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Senior Design Manager
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Sigmar Recruitment 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Lead and manage Data Centre design projects from concept to completion, ensuring technical compliance and operational robustness. Coordinate multidisciplinary teams, procurement processes, and site inspections to meet project milestones and quality standards.
Senior Interaction Designer
🇬🇧 Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Netcompany 🇬🇧 Leeds, England, United Kingdom
You will lead the end-to-end design of digital products and services while facilitating design workshops and sprints. Additionally, you will collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to create research-based designs and mentor other designers.
Senior Model UX Designer, GeminiApp, DeepMind
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Google Deepmind 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
The role involves guiding prompt engineering and prototyping strategies to deliver high-quality, context-aware model outputs. You will also partner with AI product designers to craft multimodal solutions and develop intuitive UX patterns for user controls and preferences.
Senior Model UX Designer, GeminiApp, DeepMind
🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Google Deepmind 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
The role involves guiding prompt engineering and prototyping strategies to deliver high-quality, context-aware model outputs. You will also partner with AI product designers to develop intuitive UX patterns and multimodal solutions for the GeminiApp.
Senior Model UX Designer, GeminiApp, DeepMind
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Google Deepmind 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The role involves guiding prompt engineering and prototyping strategies to deliver high-quality, context-aware model outputs. You will also partner with product designers to craft multimodal solutions and develop intuitive UX patterns for AI-powered experiences.
Senior Design Manager
🇩🇪 Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany
Tsl Gmbh 🇩🇪 Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany
The Senior Design Manager is responsible for leading the multidisciplinary design team and coordinating project deliverables from post-concept through to delivery. This includes managing external consultants, ensuring regulatory compliance, overseeing BIM processes, and facilitating design workshops to ensure efficient project execution.
Senior UX UI Designer
🇫🇷 Paris, France
Breople 🇫🇷 Paris, France
You will solve strategic business problems through design while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams and clients. Your role involves communicating design choices effectively and identifying opportunities for innovation within client projects.
Senior Engineering Design Manager, Water Infrastructure
🇺🇸 Portland, Oregon, United States of America
Stantec 🇺🇸 Portland, Oregon, United States of America
Lead and integrate multidisciplinary design teams to deliver innovative and sustainable water infrastructure projects. Manage project schedules, budgets, and stakeholder engagement while ensuring technical excellence and quality assurance.
Graphic Designer
🇬🇧 Croydon, England, United Kingdom
Collins Construction Ltd 🇬🇧 Croydon, England, United Kingdom
The Graphic Designer will shape the company's visual identity by producing high-quality designs for tender submissions, marketing materials, and corporate publications. They will collaborate with senior management to create engaging visual content and video while maintaining brand consistency across all platforms.
Senior Interaction Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Netcompany 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
You will lead the end-to-end design of high-profile digital products and services while mentoring other designers. This role involves facilitating design workshops and collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams to ensure solutions meet user needs and business objectives.
Senior Interaction Designer, Google Research UX
🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Google 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Design intuitive user flows and frameworks for human-AI collaboration while translating research and model capabilities into functional prototypes. Partner with cross-functional teams to iterate on designs based on user insights and technical constraints.
Senior Engineering Design Manager
🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Sedgman 🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
The Senior Engineering Design Manager will coordinate and direct the design function for minerals processing and infrastructure projects. Responsibilities include managing engineering budgets, overseeing technical staff, and ensuring compliance with design management systems.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇩🇪 Germany
Workflex 🇩🇪 Germany
You will design intuitive user flows, wireframes, and prototypes while maintaining a scalable design system to ensure visual and interaction consistency. You will also collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate complex product requirements into user-centered, scalable solutions.
Senior Product Designer - Heartbeat AI (m/f/d)
🇩🇪 Germany
1komma5° 🇩🇪 Germany
You will own the end-to-end design process for the Heartbeat app, from initial discovery to shipping production-ready features. You will also collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and data scientists to translate complex energy data into elegant user experiences.
Senior Interaction Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Netcompany 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
You will deliver high-profile digital products and services for major UK companies and public sector organizations. This involves leading design workshops, creating design artefacts, and collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams to meet user needs.
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.