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Senior Principal, Design Engineering - Power
🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Celestica International Lp 🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
This role is responsible for architecting, implementing, and supporting power system solutions for networking, storage, and server systems, leading the design of DC-DC switch-mode power supplies and ensuring designs meet power, thermal, and safety requirements.
Principal Engineer, Mixed Signal Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Wilmington, MA 01887, United States of America
Analog Devices 🇺🇸 Wilmington, MA 01887, United States of America
The Principal Engineer will define and drive the architecture for complex mixed-signal integrated circuits interfacing to MEMS sensors, making critical design decisions balancing performance, power, area, and time-to-market. This role involves leading complex projects, driving innovation in design approaches, and providing authoritative technical expertise across multiple projects.
Principal Product Designer
Remote (🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India)
Atlassian Remote (🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India)
This senior individual contributor will lead strategic design work to improve product experiences across the service management suite, focusing on redefining Service Management practice in an AI-native world. Responsibilities include scanning the landscape for opportunities, leading strategic vision, applying systems thinking, and driving alignment with executive stakeholders.
Principal User Experience (UX) Researcher
🇺🇸 Raymond, Liberty Township, OH 43067, United States of America
Honda Dev. And Mfg. Of Am.,llc 🇺🇸 Raymond, Liberty Township, OH 43067, United States of America
The Principal UX Researcher will conduct research on customer usage of mobility products and emerging technologies to propose new value solutions and address current UX issues. This role involves guiding cross-functional teams to prepare and review Proof-of-Value demonstrations for potential product development.
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Principal UI/UX Designer; Onsite, Boston MA
🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Cadence Design Systems 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
The role involves leading the design of the Orion platform by applying user-experience research and design methodologies, partnering with various teams to oversee the therapeutic design user experience. Responsibilities include conducting high-quality user research to develop personas and design strategy, creating iterative design solutions via mocks and prototypes, and advocating for human-centered design.
Principal UI/UX Designer; Onsite, Boston MA
🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Cadence Design Systems 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
The role involves conducting high-quality user research to develop user personas and design strategy, and creating/iteratively refining design solutions through mocks, wireframes, and high-fidelity prototypes. Responsibilities also include measuring product success via analytics and contributing to the strategic product vision as it relates to user experience design.
Product Designer (Staff/Principal-level)
Remote (🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom)
Synthesia Remote (🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom)
The Staff/Principal Product Designer will own major creation and editor bets end-to-end, setting the design vision for key parts of the editor and influencing adjacent product surfaces for coherence. This involves partnering closely with Product and Engineering to define quality bars and driving toward them through prototyping, testing, and raising the craft bar across the creation experience.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 Merrimack, NH 03054, United States of America
Fidelity Investments 🇺🇸 Merrimack, NH 03054, United States of America
The Principal Product Designer will drive customer and business outcomes by leveraging customer insights to form a strong point of view on product direction and leading research initiatives. Responsibilities also include aligning design solutions with core business needs, collaborating with product and engineering to shape strategy and deliver feasible implementation specs, and serving as the design lead on projects from sketches to polished mockups.
Principal Product Designer, Health AI
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Microsoft 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The role involves owning an entire product area, driving end-to-end design from inception to launch, and shipping world-class AI applications focused on craft, quality, trust, and positive impact. Responsibilities include understanding user needs, defining requirements, managing development cycles, and collaborating closely with engineering through implementation.
Sr. Principal, Product Designer
🇺🇸 Irvine, California, United States of America
Ingram Micro 🇺🇸 Irvine, California, United States of America
The Senior Principal Product Designer will partner with engineering, product management, and business leaders to deliver high-quality designs that achieve customer goals and positive business outcomes while ensuring platform consistency. Responsibilities include taking ownership of experience categories, presenting solutions to executives, leading end-to-end feature design, and directing the work of design teams.
Principal Product Designer
Remote (🇩🇪 Germany)
Nice Remote (🇩🇪 Germany)
The Principal Product Designer will own the overall design quality and coherence across the product ecosystem, defining the design vision and experience standards for the entire portfolio. This includes leading the completion and governance of the internal design system and ensuring consistency across multiple product areas.
Sr. Principal, Product Designer
🇺🇸 Irvine, California, United States of America
Ingram Micro 🇺🇸 Irvine, California, United States of America
The Senior Principal Product Designer will lead design strategy and execution for the Cart & Checkout domain, focusing on improving how customers review, manage, and complete complex B2B transactions. This involves partnering with Product Managers and Engineers to translate complex challenges into clear, effective, and scalable user experiences.
Principal Product Designer: Prisma Browser (UX/NetSec)
🇺🇸 Santa Clara County, California, United States of America
Palo Alto Networks 🇺🇸 Santa Clara County, California, United States of America
The Principal Product Designer will lead the global design strategy for the Prisma Browser, orchestrating the core user experience across the end-user browser and admin management platforms. This involves championing executive reviews, analyzing customer problems, and translating requirements into high-fidelity interactive designs.
Principal Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Microsoft 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The Principal Product Designer will be responsible for owning an entire product area, driving end-to-end design from zero-to-one to ship world-class AI applications that delight consumers with an emphasis on craft, quality, trust, and positive impact. This includes understanding user needs, defining requirements, managing development, and collaborating with engineering through implementation.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Bezos Academy 🇺🇸 Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
The Principal Product Designer will lead the design of end-to-end experiences for new products supporting young children, teachers, and families, guiding the design process from initial concept through to launch. This role involves crafting intuitive and responsive experiences grounded in deep user insight to nurture early learning and empower educators and families.
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.