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Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Aecom 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
The Senior Design Manager will lead design management projects, oversee sub-consultant contracts, and manage financial processes including invoicing and cash flow. They are also responsible for mentoring junior staff and ensuring design quality and compliance across international projects.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Aecom 🇬🇧 Bristol, England, United Kingdom
The Senior Design Manager will lead design management projects across the UK and internationally while managing sub-consultant contracts and financial processes. They are also responsible for mentoring junior team members and ensuring all design outputs meet quality and contractual standards.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Aecom 🇬🇧 Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
The Senior Design Manager will lead design management projects, oversee sub-consultant contracts, and manage financial processes including invoicing and cash flow. They will also mentor junior team members and ensure all design outputs meet quality and contractual standards.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Aecom 🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
The Senior Design Manager will lead design management projects, oversee sub-consultant contracts, and manage financial processes including invoicing and cash flow. They are also responsible for mentoring junior team members and ensuring all design outputs meet quality and contractual standards.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Olathe, Kansas, United States
Garmin 🇺🇸 Olathe, Kansas, United States
The Senior Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design process for the Garmin Connect application, from initial wireframing to final pixel-perfect execution. Responsibilities include collaborating with cross-functional teams to create usable interaction solutions and mentoring junior designers.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 United States
Seatgeek 🇺🇸 United States
The Senior UX Designer will define design strategies and provide end-to-end craft to evolve the ticketing platform. They will collaborate with cross-functional partners to create a cohesive vision across various business verticals.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Seatgeek 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
The Senior UX Designer will define strategies and provide end-to-end craft to evolve SeatGeek into a best-in-class ticketing platform. They will collaborate with cross-functional partners to create cohesive visions across various business verticals and improve component systems.
Senior UX Researcher, AI Experiences
🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States
Microsoft 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States
The researcher will drive product strategy by conducting rigorous multi-stage research to understand customer behaviors and needs. They will collaborate across disciplines to influence product development and elevate the research craft within the team.
Senior Design Manager
🇳🇱 Amstelveen, North Holland, Netherlands
Sisk Group 🇳🇱 Amstelveen, North Holland, Netherlands
The Design Manager coordinates the design process to ensure outputs are compliant, deliverable, and aligned with client and statutory requirements. They manage the production of design information and collaborate with consultants and subcontractors to deliver cost-effective, integrated solutions.
Senior Product Designer - Argentina
🌍 Remote
Tiendanube 🌍 Remote
The Product Designer will diagnose customer needs and develop design solutions to improve the experience for merchants and consumers. This includes conducting research, creating low and high-fidelity prototypes using the Nimbus design system, and collaborating with product and tech teams to iterate on features.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Current 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
The role involves curating and scaling the design language through the maintenance of component libraries and design tokens. Additionally, the designer will own the end-to-end UX for primary banking workflows and collaborate with engineering and product managers.
Senior Product Designer (in person)
🇺🇸 Westfield, Indiana, United States
Sep 🇺🇸 Westfield, Indiana, United States
Lead the design direction for cross-functional client teams, creating end-to-end user experiences from conceptual models to high-fidelity prototypes. Integrate AI into product workflows and conduct generative and evaluative research to align business objectives with user needs.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States
Newsbreak 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States
The role involves owning the end-to-end product design for both consumer and professional experiences, including research, architecture, and visual design. The designer will establish the design system and partner with AI and engineering teams to create trust-centric user flows.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States
Skiffra 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States
Lead the design of field-based software for high-stakes industrial environments, focusing on usability for non-desk workers. Establish a scalable design system and language that ensures low-friction adoption across various physical job sites.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 United States
Seatgeek 🇺🇸 United States
The Senior UX Designer will define product strategies and provide end-to-end design leadership to create a cohesive vision across SeatGeek's business verticals. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve component systems and deliver high-quality, impactful user experiences.
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.