Design Leadership Jobs
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Manager I, Graphic Designer
🇲🇽 Tlaquepaque, San Pedro Tlaquepaque, Mexico
Herbalife 🇲🇽 Tlaquepaque, San Pedro Tlaquepaque, Mexico
The Creative Manager provides creative direction to the NAM design team and ensures high-quality customer service and timely delivery of projects. They are responsible for maintaining brand consistency across all touchpoints and distributing workloads among team members.
Principal Product Designer, Real Estate
Remote (🇳🇱 Netherlands)
Olx Remote (🇳🇱 Netherlands)
Lead the craft and quality of the Real Estate vertical by defining interaction patterns and scalable design systems. Drive the evolution of AI-ready design foundations to enable machine-readable patterns and AI-assisted creation.
Principal Product Designer, Real Estate
Remote (🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
Olx Remote (🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
Lead the craft and quality of the Real Estate vertical by defining interaction patterns and maintaining a high bar for UX and visual design. Drive the evolution of design systems into AI-ready, machine-readable foundations to enable scalable and consistent customer experiences.
Principal Product Designer, Real Estate
Remote (🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands)
Olx Remote (🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands)
Lead the craft and quality of the Real Estate vertical by defining interaction patterns and scalable design systems. Drive the evolution of AI-ready design foundations to enable machine-readable patterns and automated workflows.
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Director, Design Engineering - DC Development (m/f/d)
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Digital Realty 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the technical delivery and design governance of complex, high-performance data center projects from inception through handover. Coordinate multi-disciplinary consultant teams and act as the primary technical authority for internal stakeholders and customers.
UX Designer, Vice President
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Jpmorgan Chase & Co. 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead end-to-end design initiatives by developing research strategies and creating wireframes, prototypes, and service flows. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate inclusive design practices and optimize user experiences based on data insights.
Product Designer - Documentation
🇫🇷 Paris, France
Mistral Ai 🇫🇷 Paris, France
Lead the design of Mistral's documentation as a first-class product to ensure it is intuitive, visually compelling, and user-centric. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve usability and communicate complex technical concepts through effective visual storytelling.
Sr. Director, Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Santa Clara County, California, United States of America
Applied Materials 🇺🇸 Santa Clara County, California, United States of America
The Senior Director will lead strategic engagements with external partners and suppliers to drive advanced packaging programs from concept through manufacturing readiness. They will govern a portfolio of complex, cross-functional programs while ensuring technical deliverables and commercial structures are aligned for execution.
Founding Product Designer, Financial Services - Credit Card
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Fanatics Inc. 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Define and own the product design vision and strategy for the Fanatics Credit Card while leading a high-performing design team. Oversee end-to-end design execution and collaborate with cross-functional partners to ensure cohesive, fan-focused experiences.
Expert UX Designer
🇺🇸 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Veradigm 🇺🇸 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Provide design leadership to product groups by solving complex challenges and applying user-centered design methods. Collaborate with engineering and product teams to standardize design systems while championing user needs across the organization.
Sr Graphic Designer - Marketing
🇵🇭 Manila, Capital District, Philippines
Dexcom 🇵🇭 Manila, Capital District, Philippines
This role involves leading the planning and execution of integrated marketing initiatives across multiple brands, owning end-to-end campaign delivery from concept shaping to launch for diverse audiences. The specialist will craft on-brand content across digital, print, and social channels, drive inbound marketing programs, and design visually striking assets for various platforms and events.
Video and Graphic Designer
🇺🇦 Ukraine
Flatgigs 🇺🇦 Ukraine
The role involves leading creative projects from concept through execution, developing innovative visual strategies for integrated campaigns, and overseeing art direction across digital, print, and video content. Key duties include mentoring designers and collaborating closely with copywriters, strategists, and client teams.
Graphic Designer (Packaging | Product)
🇦🇷 Argentina
Activate Talent 🇦🇷 Argentina
The role involves supporting digital marketing through image editing and ad creative development, alongside designing and preparing production-ready files for product packaging across various formats. Collaboration with brand and marketing teams is essential to ensure design consistency and support go-to-market efforts.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Multiverse 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The role involves performing user research to identify pain points and owning the design vision for the new AI Adoption product. Responsibilities also include rapidly prototyping high-fidelity concepts, leading concept sprints, and designing/iterating on flows and visuals for AI-enabled features.
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.