Design Leadership Jobs
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Head of Design
🇫🇮 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
Housemarque 🇫🇮 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
Define and drive the long-term strategy for the Design discipline while leading, coaching, and developing senior design talent. Partner with creative and game directors to ensure the design organization is equipped to realize the studio's creative ambitions.
Senior Quantitative UX Researcher, AI Enablement
🇺🇸 Sunnyvale, California, United States
Google 🇺🇸 Sunnyvale, California, United States
Design and implement agent-assisted pipelines to analyze large-scale system logs and telemetry to generate actionable user insights. Define and track system-level KPIs and lead complex experiments to optimize AI infrastructure and developer workflows.
Advanced Tool Design Manager
🇺🇸 New Kensington, Pennsylvania, United States
Weiss-aug – New Kensington, Pa 🇺🇸 New Kensington, Pennsylvania, United States
The Advanced Tool Design Manager leads the design, development, and validation of complex progressive stamping dies and precision tooling systems. This role provides strategic direction for tooling innovation, automation integration, and manufacturing scalability while managing engineering resources and cross-functional project teams.
Senior Product Designer
🌍 Remote
This Place 🌍 Remote
Lead the design of end-to-end user journeys across web and mobile platforms while evolving scalable design systems. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to shape requirements and validate design decisions through user research and testing.
Lead Product Designer | Mobile / Games
🇨🇿 Capital City of Prague, Prague, Czechia
Gto Wizard 🇨🇿 Capital City of Prague, Prague, Czechia
The Lead Product Designer will own the design direction for the PokerArena mobile game, overseeing navigation, home screen, and progression systems. They will lead a small team of designers while remaining hands-on to solve complex design challenges.
Mechanical Virtual Design Manager (VDM)/BIM Manager
🇺🇸 Richmond, Virginia, United States
The Bell Company 🇺🇸 Richmond, Virginia, United States
Lead the BIM department by providing vision, managing schedules, and supervising BIM coordinators across multiple locations. Responsible for maintaining company standards, managing software/hardware inventory, and overseeing project budgets and quality control for mechanical systems.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Exeter, England, United Kingdom
Arcadis 🇬🇧 Exeter, England, United Kingdom
The Design Manager will lead multi-disciplinary design teams to meet client scopes, budgets, and timescales within the Defence or Technology sectors. They are responsible for coordinating design activities across various teams and managing project risks throughout the lifecycle.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Identify Solutions 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
The role involves leading the end-to-end design process from discovery and user research to high-fidelity UI design for web and mobile. You will collaborate with product, engineering, and data teams to solve complex customer problems and evolve the design system.
Design Manager - Water Infrastructure
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Kbr 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
The Design Manager will lead multi-disciplinary water infrastructure projects, ensuring technical development, accurate forecasting, and effective stakeholder communication. They are responsible for managing project lifecycles from options assessment to detailed design while fostering a collaborative team culture.
Engineer - Design Engineering & Feasibility Support
🇺🇸 Long Beach, California, United States
Contechs 🇺🇸 Long Beach, California, United States
Lead the development of design feasibility from concept to production, focusing on exterior lighting and vehicle layouts. Balance functional and attribute trade-offs while providing CAD-based zone layouts and surface proposals to support design leadership.
Senior Technical Design Manager
🇲🇾 Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia
Msp Hitect 🇲🇾 Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia
Lead and manage the technical design and drafting team for furniture manufacturing and interior projects. Review and approve technical drawings to ensure compliance with manufacturing standards and project timelines.
Lead Product Designer
🇳🇿 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Kernel 🇳🇿 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Lead and coach a small team of product designers while remaining hands-on in designing high-impact product experiences. Drive design quality and consistency across web and mobile platforms and evolve the company's design system.
User Experience (UX) Designer
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Principle 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Lead high-impact UX work by defining product design strategies and creating specifications, prototypes, and mock-ups. Collaborate with engineering and product partners to build alignment and implement scalable design solutions based on user data and technical constraints.
Ice Cream Product Design Manager
🇮🇹 Alba, Piedmont, Italy
Ferrero 🇮🇹 Alba, Piedmont, Italy
The Ice Cream Product Design Manager will lead product development, industrialization, and continuous improvement projects within the ice cream category. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to manage formulations, conduct laboratory and pilot plant trials, and ensure compliance with quality and food safety standards.
Lead Product Designer
🇩🇰 Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
Opacity 🇩🇰 Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
You will define the product direction for Opacity, designing new features from initial sketches to final UI while ensuring a seamless user experience. You will also collaborate closely with developers and maintain the design system to ensure product consistency as it scales.
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.