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Senior Design Manager – Structures
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Buro Happold 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
The Senior Design Manager will oversee structural design delivery, consultant coordination, and technical assurance for a major luxury project in Riyadh. Key duties include managing structural consultants, reviewing design submissions, and leading technical workshops.
Senior Design Manager – Landscape
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Buro Happold 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Lead landscape design management across all project stages for a luxury project in Riyadh. Oversee the delivery of landscape architecture packages, ensuring design excellence and technical coordination.
Senior Design Manager
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Buro Happold 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Lead architectural design management for a luxury project in Riyadh, ensuring successful design execution and consultant coordination. Oversee technical excellence and manage design risks throughout the design lifecycle.
Product Designer - H&M Womenswear Light Woven
🇸🇪 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
H&m 🇸🇪 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
As a Product Designer, you will lead the way in identifying key products and crafting the perfect assortment for target customers. You will handle a collection focused on light wovens across various clothing types while maintaining a cost-conscious awareness throughout the design process.
Senior Agentic Product Designer - Remote - Latin America
Remote (🇬🇹 Cobán, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala)
Fullstack Remote (🇬🇹 Cobán, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala)
As a Senior Agentic Product Designer, you will integrate directly into the client's team and collaborate with existing designers and engineers. You will lead end-to-end product design initiatives and contribute to the development of AI-powered products.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
Superplay 🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
The role involves shaping the visual language and creating design assets for monetization, including popups and game info pages. You will collaborate with the design team to lead creative concepts that support growth in global markets.
Staff, UX Designer
🇺🇸 Tewksbury, MA 01876, United States of America
Thermo Fisher Scientific 🇺🇸 Tewksbury, MA 01876, United States of America
The Staff UX Designer will explore and implement UX design for new digital user experiences and collaborate with cross-functional teams. They will also lead discussions with product teams to understand project scope and user needs.
EOI - Design Manager - Rail Systems - Major QLD Rail Projects
🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Ugl 🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
As Design Manager, you will lead the coordination and delivery of rail systems design, focusing on signalling and integration across disciplines. You will work closely with engineering teams and delivery partners to ensure design outcomes are practical and ready for delivery.
Design Manager, Industrial/Manufacturing
🇺🇸 Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Je Dunn Construction 🇺🇸 Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
The Senior Design Manager is responsible for leading the design process and ensuring successful project delivery by managing design participants and technology. This includes interpreting RFPs, collaborating with stakeholders, and overseeing design consultants to meet project goals.
EOI - Design Manager - Rail Systems - Major QLD Rail Projects
🇦🇺 River Of Life City Church, Slacks Creek, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Ugl 🇦🇺 River Of Life City Church, Slacks Creek, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
As Design Manager, you will lead the coordination and delivery of rail systems design, focusing on signalling and integration across disciplines. You will work closely with engineering teams and delivery partners to ensure design outcomes are practical and ready for delivery.
EOI - Design Manager - Rail Systems - Major QLD Rail Projects
🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Ugl Limited 🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Lead the coordination and delivery of rail systems design with a focus on signalling and multi-discipline integration. Develop design management plans and drive safety in design through collaborative reviews and stakeholder alignment.
Product Designer
🇬🇷 Athens, 1η Δημοτική Κοινότητα Αθηνών, Greece
Humani 🇬🇷 Athens, 1η Δημοτική Κοινότητα Αθηνών, Greece
As a Product Designer, you will lead end-to-end design processes to create intuitive user experiences for mobile and web applications. You will collaborate with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to ensure high-quality design execution and consistency across products.
Senior Product Designer (Technical & UX)
🇷🇴 Romania
Cast Ai 🇷🇴 Romania
Develop a deep understanding of the product to identify improvement opportunities and craft effective solutions. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to foster continuous improvement and lead research initiatives to advocate for users.
Lead Product Designer
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Upkeep 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Lead and shape the future of Product Design at UpKeep, driving the user experience vision across various platforms. Establish processes, standards, and a culture that enables world-class design while collaborating closely with Product and Engineering teams.
Product Designer (Contract)
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Unlearn.ai 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Product Designer will own end-to-end design for features within a defined product area, collaborating closely with Product Management and Engineering. Responsibilities include designing user experiences, producing high-fidelity mockups, and leading user 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.