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Lead UX Designer, Design Systems
🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Clearwater Analytics 🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Lead the creation of scalable and accessible end-user interactions for web-based applications and websites. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop UX/UI guidelines and advocate for end-user needs throughout the company.
Design Manager
🇨🇦 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Ellisdon 🇨🇦 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
As a Design Manager, you will lead multidisciplinary design teams through the pursuit, design development, and construction support phases of projects. You will serve as the primary technical liaison between various stakeholders, ensuring design coordination and compliance with project objectives.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇪🇬 Egypt
Visualis Media 🇪🇬 Egypt
Lead the creation and execution of brand visuals, ensuring a consistent identity across all channels. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to deliver integrated campaigns and stay ahead of design trends.
Production Design Manager
🇮🇳 Coimbatore, Coimbatore North, India
Avantor 🇮🇳 Coimbatore, Coimbatore North, India
The Production Design Manager leads the execution and optimization of production design services across print and digital channels, ensuring high-quality, brand-consistent creative assets. This role involves managing complex production initiatives and collaborating with various teams to improve workflow efficiency and brand integrity.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 New South Wales, Australia
Vinci Construction 🇦🇺 New South Wales, Australia
The Design Manager will lead design teams for water and wastewater infrastructure projects, ensuring alignment among stakeholders and compliance with technical and client requirements. This role includes managing design management plans, overseeing HSEQ compliance, and acting as a liaison between construction and design teams.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America
Aqua Finance, Inc. 🇺🇸 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America
Lead the creation of intuitive, user-centered digital experiences for web and mobile applications. Collaborate with stakeholders and developers to transform complex business requirements into high-fidelity designs and prototypes.
Senior UX Designer
🇨🇦 Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Sonova Group 🇨🇦 Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
The Senior UX Designer is responsible for crafting design concepts that enhance the user experience across Sonova's ecosystem. This includes collaborating with various teams to ensure seamless integration and leading user research efforts.
Electrical Design Manager (HVDC Transformers)
🇬🇧 Stafford, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom
Ge Vernova 🇬🇧 Stafford, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom
The Electrical Design Manager will lead the transformer electrical design team, ensuring project deliverables meet quality, delivery, and cost KPIs. They will also support technical queries throughout the project lifecycle, from tendering to site commissioning.
Design Manager
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Jll 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Design Manager will lead the design process on Canadian workplace projects, ensuring design intent is realized from brief through to occupancy. They will also manage the design team, maintain quality standards, and coordinate with various stakeholders for smooth project delivery.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Echobox 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the end-to-end product design process from discovery to delivery to create intuitive workflows for publishers. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate complex problems and research insights into scalable product experiences.
Staff Product Experience Strategist/Lead UX Designer
🇺🇸 Acton, Massachusetts, United States of America
Insulet Corporation 🇺🇸 Acton, Massachusetts, United States of America
Lead the creation of user journey maps and experience frameworks to clarify user needs across the Omnipod product lifecycle. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment on user experience flows and branding.
Founding Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America)
Odin Remote (🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America)
Lead the design direction and elevate the customer experience for a private markets infrastructure platform. The role spans both product design and visual brand identity, turning complex regulatory workflows into intuitive user experiences.
Product Designer
🇧🇪 Ghent, Gent, Belgium
Tekst 🇧🇪 Ghent, Gent, Belgium
As a Product Designer, you will lead the Front-end UI and UX operations while working closely with Product Management and Engineering. Your role will involve bringing design maturity to the AI platform and conducting user research.
Design Manager
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Jll 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead the design process for Canadian workplace projects from brief to occupancy, ensuring high quality and design excellence. Manage the Canadian studio's day-to-day operations, including team development, resource management, and client relationship building.
Senior Design Manager
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Rad Search 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
As a Senior Design Manager, you'll lead the delivery of complex architectural projects from early design stages through to completion. You'll work closely with clients, consultants, contractors, and senior leadership, providing strategic direction across project planning and technical coordination.
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.