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Hardware Design Engineering, Senior Director - Active Electric Cable / Smart Cable Module Business
🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Astera Labs 🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Lead and scale the hardware design engineering organization at Astera Labs, overseeing the development of products from concept through production. Drive technology roadmaps and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure successful integration of silicon into customer designs.
Product Design Manager, Adobe Experience Platform
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Adobe 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
As a Design Manager, you will lead a squad of product designers and set the quality bar for the team's output. You will also coach designers on their craft and career growth while advocating for the team's contributions to cross-functional partners.
Connectivity Engineer - Data Center Design, Engineering, & Construction
🇺🇸 Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States of America
Meta 🇺🇸 Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States of America
Manage the full project life-cycle of data center connectivity infrastructure, ensuring projects are delivered on schedule and within budget. Coordinate with cross-functional partners and vendors to oversee installation, quality assurance, and technical field leadership.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Twg Consulting 🇬🇧 Leeds, England, United Kingdom
As Design Manager, you will lead and coordinate the design process from concept through to commissioning, ensuring projects are delivered safely and efficiently. You will manage multidisciplinary design teams and provide technical leadership throughout the project lifecycle.
Senior Product Designer - Agent+
🇧🇷 Brazil
Tempo (yc S23) 🇧🇷 Brazil
Lead the design vision for Agent+ engagements with high-profile clients and advocate for design engineering. Collaborate with founders, clients, and engineers to create user-centric solutions and elevate design culture within the company.
Staff Product Designer
🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Dialpad Japan 🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Lead design initiatives that form the foundation of Dialpad's product. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define design patterns and ensure they scale effectively.
Senior UI Engineer - Design Systems Team Lead
🇨🇿 Prague Castle, Jiřská, 118 01 Prague, Czechia
Barclays 🇨🇿 Prague Castle, Jiřská, 118 01 Prague, Czechia
Lead a team of UI engineers to design and develop a scalable, accessible React-based component library and design system. Collaborate with designers and product managers to translate design tokens into production-ready components while ensuring high engineering velocity.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 United States of America
The Boldt Company 🇺🇸 United States of America
The Design Manager will lead the design and preconstruction process for complex projects, integrating scope, schedule, cost, and risk. This role involves collaboration with owners, engineers, trade partners, and internal teams to ensure project success.
Lead UX Designer - B2B
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Jpmorganchase 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
The Lead UX Designer will drive product design excellence and create complex end-to-end products and services from concept to launch. This role involves leading user research initiatives, advocating for customer-centric design, and collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams.
Staff Product Designer
🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Dialpad 🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Lead design initiatives that form the foundation of Dialpad's product. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define design patterns and contribute to production code.
Lead Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Twilio 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design strategy for Twilio's Voice products, translating complex telecom abstractions into intuitive developer experiences. Collaborate across teams to ensure cohesive, channel-agnostic journeys and integrate voice capabilities with AI portfolios.
Lead Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Twilio 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead the strategic UX vision for Twilio's Email products and the modernization of the SendGrid platform. Partner with executive leadership to architect unified cross-channel workflows and establish platform-wide design standards.
Digital Product Designer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Alterna Savings 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead the design lifecycle from conceptualization to execution across various platforms, creating user flows, wireframes, and prototypes. Collaborate with stakeholders and engineering teams to ensure design specifications are implemented accurately and drive continuous improvement of design workflows.
Design Manager, Interaction Design Lead - LEGO® DESiGN
🇩🇰 7190 Billund, Denmark
The Lego Group 🇩🇰 7190 Billund, Denmark
As a Design Manager, you will bring interactive products to market by designing playful and viable connected experiences. You will manage the entire design life cycle from ideation to market launch while ensuring quality deliveries and adherence to milestones.
Design & Engineering Manager (Electrical - Data Centres)
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Eaton Corporation 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Manage the design, development, and implementation of innovative electrical solutions for large-scale data centres. Lead multidisciplinary engineering teams through all project phases from concept to construction closeout.
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.