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Mechanical Product Design Engineering Supervisor
🇺🇸 High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Daimler Truck North America 🇺🇸 High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
The role involves leading a team in the design and development of school bus bodies and related components. Responsibilities include applying engineering principles, resolving production issues, and collaborating with various departments to ensure compliance and manufacturability.
Principal Product Designer, Conversational Platforms
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Remitly 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
The Principal Product Designer will collaborate with various teams to design and launch conversational experiences across multiple platforms. This role involves leading the design of complex customer-centric conversational flows and evolving the shared conversational platform.
Design Engineering Supervisor
🇺🇸 Santa Clarita, California, United States of America
Itt Inc. 🇺🇸 Santa Clarita, California, United States of America
The Design Engineering Supervisor is responsible for leading design engineering functions for fluid motion control products, ensuring alignment with business objectives and engineering excellence. This role includes supervising a team, guiding product development, and enforcing engineering processes.
Product Designer III
🇺🇸 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America
Northwestern Mutual 🇺🇸 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America
The Product Designer will analyze complex features and flows, balancing user and business needs to create user-centered design solutions. They will lead the creation of journey maps, user flows, wireframes, and prototypes while collaborating with other teams.
UX Design Manager
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Synergis 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Lead a team of product designers focused on a complex enterprise platform. Provide coaching, mentorship, and establish design best practices while collaborating with stakeholders.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Davidson, North Carolina, United States of America
Trane Technologies 🇺🇸 Davidson, North Carolina, United States of America
Lead UI-heavy experience design for key features across web and mobile applications, ensuring ease of use and task efficiency. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align on design strategy and deliver high-quality UI solutions.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
Bridgestone Americas 🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
Manages architectural due diligence and design for all Bridgestone Retail store formats, including new builds and remodels. Leads technical negotiations with external developers and manages project budgets and risk mitigation from inception to completion.
Senior Visual Designer
🇹🇼 Taiwan
Piccollage 拼貼趣 🇹🇼 Taiwan
Lead and create visually compelling designs that elevate the brand and product experiences across platforms. Provide mentorship to designers and collaborate across functions to ensure cohesive visuals aligned with broader goals.
Interaction Designer - UI Specialist
🇨🇭 8832 Wollerau, Switzerland
Vorwerk Gruppe 🇨🇭 8832 Wollerau, Switzerland
The designer will lead the UI execution by designing pixel-perfect user interfaces across digital sales ecosystems. They will collaborate closely with project stakeholders to ensure designs are executed as intended.
UX Researcher - Global E-Commerce - Singapore
🇸🇬 Singapore
Tiktok 🇸🇬 Singapore
Lead user research for a global e-commerce business, focusing on understanding user needs in Southeast Asia. Independently drive end-to-end user research projects and deliver actionable insights to inform business decisions.
Product Design Manager (f/m/d)
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Bunch 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Lead and mentor a team of product designers while defining the overall design vision and strategy for the platform. Oversee the development of scalable design systems and collaborate cross-functionally to align design solutions with business objectives.
Lead Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Rec Technologies 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Own end-to-end design across staff-side admin tools and consumer-facing experiences. Lead the design of AI-powered product features and build Rec's design system.
Preconstruction Design Manager
🇺🇸 Lake Oswego, Oregon, United States of America
Hoffman Construction Company 🇺🇸 Lake Oswego, Oregon, United States of America
The Design Manager will oversee and coordinate design efforts performed by third-party architects and engineers, ensuring that the design is executable within budget and schedule constraints. They will also guide the owner/design/contractor team through project chartering sessions and lead design milestone planning sessions.
Lead Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Twilio 🇺🇸 United States of America
The Lead Product Designer will own the end-to-end user journey strategy for Twilio Email and lead cross-channel harmonization between Messaging and Voice. They will also define the long-term UX roadmap for the SendGrid platform and establish strategic partnerships with product and engineering leaders.
Lead Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Twilio 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design for Twilio's Voice products, ensuring a cohesive user experience across various communication channels. Collaborate with design peers to create a unified narrative and shape complex systems architecture.
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.