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Senior Design Manager, Women's Knitwear
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Pvh Corp. 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Senior Design Manager leads the design process for women's knitwear, conceptualizing innovative collections while ensuring brand alignment and quality standards. They collaborate with cross-functional teams and mentor junior designers to drive the success of the knitwear line in the fashion market.
Graphic Designer and Digital Lead
🇺🇸 Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America
Image One 🇺🇸 Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America
The Graphic Designer and Digital Lead will oversee digital production operations, including creating stickers, banners, and apparel while managing workflow and quality standards. They are responsible for leading the digital room assistant, maintaining equipment, and ensuring customer orders are completed accurately and on time.
Product Designer L2/Senior - CEG (Bangkok - Based, Relocation Provided)
South Korea, Seoul
Agoda South Korea, Seoul
Lead the discovery, design direction, and execution of customer self-service experiences that help users resolve booking issues and improve Agoda’s guest booking experience. Test concepts with users, align cross-functional partners around solutions, present and document design decisions, and promote cohesive, customer-centered experiences across products.
Senior Product Design Manager, Growth
🇨🇦 Canada
Koho 🇨🇦 Canada
Lead and develop product designers across a complex portfolio, focusing on zero-to-one initiatives, growth, and the evolution of the KOHO design system. Collaborate with cross-functional partners to shape product strategy, drive experimentation, and maintain high-quality design standards across mobile and web platforms.
Product Designer
🇨🇴 Bogota, Colombia
Majority 🇨🇴 Bogota, Colombia
Lead the end-to-end design process for global financial products, from problem definition to high-fidelity UI implementation. Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and compliance teams to ensure designs meet regulatory requirements while maintaining high usability.
Senior Product Designer - Ethena Pay
You will lead the design of the Ethena Pay mobile app, establishing a high-quality design system and brand identity across iOS and Android. Your role involves hands-on design work, collaborating with engineering to implement motion and interaction standards, and ensuring a cohesive user experience.
Design Manager, Greater China
🇨🇳 Shanghai, China
Vuori, Inc 🇨🇳 Shanghai, China
The Design Manager will own the end-to-end execution of global retail design standards across the China market, ensuring brand vision is translated into reality. This role involves leading local design teams, managing external consultants, and collaborating with cross-functional departments to ensure project timelines and quality standards are met.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Cgs Federal (contact Government Services) 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead end-to-end UX design, research, and evaluation for websites and applications, including work across multiple clients and projects. Collaborate with federal clients and engineering teams to create intuitive solutions, communicate design concepts through wireframes and related artifacts, and develop scalable design resources.
Senior UI/UX Designer II
🇺🇸 United States of America
Cgs Federal (contact Government Services) 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead UX research, design, and evaluation for websites and applications, including assessing existing systems and developing user-centered recommendations. Collaborate with federal clients and engineering teams to deliver accessible, intuitive solutions, communicate designs through wireframes and mockups, and create scalable design resources.
Senior UI/UX Designer II
🇺🇸 Massachusetts, United States of America
Cgs Federal (contact Government Services) 🇺🇸 Massachusetts, 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 multiple clients and projects, collaborate with federal clients and engineers, develop scalable design resources, and mentor junior designers.
Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Mighty Media Studios 🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Lead the creation of fresh, on-brand social content, managing the design queue independently and maintaining accuracy and quality. During campaigns, produce high volumes of polished assets across digital and physical formats, following the Art Director’s design system and preparing files for motion collaboration.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Nexhealth 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead end-to-end design across NexHealth’s platform, from research and user flows through prototypes and final UI, while shaping product scope and technical implementation. Partner with product managers and engineers, evolve scalable design systems, and champion clear, accessible experiences that simplify users’ work.
Sr. Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Redlands, California, United States of America
Esri 🇺🇸 Redlands, California, United States of America
Develop and lead compelling visual concepts and narratives across print, digital, social media, events, and other channels, ensuring brand consistency and alignment with organizational goals. Collaborate with stakeholders and creative teams, oversee projects from concept through delivery, and mentor junior designers with constructive creative guidance.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Klarity 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead complex product design efforts from problem definition through launch, while maintaining a coherent product-wide systems vision. Shape AI-native UX and design-system strategy, prototype and ship alongside engineering, ground decisions in user research and outcomes, and mentor the design team.
Ship Design Manager
🇺🇸 Orange, TX 77630, United States of America
Gc-squared Resources, Llc 🇺🇸 Orange, TX 77630, United States of America
Lead multidisciplinary vessel design and engineering activities, coordinating design deliverables, schedules, technical reviews, and issue resolution from design development through construction and delivery. Guide engineering and design personnel while collaborating with production, program management, customers, vendors, and regulatory organizations to ensure designs are compliant, constructible, and aligned with project requirements.
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.