Design Leadership Jobs
Find your next Design Leadership role at companies that value creative talent
Showing 2075 jobs
Senior Product Designer
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Cmc Markets 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Lead the end-to-end design of next-generation trading products and evolve the Figma-based design system for global web and mobile platforms. Collaborate with product and engineering leaders to translate complex financial data into intuitive, high-performance user interfaces.
Senior Product Designer, iCasino
🇫🇮 Helsinki, Kaivokatu 1, 00100 Helsinki, Finland
Veikkaus Oy 🇫🇮 Helsinki, Kaivokatu 1, 00100 Helsinki, Finland
Lead end-to-end design for key iCasino features, creating high-fidelity UI, prototypes, and design documentation. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to balance user needs with business goals while mentoring junior designers.
Senior Product Designer- USA
🌍 Remote
Very Llc 🌍 Remote
Lead the full product design lifecycle from initial discovery and strategy to final shipping and design QA. Collaborate directly with clients and engineering teams to transform ambiguous problems into functional, high-quality products.
Senior Product Designer
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Deputy 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Lead the strategic design of innovative software solutions to simplify work for shift workers and their teams. Collaborate with Product Managers and Engineering Leads to define the design vision and execute pixel-perfect user experiences.
Senior Web Designer
Remote (🇦🇷 Buenos Aires, Comuna 1, Argentina)
Dotyeti Design Remote (🇦🇷 Buenos Aires, Comuna 1, Argentina)
Lead the creation of visually stunning web and app designs, including landing pages and email templates. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize user experience and drive customer growth through strategic design.
Senior Web Designer
Remote (🇧🇷 Brasília, Federal District, Brazil)
Dotyeti Design Remote (🇧🇷 Brasília, Federal District, Brazil)
Lead the creation of visually stunning web and app designs, including landing pages and email templates. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize user experience and drive customer growth through strategic design.
Senior Web Designer
Remote (🇳🇬 Lagos, Lagos Island, Nigeria)
Dotyeti Design Remote (🇳🇬 Lagos, Lagos Island, Nigeria)
Lead the creation of visually stunning web and app designs, including landing pages and email templates. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize user experience and drive customer growth through strategic design.
Experience Designer Lead Senior - Design Systems
🇺🇸 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Pnc 🇺🇸 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Lead and mentor a pod of designers to maintain and evolve enterprise design systems, ensuring consistency and scalability across digital experiences. Drive the design system strategy, roadmap, and governance while coordinating with engineering and accessibility partners.
Senior Design Manager - Risk
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Built Australia 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Act as a senior advisor to identify and manage design risks across tenders, ECI, and live projects. Provide expert recommendations and challenge design thinking to improve project outcomes and mitigate risks early.
Senior Graphic Designer (Freelance)
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Rapt Studio 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Senior Graphic Designers manage multiple projects across teams and are involved in all phases of the design process. They are responsible for delivering high-quality visual design solutions while maintaining a keen eye for detail.
Senior Engineering Manager, Advanced Product Designer (APD)
🇨🇦 Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Guidewire Software 🇨🇦 Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Lead multiple engineering teams to evolve the Advanced Product Designer (APD) capability on App Platform 2.0. Drive technical strategy, architectural maturity, and cross-functional execution to scale product-modeling capabilities and AI-enabled configurations.
Product Designer Pleno (Exclusiva para Pessoas com Deficiência)
Remote (🇧🇷 Brazil)
Wellhub Remote (🇧🇷 Brazil)
Support the UI design execution for the Booking journey, focusing on high-quality interfaces and detailed handoffs. Collaborate with multidisciplinary squads and senior designers to ensure accessibility and visual consistency across the product.
Senior Product Designer (Contract)
Remote (🇺🇸 Only, Hickman County, TN 37140, United States of America)
Splash Financial Remote (🇺🇸 Only, Hickman County, TN 37140, United States of America)
Own the design of product workstreams for personal loan and HELOC products from problem framing to high-fidelity deliverables. Conduct user research and leverage AI tools to create scalable, compliant, and user-centric financial experiences.
Product UX Designer - Senior Associate
🇲🇽 29120 Monterrey, CHP, Mexico
Pwc 🇲🇽 29120 Monterrey, CHP, Mexico
The role focuses on creating and enhancing user experiences for software products through research, prototyping, and usability testing. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate user-centered design principles and optimize product interactions.
Product UX Designer - Senior Associate
🇲🇽 29120 Monterrey, CHP, Mexico
Pwc 🇲🇽 29120 Monterrey, CHP, Mexico
The role focuses on creating and enhancing user experiences for software products through research, prototyping, and usability testing. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate user-centered design principles and optimize product interactions.
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.