Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States
Classpass 🇺🇸 United States
Identify strategic opportunities for design to drive business growth and create compelling product visions. Communicate ideas through polished prototypes and collaborate with cross-functional partners.
Senior Quantitative User Experience Researcher (Frontend) (Bangkok-based, Relocation provided)
🇺🇸 Boston, MA
Agoda 🇺🇸 Boston, MA
Agoda is seeking a Senior UX Researcher to define the future of their products, work in a startup-like environment, and collaborate with global teams.
Senior Staff UX Writer & Content Designer, Gemini App
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States
Deepmind 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States
Lead content design for Growth and Discovery initiatives for the Gemini App, ensuring users easily discover and use new features. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and execute growth strategies that enhance user journeys and drive key growth metrics.
Senior UX Researcher
🇺🇸 Tustin, CA
Vesync 🇺🇸 Tustin, CA
VeSync is seeking a Senior UX Researcher to lead end-to-end research that shapes product strategy, informs design decisions, and deepens understanding of user needs across multiple product lines.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States
Wilson Sporting Goods Co. 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States
The Senior Graphic Designer will manage the complete graphic design process from concept to production, focusing on marketing needs for the Sportswear business. Responsibilities include collaborating with various teams to develop campaigns, designing across multiple mediums, and overseeing photoshoots.
Senior Graphic Designer (Maternity Cover)
🌍 Remote
Social Element 🌍 Remote
The role involves art directing and creating engaging social content that drives brand engagement, as well as building social brand guidelines for clients. Additionally, the designer will collaborate with various teams to produce visually impactful work across different platforms.
Senior UI Designer H/F
🇫🇷 Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Nexton 🇫🇷 Paris, Ile-de-France, France
The Senior UI Designer will design modern and functional user interfaces while ensuring visual consistency with the company's design guidelines. They will also create and evolve components of the Design System and develop interactive prototypes for testing concepts.
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.