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Principal Product Designer
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Twinkl Educational Publishing 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Lead the end-to-end design experience and oversee the development of a design system to ensure quality and consistency across all products. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support the product development process from conception to launch.
Senior Product Designer
🇮🇪 Equinix, Dublin, Ireland
Rapidratings 🇮🇪 Equinix, Dublin, Ireland
Lead end-to-end customer experience from discovery to delivery, integrating AI-assisted design practices to optimize workflows. Own the design system and utilize behavioral analytics to drive product engagement and adoption.
Head of Design
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Bettingjobs 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Define and lead the overall creative vision and design standards across multiple brands and platforms. Collaborate with various teams to create engaging player experiences and elevate the visual layer of the app.
Graphic Designer - Events
🇺🇸 Somerset County, New Jersey, United States of America
Shi International Corp. 🇺🇸 Somerset County, New Jersey, United States of America
Lead the creative vision and end-to-end design for large-scale conferences, trade shows, and internal events. Translate business goals into immersive 3D environments, scenic buildouts, and integrated digital and physical collateral.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 Plymouth, England, United Kingdom
Willmott Dixon 🇬🇧 Plymouth, England, United Kingdom
You will oversee, monitor, and report on design programmes, ensuring high-quality outputs that align with project goals and budgets. Key responsibilities include leading the design process, managing consultants, and ensuring compliance with statutory approvals.
Expression of Interest - Design Manager - Water Sector
🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Stantec 🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
As a Design Manager, you will lead a team to deliver impactful water projects, overseeing all aspects of delivery and ensuring successful project outcomes. You will collaborate closely with clients and guide your multidisciplinary team throughout the project lifecycle.
Design Manager
🇮🇹 Milan, Italy
Osmii 🇮🇹 Milan, Italy
Lead multidisciplinary design efforts for data centers, managing external engineering firms and ensuring compliance with client requirements. Oversee the technical design and construction phases while ensuring adherence to industry standards and regulations.
Senior Graphic Designer (Branding Focus)
🇪🇬 Egypt
Osa Outsourcing Advantage 🇪🇬 Egypt
Lead end-to-end branding and graphic design projects, ensuring brand consistency across all materials. Collaborate directly with clients and manage multiple deliverables independently.
Brand Design Manager
🇬🇧 Accrington, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
Bensons For Beds 🇬🇧 Accrington, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
The Brand Design Manager will lead and elevate brand creative across various channels, ensuring design consistency and developing visual identity across all touchpoints. They will collaborate with multiple teams to create impactful visuals that enhance brand perception and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
Design Manager - Construction - Manchester
🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Graham Group 🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
The Design Manager will lead and coordinate multi-disciplinary design teams, ensuring that designs are innovative and compliant with education-sector requirements. They will manage the design process from concept through to construction and handover, maintaining high standards throughout.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇮🇹 Italy
Ninetwothree Ai Studio 🇮🇹 Italy
Lead the end-to-end design process for client projects and the NineTwoThree brand, ensuring designs are developer-ready. Collaborate with product managers and engineers to translate complex requirements into usable designs while optimizing for clarity and speed.
Staff AI Product Designer, Automation, GeminiApp, DeepMind
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Google Deepmind 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead the UX strategy and interaction design for Gemini's Connected Apps, focusing on how users delegate life tasks. Create low-friction experiences that integrate user information across Google products and third-party services.
Staff AI Product Designer, Automation, GeminiApp, DeepMind
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Google Deepmind 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Lead the UX strategy and interaction design for Gemini's Connected Apps, focusing on how users delegate life tasks. Create low-friction experiences that integrate user information across Google products and third-party services.
Staff AI Product Designer, Automation, GeminiApp, DeepMind
🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Google Deepmind 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Lead the UX strategy and interaction design for Gemini's Connected Apps, focusing on how users delegate life tasks. Create low-friction experiences that integrate user information across Google products and third-party services.
Senior UX Researcher
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Uxr Hunt 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
The Senior UX Researcher will shape the future of an enterprise platform by uncovering user insights and ensuring that user needs drive product design decisions. They will lead research efforts, translate findings into actionable insights, and empower cross-functional teams to conduct high-quality research.
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.