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Lead Product Designer (Digital) - Hybrid
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Globe And Mail 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Lead Product Designer will create compelling user experiences across web and mobile platforms while establishing a design vision for product programs. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams, mentor designers, and conduct user research to validate solutions and ensure consistency through design systems.
Manager, Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Knowit Training 🇺🇸 Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Lead engineering teams in the design and development of transformers while ensuring alignment with business objectives and quality standards. Oversee the full project lifecycle from concept to production and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration.
Staff Qualitative UX Researcher, Monetization
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Pinterest 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The researcher will scope and execute qualitative research to drive product impact within the monetization team. They will collaborate with cross-functional partners to influence strategy and communicate actionable insights to leadership.
Graphic Designer
🇸🇬 Singapore
Bytedance 🇸🇬 Singapore
The Brand Designer will lead visual design for employer branding initiatives, creating cohesive assets across social media, platforms, and events. They will own projects from concept to execution while collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality, impactful outputs.
Digital Design Manager
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Astera Labs 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead the DFT architecture and execution for signal-conditioning products to ensure high-quality silicon for AI infrastructure. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve coverage, yield, and diagnostics across advanced multi-die products.
Lead Product Designer
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Fitt Insider 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Own the end-to-end design experience across consumer checkout, merchant platforms, marketplaces, and clinical provider tools. Partner with PMs and engineers to define strategy, prototype rapidly using AI tools, and ship improvements that drive conversion and trust.
Sr. Product Designer, Prime Video Experience Design
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Prime Video & Amazon Mgm Studios 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Lead the design of commerce experiences for Prime Video, focusing on how customers rent, buy, and subscribe to content. This involves creating end-to-end interaction flows and high-fidelity UI across web, mobile, and TV platforms.
Sr. Product Designer, Prime Video Experience Design
🇺🇸 Culver City, CA 90232, United States of America
Prime Video & Amazon Mgm Studios 🇺🇸 Culver City, CA 90232, United States of America
Lead the design of commerce and growth experiences across Prime Video's web, mobile, and TV platforms. Partner with product and engineering teams to translate customer needs into high-fidelity UI and scalable design patterns.
UX Researcher - Ads - USDS
🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Tiktok Usds Joint Venture 🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Lead mixed-methods user research to uncover insights and validate hypotheses regarding the advertising experience and post-purchase journey. Translate these findings into actionable recommendations to shape product strategy and drive business growth for TikTok's monetization services.
Lead Product Designer - Design Foundations, Interstate
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Cox Automotive Inc. 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
You will own and evolve the Interstate B2B design system, setting the quality bar and design direction for components, tokens, and patterns. Additionally, you will shape AI-assisted design tooling and collaborate across teams to ensure consistency and efficiency at scale.
Senior Product Designer
🇧🇷 Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Farfetch 🇧🇷 Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
You will lead the design strategy and execution for complex B2B internal platforms, collaborating with cross-functional teams to solve operational challenges. Your role involves driving discovery activities, maintaining design systems, and mentoring peer designers to ensure high-quality, scalable user experiences.
Design Manager
🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Strattmont 🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Lead and manage the design process from concept through detailed design and project delivery. Coordinate architects, consultants, and internal teams to ensure project requirements and quality standards are met.
SR Manager Solutions Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Johns Creek, Georgia, United States of America
Id Logistics Us 🇺🇸 Johns Creek, Georgia, United States of America
The Senior Manager will lead complex warehouse solution design initiatives, managing multiple RFI, RFQ, and RFP projects from requirements analysis to implementation. They will partner with cross-functional teams to develop facility layouts, labor models, and financial proposals that meet profitability and operational targets.
Network Design Manager
🇺🇸 Dearborn, Michigan, United States of America
Penske 🇺🇸 Dearborn, Michigan, United States of America
Manage a single customer account by overseeing day-to-day network design operations and leading a team of supervisors and analysts. Responsible for financial health, P&L management, and maintaining strategic relationships with customers and vendors to optimize supply chain performance.
Design Manager – Cordfree
🇲🇾 Malaysia
Dyson 🇲🇾 Malaysia
Lead the technical delivery of Floorcare development programmes from concept through to production readiness. Coordinate cross-functional teams and act as the primary technical interface between global RDD and Malaysian manufacturing partners.
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.