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Principal Design Manager
🇬🇧 Camberley, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Costain Group Plc 🇬🇧 Camberley, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
As Principal Design Manager, you will lead a design management team and oversee design and engineering management for high-value projects. You will establish collaborative relationships with clients and ensure adherence to design management processes.
Staff Product Designer, Knowledge Graph
🌍 Remote
Gitlab 🌍 Remote
Lead design for cross-cutting platform experiences and drive the end-to-end design process for features impacting users across the product. Collaborate closely with Product Management and Engineering to ensure design intent is maintained through development.
Lead Graphic Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Ultralytics 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the end-to-end creative production of high-impact marketing, digital, and event assets to translate complex AI concepts into bold visuals. Collaborate with Growth and Product teams to implement brand uplifts and maintain identity consistency across all channels.
Graphic Designer - Publications & Marketing
🇺🇸 Boyne City, MI 49712, United States of America
Bound Media Group 🇺🇸 Boyne City, MI 49712, United States of America
Lead the creative direction, design, and production of multiple annual publications while maintaining brand consistency. Design digital marketing assets and collaborate with marketing teams on promotional campaigns.
PRODUCT DESIGNER - COLLECTIONS (Toy/Collectibles)
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Culturefly 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Collections Product Designer will lead product development from concept to production, focusing on creating compelling collections for retail. Responsibilities include sketching new ideas, conducting market research, and developing packaging designs.
Staff Product Designer, Knowledge Graph
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Gitlab Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Lead design for cross-cutting platform experiences and drive the end-to-end design process for features impacting users across the product. Collaborate with Product Management and Engineering to shape priorities and ensure design intent is maintained.
Web Designer (Cosmetics, C&H Design Team)
🇺🇸 Port Washington, NY 11050, United States of America
Kiss Products, Inc. 🇺🇸 Port Washington, NY 11050, United States of America
Lead digital design execution for the Cosmetics category, focusing on website optimization, eCommerce content, and digital marketing assets. Support packaging and brand design initiatives to ensure a consistent consumer experience across digital and physical touchpoints.
Senior UX Designer Kiro CLI, Kiro
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design process for Kiro's agentic AI development tools, creating complex workflows and high-fidelity prototypes. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate customer insights into scalable design patterns and product strategies.
Product Designer II, New Business
🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Warner Bros. Discovery 🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Lead the design of high-impact, standalone non-news products and features for CNN's New Business team. Execute the full design lifecycle from discovery and wireframing to visual design and implementation across multiple platforms.
Lead Product Designer (Colombia)
🇨🇴 Bogota, Colombia
Slalom 🇨🇴 Bogota, Colombia
As a Lead Product Designer, you will independently own design direction for client engagements, navigating existing product ecosystems and improving design systems. You will partner with stakeholders to communicate design decisions and facilitate workshops that shape product direction.
Senior Product Designer
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Musemind Gmbh - Global Design Company 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Lead the problem-solving process for complex product challenges and translate business goals and user needs into innovative design solutions. Conduct user research and leverage insights to guide design decisions while ensuring the design vision aligns with overall product goals.
Product Designer (Mid)
🇨🇴 Bogota, Colombia
Talent B 360° 🇨🇴 Bogota, Colombia
Lead UI design from wireframes to production-ready screens for web-based SaaS products. Drive UX strategy through user research and improve user workflows.
Lead Product Designer (Colombia)
🇨🇴 Colombia
Slalom 🇨🇴 Colombia
As a Lead Product Designer, you will independently own design direction across small-to-medium client engagements, navigating existing product ecosystems and improving design systems. You will partner with US and Canadian client stakeholders, facilitating workshops and discovery activities to shape product direction.
HVAC Design Manager
🇩🇪 Germany
Datacenter People 🇩🇪 Germany
Lead mechanical design activities for data center developments and act as the subject matter expert for HVAC and cooling infrastructure systems. Collaborate with various teams to ensure facilities are efficient, reliable, and future-proof.
Senior Video Editor and Visual Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Agora (nasdaq: Api) 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Lead end-to-end post-production for video marketing assets, podcasts, and short-form social content. Create polished visual and graphic design assets for digital and print marketing collateral while maintaining brand consistency.
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.