Design Leadership Jobs
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Product Design Manager
Remote (🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
Maintainx Remote (🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
Lead and grow a team of 4-6 product designers to simplify complex maintenance workflows for web and mobile. Partner with Product and Engineering leads to translate strategy into execution and raise the overall design craft bar.
Design Manager (Remote)
Remote (🇺🇸 Santa Clara County, California, United States of America)
Coresite Remote (🇺🇸 Santa Clara County, California, United States of America)
The Design Manager manages the design process for capital expenditure projects across CoreSite's existing facilities, focusing on interior retrofit and improvement work. This role involves coordinating design timelines, deliverables, and budgets while ensuring minimal disruption to customers.
Head of Design
Remote (🇳🇴 Norway)
Cybret Ai Remote (🇳🇴 Norway)
The Head of Design will define and execute the design vision for CYBRET AI across product, brand, and user experience. This includes owning end-to-end platform design, building scalable design systems, and evolving the company's visual identity.
Product Design Manager - AI Trainer
Remote (🇺🇸 Arizona, United States of America)
Dataannotation Remote (🇺🇸 Arizona, United States of America)
Review and critique AI-generated UI/UX designs and evaluate the quality produced by AI models. Help train models to better understand aesthetic quality and user-centered design.
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Product Design Manager - AI Trainer
Remote (🇺🇸 Pennsylvania, United States of America)
Dataannotation Remote (🇺🇸 Pennsylvania, United States of America)
Review and critique AI-generated UI/UX designs and evaluate the quality produced by AI models. Help train models to better understand aesthetic quality and user-centered design.
Design Manager (Visual, Brand & UI)
Remote (🇮🇹 Italy)
Joinrs Remote (🇮🇹 Italy)
The Design Manager will lead and grow a global team of visual designers, driving innovation and maintaining quality across various design projects. The role involves hands-on leadership, ensuring consistency in design systems and collaborating with multiple teams.
Design Director, Core Insurance & Design Systems
Remote (🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America)
Headway Remote (🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America)
Lead the design systems across products and manage a team defining these systems. Oversee foundational experiences including insurance, support, and security experiences for customers.
Design Manager
Remote (🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America)
Church's Texas Chicken Remote (🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America)
The Design Manager develops and reviews building design projects for global franchised and company restaurants to maintain brand integrity. This includes creating floorplans, managing architectural consultants, and overseeing trade dress and imaging elements.
Service Design Manager - On-site Abu Dhabi - Octopus by RTG (5 months contract)
Remote (🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates)
Robusta Remote (🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates)
Lead and manage end-to-end service design initiatives to connect digital, physical, and human touchpoints. Drive strategic transformation by developing service blueprints and facilitating executive-level workshops to align customer needs with business goals.
Senior Visual Designer - (Advanced English) - Chile
Remote (🇨🇱 Santiago, Provincia de Santiago, Chile)
Referrals Only Remote (🇨🇱 Santiago, Provincia de Santiago, Chile)
Lead the end-to-end visual strategy and architectural decisions for complex product design systems. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-fidelity UI elements while mentoring junior designers and ensuring WCAG compliance.
Lead Visual Designer - (Advanced English) - Chile
Remote (🇨🇱 Santiago, Provincia de Santiago, Chile)
Referrals Only Remote (🇨🇱 Santiago, Provincia de Santiago, Chile)
Lead the visual direction and scalability of product aesthetics across multiple teams while mentoring senior designers. Create and evolve accessible design systems and conduct UX research to transform insights into high-fidelity digital products.
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.
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.