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Design Manager - Water Sector
🇬🇧 Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Stantec 🇬🇧 Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Lead multidisciplinary teams in planning and delivering water-sector projects from concept through detailed design, including clean water, wastewater, flood risk, and urban drainage work. Serve as the technical lead alongside project managers, coordinating clients and stakeholders and overseeing design-and-build, detailed design, and owner's engineer services.
Design Manager - Water Sector
🇬🇧 Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Stantec 🇬🇧 Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Lead multidisciplinary teams in planning and delivering water-sector projects from concept through detailed design, including clean water, wastewater, flood risk, and urban drainage work. Act as the technical lead alongside the Project Manager, coordinating clients and internal and external specialists to deliver design-and-build projects, detailed designs, and owner’s engineer services.
Design Manager - Water Sector
🇬🇧 Exeter, Devon, England, United Kingdom
Stantec 🇬🇧 Exeter, Devon, England, United Kingdom
Lead multidisciplinary teams in planning and delivering major water-sector projects, from concept through detailed design, including design-and-build and owner’s engineer services. Partner with project managers and clients to oversee technical delivery, coordinate internal and external disciplines, and achieve best value and service excellence.
Lead Product Designer
🇦🇹 Vienna, Austria
Clera 🇦🇹 Vienna, Austria
You will lead product design, branding, and the design team while working directly with founders and engineering. The role involves hands-on design work, conducting customer interviews, and scaling design systems to support daily product releases.
Graphic Designer (Part-Time, Contract)
🇨🇦 Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Accorhotel 🇨🇦 Calgary, Alberta, Canada
The Graphic Designer will develop and maintain a cohesive visual identity for the restaurant, creating menus, signage, and digital assets across various platforms. They will collaborate with leadership and marketing teams to support guest experiences and promote brand initiatives through consistent visual communication.
Engineering Manager – Design Engineering
🇺🇸 United States of America
Ptr Global 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead the design engineering team and manage engineering execution across concurrent projects, ensuring accurate, manufacturable deliverables are completed on schedule and meet technical and quality requirements. Coordinate design reviews, BOM and release management, customer and cross-functional communication, risk resolution, and continuous improvement.
Staff Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America)
Wealth.com Remote (🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America)
The Staff Product Designer will lead interaction and UX architecture for the platform, bridging complex financial domain logic with intuitive user workflows. They will conduct user research, validate designs with enterprise clients, and define foundational interaction patterns across the product ecosystem.
Lead UX Designer (Contract)
Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)
Hirevouch Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)
Lead end-to-end product design, including user research, journey and information architecture mapping, interactive prototyping, and polished accessible interface design. Maintain and extend enterprise design systems, and align product, engineering, and global design teams across timezones.
Electrical Design Manager
🇬🇧 Barnsley, England, United Kingdom
Pt Renewables 🌳 🇬🇧 Barnsley, England, United Kingdom
Lead and grow the electrical design department, overseeing its multidisciplinary team, design quality, NERS accreditation, internal management systems, KPIs, and department P&L. Support business development and client relationships, establish a standalone earthing design capability, and contribute hands-on to network designs from LV to 132kV.
RQ11683 - UX Designer - Senior
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Maarut 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead user experience design across discovery, alpha, beta, and live delivery phases, including research, prototyping, usability testing, and iterative design. Collaborate with product owners, developers, business teams, and stakeholders in Agile Scrum delivery, while validating user stories and monitoring accessibility, analytics, and service performance.
Secure by Design Manager
🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal
Vodafone 🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal
Lead security-by-design assessments and provide architecture guidance for Vodafone products, services, infrastructure, and M&A activities, ensuring risks are identified and mitigated. Coordinate penetration testing, advise internal and external stakeholders and suppliers on security requirements, and coach agile teams while collaborating with business, technology, and security teams.
Senior Product Designer
🇳🇴 4340 Bryne, Norway
Mobile Career 🇳🇴 4340 Bryne, Norway
Design and prototype playful learning experiences for Duolingo’s apps, and independently lead major workstreams while mentoring peers. Collaborate with designers, artists, engineers, and product managers to shape the design language and deliver polished experiences across animation, copy, UI, and business impact.
Senior Product Designer
🇳🇴 4340 Bryne, Norway
Mobile Career 🇳🇴 4340 Bryne, Norway
Design and prototype playful learning experiences across Duolingo’s apps, website, and communications, while leading major workstreams and mentoring peers. Collaborate with designers, artists, engineers, and product managers to shape the design language and deliver polished experiences that balance user needs with business impact.
Senior Product Designer
🇳🇴 4340 Bryne, Norway
Mobile Career 🇳🇴 4340 Bryne, Norway
Design and prototype playful learning experiences across Duolingo’s apps, website, and communications, while leading major workstreams and mentoring peers. Collaborate with designers, artists, engineers, and product managers to shape the design language and deliver polished experiences that balance user needs with business impact.
UX Designer, Edu UX
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Google 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead end-to-end design for account linking flows and user-facing AI controls, creating user journeys, task flows, wireframes, and interactive prototypes across web and mobile. Collaborate with product, engineering, research, and privacy/legal partners to develop scalable, privacy-conscious experiences and refine them using research and usability testing.
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.