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UX Designer, Edu UX
🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Google 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Lead end-to-end design for account linking flows and user-facing AI controls, translating complex authorization, consent, and identity settings into clear experiences across web and mobile. Collaborate with product, engineering, research, and privacy/legal partners to create and maintain scalable design patterns, and use research and usability testing to improve clarity, trust, and completion rates.
Senior Staff Interaction Designer, Search App
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Google 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead innovative design solutions for user, product, and business needs, and influence stakeholders across organizations to support design strategies. Own holistic design processes or systems across teams, and guide UX designers in developing concepts for user research and testing.
Senior Staff Interaction Designer, Search App
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Google 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Lead the design of foundational Search app experiences, developing innovative solutions that address user, product, and business needs while balancing technical constraints and high standards of craft. Influence stakeholders, own holistic design systems or processes across teams, and guide UX designers in developing concepts for research and testing.
Lead UX Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Consilio Llc 🇺🇸 United States of America
Own end-to-end design for critical product areas, partnering with Product and Engineering from problem definition through delivery and post-launch iteration. Define AI-assisted interaction models and evolve Consilio’s multi-product design system, including its components, usage standards, and accessibility practices.
(Senior) Product Designer - Systems & AI (m/w/d) - B2B SaaS | Berlin (hybrid)
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Packmatic Gmbh 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Lead user research and design end-to-end product experiences that make complex packaging and compliance workflows clear and intuitive. Develop reusable UX patterns and design-system guidance, prototype with AI and code where useful, collaborate with engineers through implementation, and improve experiences using product data and customer feedback.
UX Designer, Edu UX
🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Google 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Lead end-to-end design for account linking, authentication, permission management, and user-facing AI controls across web and mobile. Collaborate with product, engineering, research, and privacy/legal partners to create scalable, clear, and trustworthy experiences informed by user research and usability testing.
Tooling and Design Manager
🇺🇸 Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
Dupont™ Spectrum™ 🇺🇸 Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
Manage the Design and Tool Room functions, including processes, equipment, budgets, quality, and on-time delivery of design and tooling work. Lead staffing, development, performance management, workflow scheduling, safety communication, and collaboration across departments.
Senior Graphic Designer (Wellness and Healthcare)
🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Dragons Group 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Lead the design and delivery of digital content, campaigns, presentations, and marketing materials for pharmaceutical and healthcare clients, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and consistent visual quality. Mentor a mid-level designer, present work to clients, collaborate across teams, integrate relevant AI tools, and help build scalable design systems and processes.
UI/UX Designer
🇮🇳 India
Cxc 🇮🇳 India
Lead end-to-end UX/UI design, from discovery and user research through flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs. Collaborate with product, engineering, and stakeholders to deliver accessible, consistent experiences, validate designs, and contribute to design standards and mentorship.
Principal Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Smarkets 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Own product design from discovery through delivery, defining design direction and creating clear, polished experiences across prediction and betting markets. Research user needs, prototype and test concepts, improve design systems, and raise design quality through collaboration with leadership, product, and engineering teams.
Network Design Manager
🇺🇸 Dearborn, Michigan, United States of America
Penske Logistics 🇺🇸 Dearborn, Michigan, United States of America
Lead the day-to-day execution and strategic network design for a customer account, managing supervisors and analysts while coordinating with customers, carriers, suppliers, vendors, and internal support teams. Oversee service performance, project plans, customer relationships, continuous improvement, and the account’s budget, profit and loss, forecasting, and financial reporting.
Sprinkler Design Manager
🇺🇸 Warrendale, Allegheny County, PA 15015, United States of America
Fire Fighter Sales & Service Co. 🇺🇸 Warrendale, Allegheny County, PA 15015, United States of America
Lead the sprinkler design team, assign projects, manage schedules, and coordinate design deadlines with Sales and Management. Support sprinkler system design and layout, prepare drawings and calculations for approval, and create accurate material stock listings and requisitions.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Arizona, United States of America
Storm4 🇺🇸 Arizona, United States of America
Lead preconstruction and design for major data center projects, managing external design partners, technical deliverables, schedules, budgets, risks, and stakeholder approvals. Coordinate with construction, operations, and customers from land enablement through contractor mobilization, and support project completion and operational turnover.
Principal Design Manager (Data Centres) - London, Bicester or Newcastle upon Tyne
🇬🇧 Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom
Engie 🇬🇧 Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom
Lead design teams and manage complex technology-sector projects from pre-contract through delivery, ensuring quality, schedule, contractual, and financial objectives are met. Manage client and stakeholder relationships, design coordination and approvals, sub-consultants, team performance, and project reporting while supporting business development.
Principal Design Manager (Data Centres) - London, Bicester or Newcastle upon Tyne
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Engie 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead design teams and manage complex data centre projects from pre-contract through delivery, including schedules, budgets, contracts, quality assurance, and stakeholder approvals. Maintain client and supplier relationships, mentor team members, monitor project performance and profitability, and support business development.
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.