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UI Designer - Remote in UK
Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
Immersive Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
Create high-quality, accessible platform interfaces and develop reusable UI patterns and components for the Immersive One platform. Collaborate with engineers and product leaders to evolve the design system and integrate AI tools into the design workflow.
Junior UI/UX Designer
🇵🇭 Philippines
Sterry 🇵🇭 Philippines
Support the end-to-end design process by creating wireframes, high-fidelity prototypes, and maintaining design systems. Collaborate with developers and product leads to ensure technical feasibility and a smooth handoff of design assets.
Junior UI/UX Designer
🇮🇩 Indonesia
Sterry 🇮🇩 Indonesia
Support the end-to-end design process by creating wireframes, high-fidelity prototypes, and maintaining design systems. Collaborate with developers and product leads to translate user research and feedback into intuitive user experiences.
Physical Design Manager
🇲🇾 George Town, Penang, Malaysia
Vhunt4u 🇲🇾 George Town, Penang, Malaysia
The Physical Design Manager will lead end-to-end physical design activities for complex SoCs or ASICs, overseeing power analysis and physical verification. Responsibilities include guiding the physical design team, defining methodologies, and coordinating with various teams and vendors.
Senior UX Designer
🇵🇱 Warszawa, 83-433 Nowe Polaszki, Poland
Gft Technologies Poland 🇵🇱 Warszawa, 83-433 Nowe Polaszki, Poland
You will lead end-to-end UX projects, collaborating with stakeholders to design intuitive user experiences for digital banking and investment products. Your role includes creating user flows, wireframes, and prototypes, as well as facilitating workshops to gather business needs.
Civil and Structural Design Manager (Owner / DC/Industrial Projects / Base Salary up to 26,000MYR)
🇲🇾 Johor Bahru, Malaysia
Sm2 Consulting 🇲🇾 Johor Bahru, Malaysia
Lead the structural design development for data center projects, ensuring quality and timely delivery. Collaborate with various teams to address technical challenges and ensure compliance with regulations.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Splendid 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer will lead design execution and create high-impact design assets for campaigns across all marketing channels. This includes translating brand direction into scalable visual systems and ensuring quality control of deliverables.
Data Center Design Manager
🇮🇹 Milan, Italy
Osmii 🇮🇹 Milan, Italy
The Design Manager will lead multidisciplinary design efforts for data centers, managing external engineering firms and ensuring compliance with client requirements. Responsibilities include overseeing design integration, procurement, contractor oversight, and ensuring adherence to industry standards and regulations.
UX Designer
🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Aj Bell 🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
The UX Designer will lead design projects, overseeing the entire process from research to implementation. They will collaborate with developers and manage design iterations based on user feedback.
LDC Solution Design Manager - Manufacturing Execution
🇨🇭 Basel, Basel-City, Switzerland
Real 🇨🇭 Basel, Basel-City, Switzerland
The LDC Solution Design Manager will lead the design and development of SAP S/4HANA-based manufacturing execution solutions, ensuring strong integration across manufacturing, IT, and business functions. This role involves collaborating with stakeholders to transform data and digital capabilities into strategic assets.
LDC Solution Design Manager – Manufacturing Execution
🇨🇭 Basel, Basel-City, Switzerland
Haybury 🇨🇭 Basel, Basel-City, Switzerland
Design and implement SAP S/4HANA manufacturing execution solutions while ensuring integration with MES, PP-PI, EWM, and related systems. Lead workshops to define requirements and oversee solution delivery across timelines, quality, and cost.
Project Design Manager
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Mirvac 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
As Project Design Manager, you will lead and coordinate the design process across all disciplines to optimize project outcomes and minimize risk. You will work closely with various teams to ensure design intent, buildability, program, cost, and quality are aligned throughout the project lifecycle.
Senior Product Designer (B2B)
🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Valeria Hr 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
You will define AI-powered workflows that enhance payroll processes and collaborate closely with the CPO, engineering, and AI teams to ship features. You will lead user research and own the end-to-end design process from discovery to production-ready specifications.
Project Design Manager
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Mirvac Limited 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Lead and coordinate the multidisciplinary design process from concept to delivery for a residential project at Green Square. Collaborate with internal stakeholders and external consultants to ensure design excellence, buildability, and alignment with budget and programme.
Senior Design Manager
🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Hill International 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Lead the planning, design, and delivery of large-scale infrastructure projects while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. Oversee multidisciplinary teams and manage technical interfaces, budgets, and stakeholder engagement throughout the project lifecycle.
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.