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Financial Services - Technology Consulting - Product Designer - Manager - NYC
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Ey 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead multidisciplinary design teams and delivery across client engagements, maintaining experience quality while managing workstream economics, resources, and client relationships. Shape design practice standards and AI-assisted methods, advise executives on experience strategy, develop junior designers, and contribute to business development and practice building.
Financial Services - Technology Consulting - Product Designer - Senior - NYC
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Ey 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead a product design workstream from client problem framing and research through user flows, prototypes, high-fidelity design, and engineer-ready specifications, using AI tools while reviewing work for accuracy, accessibility, bias, and brand alignment. Manage day-to-day client communication, collaborate with multidisciplinary Agile teams, mentor junior designers, and contribute to proposals, business development, and design capability building.
Lead Product Designer, Share
🇺🇸 Draper, Utah, United States of America
Ancestry 🇺🇸 Draper, Utah, United States of America
Lead end-to-end design for sharing experiences, setting the long-term vision and shaping product strategy to help customers connect with family and friends through their discoveries. Use customer insights and data to create cohesive, polished experiences, advocate for customers, and raise design quality through collaboration, critique, and mentorship.
Product Designer, Outdoor [Contract]
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Spin Master 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
You will lead the development and innovation of seasonal outdoor, water, and backyard play toys from initial ideation to production. This involves partnering with cross-functional teams to manage product cycles, creating technical specifications, and ensuring brand alignment with licensors.
Senior Product Design Manager, Growth
🇨🇦 Canada
Koho 🇨🇦 Canada
Lead and develop product designers across growth, onboarding, and zero-to-one initiatives, setting design direction and guiding teams through customer-centered experimentation. Provide strategic support to KOHO’s design system team, partner across functions on product strategy and delivery, and build practices that help teams scale quality and learn effectively.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Zapp 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead end-to-end design for Zapp’s customer-facing mobile app and internal operations and commercial tools, partnering with product, engineering, operations, and commercial teams to develop practical, scalable experiences. Conduct research and usability testing, design workflows and interfaces for fulfillment systems, and evolve the design system, component library, processes, and documentation.
Senior Associate Data Center Design Manager
🇺🇸 Bellevue, Washington, United States of America
Harper Harrison 🇺🇸 Bellevue, Washington, United States of America
Lead external architecture and engineering teams through design coordination and project delivery, integrating architectural, structural, MEP, and critical infrastructure systems. Manage consultant scope, deliverables, schedules, budgets, and quality while coordinating with development teams and internal stakeholders on approvals, customer requirements, and RFP responses.
Lead Product Designer, Design Systems
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Salesforce 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead the creation and evolution of Salesforce’s AI-first design system, tools, and visual language, documenting standards that support consistent, accessible experiences across products. Collaborate with product, design, research, writing, and engineering teams to integrate the system into workflows, validate decisions with users, and mentor junior designers.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Hd Supply 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Leads user-centered design for assigned products, creating advanced design artifacts and conducting research and usability testing to address user needs and business objectives. Collaborates with cross-functional teams, contributes to design frameworks and best practices, advocates for user-centered design, and mentors junior designers.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Enertia Talent 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Lead the end-to-end design and technical delivery of high-voltage substation projects, coordinating civil, structural, primary, and secondary disciplines. Manage internal teams, external consultants, OEMs, stakeholders, design schedules, and technical support through construction, commissioning, and energisation.
Data Center Design Manager (Lead)
🇦🇺 Australia
Sharon Ai, Inc 🇦🇺 Australia
Lead owner-side design and engineering for data center development and expansion, establishing design standards and reviewing designs from operators, developers, contractors, and engineering partners. Translate GPU platform needs into facility requirements, coordinate integrated facility-to-cluster designs, and provide design assurance and risk oversight across multiple projects.
Lead Game UI Designer - [EA260923]
🇨🇦 British Columbia, Canada
Hatch 🇨🇦 British Columbia, Canada
You will lead the visual overhaul of the game's UI, establishing a modern aesthetic and scalable design system for cross-platform implementation. Additionally, you will architect AI-powered workflows to automate the generation of functional UI components and in-game assets.
Head of Design
Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
Aru Labs Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
The Head of Design will lead the overall design direction, visual identity, and design systems across all brand touchpoints. They will manage the design function, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and oversee the quality of creative output for campaigns and product launches.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Olathe, Kansas, United States of America
Mytruehr 🇺🇸 Olathe, Kansas, United States of America
Lead and develop the Design team while overseeing residential projects from sales handoff through design, estimating, documentation, and transition to construction. Improve department processes and performance, protect the client experience, align designs with budgets and buildability, and support the company’s growth.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Olathe, Kansas, United States of America
Mytruehr 🇺🇸 Olathe, Kansas, United States of America
The Design Manager is responsible for leading the design team, overseeing project workflows from concept to construction, and ensuring high-quality design outcomes. They will also focus on process improvement, budget management, and fostering a collaborative environment to support company growth.
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.