Design Leadership Jobs
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PRINCIPAL PRODUCT DESIGNER
🇨🇴 Colombia
Indigo Slate 🇨🇴 Colombia
Lead strategic product initiatives focused on sustainability and environmental impact to help organizations achieve ESG and net-zero goals. Define product visions and roadmaps while transforming complex, data-rich ecosystems into scalable, user-friendly experiences.
PRINCIPAL PRODUCT DESIGNER
🇨🇦 St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Indigo Slate 🇨🇦 St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Lead strategic product initiatives focused on sustainability, ESG, and net-zero objectives to transform complex data ecosystems into user-friendly experiences. Define product visions and roadmaps while mentoring design teams and collaborating with executive stakeholders.
Principal UX researcher (IP Tech Transfer)
🇬🇧 Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Rws Group 🇬🇧 Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Lead user research and experience design for complex, AI-enabled workflow products within the IP Tech Transfer product line. Collaborate with stakeholders to map complicated workflows and translate research insights into intuitive, usable product experiences.
Principal UX Researcher
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Autodesk 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead complex, system-level research to define future personas and map operational workflows across interconnected platforms. Translate research insights into actionable recommendations to influence product strategy and drive long-term customer value.
Principal Design Engineering Specialist Piping
🇺🇸 Houston, Texas, United States of America
Fluor 🇺🇸 Houston, Texas, United States of America
Provide technical leadership and administrative oversight for piping engineering across all project phases. Responsibilities include developing estimates, reviewing specifications, and mentoring less experienced engineers to ensure technical accuracy.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Wise 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Lead the design of region-specific features and journeys for US customers to grow market share in North America. Partner with cross-functional teams to discover customer needs and deliver scalable, high-quality product experiences.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Weight Watchers 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead the design vision and strategy for major product areas, driving 0 to 1 initiatives and evolving a unified design system. Partner with cross-functional leadership to translate complex business requirements into intuitive user experiences and mentor other designers.
Principal Product Designer
🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
The Knot Worldwide 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Lead end-to-end design for the Global Couple & Storefront zone, creating scalable marketplace experiences for couples and vendors. Partner with cross-functional teams to drive product strategy, AI transformation, and high-quality design execution.
Principal Product Designer, Toast IQ Core (AI Product Team)
🇺🇸 United States of America
Toast 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead the design strategy and execution for Toast IQ, an AI assistant product, across web, mobile, and hardware platforms. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop agentic workflows and drive the adoption of intelligence features for restaurant operators.
Principal Product Designer, Container Platform
Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)
Docker Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)
Own the end-to-end design of the container platform, distilling complex developer workflows into elegant solutions. Collaborate with cross-functional teams and senior leadership to define product strategy and mentor other designers.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Gen Digital Inc. 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Define and deliver user-first solutions across mobile, desktop, and web platforms with a focus on AI-powered experiences. Collaborate with product and engineering teams to translate complex business problems into scalable design patterns and high-quality visual interfaces.
Principal Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Gen Digital Inc. 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead UX strategy and design execution across a product pillar to shape next-generation cybersecurity and digital safety products. Influence company-level product direction through storytelling and establish best practices for design consistency and scalability.
Principal Designer, Mask Design Engineering • Memory Technology
South Korea, Seoul
Sandisk South Korea, Seoul
The role involves module layout design for peripheral circuits such as OPAMP, PUMP, and Regulators. The designer will collaborate with global teams to ensure successful tape-outs and propose solutions for layout improvements.
Principal UX Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Pendulum Intelligence Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Lead the end-to-end design of a web app focusing on complex social media datasets and data visualization. Collaborate with engineering and data science teams to develop intuitive dashboards, query builders, and a scalable design system.
Principal Product Designer, Devices
Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)
Life360 Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)
Lead the end-to-end product design for Life360's connected devices portfolio, including Tile and Pet GPS. You will create seamless experiences across physical and digital touchpoints, from unboxing and setup to daily app interaction.
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.