Design Leadership Jobs in France
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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.
Senior Design Manager
🇫🇷 Paris, France
Pennylane Sas 🇫🇷 Paris, France
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 improve customer experience and drive acquisition, activation, and revenue objectives.
Design Manager - Paris
🇫🇷 94260 Fresnes, France
Blackedge Consulting 🇫🇷 94260 Fresnes, France
Lead multidisciplinary design teams from concept to completion for high-profile data center projects. Coordinate between clients, consultants, and contractors to ensure designs are delivered on time, on budget, and to high quality standards.
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Senior Design Manager
🇫🇷 Paris, France
Exyte Gmbh 🇫🇷 Paris, France
The Senior Design Manager provides end-to-end leadership and technical accountability for project design delivery while managing multidisciplinary teams and external consultants. They are responsible for ensuring designs meet commercial, schedule, quality, and HSE objectives while maintaining effective communication with key stakeholders.
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.