Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Fortune Brands 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will drive elegant user experiences spanning digital (mobile, web) and physical (devices) interfaces by leveraging a full range of design skills across the entire product lifecycle from concept to launch. This role involves collaborating closely with product managers and engineers, advocating for UX improvements using data, and mentoring junior designers.
Junior Graphic Designer
🇦🇪 Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Henley & Partners - The Firm Of Global Citizens® 🇦🇪 Dubai, United Arab Emirates
The Junior Graphic Designer will lead the creative development and execution of high-quality visual assets for digital and print platforms, focusing on shaping and maintaining the visual identity of Civis Mundi and other Group initiatives. Key tasks include managing the end-to-end design process, developing brand guidelines, and creating various marketing materials while ensuring brand consistency and creative excellence.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇳🇿 Christchurch, Christchurch City, New Zealand
Trimble Inc. 🇳🇿 Christchurch, Christchurch City, New Zealand
The Senior Graphic Designer will spearhead the conceptualization and design of high-quality print and digital materials aimed at inspiring and informing global audiences. This role also involves leading creative brainstorming sessions and mentoring junior designers to foster innovation.
Sr. UX Designer - Onsite, Springfield, MO
🇺🇸 Springfield, Missouri, United States of America
Bass Pro Shops 🇺🇸 Springfield, Missouri, United States of America
The Senior UX Designer will drive key design decisions by leading the creation, governance, and evolution of design systems and contributing to foundational UX frameworks based on user insights and research findings. This role involves creating design solutions through various research methods, producing artifacts like wireframes and high-fidelity designs, and mentoring junior designers.
Senior UX Designer
🇬🇧 Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Tes 🇬🇧 Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
The role requires hands-on delivery across the entire design lifecycle, producing strategic deliverables like service maps and logic flows, while also setting the standard for design quality and mentoring junior team members. Key duties involve leading discovery efforts, balancing business goals with user needs, and ensuring complex user flows and information architecture are defined.
Junior UX Designer
🇬🇧 Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Tes 🇬🇧 Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
The role involves executing discovery and delivery tasks, including turning research findings into prototypes, modernizing legacy platforms to meet accessibility standards, and supporting the research team by running usability tests on designs. Additionally, the designer will support Design Operations by acting as a user of the Design System, organizing libraries, and facilitating clarity in workshops.
Associate UX Director / Lead Product Designer
🇺🇸 Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
Captech Consulting 🇺🇸 Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
Responsibilities include leading the creation of design artifacts like personas, journey maps, wireframes, and interactive prototypes while managing the project team to mentor junior creatives and elevate deliverable quality. The role also requires presenting design concepts clearly to clients and internal teams, providing constructive feedback, and performing competitive assessments.
UX Designer, Community
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Twitch 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The role involves leading design work at the project level, collaborating with senior cross-functional partners, and representing work to executive leadership while guiding and mentoring junior designers. Designers are involved from project conception through execution, including hands-on research and close collaboration with engineers.
UX Designer, Community
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Twitch 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
This role involves leading design work at the project level, collaborating with senior cross-functional partners, and representing design work to executive leadership while guiding junior designers. Designers are involved from project conception through execution, including hands-on research and close collaboration with engineers.
UX Designer, Community
🇺🇸 Irvine, California, United States of America
Twitch 🇺🇸 Irvine, California, United States of America
This role involves leading design work at the project level, collaborating with senior cross-functional partners, and representing work to executive leadership while guiding and mentoring junior designers. Designers are involved from project conception through execution, including hands-on research and close collaboration with engineers.
Junior Web and Graphic Designer
🇬🇷 Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki Regional Unit, Greece
Campéon Gaming 🇬🇷 Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki Regional Unit, Greece
The designer will contribute to creating and designing websites, landing pages, and specific banners aimed at attracting new viewers and customers. Responsibilities include designing banner ads, creating engaging landing pages and newsletter campaigns, and designing logos, branding themes, and vectors.
Senior Product Designer, CTM
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Vanta Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The Senior Product Designer will shape the vision and execution for the Customer Trust Management (CTM) product area, focusing on designing clear, efficient experiences to help customers manage third-party risk at scale. Responsibilities include driving design excellence, developing deep user understanding, collaborating with Product and Engineering, influencing product strategy, and mentoring junior designers.
Junior UX Designer
Remote (🇵🇭 Cebu City, Central Visayas, Philippines)
Rise Remote (🇵🇭 Cebu City, Central Visayas, Philippines)
The Junior UX Designer will produce digital artifacts, contribute to design projects from concept to completion, and participate in cross-functional discussions to formulate design-driven decisions. Responsibilities also include maintaining documentation and contributing to design workshops on various design aspects.
Junior Web and Graphic Designer
🇬🇷 Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki Regional Unit, Greece
Campeon Gaming 🇬🇷 Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki Regional Unit, Greece
The role involves contributing to the creation and design of websites, landing pages, and specific banners to attract new viewers and customers. Key tasks include designing banner ads, creating engaging landing pages and newsletter campaigns, designing branding elements, and assisting with website maintenance.
Junior Graphic Designer
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Renishaw 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
This role involves producing high-quality design assets across various platforms including web, social media, print, and events, covering everything from digital marketing content to high-value collateral. The designer will be responsible for creating engaging visuals for digital channels and marketing materials while ensuring strict adherence to ICIS brand guidelines.
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.