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Product Designer
🇸🇪 Danderyds kommun, Stockholm County, Sweden
Roaring 🇸🇪 Danderyds kommun, Stockholm County, Sweden
Lead product design and UX from discovery through implementation, creating user flows, prototypes, and polished interfaces that make complex data and workflows easier to understand. Collaborate with Product, Design, Engineering, users, and customers; maintain the design system; and ensure the quality of the implemented product.
Senior User Experience (UX) Researcher
🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Vacances Air Canada Vacations / Air Canada Rouge 🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
The Senior UX Researcher will lead research initiatives to understand traveler behaviors and validate design solutions for the Air Canada Vacations website. They will collaborate with product and design teams to translate research insights into actionable recommendations that improve the booking experience.
Principal UX Designer, Senior Talent and Transformation (STT)
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Define the UX vision and strategic roadmap for AI-native tools that support senior leaders, and own end-to-end product experiences from discovery through launch. Lead executive and cross-functional collaboration, establish design patterns and guidelines, champion human-centered design, and coach designers to raise the organization’s design standards.
Head of Design - Developer Tools & AI Infrastructure
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Greylock Partners 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Define and lead the product design vision, standards, and design systems while personally designing and prototyping core product experiences. Partner closely with founders and engineering to ship an intuitive developer experience across the product UI, APIs, SDKs, and other developer-facing surfaces.
Network Design Manager
🇺🇸 Allen Park, MI 48101, United States of America
Penske 🇺🇸 Allen Park, MI 48101, United States of America
Lead the day-to-day execution and strategic network design for a customer account, managing supervisors and logistics analysts while coordinating with customers, carriers, suppliers, vendors, and internal support teams. Own account performance and financial results, resolve operational issues, develop project plans, maintain customer relationships, and identify opportunities for growth and continuous improvement.
Platform Engineering Manager - Design Engineering & Cloud Enablement (IRE)
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Inizio 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Lead architecture, cloud strategy, and network services across the corporate IT estate, setting engineering standards and governing secure, scalable, supportable solutions. Manage and develop senior engineers and architects, lead cloud enablement and reusable engineering patterns, and align roadmaps and delivery with business and operational priorities.
Lead Graphic Designer
🇵🇭 Philippines
Bbe Marketing 🇵🇭 Philippines
Develop ideas and create polished social media graphics, infographics, carousels, headlines, and captions based on industry data and relevant news. Verify research and sources, manage the content calendar, ensure final posts are accurate, and use audience performance insights to improve future content.
Associate Design Manager (Data Centres) - Newcastle
🇬🇧 Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom
Engie 🇬🇧 Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom
Lead major building-services projects, managing teams and coordinating the design of mechanical or electrical engineering systems. Oversee project costs, schedules, reporting, client liaison, technical compliance, risk monitoring, and delivery quality.
Associate Design Manager
🇬🇧 Epsom, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Atkinsréalis 🇬🇧 Epsom, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Lead coordinated multidisciplinary design delivery for assigned infrastructure projects or work packages, managing technical interfaces, assurance, quality, safety, programme, resources, budgets, risks, and contractual requirements. Build client and business relationships, contribute to bids and opportunities, coach colleagues, and lead innovation, sustainable design, and continuous improvement.
Design Manager
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Global Professional Consultants 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Manage the design process from concept through construction, coordinating architects, engineers, and consultants to ensure designs meet project requirements and budget. Lead design reviews, manage technical submissions, and resolve design and buildability issues.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Kier Group 🇬🇧 Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Lead engineering design delivery across assigned projects and line-manage Design Managers, supporting their development and consistent performance. Coordinate with engineering leads and construction partners, oversee design assurance and quality, and ensure health and safety compliance while promoting innovation and sustainability.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Costain Group Plc 🇬🇧 Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Lead design delivery for an infrastructure or non-infrastructure element of major potable water transfer projects, managing the design team from feasibility through construction and commissioning. Plan and resource design activities, collaborate with delivery and operational stakeholders, support client sign-off, and promote value-for-money decisions and continuous improvement.
Principal Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Smarkets 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
You will define and drive the product design direction from scratch, working closely with leadership, product, and engineering teams. Your role involves creating simple, elegant interfaces and conducting user research to inform product strategy and enhance the design system.
Platform Engineering Manager - Design Engineering & Cloud Enablement (IRE)
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Inizio 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
The Platform Engineering Manager will lead cloud strategy, architecture governance, and network services while overseeing a team of senior engineers. They are responsible for setting technical standards, managing the Centre for Enablement model, and ensuring scalable, secure, and cost-effective platform delivery.
Lead UI/UX Designer
🇮🇱 Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
Aitan 🇮🇱 Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
The Lead UI/UX Designer will oversee the design of web, mobile, and command & control systems while collaborating with R&D to simplify complex workflows. They will also be responsible for maintaining the company's design system and driving the user experience strategy for new products.
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.