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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.
Design Manager - Water/Wastewater
🇺🇸 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America
The Haskell Company 🇺🇸 Charlotte, North Carolina, 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 for successful project delivery.
Senior Product Designer (Mobile App)
🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Polarsteps 🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Lead the design of the 'Digital Relive' team, focusing on creating new ways for travelers to relive their trips. Oversee the full product lifecycle, ensuring designs are well-spec'd and built accurately.
Japanese-speaking Senior Product Designer (AI Solutions for Legal)
🇯🇵 Japan
Pt Talenta Eksekutif Asia 🇯🇵 Japan
The Senior Product Designer will lead end-to-end UI/UX design initiatives for complex AI-powered B2B SaaS platforms. This includes designing user experiences, conducting UX research, and collaborating with product managers and engineers to deliver scalable solutions.
Japanese-speaking Senior Product Designer (AI Solutions for Legal)
South Korea, Seoul
Pt Talenta Eksekutif Asia South Korea, Seoul
The Senior Product Designer will lead end-to-end UI/UX design initiatives for complex AI-powered B2B SaaS platforms. This includes designing user experiences, conducting UX research, and collaborating with product and engineering teams.
Japanese-speaking Senior Product Designer (AI Solutions for Legal)
🇯🇵 Japan
Pt Talenta Eksekutif Asia 🇯🇵 Japan
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)
🇯🇵 Sado, Niigata Prefecture, Japan
Pt Talenta Eksekutif Asia 🇯🇵 Sado, Niigata Prefecture, Japan
The Senior Product Designer will lead end-to-end UI/UX design initiatives for complex AI-powered B2B SaaS platforms. This includes designing user experiences, conducting UX research, and collaborating with product and engineering teams.
Japanese-speaking Senior Product Designer (AI Solutions for Legal)
🇯🇵 Japan
Pt Talenta Eksekutif Asia 🇯🇵 Japan
The Senior Product Designer will lead end-to-end UI/UX design initiatives for complex AI-powered B2B SaaS platforms. This includes designing user experiences, conducting UX research, and collaborating with product and engineering teams.
Japanese-speaking Senior Product Designer (AI Solutions for Legal)
🇯🇵 Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
Pt Talenta Eksekutif Asia 🇯🇵 Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
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.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Nationwide Middle East Properties Llc 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
The Senior Graphic Designer will oversee and elevate the corporate brand identity while leading the creative direction for marketing campaigns and property launches. They will create high-end design collateral across various platforms and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment with business objectives.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Saxmundham, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom
Pt Renewables 🌳 🇬🇧 Saxmundham, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom
As Design Manager, you will lead permanent works design activities and manage design subcontract packages from end to end. You will implement project-specific Design Management Plans and ensure compliance with ISO 9001 and client requirements.
Lead UX Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Datacor, Inc. 🇺🇸 United States of America
The Lead UX Designer will conceptualize and design product solutions, leading projects from initial ideas to deployment. They will collaborate with engineers and product managers to create user experiences that effectively solve customer problems.
Product Designer - Instagram Creators and Commerce
🇺🇸 Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States of America
Meta 🇺🇸 Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States of America
Lead the design of seamless shopping and discovery experiences for Instagram users while empowering creators to monetize their content. Drive product strategy and innovation by turning conceptual ideas into high-quality, scalable end-to-end flows.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Sparta, Illinois, United States of America
Mace 🇺🇸 Sparta, Illinois, United States of America
You will lead design governance, ensuring projects meet minimum standards and resolving deviations with stakeholders. Additionally, you will provide expert design guidance and coordinate teams to align standards and operational practices.
Principal Graphic Designer (Experience required in Threejs/ Webgl)
🇮🇳 India
Imerit Technology 🇮🇳 India
The Principal Graphics Engineer will lead the development of a browser-based visualization engine for multi-sensor data annotation. Responsibilities include architecting high-performance GPU rendering pipelines and optimizing rendering techniques for real-time 3D visualization.
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.