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Financial Services - Technology Consulting - Product Designer - Senior - Washington, DC
🇺🇸 Fairfax County, Virginia, United States of America
Ey 🇺🇸 Fairfax County, Virginia, United States of America
As a Senior Product Designer, you will lead the end-to-end design of workstreams within multidisciplinary teams, from problem framing to final specifications. You will also mentor junior designers and support business development activities while maintaining client relationships.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America
American Equipment 🇺🇸 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America
The Design Manager will lead and mentor multidisciplinary mechanical and electrical design teams to support custom overhead crane manufacturing. They are responsible for driving the digital transformation from 2D drafting to 3D modeling while ensuring design quality and operational efficiency.
Design Systems Lead (Remote, Pereira)
Remote (🇨🇴 Colombia)
Blacksmith Agency Remote (🇨🇴 Colombia)
You will own the architecture of client design systems by building token structures, variables, and core component libraries in Figma. You are responsible for documenting these systems to ensure they can be executed by automated pipelines without further questions.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇨🇦 Canada
Bellesa 🇨🇦 Canada
The Senior Designer will lead art direction for campaigns, oversee website UX/UI design, and maintain brand standards across digital and print mediums. They will also mentor junior designers and collaborate with cross-functional teams to execute creative strategies.
Product Designer
Lead the design and execution of omni-channel communications and marketing touchpoints while creating elegant UI for the product suite. Collaborate cross-functionally with product, engineering, and marketing teams to ensure consistent brand identity and accessible user experiences.
National Security Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Arlington County, Virginia, United States of America
Guidehouse 🇺🇸 Arlington County, Virginia, United States of America
The analyst will support the lead graphic designer in creating high-quality visual communications products for federal government clients. Responsibilities include developing concepts, managing design requests, and ensuring all materials are accurate, accessible, and aligned with client branding.
Senior Design Manager - Design Systems
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Datadog 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead the design systems team to define the direction, roadmap, and quality standards for the company's design system. Manage and coach designers and design engineers while collaborating with product teams to ensure the system's effective adoption and evolution.
TECHNICAL DESIGN MANAGER
🇺🇸 Emeryville, CA 94608, United States of America
Title Nine 🇺🇸 Emeryville, CA 94608, United States of America
The Technical Design Manager leads product engineering and technical design functions to ensure fit, quality, and manufacturing standards for the brand. This role manages the development process from concept to production, oversees fit sessions, and analyzes return data to drive continuous improvement.
TECHNICAL DESIGN MANAGER
🇺🇸 Emeryville, CA 94608, United States of America
Title Nine Sports Inc 🇺🇸 Emeryville, CA 94608, United States of America
The Technical Design Manager leads product engineering and technical design functions to ensure fit, quality, and manufacturing standards are met for the brand. This role manages the development process, oversees fit governance, and collaborates cross-functionally to drive commercial success.
Senior UX Researcher, Commerce
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Ōura 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Senior UX Researcher will lead holistic user research initiatives for global DTC eCommerce and enterprise portals, from scope formulation to actionable strategic guidance. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to synthesize qualitative findings with analytics to improve the user experience across the product lifecycle.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Galliford Try 🇬🇧 Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Manage relationships with clients, subcontractors, and project teams to ensure the efficient development and delivery of designs. Lead the design process in compliance with safety regulations and monitor project progress, quality, and statutory requirements.
Creative Design Manager, Events
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Shannon Connex Recruiting 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
The Creative Design Manager will lead the visual storytelling and design development for corporate events, creating compelling proposals and mood boards. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure design consistency and execute creative concepts from initial brainstorming to on-site implementation.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America
Inspyr Solutions 🇺🇸 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America
The Principal Product Designer will lead the translation of validated opportunities into compelling product experiences through rapid prototyping and interaction design. They are responsible for evolving experience foundations and coaching design teams to improve overall product development practices.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Irving, Texas, United States of America
Precision Technologies 🇺🇸 Irving, Texas, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will evolve shared foundations for enterprise products by turning recurring experience problems into reusable patterns and codifying design intent. They will partner with engineering and design leadership to define machine-readable standards and prototype complex agentic behaviors.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Mygreat Recruitment Inc. 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
The Design Manager leads the full design lifecycle for campus capital projects, serving as the primary liaison between the Capital Program Team and design consultants. They oversee design deliverables, ensure regulatory compliance with DSA standards, and manage project budgets, schedules, and quality control.
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.