Design Leadership Jobs
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Head of Design F/H
🇫🇷 Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Groupe Tf1 🇫🇷 Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Lead and animate a team of 8 UX/UI designers by defining objectives, staffing, and ensuring project delivery. Oversee the user experience from conception to launch while managing external service providers and budgets.
Head of Design
🇫🇷 94260 Fresnes, France
Lefty 🇫🇷 94260 Fresnes, France
Lead and grow the design practice at Lefty, managing a team of designers while setting the strategy and direction for design initiatives. Oversee complex product features from UX discovery to delivery, ensuring high-quality outputs and effective collaboration.
Head of Design
🇫🇷 Reims, Marne, France
Justmarkets 🇫🇷 Reims, Marne, France
Lead the company's visual identity by unifying brand art direction with product design across all touchpoints. Manage a multidisciplinary design team and drive the integration of Generative AI tools to scale creative output.
Head of Design, Yahoo Mail
🇫🇷 65400 Uz, France
Yahoo 🇫🇷 65400 Uz, France
Lead the global design organization for Yahoo Mail, owning the end-to-end design vision and architectural strategy across web and mobile platforms. Drive the integration of AI-native experiences and agentic workflows while partnering with executive leadership to align design with business goals.
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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.