Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Wilmington, Delaware, United States
Reco 🇺🇸 Wilmington, Delaware, United States
The Senior Product Designer will own the end-to-end feature design process and lead strategic user research initiatives. They will also influence product strategy and enhance existing product areas while driving cross-functional alignment.
Senior Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Launchmetrics 🌍 Remote
The Senior Product Designer will own the design vision and execution for the squad, leading product discovery, design, testing, and delivery. They will design intuitive experiences that help users explore and act on complex benchmarking data.
Senior Product Designer (Menu Management) - Fixed term
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Delivery Hero 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
The Senior Product Designer will improve how restaurants manage and elevate their menu offerings across the global platform. This includes leading design conversations, collaborating with stakeholders, and applying advanced design skills to deliver solutions.
Senior UI/ UX Designer
🇮🇳 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Akqa 🇮🇳 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
AKQA is seeking a Senior UI/UX Designer to shape user experiences for their client’s digital channels, ensuring each interaction is intuitive, engaging, and reflects design excellence.
Graphic designer- Intern
🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Zithara.ai 🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Assist in creating graphics for various platforms and support senior designers in developing visual concepts. Make revisions based on feedback and stay updated with design trends.
Senior Graphic Designer - Luxury Homewear
🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Chalhoub Group 🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
As a Senior Graphic Designer, you will lead the design and execution of visual assets across various channels, ensuring brand consistency and high-quality outputs. You will also manage junior designers and collaborate with multiple teams to support brand initiatives.
Senior UI Designer
🌍 Remote
Usergems 🌍 Remote
The Senior UI Designer will own end-to-end product design for core workflows and run user research to influence product decisions. They will collaborate closely with Product and Engineering to ship high-quality UI improvements.
Senior Employer Graphic Designer
🌍 Remote
Upstars 🌍 Remote
The Senior Employer Graphic Designer will be responsible for developing, supporting, and managing design projects, as well as creating design systems and art guides. They will also create promotional creatives for social media and participate in design solutions for existing and new products.
Senior UI Designer
🇮🇳 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Havas Group 🇮🇳 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
The Senior UI Designer will build, scale, and sustain a world-class design system while balancing detailed UI craftsmanship with broader system-level strategy. They will collaborate with business stakeholders to define new features and deliver designs through various formats such as wireframes and prototypes.
Senior UI Designer
🇮🇳 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Havas Group 🇮🇳 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
The Senior UI Designer will build, scale, and sustain a world-class design system while balancing detailed UI craftsmanship with broader system-level strategy. They will collaborate with business stakeholders to understand key requirements and deliver design through various formats such as sketches, wireframes, and prototypes.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇵🇱 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Mastercard 🇵🇱 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
The Senior Graphic Designer will work closely with project managers, art directors, and copywriters to develop and deliver marketing campaigns. They will ensure quality and consistency of design across all mediums while managing the production of communication materials on time and within budget.
Senior Product Designer (2-Year Term Position)
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Takeaway 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
As a Senior Product Designer, you will focus on critical user problems and propose innovative solutions while collaborating with cross-functional teams. You will operate across the full product lifecycle, from concept to delivery, ensuring high-quality implementation.
Sr. Product Designer
🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States
Jerry.ai 🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States
As a Senior Product Designer, you will shape how millions interact with Jerry’s core products by translating complex problems into intuitive experiences. You will own end-to-end design, from user flows to high-fidelity visuals.
Sr Product Designer
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States
Pirros 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States
The Senior Product Designer will partner with Product and Engineering to design the next generation of Pirros, focusing on workflow and UX design. They will collaborate closely with PMs and engineers to create robust UX and UI that can be shipped, while also conducting user research to inform design decisions.
Senior UX Designer, Bordeaux, France XR Labs office
🇫🇷 Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
Qualcomm 🇫🇷 Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
The Senior UX Designer will be responsible for optimizing the user experience of Qualcomm's XR products, focusing on quality and usability. This role includes designing customer experiences, translating user requirements, and participating in usability testing.
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.