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Lead Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Tembo 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
You will own the end-to-end product design for web and mobile experiences, translating requirements into high-quality user flows and polished visual designs. Additionally, you will develop the company's design system and collaborate with engineers and product managers to ensure high-quality implementation.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
Jacobs 🇬🇧 Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
Lead multidisciplinary detailed design for major water and wastewater infrastructure programmes, ensuring coordinated and buildable designs. Manage design scope, technical interfaces, and assurance while collaborating with project managers and client stakeholders to resolve complex issues.
Senior Design Manager
🇮🇪 Cork, County Cork, Ireland
Jacobs 🇮🇪 Cork, County Cork, Ireland
Lead multidisciplinary detailed design for major water and wastewater infrastructure programmes, ensuring technical soundness and commercial deliverability. Manage design scope, technical interfaces, and assurance while coordinating between engineering, construction, and client stakeholders.
Senior Design Manager
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Jacobs 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Lead multidisciplinary detailed design for major water and wastewater infrastructure programmes, ensuring technical soundness and commercial deliverability. Manage design scope, technical interfaces, and assurance while coordinating between engineering, construction, and client stakeholders.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Jacobs 🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Lead multidisciplinary detailed design for major water and wastewater infrastructure programmes, ensuring technical soundness and commercial deliverability. Manage design scope, technical interfaces, and assurance while coordinating between engineering, construction, and client stakeholders.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 Belfast City District, Antrim, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Jacobs 🇬🇧 Belfast City District, Antrim, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Lead multidisciplinary detailed design for major water and wastewater infrastructure programmes, ensuring technical soundness and commercial deliverability. Manage design scope, technical interfaces, and assurance while coordinating between engineering, construction, and client stakeholders.
Design Manager - Aviation / Building Services
🇬🇧 Essex, Uttlesford, England, United Kingdom
Galliford Try 🇬🇧 Essex, Uttlesford, England, United Kingdom
Lead and coordinate electrical and building services design activities for aviation infrastructure and intelligent building systems. Manage the design team and ensure all deliverables are safe, compliant, and aligned with client and regulatory requirements.
Solutions Design Manager
🇬🇧 Rugby, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom
Dhl Supply Chain 🇬🇧 Rugby, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom
Lead the design and delivery of end-to-end operational warehouse solutions, focusing on automation, layout design, and costing for new and existing facilities. Manage multiple design workstreams, conduct risk assessments, and collaborate with stakeholders to ensure commercially viable and scalable supply chain designs.
Mechanical Design Manager
🇬🇷 Paiania Municipal Unit, East Attica, Greece
Metlen 🇬🇷 Paiania Municipal Unit, East Attica, Greece
Manage and coordinate the Process and New Energy Technology Group design tasks, including risk analysis studies and design reviews. Lead the team in preparing technical specifications, providing troubleshooting support, and collaborating with procurement and commissioning departments.
Product Designer Pleno
🇧🇷 Foz do Iguaçu, Paraná, Brazil
H2o Innovation 🇧🇷 Foz do Iguaçu, Paraná, Brazil
Lead end-to-end design processes including problem framing, wireframing, prototyping, and visual refinement. Collaborate with product and engineering teams to execute user research and contribute to the evolution of the Design System.
Creative Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
King & Spalding 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead and mentor a small design team while acting as a working manager to produce high-quality visual communications for marketing and business development. Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure all creative assets align with the firm's brand standards and communication objectives.
Senior Product Designer (Connect)
South Korea, Gyeonggi Seongnam-si
42dot South Korea, Gyeonggi Seongnam-si
Lead the design strategy for in-vehicle user experiences and connected mobile products by translating product vision into scalable designs. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define user experiences, improve design systems, and mentor junior designers.
Senior Product Designer
🇫🇷 Paris, France
Riot Security 🇫🇷 Paris, France
The Senior Product Designer will drive the roadmap and vision for the cybersecurity platform by creating high-fidelity visuals, prototypes, and user flows. They will collaborate with leadership and cross-functional teams to ship high-quality product improvements and contribute to overall product strategy.
UX Designer Sénior H/F
🇫🇷 Annecy, Upper Savoy, France
Nexton 🇫🇷 Annecy, Upper Savoy, France
Define the transverse UX vision for complex banking processes and interconnected systems while leading advanced user research and prototyping in Figma. The role involves mentoring junior designers, evolving the organizational design system, and collaborating with Product Owners and business sponsors.
Principal UX Designer, Hiring Intelligence
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Lead the design vision and agentic interaction models for AI-powered hiring tools across the Recruiter, Hiring, and Candidate Hubs. Define experience strategies that translate probabilistic AI outputs into trustworthy, deterministic user experiences while maintaining a high bar for visual and interaction craft.
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.