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Design Engineering Manager (multiple openings)

🇺🇸 Highland Heights, Kentucky, United States of America

Manage the workload and activities of personnel supporting assigned plants while leading R&D projects and maintaining product designs. Responsible for creating BOMs, managing engineering change notices, and ensuring adherence to industry standards and process guidelines.

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Engineering Supervisor (Design Engineering)

🇲🇽 Heroica Nogales, Nogales, Mexico

The Engineering Supervisor will drive new product introduction for Cable Harness, leading a team and coordinating with various departments. Responsibilities include overseeing product development, conducting design reviews, and ensuring compliance with quality requirements.

Full-timeSupervisor
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Lead UX / Product Designer Senior H/F

🇫🇷 Bordeaux, Gironde, France

The main responsibilities include designing and evolving digital products in a complex environment and conducting user needs analysis. The role also involves collaborating with product teams to ensure continuous improvement of interfaces and user experiences.

HybridFull-timeSenior
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Staff Engineer, Digital Design Engineering

🇮🇳 India

The Staff Engineer will provide technical leadership and mentorship to the digital design team, managing IP development and delivery. They will also interact with internal customers to improve and maintain developed IP and evaluate third-party IPs.

Full-timeSenior
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Sr. Product Designer, Public Space Incubator (English Services) (Hybrid/Telework)

🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The Lead Product Designer for PSI is responsible for driving design-led solutions through strategic consultation and collaboration. This includes guiding the evolution of the design system and ensuring high design standards and accessibility.

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Marketing Graphic Designer

🇷🇴 Romania

Lead the visual execution of a rebrand and build a modular product visual system for a SaaS portfolio. Produce design-ready sales enablement assets and employer branding visuals while managing external agencies when necessary.

$1,900 - $2,900Full-time
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Director, Design Engineering - Data Centers

🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America

The Director, Design Engineering will lead and manage a portfolio of design projects for hyperscale and AI-ready data centers, ensuring timely and budget-compliant delivery. This role involves collaboration with various teams and external consultants to maintain design quality and standards.

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Senior Product Designer (UX Specialist) - Media Company

🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brazil

Lead end-to-end product design initiatives, transforming complex workflows into intuitive user-centered experiences. Establish and evolve design systems while collaborating closely with Product Managers and Engineers.

Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer (UX Specialist) - Media Company

🇲🇽 Mexico

Lead end-to-end product design initiatives, transforming complex workflows into intuitive user-centered experiences. Establish and evolve design systems while collaborating closely with Product Managers and Engineers.

Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer (UX Specialist) - Media Company

🇨🇴 Colombia

Lead end-to-end product design initiatives, transforming complex workflows into intuitive user-centered experiences. Establish and evolve design systems while collaborating closely with Product Managers and Engineers.

Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer (UX Specialist) - Media Company

🇩🇴 Dominican Republic

Lead end-to-end product design initiatives, transforming complex workflows into intuitive user-centered experiences. Establish and evolve design systems while collaborating closely with Product Managers and Engineers.

Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer (UX Specialist) - Media Company

🇵🇦 Panama

Lead end-to-end product design initiatives, transforming complex workflows into intuitive user-centered experiences. Establish and evolve design systems while collaborating closely with Product Managers and Engineers.

Full-timeSenior
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Product designer senior - F/H

🇫🇷 59110 La Madeleine, France

The Senior Product Designer is responsible for leading the end-to-end design process, from strategic framing and user discovery to high-fidelity delivery and QA. They leverage AI tools to automate execution while focusing on empathy, strategy, and the creation of precise, trust-inducing interfaces.

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Lead UX Designer

🇺🇸 United States of America

Drive end-to-end design strategy and execution for complex B2B SaaS products, specifically integrating AI-native features. Lead the creation of user flows and design specifications while mentoring junior designers and maintaining the design system.

$145,000 - $160,000Full-timeLead
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Senior/Staff Product Designer

Lead end-to-end design projects from ambiguous problem statements to polished, shipped product experiences. Collaborate with engineers and product managers to develop intuitive workflows for high-stakes military intelligence environments.

Full-timeSenior
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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.