Design Leadership Jobs
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Head of Design (Arbitrage)
Remote (🇺🇦 Kyiv, Ukraine)
Company Remote (🇺🇦 Kyiv, Ukraine)
You will lead the design function across four key areas, managing team performance, resource allocation, and strategic development. You will also collaborate with marketing and product teams to optimize creative performance and drive business results through data-driven design.
Head of Design
Remote (🇬🇧 Leeds, England, United Kingdom)
Fynity Remote (🇬🇧 Leeds, England, United Kingdom)
Lead the multidisciplinary Design function, setting creative standards and providing strategic direction across UX/UI, digital products, brand, campaigns, and motion. Develop the team and oversee resourcing, budgets, client partnerships, pitches, cross-functional collaboration, and improvements to creative processes.
Design Manager
Remote (🇬🇧 Workington, Cumberland, England, United Kingdom)
Rullion Remote (🇬🇧 Workington, Cumberland, England, United Kingdom)
Manage design delivery to schedule and budget, including design reviews, stage gates, construction reviews, and risk-reduction procedures. Provide technical support and ensure health, safety, environmental, and quality considerations are integrated into design, while coordinating reviews and deliverables with clients, external parties, and project teams.
Head of Design
Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
Aru Labs Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
The Head of Design will lead the overall design direction, visual identity, and design systems across all brand touchpoints. They will manage the design function, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and oversee the quality of creative output for campaigns and product launches.
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Head of Design
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Aru Labs Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The Head of Design will lead the overall design direction, visual identity, and design systems across all brand touchpoints. They will manage the design function, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and oversee the quality of creative output for marketing, product, and campaigns.
Head of Design
Remote (🇺🇦 Kyiv, Ukraine)
Company Remote (🇺🇦 Kyiv, Ukraine)
The Head of Design will lead four design departments, managing team performance, hiring, and professional development while aligning design output with business goals. They are responsible for optimizing production processes, implementing AI tools, and collaborating with C-level executives to drive performance metrics.
Design Systems Lead (Remote, Rancagua)
🌍 Remote
Blacksmith Agency 🌍 Remote
You will own the architecture of client design systems by building token structures, variables, and core component libraries in Figma. You are responsible for documenting these systems to ensure they can be executed by developers or automated pipelines without further questions.
Senior Design Manager
Remote (🇮🇹 Rome, Roma Capitale, Italy)
Pennylane Remote (🇮🇹 Rome, Roma Capitale, Italy)
Lead, support, and develop a team of product designers while setting a clear design direction for the Financial Services track. Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality, coherent customer experiences that drive acquisition and revenue.
Senior Design Manager
Remote (🇫🇷 94260 Fresnes, France)
Pennylane Remote (🇫🇷 94260 Fresnes, France)
You will lead, support, and develop a team of product designers while coaching a design manager to foster high performance. Additionally, you will define the design direction for Financial Services and partner with cross-functional teams to drive acquisition and revenue objectives.
Senior Design Manager
Remote (🇫🇷 France)
Pennylane Remote (🇫🇷 France)
You will lead, support, and develop a team of product designers and a design manager while setting the design direction for the Financial Services track. You will partner with cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality, coherent customer experiences that drive acquisition and revenue goals.
Design Manager
🌍 Remote
Clear. 🌍 Remote
Lead and manage transformer design engineering activities from concept through to delivery. Oversee technical calculations, approve designs, and collaborate with manufacturing and commercial teams to ensure industry standards are met.
Senior Design Manager
🌍 Remote
Rullion 🌍 Remote
Lead multidisciplinary design teams on major water and wastewater programmes from optioneering through to construction support. Manage design risks, technical interfaces, and governance while mentoring junior design managers and coordinators.
Global C&I Design Manager (3-month Fixed-Term/Remote)
🌍 Remote
Generation 🌍 Remote
The Design Manager is responsible for planning activity mapping, developing high-level curriculum materials, and managing external contractors to write session plans. They will also facilitate stakeholder communication and support the implementation of programs across global affiliates.
Remote Aviation Design Manager
Remote (🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America)
Lochner Remote (🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America)
Lead and manage the technical design function, overseeing Design Leads and staff to ensure high-quality project deliverables. Implement and enforce design standards, quality control procedures, and resource allocation across aviation projects.
Remote Aviation Design Manager
Remote (🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America)
Egis Remote (🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America)
The Design Manager leads and manages the technical design function, overseeing a team of Design Leads to ensure project deliverables meet quality and design standards. They are responsible for resource allocation, implementing technical processes, and fostering a culture of design excellence across the organization.
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.