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Lead UI/UX Designer
🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Masan Group 🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
The Lead UI/UX Designer will own and drive the end-to-end design system across Masan's technology transformation projects. This role involves defining design principles, maintaining a scalable component library, and ensuring consistent user experiences across consumer apps and internal platforms.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Raydar 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
You will own the core experience for agent-generated work and define the interaction models for an AI-native product. You will also partner with engineering and leadership to set the visual quality bar and shape product strategy.
Senior Product Designer, Cybersecurity
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Clever Inc. 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
You will lead the design direction for authentication across human login, AI agent access, and device-level identity. This role involves partnering with product and engineering teams to ensure a coherent and consistent user experience.
Senior Product Designer
🇵🇪 La Molina, Lima Metropolitan Area, Peru
Yape 🇵🇪 La Molina, Lima Metropolitan Area, Peru
Lead the end-to-end design of products within the Yape ecosystem, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams including Product, Engineering, and Data. You will be responsible for defining problem statements, validating hypotheses, and delivering scalable, user-centric solutions.
Design & Engineering Lead (Electrical - Data Centres) - London
🇬🇧 Slough, England, United Kingdom
Eaton Corporation 🇬🇧 Slough, England, United Kingdom
Lead the electrical design, development, and implementation of innovative solutions for data centre projects from concept to construction. Provide technical leadership, mentor engineering teams, and act as a primary client-facing lead for complex technical projects.
Luxury Escapes Graduate Program - Product Designer
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Luxury Escapes 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
You will work on meaningful projects that shape how travelers discover, plan, and book extraordinary escapes. Your role involves conducting user research, creating intuitive digital experiences, and collaborating with design leaders to strengthen your craft.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Route 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead the design and execution of omni-channel communications and marketing touchpoints while creating elegant UI for merchant and shopper-facing products. Collaborate cross-functionally with product, engineering, and marketing teams to ensure consistent brand identity and accessible user experiences.
Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Boise, Idaho, United States of America
Ericsson 🇺🇸 Boise, Idaho, United States of America
The Graphic Designer creates high-quality visual assets across digital and print channels to support business objectives and brand standards. They collaborate with creative leadership to execute campaign concepts while ensuring production quality and consistency across all deliverables.
Senior Graphic Designer - Creative & AI
🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
Calikulture 🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
The Senior Graphic Designer will lead branding and logo design initiatives while ensuring consistent visual identity across all marketing touchpoints. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business goals into compelling visual narratives using both traditional design and AI-driven workflows.
Senior Graphic Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America)
Nex Remote (🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America)
The Senior Graphic Designer will craft visual assets for websites, social media, email campaigns, and retail channels. They will also lead the visual strategy for product launches and coordinate with internal and external partners to ensure high-quality campaign delivery.
Senior UX Researcher, Commerce
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Ōura 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead holistic user research initiatives to improve the digital commerce and membership experience for Oura products. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to synthesize findings into actionable strategic guidance and scalable research frameworks.
Sr. Industrial Design Engineer, GES NA Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Tempe, Arizona, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Tempe, Arizona, United States of America
The engineer will lead the development of next-generation sortation and transportation systems by collaborating with internal and external teams on design and process solutions. They are responsible for managing multiple projects, ensuring cost-effective designs, and driving consistent engineering standards across the North American network.
Sr. Store Design Manager - Global HOKA
🇺🇸 Goleta, California, United States of America
Deckers Brands 🇺🇸 Goleta, California, United States of America
Lead the creative development and end-to-end execution of HOKA retail concepts across various store formats. Manage external partners, budgets, and timelines while ensuring design intent and brand standards are maintained throughout all project phases.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Bmd Group 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Lead the development, coordination, and assurance of multidisciplinary design solutions for a major transport infrastructure project from tender to completion. Manage design governance, stakeholder relationships, and ensure outcomes are safe, compliant, and buildable.
Senior Visual Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Apex Systems 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Senior Visual Designer creates compelling, executive-level presentations that communicate complex ideas through clear visual storytelling. They partner with business leaders to develop high-impact assets for leadership, sales, marketing, and events.
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.