Design Leadership Jobs
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Sr. UI/UX Designer
🇵🇰 Karachi Division, Sindh, Pakistan
Fleekbiz Pvt Ltd 🇵🇰 Karachi Division, Sindh, Pakistan
The Senior UI/UX Designer will lead the conceptualization, design, and delivery of intuitive digital experiences for web and mobile platforms, while conducting user research and usability testing to validate design decisions. They will also be responsible for developing and maintaining a cohesive design system and mentoring junior designers.
Product Designer (parental leave cover)
🇸🇪 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Hemnet 🇸🇪 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
You will lead discovery and design work end-to-end, from research and insights to polished user experiences. Your role includes planning user research, designing user flows, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Senior Product Designer, Ad Experiences & Solutions
🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States
Samsung Electronics 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States
The role involves leading design initiatives by independently owning large-scale projects from concept through launch, including strategic ideation, detailed flows, wireframes, visuals, and specifications. Designers must set a high quality bar by delivering best-in-class, cohesive, and innovative product experiences across multiple platforms.
Senior UX Designer, Design System Accessibility
🇺🇸 Cary, North Carolina, United States
Sas 🇺🇸 Cary, North Carolina, United States
The Senior UX Designer will lead accessibility excellence for SAS's design system, Filament, by establishing standards and creating accessible design patterns. They will also mentor designers and advocate for inclusive design thinking across the organization.
Principal UX Designer
🇺🇸 United States
Athenahealth 🇺🇸 United States
As a Principal UX Designer, you will define and craft the clinical experience across key platforms, focusing on user-centered solutions for healthcare professionals. You will lead design execution, strategy, and mentor fellow designers to foster innovation within the team.
Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Dick's Sporting Goods 🌍 Remote
Lead the end-to-end design process for native mobile applications, ensuring high design quality through collaboration with product and engineering teams. Conduct user research to gather insights and iterate on designs based on real-world feedback.
UX Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Iheartmedia 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
As a UX designer, you will lead the customer-centric design process, focusing on creating enjoyable digital experiences. You will collaborate with various teams to solve complex design challenges across multiple platforms.
UX Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Iheartmedia 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
As a UX Designer, you will lead the customer-centric design process, focusing on creating enjoyable digital experiences. You will collaborate with various teams to solve complex design challenges across multiple platforms.
UX Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Iheartmedia 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
As a UX Designer, you will lead the customer-centric design process and create new customer journeys that are holistic and intuitive. You will collaborate with various teams to solve complex design challenges across multiple platforms.
Senior Product Designer, Ad Experiences & Solutions
🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States
Samsung Electronics 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States
Lead design initiatives for new and existing ad products, ensuring high-quality user experiences. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define problems and deliver polished product solutions.
Lead Product Designer, Slack Productivity
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Slack 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
The Lead Product Designer will be responsible for leading design for complex, high-impact productivity features within Slack, turning ambiguous problems into clear, simple solutions by partnering closely with Product and Engineering teams. Over time, the role involves shaping the product vision for Slack’s productivity tools and ensuring seamless, connected experiences across different tools.
Lead Product Designer, Slack Productivity
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Salesforce 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
The Lead Product Designer will be responsible for leading design for complex, high-impact productivity features within Slack, turning ambiguous problems into clear, simple solutions. This involves close partnership with Product and Engineering to shape strategy and execution while creating flows, prototypes, and high-quality designs using Slack’s design system.
Senior Product Designer - UX
🇷🇸 Serbia
Arcadis 🇷🇸 Serbia
Lead UX/UI design across applications within the Enterprise Decision Analytics suite, delivering world-class user experiences. Collaborate closely with product management, engineering, and data science teams to align design with business objectives and user needs.
UI/UX Designer
🌍 Remote
Lightfeather Io Llc 🌍 Remote
Lead discovery efforts to identify user needs and translate them into actionable insights. Communicate design intent and facilitate alignment among technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Staff AI Product Designer, GeminiApp Device Experience
🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States
Deepmind 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States
The role involves designing intuitive AI experiences and collaborating with cross-functional teams to align design efforts with product strategy. You will lead the design process from concept to shipping, creating seamless, contextual solutions for users.
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.