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Product Designer, AVP
🇺🇸 Burlington, Massachusetts, United States of America
State Street 🇺🇸 Burlington, Massachusetts, United States of America
Lead the user-centered design process from concept to release to create intuitive business outcomes for private markets clients. Collaborate with product and engineering teams to maintain the design system and conduct user research to identify problem spaces.
Product Designer, RVC
🇨🇳 Huqiu District, Jiangsu, China
Versuni 🇨🇳 Huqiu District, Jiangsu, China
Lead the industrial design process from concept to launch for home appliances and consumer electronics. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to ensure products meet brand guidelines, usability standards, and manufacturing efficiencies.
Staff Product Designer, Agentic Experiences
Remote (🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America)
Affirm Remote (🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, 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 hybrid search and discovery interfaces.
Staff Product Designer, Agentic Experiences
Remote (🇺🇸 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America)
Affirm Remote (🇺🇸 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 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 hybrid search and discovery interfaces.
Staff Product Designer, Agentic Experiences
Remote (🇺🇸 Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America)
Affirm Remote (🇺🇸 Madison, Wisconsin, 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 hybrid search and discovery interfaces.
Staff Product Designer, Agentic Experiences
Remote (🇺🇸 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America)
Affirm Remote (🇺🇸 Las Vegas, Nevada, 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 and roadmap for Affirm's future AI-driven interactions.
ASIC & FPGA Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Grand Prairie, Texas, United States of America
Donatech Corporation 🇺🇸 Grand Prairie, Texas, United States of America
Act as a technical leader to define architecture, design specifications, and write maintainable RTL for advanced FPGA-based hardware. Lead verification, hardware-in-the-loop testing, and board-level debugging while collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure program compliance.
🎨 Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Graphic, Crawford County, Arkansas, United States of America
Leaders Of Tomorrow Digital Exchange Program 🇺🇸 Graphic, Crawford County, Arkansas, United States of America
Facilitate program sessions and supervise two virtual host families. Deliver weekly reports regarding student status and attendance while coordinating with leadership for timely execution.
Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Tempe, Arizona, United States of America
Kestra Holdings 🇺🇸 Tempe, Arizona, United States of America
Lead the concepting and execution of integrated marketing campaigns across print and digital channels, including event branding and marketing collateral. Partner with cross-functional teams to translate business needs into visual solutions while maintaining brand consistency across multiple business lines.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Lincolnshire, Lake County, IL 60069, United States of America
Camping World 🇺🇸 Lincolnshire, Lake County, IL 60069, United States of America
Lead creative direction across performance marketing, email, print, and web while managing brand consistency and high-priority projects. Mentor and develop designers through constructive feedback and oversee quality assurance processes and workflows.
Graphic Designer/Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America
Raftelis 🇺🇸 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America
Develop creative design solutions and visual identities that align with brand strategy and marketing objectives. Collaborate with teams to lead design initiatives for events, webinars, and client projects while maintaining workload management.
ASIC Package Design Manager
🇺🇸 Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America
Broadcom 🇺🇸 Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America
Lead a team of engineers in designing complex flip-chip-BGA packages for high-performance ASICs used in AI, networking, and 5G. Manage project plans for over 20 concurrent designs while developing technical methodologies and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Staff UX Designer
🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Archer 🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Own the end-to-end product design for consumer-facing mobile apps, websites, and web applications from inception to launch. Lead product explorations and refine shipped features based on actual user behavior and data.
FPGA Design Manager
🇺🇸 North Reading, MA 01864, United States of America
Alku 🇺🇸 North Reading, MA 01864, United States of America
Lead and mentor a team of 5-10 FPGA engineers while driving architecture, design, and verification for semiconductor test products. Oversee technical execution, resource planning, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure successful delivery of FPGA solutions.
Senior Visual Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
University Of San Francisco 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Senior Visual Designer creates high-quality print and digital designs to support university recruitment, fundraising, and alumni relations. They also assist the Creative Director in leading the design team and upholding the university's brand identity.
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.