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Senior Graphic Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Appian 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the design and execution of multi-channel campaigns, experiential branding, and digital assets to support EMEA marketing initiatives. Partner with global stakeholders to evolve Appian's brand system and translate complex business goals into high-impact visual experiences.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Redmond, Washington, United States of America
Microsoft 🇺🇸 Redmond, Washington, United States of America
Design and deliver end-to-end product experiences for Windows, focusing on emerging technologies like AI and adaptive interfaces. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to translate complex technical capabilities into intuitive, accessible, and scalable design solutions.
Senior Visual Designer, Windows
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Microsoft 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
You will lead the visual design and systems work for Windows, defining the visual foundation and translating design principles into scalable components. You will partner with cross-functional teams to solve complex UI challenges while ensuring high-quality, consistent experiences across the platform.
Senior Graphic Designer - ( 3 or 4 days a week / pro-rata)
🇬🇧 Kent, England, United Kingdom
Network - Career Consultants 🇬🇧 Kent, England, United Kingdom
The role involves leading the creative process from early concept development to final delivery across branding, digital, and print media. The designer will shape the creative direction and collaborate with the team to execute campaigns and corporate communications.
Principal Project Manager / Design Manager
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Pm Group 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Provide strategic leadership for the full project lifecycle from design through commissioning and handover. Lead multidisciplinary teams and act as the senior client interface to ensure alignment on objectives and performance metrics.
Senior Web Designer & Developer (Impact Sites) - Volunteer
Remote (🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom)
Action Change Remote (🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom)
Architect and implement scalable web toolkits and brand identities for 92 global projects to foster digital independence. Provide strategic technical guidance and mentor local community leaders to maintain their own digital presence.
Senior Product Designer - VOIS
🇪🇬 Cairo, Egypt
Vodafone 🇪🇬 Cairo, Egypt
Lead the end-to-end design process for digital products, from discovery and ideation through to final delivery. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create intuitive, accessible, and user-centered experiences that align with business objectives.
Product Designer Mobile Senior (H/F)
🇫🇷 92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
Citech 🇫🇷 92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
You will lead the end-to-end product design cycle for a B2C mobile application, from discovery to delivery. This involves collaborating with product, tech, and QA teams to create user-centric experiences while maintaining high UI standards.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 Stockholm, Aroostook County, Maine, United States of America
Nordic Investin Group 🇺🇸 Stockholm, Aroostook County, Maine, United States of America
You will lead interaction design from discovery through delivery, collaborating with product managers and engineers to improve user confidence. You are responsible for framing user problems, designing flows, and creating prototypes to refine digital product experiences.
Senior Technical Program Manager, Network Planning and Design Systems
🇺🇸 Thornton, Colorado, United States of America
Google 🇺🇸 Thornton, Colorado, United States of America
You will lead the software strategy for Google's physical network footprint, owning the portfolio for capacity allocation, simulation, and planning tools. Additionally, you will align cross-functional teams and advocate for the integration of AI capabilities into network planning workflows.
Senior Solution Design Manager 3PL (France)
🇫🇷 Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône, Val-d'Oise, France
The Belgian Post Group (bpost) 🇫🇷 Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône, Val-d'Oise, France
The Senior Solution Design Manager will design innovative logistics solutions and develop common methodologies to support strategic projects across the organization. They will also provide high-level expertise to local teams, facilitate workshops, and ensure the effective transition of solutions into operational deployment.
Senior UX Designer
🇵🇱 Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
Motorola Solutions 🇵🇱 Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product managers, developers, and data scientists to design next-generation public safety applications. Enable a design-led product development process using a human-centered approach to solve complex user experience challenges.
Product Designer Mobile Senior (H/F)
🇫🇷 92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
Citech 🇫🇷 92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
The Senior Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design process for a B2C mobile application, from discovery to delivery. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate product vision into user-centric experiences while maintaining high UI standards.
Graphic Designer
🇮🇳 India
Kwanta Communications 🇮🇳 India
The role involves designing high-quality assets for social media, digital ads, presentations, and print based on brand guidelines. You will collaborate with senior designers, copy, and video teams to ensure consistency and produce production-ready files.
Senior Engineer, Analog Design Engineering
🇹🇼 Taipei, Taiwan
Analog Devices 🇹🇼 Taipei, Taiwan
The Senior Analog IC Design Engineer will create transistor-level designs and verify them through comprehensive simulations. They will also supervise circuit layout, model switching regulators, and collaborate with test engineers to ensure design for testability.
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.