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Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Conesville, Coshocton County, Ohio, United States of America
Aligned Data Centers 🇺🇸 Conesville, Coshocton County, Ohio, United States of America
Lead the preconstruction and design phases of colocation and hyperscale data center builds from inception through turnover. Coordinate with third-party design teams, internal stakeholders, and construction managers to ensure technical deliverables and budget compliance.
Sr. Design Manager - Communications
🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Wsb 🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Lead a team of communications engineers and specialists to design and implement broadband infrastructure while ensuring regulatory compliance. Manage business development, departmental budgets, and client relationships to ensure project quality and timely delivery.
Staff Engineer, Digital Design Engineering
🇨🇳 China
亚德诺半导体 🇨🇳 China
The candidate will lead digital SoC design for high-performance ICs, managing the process from architecture definition through physical implementation. Key tasks include RTL development, micro-architecture decisions, and collaborating with verification and physical design teams to ensure production-ready designs.
Digital Design Manager
🇨🇳 China
亚德诺半导体 🇨🇳 China
Lead the digital SoC development and architecture definition for high-performance MCU, DSP, and NPU products. Manage the end-to-end design execution from architecture through tape-out while mentoring a high-performing engineering team.
Product Design Manager - Partner Tech (all genders) parental leave cover
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Zalando 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Lead a team of product designers to deliver a seamless partner experience from onboarding to assortment steering. Bridge the gap between research, product management, and design strategy to translate insights into tangible product experiences.
Civil Infrastructure - Transportation Project Manager / Design Manager
🇵🇱 Warszawa, 83-433 Nowe Polaszki, Poland
Aecom 🇵🇱 Warszawa, 83-433 Nowe Polaszki, Poland
Lead the design process for civil infrastructure projects focusing on highways, rail, and bridges from planning to closure. Manage multidisciplinary teams and oversee design stages to ensure quality, budget adherence, and timeline compliance.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Journey 🇬🇧 Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Lead the full design lifecycle from creative concept to production handover, managing multidisciplinary teams of artists, technicians, and engineers. Coordinate design strategies, budgets, and timelines while ensuring technical feasibility and compliance with safety guidelines.
Graphic Designer
🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
Paragon 🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
The Graphic Designer will collaborate with various teams to create visual representations for print and electronic media, including marketing materials and sales collateral. They will lead the visual language for product marketing and leverage AI tools to increase design efficiency.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Fluidstack 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end project management of concurrent data center design programs from initiation through construction-ready handoff. Establish program governance, build playbooks, and maintain integrated master schedules across multiple engineering disciplines.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Decisionpoint | Cortek 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead the visual and interaction design for the DCIPS Future program by establishing and maintaining a comprehensive design system in Figma. Collaborate across three development teams to create accessible, production-ready screens for casualty and survivor-facing systems.
Senior Product Designer
🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Trip.com Group 🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Lead end-to-end design initiatives from discovery and user research through to high-fidelity prototyping and developer handoff. Collaborate with cross-functional teams and the Shanghai HQ to shape product strategy and maintain a scalable global design system.
Network Design Manager
🇬🇧 Rugby, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom
Evri 🇬🇧 Rugby, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom
Lead the development of long-term hub and depot capacity plans and drive network design initiatives to enhance efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Conduct financial modelling and data-driven analysis to support strategic investment decisions and operational improvements.
Product Designer
🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Nacar Careers 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
The Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design process, from discovery and user research to high-fidelity interface creation. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to solve user problems and leverage AI tools to enhance productivity and design outcomes.
Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Limitless 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
You will lead the design of a new MVP product from the discovery phase through to delivery, creating high-fidelity designs and interactive prototypes. Additionally, you will contribute to and extend an existing sophisticated Figma design system while collaborating closely with engineers and product owners.
Design Manager – Solar PV
🇬🇧 Leicester, City of Leicester, England, United Kingdom
Net Zero Evolution 🇬🇧 Leicester, City of Leicester, England, United Kingdom
Oversee the entire design lifecycle for multiple commercial solar projects, including coordinating layouts, schematics, and shading analyses. You will define design manuals, lead technical workshops, and mentor junior designers to ensure high-quality, compliant outputs.
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.