Design Leadership Jobs
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Principal Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Ethena 🌍 Remote
Own the end-to-end design process for new product features from concept to shipment, collaborating with product and engineering teams. Lead the qualitative research practice and integrate AI tools to accelerate design iterations and product direction.
Principal Product Designer, Customer Design Lead
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Thumbtack 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead the end-to-end customer experience across native and web platforms to ensure product coherence and consistency. Drive strategic product direction by identifying systemic gaps and mentoring senior and mid-level designers.
Principal Product Designer, Customer Design Lead
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Thumbtack 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end customer experience across native and web platforms to ensure product coherence and consistency. Drive strategic product direction by identifying systemic gaps and mentoring senior and mid-level designers.
Principal, IO Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Boise, Idaho, United States of America
Micron Technology 🇺🇸 Boise, Idaho, United States of America
The role involves designing, optimizing, and verifying high-speed IO and clocking circuits for DRAM memory products. Responsibilities include developing simulation methodologies and collaborating with process integration teams to enhance circuit performance on new process nodes.
Principal UX Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Seeq Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Set the UX vision and strategy for complex industrial analytics and AI capabilities within the Seeq platform. Lead the design of AI-powered workflows and ensure a unified, coherent user experience across all product areas.
Principal Engineer, Analog Design Engineering
🇸🇬 Singapore
Analog Devices 🇸🇬 Singapore
Lead the architectural development and transistor-level design of high-performance mixed-signal ICs for optical controller products. Manage the full design cycle from specification and simulation to layout support and product qualification.
Principal Electrical Design Engineer, APAC Data Center Design Engineering
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Amazon 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Lead the electrical design of data centers across the APAC region, focusing on MV infrastructure, generators, and UPS systems. Collaborate with internal teams and local utilities to ensure compliance with regional codes and quality standards.
Principal Engineer, Analog Design Engineering
100010 China, Dongcheng District, Donghuashi Subdistrict, 崇文门东大街, Beijing
Analog Devices 100010 China, Dongcheng District, Donghuashi Subdistrict, 崇文门东大街, Beijing
Lead the architectural development and transistor-level design of high-performance mixed-signal ICs for optical controller products. Manage the full design cycle from product specifications and simulation to layout support and lab evaluation.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Gallup 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead the strategic design vision for Gallup's product ecosystem, ensuring a cohesive customer journey across web, mobile, and marketing. Partner with scientists and engineers to translate complex data into intuitive, actionable user experiences.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America
Gallup 🇺🇸 Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America
Lead the strategic design vision for Gallup's product ecosystem, ensuring a cohesive customer journey across web, mobile, and marketing. Partner with scientists and engineers to translate complex data into intuitive, actionable user experiences.
Principal, Design Engineering (Thermal)
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Celestica International Lp 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Lead the complete thermal design process for electronic products, from modeling and simulation to testing and manufacturing transfer. Develop high-end cooling solutions for AI servers and accelerators using both air and liquid cooling technologies.
Principal, Analog Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Boise, Idaho, United States of America
Micron Technology 🇺🇸 Boise, Idaho, United States of America
Design, optimize, and verify block-level analog and mixed-signal circuits for DRAM projects to enhance performance and yield. Collaborate with global teams to bring innovative circuit designs from concept to silicon and provide layout guidance.
Principal Product Designer, Vrbo
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Expedia 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design of Vrbo traveler experiences, focusing on shopping, discovery, and booking journeys. Translate brand strategy into high-quality product experiences while integrating AI-enabled workflows and maintaining scalable design systems.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Noon 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead the design of core AI-native product experiences, including prototyping workflows and shared workspaces. Partner with founders and engineering to turn complex systems into intuitive interaction models.
Principal UX Researcher
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Good Maven 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the quantitative research strategy and execution to measure and predict user behavior at scale across core product surfaces. Establish methodological standards, build UX measurement frameworks, and integrate AI/ML techniques into the research pipeline.
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.