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Design Manager
🇬🇧 Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Aecom 🇬🇧 Leeds, England, United Kingdom
The Design Manager will lead design management projects, oversee sub-consultant contracts, and manage financial processes including invoicing and cash flow. They will also support team leadership, mentor junior staff, and ensure all design outputs meet quality and contractual standards.
Assistant Sanitary Design Manager
🇵🇭 Makati, Southern Manila District, Philippines
Rockwell Land Corporation 🇵🇭 Makati, Southern Manila District, Philippines
Lead the planning, design, and implementation of sanitary and wastewater systems for residential, commercial, and mixed-use projects. Oversee the entire design cycle while ensuring compliance with national building codes and coordinating with multidisciplinary teams.
Head of Design
🇺🇸 United States of America
Elation Health 🇺🇸 United States of America
The Head of Design will set the vision, standards, and operating model for the design organization while partnering with product and engineering leadership. This role involves driving design strategy, building a high-performing team, and ensuring the delivery of intuitive, AI-native experiences for clinicians.
Senior Product Designer
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Easygo 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
You will lead product design across the Sportsbook Core and Trust & Compliance domains, working cross-functionally to deliver exceptional user experiences. You are expected to hold context across multiple roadmaps, prioritize ruthlessly, and translate insights into actionable design decisions.
Engineering Manager-E6-Instrumentation and Control-Design Engineering
🇮🇳 Film and Television Institute of India, Vishnushastri Chiplunkar Path, Erandwane, Pune - 411004, Maharashtra, India
Tata Consulting Engineers Limited 🇮🇳 Film and Television Institute of India, Vishnushastri Chiplunkar Path, Erandwane, Pune - 411004, Maharashtra, India
The Engineering Manager is responsible for managing engineering and design activities, including scope definition, planning, and technical leadership throughout the project lifecycle. They ensure project objectives are met within time and budget constraints while coordinating with clients and internal teams.
Senior Design Manager
🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Al Abbar Group 🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Lead and manage the complete façade design process from concept through installation while directing multidisciplinary teams across multiple locations. Ensure technical excellence, compliance with international standards, and effective stakeholder management to deliver high-quality, complex architectural projects.
Product Designer
🇸🇪 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Doktor.se 🇸🇪 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
You will lead the end-to-end design process, from wireframes to high-quality UI, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to optimize product features. Additionally, you will conduct user research and leverage data-driven insights to implement solutions that improve the patient experience.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America
Jacobs 🇺🇸 Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America
The Senior Design Manager is responsible for the technical production and delivery of infrastructure design projects, ensuring they are completed on time and within budget. They lead design teams, manage subconsultants, and maintain client satisfaction through proactive scope and quality control.
Senior Brand Designer | Web & Design Systems (7 -month contract)
🇧🇷 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Doctoralia Brasil 🇧🇷 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Lead end-to-end web brand design projects while maintaining and evolving the web design system. Collaborate closely with developers, growth marketing, and engineering teams to deliver high-converting, accessible digital experiences.
Product Designer L2/Senior - CEG (Bangkok - Based, Relocation Provided)
🇺🇦 Kyiv, Ukraine
Agoda 🇺🇦 Kyiv, Ukraine
Lead the design and execution of self-service tools within the Customer Experience Group to reduce friction in the guest booking process. Collaborate with product managers and engineers to transform concepts into interactive experiences through discovery, prototyping, and iterative testing.
Senior Product Designer (12 Month Fixed-Term Contract)
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Sonder 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
The Senior Product Designer will lead design across the member experience, taking projects from early discovery through to shipped product. They will work closely with Product and Engineering teams while maintaining a focus on mobile interaction and visual craft.
Manager, Mechanical Design Engineering (m/f/d)
🇩🇪 Thiendorf, Saxony, Germany
Formfactor Inc. 🇩🇪 Thiendorf, Saxony, Germany
Lead a multi-disciplinary sustaining engineering team to manage the customer change process and resolve field issues for released products. Oversee reliability performance, cost-down programs, and design-for-manufacturability initiatives while managing component obsolescence.
Design Manager - Experience
🇸🇬 one-north, Singapore
Dyson 🇸🇬 one-north, Singapore
You will define and lead the end-to-end experience for Dyson products, integrating physical hardware, digital apps, and onboarding journeys into a coherent ecosystem. You will collaborate across multidisciplinary teams to translate complex technical capabilities into intuitive, premium user experiences.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Elfonze Technologies Pvt Ltd 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
The Senior Graphic Designer will own and evolve the Elfonze brand identity while creating high-impact visual assets across digital, print, and social media channels. They will also lead creative direction, mentor junior designers, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure brand consistency.
Senior Product Designer (12 Month Fixed-Term Contract)
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Sonder.io 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
You will lead product design across the member experience, taking projects from early discovery through to shipped, polished product. You will work closely with product and engineering teams to deliver high-quality mobile-first design solutions.
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.