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Packaging Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Edison, New Jersey, United States of America
Best Brands Consumer Products Inc 🇺🇸 Edison, New Jersey, United States of America
Lead the design and development of packaging graphics from initial concept through final production. Collaborate with cross-functional teams and external vendors to ensure design quality, accuracy, and adherence to retail requirements.
Staff UX Designer
🇨🇦 Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Wagepoint 🇨🇦 Calgary, Alberta, Canada
The Staff UX Designer will balance hands-on design execution with cross-functional leadership to turn complex user needs into accessible experiences. They will also define UX standards, mentor other designers, and contribute to product strategy and design system governance.
Principal Project Manager / Design Manager
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Pm Group 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
The Principal Project Manager will provide strategic leadership for the full project lifecycle, ensuring flawless design delivery and engineering execution. They will act as a senior client interface while coordinating multidisciplinary teams to drive performance across cost, schedule, quality, and safety metrics.
Product Designer
Remote (🇨🇱 188 0000 Monte Patria, Chile)
Tenpo Remote (🇨🇱 188 0000 Monte Patria, Chile)
The Product Designer will lead end-to-end digital experiences, managing the process from problem discovery and research to UI design and visual QA. They will collaborate within agile squads to ensure high-quality, accessible, and consistent product delivery while maintaining the company's Design System.
Principal Product Designer, AI & Innovation
🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Gen 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Lead end-to-end product design for AI-powered initiatives, including browsers and agentic apps, from concept through launch. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to establish design patterns and principles that enhance the broader product portfolio.
Senior Millwork Engineer / Project Design Manager
🇺🇸 Pantego, Tarrant County, TX 76013, United States of America
Anton Cabinetry 🇺🇸 Pantego, Tarrant County, TX 76013, United States of America
Lead custom architectural millwork projects by managing design, engineering, and technical execution from concept through installation. Collaborate with project managers, customers, and architectural teams to develop buildable solutions and ensure high-quality fit and finish.
Senior UX Designer, Kiro
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
The Senior UX Designer will lead the end-to-end design process for the Kiro platform, focusing on creating intuitive workflows for developers interacting with autonomous AI agents. This role involves conducting user research, developing concept models, and collaborating with product and engineering teams to shape the future of agentic software development.
Senior UX Researcher, Mixed Methods (Quant-Leaning)
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Suno 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
You will lead quantitative and qualitative research initiatives to inform pricing, packaging, and subscription strategies. This involves designing advanced studies, building longitudinal measurement systems, and translating complex data into actionable product recommendations.
Sr. Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Paramount 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Lead Product Designer will own the design outcomes for the CBS Sports App, leading the direction from initial concept to final shipped experience. They will collaborate closely with engineers and product managers to shape products through real-time feedback and iterative building.
Staff Product Designer, Receipt & Rewards Experience
🇺🇸 United States of America
Fetch 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead complex, high-ambiguity design initiatives for the receipt and rewards experience while ensuring a cohesive user journey. Partner with cross-functional teams including Product, Engineering, and Data Science to balance user needs with technical and business constraints.
Lead Product Designer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Venn 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead the design of end-to-end product experiences from concept to execution while evolving the company's design system. Collaborate with cross-functional partners to translate user insights and data into polished interaction models and visual solutions.
Principal Product Designer, Yahoo News
🇫🇷 65400 Uz, France
Yahoo 🇫🇷 65400 Uz, France
The Principal Product Designer will lead visual craft and interaction excellence across Yahoo's consumer surfaces while leveraging generative AI to accelerate prototyping and design standards. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate complex user needs into high-fidelity, user-centered product experiences.
Principal UX Designer
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Familiar Machines & Magic 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
You will lead the end-to-end UX productization across app, web, and on-product interfaces for physical AI systems. This involves defining interaction patterns, establishing design systems, and partnering with cross-functional teams to translate product vision into shippable experiences.
Principal UX Designer
🇺🇸 Woburn, Massachusetts, United States of America
Familiar Machines & Magic 🇺🇸 Woburn, Massachusetts, United States of America
You will lead the end-to-end UX productization across app, web, and physical interfaces for embodied AI systems. This involves defining interaction patterns, establishing visual language, and partnering with cross-functional teams to ensure a cohesive user experience.
Short Term UX Designer
🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Britebound 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Lead end-to-end design projects from concept to delivery, creating wireframes and interactive prototypes in Figma. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate research and data into engaging, accessible digital experiences for young users.
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.