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Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Aecom 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Lead and manage the Design Management team and projects across the UK and internationally, overseeing financial processes and invoicing. Responsible for managing sub-consultants, implementing design procedures, and mentoring junior team members to ensure quality and contractual compliance.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Aecom 🇬🇧 Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Lead and manage the Design Management team and projects across the UK and internationally, overseeing financial processes and invoicing. Responsible for managing sub-consultants, implementing design procedures, and mentoring junior team members to ensure quality and contractual compliance.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Aecom 🇬🇧 Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Lead and manage the Design Management team and projects across the UK and internationally, overseeing financial processes and invoicing. Responsible for managing sub-consultants, implementing design procedures, and mentoring junior team members to ensure quality and contractual compliance.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Aecom 🇬🇧 Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Lead and manage the Design Management team and projects across the UK and internationally, overseeing financial processes and invoicing. Responsible for managing sub-consultants, implementing design procedures, and mentoring junior team members to ensure quality and contractual compliance.
Senior UX Designer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Ecobee 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
You will design coherent and purposeful product experiences for energy technology platforms while contributing to the design system. This involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to translate ambiguous problems into clear, user-centered solutions.
Senior Product Designer, Operations Tools
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Alpaca 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Lead the end-to-end design process for complex internal financial operations tools, from research and prototyping to production implementation. Collaborate with engineering and operations teams to translate complicated business rules into intuitive, data-rich interfaces.
Senior Transmissions Design Manager (Onsite)
🇺🇸 East Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Rtx 🇺🇸 East Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Lead and develop a high-performing transmissions engineering team while managing complex gearbox design activities from concept through production. Collaborate across functions and suppliers to ensure gearbox designs meet performance, quality, and manufacturability objectives.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States
Willscot 🇺🇸 Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States
The Senior Product Designer supports the full product lifecycle, including design, engineering documentation, and manufacturing support. They collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure products are developed, maintained, and improved according to industry standards.
Graphic Designer, Studio
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States
Anastasia Beverly Hills 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States
The Senior Graphic Designer collaborates with leadership to define and execute a cohesive visual brand identity across print, digital, and video mediums. They are responsible for managing design projects, delegating tasks to the creative team, and ensuring all assets align with brand guidelines.
Senior Design Manager – Data Center Infrastructure
🇮🇪 Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
Dc People 🇮🇪 Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
The Senior Design Manager will direct design strategy, lead multi-disciplinary teams, and hold sign-off authority for hyperscale data center projects. They are responsible for ensuring technical compliance, managing stakeholder relationships, and overseeing BIM workflows and project schedules.
Senior Graphic Designer
🌍 Remote
Kanekta 🌍 Remote
The Senior Graphic Designer will create engaging email templates, campaigns, and creative assets for eCommerce brands. They will collaborate with marketing managers and copywriters to execute designs across email, WhatsApp, and SMS channels.
Senior Design Manager (Water)
🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Systra Uk & Ireland 🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Lead the design delivery of water sector work packages, ensuring they are completed on time, within budget, and according to regulatory standards. Coordinate multidisciplinary teams and maintain strong client relationships while managing project controls and financial forecasts.
Senior Design Manager (Water)
🇬🇧 Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Systra Uk & Ireland 🇬🇧 Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Lead the design delivery of water sector work packages, ensuring they are completed on time, within budget, and according to regulatory standards. Coordinate multidisciplinary teams and maintain strong client relationships while managing financial controls and resource allocation.
Senior Design Manager (Water)
🇬🇧 Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Systra Uk & Ireland 🇬🇧 Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
The Senior Design Manager will lead the design delivery of water sector work packages, ensuring projects are completed on time, within budget, and to high quality and regulatory standards. They are responsible for coordinating multidisciplinary teams, managing project controls, and maintaining strong relationships with clients and stakeholders.
Senior Product Designer, Connect
🌍 Remote
Chess.com 🌍 Remote
Lead the end-to-end design of high-impact product experiences across web and mobile platforms while partnering with cross-functional teams. You will shape product direction, maintain design ownership through implementation, and contribute to the team's craft quality.
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.