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Lead Product Designer, Sports
🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Fanatics Momentum 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
You will lead the end-to-end product design for the Sportsbook and fan ecosystem, shaping intuitive experiences from discovery to implementation. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to establish design standards and translate complex customer insights into high-quality, data-driven interfaces.
Product Designer
🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Analog 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
You will lead the end-to-end design process, transforming conceptual ideas into valuable, human-centric products. You will also collaborate across cross-functional teams to drive design strategy and vision for complex, large-scale systems.
Store Design Manager - Luxury Timepieces
🇨🇭 Le Chenit, District du Jura-Nord vaudois, Switzerland
Luxury Experts 🇨🇭 Le Chenit, District du Jura-Nord vaudois, Switzerland
The Store Design Manager will lead the development and execution of retail design projects, including boutiques and pop-ups, to ensure a consistent global brand experience. They will manage project lifecycles, coordinate with external partners, and mentor the retail design team to maintain high luxury standards.
Junior Product Designer
🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Jeen.ai 🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Build and maintain a modular design system to ensure product scalability and consistency. Lead end-to-end design processes from research and UX flows to high-precision UI for complex AI platforms.
Staff Product Designer
🇸🇬 Singapore
Open Government Products 🇸🇬 Singapore
Lead the design of complex, ambiguous public sector products while shaping the organization's overall design practice and strategy. Act as a force multiplier by mentoring other designers and coordinating cross-functional alignment across multiple government agencies.
Lead Product Designer, Platform
🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Fanatics Momentum 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
You will design foundational customer journeys for registration, identity, payments, and loyalty within a regulated gaming ecosystem. You will also establish reusable design patterns and embed design principles into platform-wide decision-making processes.
Lead Product Designer, Sports
🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Fanatics Momentum 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
You will lead the end-to-end product design for sportsbook and fan-led experiences, ensuring intuitive and engaging user journeys. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to translate customer insights into high-quality design standards and reusable patterns.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Hdr 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
The Design Manager will lead and coordinate multi-discipline design delivery teams to ensure projects are completed safely, on time, and within budget. They are responsible for managing design programmes, client communication, and ensuring technical compliance throughout the project lifecycle.
Product Designer L2/Senior - CEG (Bangkok - Based, Relocation Provided)
🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
Agoda 🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
You will lead the design and execution of self-service tools within the Customer Experience Group to reduce booking friction. This involves running discovery phases, testing prototypes, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to define product requirements.
Senior UX Designer #379
🇸🇬 Singapore
Avepoint 🇸🇬 Singapore
The Senior UX Designer will guide UX design practices across the Ministry of Social and Family Development cluster. This role involves leading cross-ministry initiatives and collaborating with senior stakeholders to deliver user-centered design solutions for various government systems.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 El Segundo, CA 90245, United States of America
Balfour Beatty Us 🇺🇸 El Segundo, CA 90245, United States of America
The Design Manager coordinates and integrates design-build projects by managing design and permitting processes to ensure quality, constructability, and cost control. They lead project pursuits, manage team members, and ensure project deliverables align with contractual obligations and budget requirements.
Senior Design Manager
🇸🇬 Singapore
Airtrunk 🇸🇬 Singapore
Lead large-scale hyperscale data centre design projects from concept through detailed design phases. Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure design integrity, compliance, and alignment with sustainability goals.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Systra Uk & Ireland 🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
The Design Manager is responsible for the design delivery of civil engineering work packages, ensuring projects are completed on time, within budget, and to client specifications. They will lead multidisciplinary teams, manage project documentation, and coordinate between design and construction partners.
Project Design Manager
🇬🇧 Peterborough, England, United Kingdom
Anglian Water Services 🇬🇧 Peterborough, England, United Kingdom
You will lead the design and technical delivery of multidisciplinary water and water recycling projects from concept through to completion. This involves managing project plans, driving digital innovation, and ensuring all designs meet safety, environmental, and operational standards.
Lead Product Designer, The Bump
🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Spectrum Equity 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Lead end-to-end product design for The Bump across web, iOS, and Android while shaping core product strategy. Partner with Global Media Sales to design sponsored content integrations and monetization solutions across the TKWW brand portfolio.
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.