Design Leadership Jobs
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Expert Opportunity - Head of Design ($80/hr, up to $1,600/week)
Remote (🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands)
Ethos Remote (🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands)
Create, evaluate, and refine AI-generated presentations and slide decks across various creative workflows. Develop visual storytelling, concept boards, and campaign narratives for client and executive audiences.
Expert Opportunity - Head of Design ($80/hr, up to $1,600/week)
Remote (🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom)
Ethos Remote (🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom)
Create, evaluate, and refine AI-generated presentations and slide decks across various creative workflows. This includes developing concept boards, campaign narratives, and design rationale slides for executive audiences.
Expert Opportunity - Head of Design ($80/hr, up to $1,600/week)
Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
Ethos Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
Create, evaluate, and refine AI-generated presentations and slide decks across various creative workflows. Develop visual storytelling, concept boards, and design rationale slides for client and executive audiences.
Warehouse Solutions Design Manager (remote)
Remote (🇺🇸 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America)
Ryder System, Inc. Remote (🇺🇸 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America)
The Manager Solutions Design is responsible for developing and designing solutions that deliver financial value to customers while supporting the growth of supply chain solutions. This includes managing project milestones, collaborating with sales leaders, and ensuring successful transitions during startup.
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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 (🇺🇸 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.
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.