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Head of Design, Unified Service Platform
🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Gusto 🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Lead and coach a team of three designers while maintaining a hands-on player-coach role for high-leverage design work. Set the design vision for the Unified Service Platform and represent design within the cross-functional leadership quartet.
Principal Design Manager
🇦🇺 South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Stantec 🇦🇺 South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Lead technical teams to develop and deliver integrated technical solutions for water and wastewater projects while managing multidisciplinary activities. Coordinate studies, investigations, and design processes to ensure high-quality outputs are delivered on time and within budget.
Senior Product Designer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Relay 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Own the end-to-end design process from discovery and problem framing to delivering polished, production-ready interfaces. Lead design initiatives by communicating rationale through storytelling, mentoring peers, and raising the overall craft bar of the team.
Senior Product Design Manager
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Evenup 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead and mentor a team of product designers while driving hiring and professional development. Balance management duties with hands-on design work for strategic initiatives and high-impact AI-driven projects.
Home-Based Sr. Graphic Designer
Remote (🇵🇭 Philippines)
Dcx Remote (🇵🇭 Philippines)
The role involves creating original brand designs, logos, and product illustrations from scratch based on client specifications. Additionally, the designer will supervise projects, manage client expectations, and lead creative teams to develop brand concepts.
Senior Product Design Manager
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Evenup 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead and mentor a team of product designers while contributing hands-on to high-impact strategic design initiatives. Collaborate with engineering, product, and AI teams to architect cohesive user experiences and scale the design practice.
Product Designer
🇮🇹 Italy
Yibi Group | Global Manufacturing Partner For Luxury Jewelry & Leather Goods Hardware 🇮🇹 Italy
Lead end-to-end jewelry design projects from initial concept and styling to prototype approval and production handover. Collaborate with luxury brand clients and China-based manufacturing teams to ensure design feasibility and technical excellence.
Staff Product Designer, Agentic Experiences
Remote (🇺🇸 Houston, Texas, United States of America)
Affirm Remote (🇺🇸 Houston, Texas, 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 a hybrid search and discovery interface.
Engineering Design Manager - Data Center
🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
Salas O'brien 🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
Lead design teams by managing schedules, budgets, and technical scopes for large-scale data center and mission-critical infrastructure projects. Coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure high-reliability designs meet client requirements for uptime, energy efficiency, and rapid deployment.
Senior Product Designer, Insights and Reporting
🇺🇸 United States of America
Clio 🇺🇸 United States of America
Define and execute the experience strategy for real-time insights, complex reporting, and analytics within the legal practice management domain. Lead the end-to-end design process from strategic discovery and prototyping to development and launch.
Principal UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 Bellevue, Washington, United States of America
Salesforce 🇺🇸 Bellevue, Washington, United States of America
Set the design vision for the Agentforce for Service domain by connecting complex workstreams into a coherent direction. Establish high standards for craft and drive the evolution of the Salesforce Design System through mentorship and leadership.
Principal AI Design Technologist
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
The Onset 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Build and scale an AI-native design practice by designing production work and developing tooling to improve team workflows. Shape the design-technology strategy across the organization through hands-on leadership and system-level thinking.
System Co-Design Manager
🇨🇳 Shanghai, China
英伟达 🇨🇳 Shanghai, China
Lead and motivate a team to oversee power noise, circuit margin, performance, and manufacturing quality system design and validation. Establish closed-loop methodologies and coordinate cross-functional execution to accelerate product development and ensure high-quality silicon delivery.
Senior/Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Sydecar 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end evolution of the user experience for investors and internal teams while driving high-impact design initiatives from discovery to delivery. You will also establish design systems, conduct user research to inform product strategy, and mentor junior designers.
Staff Product Designer, Agentic Experiences
🇺🇸 Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
Affirm 🇺🇸 Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
Lead the design of AI and agentic initiatives to create proactive, conversational consumer experiences. Partner with cross-functional teams to define the design language and roadmap for Affirm's future AI-driven interactions.
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.