Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior UI- / UX-Designer (m/w/d)
🇩🇪 Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Medavis Gmbh 🇩🇪 Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
The role involves building and maintaining a cross-product design system and establishing consistent UI/UX patterns for a medical software portfolio. You will conduct user research and usability testing to translate complex radiology workflows into intuitive digital interfaces.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇵🇹 Portugal
Intermedia Intelligent Communications 🇵🇹 Portugal
Design intuitive user experiences for AI-powered capabilities across various interfaces while defining interaction models for generative AI and agentic workflows. Partner with cross-functional teams including Product, Engineering, and Research to translate complex AI functionality into simple, user-centered solutions.
Senior UI/UX Designer - AI Assistants
🇵🇹 Portugal
Intermedia Intelligent Communications 🇵🇹 Portugal
You will design intuitive AI-powered experiences, including copilots and conversational interfaces, across various platforms. You will also lead design initiatives from discovery through launch while collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure AI trust and usability.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇵🇹 Portugal
Intermedia Intelligent Communications 🇵🇹 Portugal
Design intuitive user experiences for AI-powered capabilities across various interfaces while ensuring they are trustworthy and approachable for business users. Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Product, Engineering, and Research to guide the product lifecycle from discovery to launch.
Senior Engineer – Design Engineering
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Rtx 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Develop innovative design solutions for gas turbine engine hardware and collaborate with multi-disciplinary Integrated Product Teams. Provide technical guidance to junior engineers while ensuring design requirements and program milestones are met.
Senior Graphic Designer (m/w/d)
🇩🇪 Hamburg, Germany
Adlicious 🇩🇪 Hamburg, Germany
You will conceptualize and produce innovative advertising solutions across various digital formats while managing client pitches and communication. Additionally, you will integrate AI-based tools into creative workflows to enhance efficiency and provide constructive feedback to the design team.
Senior Design Manager – Menswear
🇬🇧 Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, England, United Kingdom
The Inside Job 🇬🇧 Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, England, United Kingdom
Lead the design and delivery of menswear collections while driving creative vision across seasonal drops and product launches. Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure products are commercially successful, innovative, and delivered to high quality standards.
Senior Product UX Designer (B2C)
🇨🇾 Limassol, Cyprus, Cyprus
Fayara.com 🇨🇾 Limassol, Cyprus, Cyprus
The role involves owning the user experience across a consumer platform to drive growth, engagement, and revenue. The designer will use behavioral analytics and experimentation to optimize the customer lifecycle from acquisition to long-term retention.
Middle+/Senior Product Designer
🇨🇾 Vasa Kellakiou, Cyprus, Cyprus
Nextchallenge 🇨🇾 Vasa Kellakiou, Cyprus, Cyprus
The role involves owning the end-to-end user experience for B2C gaming and iGaming products across web, desktop, and mobile platforms. Key duties include running A/B tests, maintaining design systems, and collaborating with engineering and analytics teams to iterate on product solutions.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 Stretford, England, United Kingdom
Wates Group 🇬🇧 Stretford, England, United Kingdom
Lead the design function on-site for a significant custodial redevelopment project, coordinating teams and stakeholders across the design lifecycle. Drive quality, innovation, and compliance while managing the design process through all key delivery stages.
Senior MEP Design Manager
🇬🇧 Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Dalkia Uk 🇬🇧 Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Lead the MEP design process from pre-construction through to delivery for complex projects valued between £5 million and £50 million. Shape technical strategies, manage consultants, and ensure compliance with industry standards and safety regulations.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇲🇾 Selangor, Malaysia
Cognition Evolve 🇲🇾 Selangor, Malaysia
Lead and quality-assure a local team of graphic designers to create curriculum-aligned educational resources for the Solomon Islands. Collaborate with international teams across multiple time zones to ensure accurate and timely delivery of materials.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 Croydon, England, United Kingdom
Rework Recruitment Group Ltd 🇬🇧 Croydon, England, United Kingdom
Lead the mechanical design function and oversee the design process across multiple projects to ensure technical soundness and buildability. Develop the design team and act as the senior internal voice for mechanical design management.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇲🇾 Malaysia
Cognition Learning Group 🇲🇾 Malaysia
The Senior Graphic Designer will lead and quality-assure a local team of designers while creating curriculum-aligned educational resources. They will also liaise with international teams to ensure project deliverables meet standards and deadlines.
Senior product designer
🇸🇪 Stockholm, Sweden
Mimo 🇸🇪 Stockholm, Sweden
You will lead end-to-end design work for an AI-native accounting platform, collaborating with cross-functional teams to shape product strategy. This involves conducting user research, building design systems, and utilizing AI tools to prototype and iterate on complex workflows.
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.