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Senior Model UX Designer, GeminiApp, DeepMind
🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Google 🇺🇸 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 product designers to create multimodal solutions and develop intuitive UX patterns for AI-powered applications.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Lagom 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
The Senior Graphic Designer will own and elevate the brand's visual identity while developing creative concepts for campaigns and various marketing collateral. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams and manage print production processes to ensure high-quality brand consistency.
Senior Product Designer
🇮🇳 Mumbai City District, India
Tist Media 🇮🇳 Mumbai City District, India
Lead the end-to-end product design for the TIST App across web, mobile, and internal tools. This includes defining user flows, evolving the design system, and creating intuitive interfaces for AI-driven features.
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 site infrastructure projects globally. Responsibilities include managing engineering budgets, schedules, resource planning, and ensuring technical compliance across project teams.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇸🇰 Bratislava, Slovakia
Nextio 🇸🇰 Bratislava, Slovakia
The designer will conduct UX analysis and testing while creating flow-charts, wireframes, and prototypes for digital products. They will also communicate with the development team and present design outputs to colleagues and clients.
Senior Design Manager
🇵🇭 Philippines
Dyson 🇵🇭 Philippines
Lead the end-to-end product development process for significant new offerings, ensuring technical requirements, quality targets, and project schedules are met. Manage cross-functional teams, budgets, and supply chain strategies to deliver compelling products while maximizing return on investment.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 San Bruno, CA 94066, United States of America
Walmart 🇺🇸 San Bruno, CA 94066, United States of America
You will define and lead the visual identity for high-stakes executive communications and events while architecting reusable design systems for the enterprise. Additionally, you will serve as a strategic partner to executives, translating complex strategies into compelling visual narratives.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 Bentonville, Arkansas, United States of America
Walmart 🇺🇸 Bentonville, Arkansas, United States of America
The Senior UX Designer will lead the development of user experience strategies by conducting research, analyzing data, and synthesizing insights to inform design decisions. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to create prototypes and deliver scalable, intuitive digital experiences that align with business goals.
Senior Product Designer, Global Markets, VP
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
State Street 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead end-to-end product design for strategic Global Markets initiatives while creating AI-assisted workflows to improve decision quality. Partner with product and engineering teams to transform complex financial processes into intuitive, user-centered enterprise solutions.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Spark 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
You will design intuitive interaction flows and UI components to help brokers and agency leaders translate complex datasets into meaningful user actions. The role involves conducting user research and partnering with cross-functional teams to ship features across the full product lifecycle.
Senior UX Researcher
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Cars Commerce 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
The Senior UX Researcher will lead complex, high-impact research initiatives to inform product strategy and design decisions. They will also collaborate with cross-functional teams to strengthen research practices and advocate for customer-centered decision-making.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇨🇴 Colombia
Desophy 🇨🇴 Colombia
Design and produce commercial real estate marketing materials from brief to final file using industry-standard software. Ensure high-quality output by performing self-checks and applying feedback consistently across all projects.
Senior Structural Design Manager
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Atkinsréalis 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
The Senior Structural Design Manager will lead the structural engineering strategy and design delivery for large-scale hospitality and mixed-use projects. This role involves managing consultants, ensuring technical compliance with international and local standards, and overseeing project lifecycle from concept to construction.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Point.me 🇺🇸 United States of America
You will own end-to-end design work across the consumer funnel, including onboarding, search, and booking flows. Additionally, you will partner with the senior designer on net-new initiatives and contribute to the company's design system.
Senior Drafting & Design Technologist
🇨🇦 City of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
Irving Oil 🇨🇦 City of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
Develop electrical engineering designs and drawings to support capital and expense projects while ensuring safe, reliable, and fit-for-purpose solutions. Provide construction and commissioning support, perform field verifications, and manage third-party engineering deliverables.
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.