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Sr. Creative & Design Manager
Remote (🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America)
Finix Remote (🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America)
Own Finix's creative output across brand, campaigns, web, and customer touchpoints, including designing assets and writing copy for marketing and sales. Guide projects from concept to final delivery, support field and community programs, manage freelance creative partners as needed, and present work to leadership and stakeholders.
Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Hiretalent Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Design and deliver intuitive advertising and account-management tools, simplifying workflows for advertisers across campaign management, reporting, billing, permissions, and identity. Partner with product, engineering, research, and data science teams to shape the roadmap and lead design from early exploration through polished delivery.
Senior Graphic Designer, Marketing Professional - Jefferson institutional Advancement
🇺🇸 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Jefferson Health 🇺🇸 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Lead complex, integrated marketing and design programs, shaping brand messaging and creative work across channels while collaborating with stakeholders and mentoring colleagues. Use analytics, research, and testing to optimize performance, manage budgets and vendors, improve processes, and ensure work meets quality, accessibility, compliance, and business goals.
Staff Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America)
Wealth.com Remote (🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America)
Lead customer discovery and usability validation with financial advisors, enterprise partners, and end-clients, translating their needs into effective platform workflows. Own interaction architecture, information architecture, and foundational UX patterns while partnering with Product and Engineering and representing UX in enterprise client discussions.
Designer Principal de Produits, Systèmes de Conception / Senior Product Designer, Design Systems
Remote (🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America)
One North Remote (🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America)
Lead the creation, maintenance, and evolution of scalable enterprise design systems, including Figma libraries, components, documentation, and governance. Collaborate with product, engineering, research, and client teams to improve accessibility and consistency, support implementation and adoption, and mentor designers.
Interior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Fort Myers, Florida, United States of America
Troon 🇺🇸 Fort Myers, Florida, United States of America
Manage hospitality interior design projects from site visits and concept development through procurement, installation, and closeout, coordinating budgets, schedules, deliverables, and stakeholders. Lead design presentations, FF&E sourcing, drawing and space-planning work, site inspections, and coordination with clients, vendors, consultants, and internal teams.
Manager, Electrical Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Anderson, South Carolina, United States of America
Vertiv 🇺🇸 Anderson, South Carolina, United States of America
The Manager, Electrical Design Engineering will lead and oversee all aspects of electrical design for data center projects, ensuring compliance with global standards and project deadlines. They will manage a team of engineers and designers while coordinating cross-functionally with project managers and other engineering disciplines.
Mechanical Design Engineering Manager
🇺🇸 Littleton, Colorado, United States of America
Exoterra Resource, Llc 🇺🇸 Littleton, Colorado, United States of America
The Mechanical Design Engineering Manager leads the mechanical design organization, overseeing spacecraft structures, propulsion hardware, and mechanisms. This role is responsible for managing department budgets, resources, and technical execution while ensuring design quality and manufacturability across all programs.
Senior UX Researcher, YouTube Creator
🇨🇭 Zurich, Switzerland
Google 🇨🇭 Zurich, Switzerland
Conduct and synthesize user research to identify user needs, behaviors, and motivations, then provide insights and recommendations that improve YouTube products and services. Guide research strategy and project priorities, influence stakeholders, and lead teams in evaluating product, service, and ecosystem impact.
Senior UI Designer (Figma) - Remote Work
Remote (🇲🇽 Puebla, Saltillo, Mexico)
Bairesdev Remote (🇲🇽 Puebla, Saltillo, Mexico)
Lead UI design initiatives from concept through delivery, creating high-fidelity mockups, prototypes, and reusable components in Figma. Maintain scalable design systems and visual consistency while collaborating with UX, product, and engineering teams and mentoring junior designers.
Sr. Web Designer
🇳🇮 Managua, Nicaragua
Ooqia S.a. 🇳🇮 Managua, Nicaragua
The Sr. Web Designer will lead the UX and UI design for enterprise eCommerce experiences, creating intuitive desktop and mobile-first interfaces. They will collaborate with product owners and developers to maintain scalable design systems and ensure technical feasibility.
Lead UX Designer
🇮🇳 Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Gartner 🇮🇳 Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Lead user-centered design for digital products, translating research and business goals into user flows, wireframes, mockups, prototypes, and cohesive product experiences. Use AI tools and lean experimentation to explore and validate concepts, improve usability, and collaborate with product, engineering, research, and content teams.
Design Manager - Menswear
🇺🇸 Beverly Hills, California, United States of America
Fam Brands 🇺🇸 Beverly Hills, California, United States of America
Lead and develop three Design Managers while setting a cohesive design vision across product categories and ensuring brand consistency, innovation, and commercial alignment. Partner with merchandising, product development, production, sourcing, and marketing teams to deliver seasonal assortments on schedule, within cost and margin targets, and in line with market trends.
I-270 Design Manager (PE I) - Denver
🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Colorado Department Of Transportation 🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Lead design oversight for the I-270 Corridor Improvements Project, coordinating the development and review of engineering plans, specifications, and estimates while ensuring compliance with state and federal standards. Advance related community enhancement projects through planning, procurement, budgeting, stakeholder coordination, and design support during construction.
Lead UX Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Consilio Llc 🇺🇸 United States of America
Own end-to-end design for product areas, partnering with Product and Engineering to shape solutions from problem definition through delivery and post-launch iteration. Define AI interaction models and govern the multi-product design system, including its components, usage standards, and accessibility practices.
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.