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Senior Graphic Designer (Bilingual) | Branding & Digital Design
🇻🇪 Capital District, Venezuela
Reclutadora De Talentos 🇻🇪 Capital District, Venezuela
Lead creative and strategic projects from conceptualization to final execution. Develop brand identities, comprehensive campaigns, and innovative visual experiences for a global team.
Mobile Gamification UI/UX Designer (Fintech)
🇻🇳 Phường Thủ Đức, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Vietpay 🇻🇳 Phường Thủ Đức, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Lead the design of high-retention mobile gamification frameworks, including point systems, missions, and reward flows for a fintech product. Own the end-to-end UX/UI process from wireframes to high-fidelity prototypes while collaborating closely with engineering for production delivery.
UI/UX Designer
🇵🇰 Lahore Division, Lahore City Tehsil, Lahore 54100, Pakistan
Curemd 🇵🇰 Lahore Division, Lahore City Tehsil, Lahore 54100, Pakistan
You will lead the creation of innovative visual designs and user experiences while driving design strategy through user research and prototyping. Additionally, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams and mentor junior designers to ensure high-quality, user-centered solutions.
Computer Aided Design Manager
🇺🇸 Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Summit Epc 🇺🇸 Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Lead and develop a team of CAD designers while establishing production standards and quality control processes. Optimize AutoCAD and Revit workflows to increase production capacity and ensure coordinated, constructible design documents.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Bounce 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design process for consumer web and mobile products, from discovery to polished UI. They will collaborate with product managers and engineers to maintain the design system and validate decisions through research.
Senior Client-Side Design Manager
🇮🇪 Athlone, County Westmeath, Ireland
Eir Business Talent 🇮🇪 Athlone, County Westmeath, Ireland
Lead the client-side design phase and procurement activities for a major OSD pharmaceutical facility retrofit. Coordinate multidisciplinary design consultants and EPCM partners to ensure the project meets GMP compliance, budget, and schedule requirements.
Regional Design Manager
🇮🇹 Milan, Italy
Stack Infrastructure 🇮🇹 Milan, Italy
Lead and govern the end-to-end design management process for data centre developments within the region. Coordinate multidisciplinary teams and ensure alignment with technical standards, budgets, and project timelines.
Head of Design
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Loba Group 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead and take ownership of the design function, managing a team of four or more Design Managers. Oversee the coordination and delivery of design across a portfolio of complex, high-specification residential projects.
Bid Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Bidrecruitment 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the design and delivery of high-quality tender submissions and visually engaging proposal documents. Drive continuous improvement of bid templates, content libraries, and visual standards to enhance submission impact.
Lead Product Designer — Mobile Casual Games
🇫🇮 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
Games Factory Talents 🇫🇮 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
You will own the end-to-end visual direction of mobile casual games, including UI/UX concepts and promotional assets. Additionally, you will lead, mentor, and grow a design team of up to 10 people while shaping the design pipeline.
Design Manager - Land Development
🇺🇸 Greenville, South Carolina, United States
Lja 🇺🇸 Greenville, South Carolina, United States
The Design Manager will plan and execute civil site and land development projects while ensuring design quality and process efficiency. This role involves leading technology adoption, developing CAD/BIM standards, and providing technical training to staff across multiple offices.
Head of Design
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Jdl Recruitment 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the delivery of data centre designs from concept to GMP handover, ensuring alignment with business priorities and customer expectations. Establish design management frameworks and govern the performance of external consultants and technical specialists.
Principal UX Researcher
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Ocean Infinity 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Lead and evolve the user research strategy across products, platforms, and operational systems while partnering with cross-functional teams. Drive evidence-based decision-making by conducting end-to-end research to uncover user needs and translate complex workflows into actionable product recommendations.
Design Manager - Infrastructure
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Wsp 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
The Design Manager will lead and coordinate multidisciplinary design teams for complex infrastructure and land development projects in Saudi Arabia. They are responsible for managing the end-to-end design process, ensuring quality, and serving as the primary interface between clients, authorities, and technical teams.
Staff Product Designer
🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Delivery Hero 🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Lead the design strategy for the Global Qcommerce Hub by collaborating with cross-functional teams to translate complex business needs into user-centric solutions. Manage the end-to-end product design process, from discovery and research to high-fidelity implementation, while advocating for the user across the organization.
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.