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Design Manager - Workplace Interiors
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Gensler 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead all phases of corporate interior projects, managing client relationships, budgets, and project schedules. Mentor junior staff and coordinate with contractors and consultants to ensure high-quality project execution.
Senior Product Designer, LoopNet - Arlington, VA -
🇺🇸 Arlington County, Virginia, United States of America
Costar Group 🇺🇸 Arlington County, Virginia, United States of America
Lead the design effort for Homepage, Search, and User Accounts, focusing on integrating AI-powered features like conversational search and personalization. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to architect user journeys and contribute to the evolution of the company's design system.
Manager, Product Designer - Capital One Software
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Capital One 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead the discovery and delivery of a best-in-class B2B digital experience for the Capital One Software website. This role involves optimizing user flows, mentoring junior designers, and collaborating with cross-functional partners to align design with business growth objectives.
Lead Technical UI Designer
🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Epic Games 🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Lead and manage a team of Technical UI designers to implement UI systems design in Unreal Engine for Rocket League. Collaborate with UX Designers, UI Artists, and UI Engineers to ship features to millions of users worldwide.
Global CAD Design Manager
🇧🇪 8587 Spiere-Helkijn, Belgium
Stow Group 🇧🇪 8587 Spiere-Helkijn, Belgium
As Global CAD Design Manager, you will lead and develop the global CAD function, ensuring high-quality drawing production aligned with business priorities. You will drive standardization, automation, and innovation in CAD processes across the organization.
Japanese-speaking Senior Product Designer (AI Solutions for Legal)
🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Pt Talenta Eksekutif Asia 🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
The Senior Product Designer will lead end-to-end UI/UX design initiatives for complex AI-powered B2B SaaS platforms. This role involves transforming complex legal and business workflows into user-friendly digital experiences while collaborating with product and engineering teams.
Japanese-speaking Senior Product Designer (AI Solutions for Legal)
🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Pt Talenta Eksekutif Asia 🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
The Senior Product Designer will lead end-to-end UI/UX design initiatives for complex AI-powered B2B SaaS platforms. This role involves transforming complex legal and business workflows into user-friendly digital experiences while collaborating with product and engineering teams.
Network Design Manager
🇪🇸 Spain
Humankind Global Recruitment 🇪🇸 Spain
The Network Design Manager is responsible for designing and governing network solutions that align with organizational objectives. This includes leading a team, overseeing performance, and ensuring the delivery of secure and scalable network services.
Temporary Works Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Nes Fircroft 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
The Temporary Works Design Manager will lead design coordination activities and manage temporary works designers and consultants. They will also support construction methodology, buildability reviews, and ensure compliance with relevant standards.
Graphic Designer - Menswear
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Dobson Welch Recruitment Specialists 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead creative direction for menswear graphics, setting trends and driving commercial success. Collaborate closely with design, sales, and retail partners to bring collections to life.
Ux Ui Designer
🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Tropicfeel 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Lead the design strategy and optimization of all web touchpoints to ensure a seamless, conversion-optimized user experience. Drive the CRO strategy through A/B testing and manage the creation and quality assurance of high-impact web assets.
Principal Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lseg 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the design of complex collaboration experiences within the Microsoft ecosystem for financial and risk professionals. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate product strategy into high-value user interfaces across desktop, mobile, and web platforms.
Lead Technical UI Designer
🇺🇸 Cary, North Carolina, United States of America
Epic Games 🇺🇸 Cary, North Carolina, United States of America
Lead and manage a team of Technical UI designers to implement UI systems design in Unreal Engine for Rocket League. Collaborate with UX Designers, UI Artists, and UI Engineers to ship features to millions of users worldwide.
Design Manager - Water/Wastewater
🇺🇸 Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America
The Haskell Company 🇺🇸 Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America
Lead the design and execution of industrial wastewater treatment projects, ensuring alignment with client expectations. Manage project scopes, schedules, budgets, and resources for successful project delivery.
Design Manager - Water/Wastewater
🇺🇸 Frisco, Texas, United States of America
The Haskell Company 🇺🇸 Frisco, Texas, United States of America
Lead the design and execution of industrial wastewater treatment projects, ensuring alignment with project goals and client expectations. Manage project scopes, schedules, budgets, and resources while communicating directly with clients and senior management.
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.