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Associate Principal Engineer - Design Engineering
🇵🇭 Philippines
Dyson 🇵🇭 Philippines
The Associate Principal Engineer will collaborate with internal teams and JDM partners to ensure the successful delivery of mechanical designs and product integration. They are responsible for overseeing design solutions, managing project requirements, and driving efficient engineering processes from concept to market launch.
Principal Product Designer, Transit Operations
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Via 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Lead the design of complex, interconnected workflows for the Transit Operations platform to improve efficiency for dispatchers and operators. Partner with product and engineering teams to translate business requirements into intuitive, scalable, and high-quality user experiences.
Principal Design Manager
🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Jacobs 🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Lead the delivery of major transportation projects including bus rapid transit, roads, highways, and rail. Strengthen key client relationships and mentor multidisciplinary teams to ensure successful project outcomes and business growth.
Principal Product Designer, Yahoo Everywhere
🇫🇷 Uz, Occitania, France
Yahoo 🇫🇷 Uz, Occitania, France
Lead design strategy for Yahoo Everywhere by creating concepts for new surfaces and acting as the final design decision-maker for partner integrations. Collaborate with business leads to shape deals and ensure brand consistency across diverse platforms like OEMs, apps, and ambient screens.
Principal Product Designer, Yahoo Everywhere
🇺🇸 United States
Yahoo 🇺🇸 United States
Lead the design strategy for Yahoo Everywhere by creating conceptual visions and overseeing the implementation of Yahoo products on third-party surfaces. Act as the final design decision maker during partner deals and pitches to ensure brand integrity and user value.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Linktree 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Lead and develop a team of senior designers while remaining hands-on with high-leverage and ambiguous design problems. Set the design vision and craft standards while partnering with Product, Engineering, and Marketing leaders to align with business priorities.
Principal Product Designer Lead
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Linktree 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Lead and develop a team of senior designers while remaining hands-on with high-leverage design problems. Set the design vision and craft standards to ensure a coherent product experience across the platform.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States
Linktree 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States
Lead and develop a team of senior designers while remaining hands-on with high-leverage design problems. Set the design vision and craft standards to ensure quality and consistency across the product.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Linktree 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Lead and develop a team of senior designers while remaining hands-on with high-leverage and ambiguous design problems. Set the design vision and craft standards while partnering with Product, Engineering, and Marketing leaders to align with business priorities.
Principal Product Designer Lead
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Linktree 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Lead and develop a team of senior designers while remaining hands-on with high-leverage and ambiguous design problems. Set the design vision and craft standards while partnering with Product, Engineering, and Marketing leaders to align with business priorities.
Principal Product Designer Lead
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States
Linktree 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States
Lead and develop a team of senior designers while remaining hands-on with high-leverage design problems. Set the design vision and craft standards to ensure a coherent product experience across the platform.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States
Linktree 🇺🇸 United States
Lead and develop a team of senior designers while remaining hands-on with high-leverage design problems. Set the design vision and craft standards to ensure quality and consistency across the product.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States
Linktree 🇺🇸 United States
Lead and develop a team of senior designers while remaining hands-on with high-leverage design problems. Set the design vision and craft standards to ensure quality and consistency across the product.
Principal Product Designer Lead
🇺🇸 United States
Linktree 🇺🇸 United States
Lead and develop a team of senior designers while remaining hands-on with high-leverage design problems. Set the design vision and craft standards to ensure quality and consistency across the product.
Principal Product Designer, AI Experience
🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Veed 🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Set the design vision for generative AI experiences across VEED's products, turning frontier model capabilities into intuitive tools for marketers. Define new interaction patterns for steering AI models and establish the quality bar for design across the company.
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.