Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior UI Designer
🇿🇦 Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa
Absa Group 🇿🇦 Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa
Senior User Interface Designers craft high quality, intuitive, and scalable digital interfaces, solving complex customer and business problems through expertise in visual design, interaction design, and design systems. They take ownership of UI standards and quality, collaborating with various teams to ensure consistency, usability, accessibility, and brand alignment at scale.
Senior Product Designer, Monetization Platform
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Adobe 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver data-driven, user-centered flows, visualizing designs from concept to high-fidelity interactive prototypes. They will also iterate on designs, contribute to design frameworks, and create simplicity out of complexity in ambiguous circumstances.
Senior Product Designer (Contract)
Remote (🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America)
Pip Labs Remote (🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America)
The role involves leading end-to-end product design for 0 to 1 and early-stage product surfaces, translating ambiguous ideas into clear UX, flows, and interfaces, and partnering closely with product and engineering to ship quickly. The designer will also contribute to product experience, visual/brand direction, and deliver production-ready designs for web-based applications.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Boulder Care Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The Senior Product Designer will lead end-to-end design for patient, clinical, and growth initiatives, encompassing discovery, research, prototyping, visual design, and production. This role involves conducting research to understand user needs and translating those insights into elegant, data-driven design solutions while partnering with Product to run impactful experiments.
Senior Product Designer, Foundations (Hybrid)
🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Homebase 🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will partner with the foundations team to shape critical platform experiences like authentication, billing, and permissions across mobile and web, while also contributing components and documentation to the design system. This role involves end-to-end design ownership for these horizontal surfaces, focusing on transforming utilitarian experiences into polished, trust-building moments.
Senior UX Designer
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Deutsche Bank 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Key responsibilities include actively participating in user research and testing to translate findings into foundational UX documents like journey maps and personas. The role also involves developing creative design solutions from wireframes to prototypes while articulating and presenting these concepts to diverse audiences.
Senior Product Designer - Search & Discovery
🇮🇩 Indonesia
The Economist Group 🇮🇩 Indonesia
Collaborate with partners across product, editorial, marketing, data, and commercial teams to design and optimize discovery and personalization experiences that drive user satisfaction and business outcomes. Responsibilities include planning user research, translating insights into testable artifacts, defining user flows, creating production-ready assets, and facilitating workshops.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Foundry 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
The Senior Product Designer will translate real-world client requirements into insightful, effective, and user-focused design specifications for the Griptape and Reactor product initiative, reporting to the Head of Product Design. This role involves collaborating with engineering and product teams to design scalable systems supporting AI workflows, media processing, and interactive artist tasks.
Intermediate - Senior Product Designer
🇨🇦 Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Umbra 🇨🇦 Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The role involves developing, refining, and executing thoughtful design solutions for internal initiatives and custom projects, working across materials like wood, plastic, and metal. Responsibilities include producing accurate 2D and 3D files, collaborating with various internal teams, and supporting design reviews and prototyping efforts.
HV/MV Senior Elec Design Eng, HVDE Design Engineering EMEA
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Amazon 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The role involves designing and managing high and medium voltage substation systems across multiple geographical regions, developing electrical infrastructure designs using advanced engineering software. Responsibilities also include collaborating with vendors and utilities to specify equipment and creating detailed construction documents throughout the project lifecycle.
Senior UX Designer, Health Devices
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Google 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The role involves owning the design for critical projects within the devices area, translating health signals and data into intuitive user experiences, and exploring AI-focused solutions for personalized health guidance. The designer will partner closely with Product Management, Engineering, and UX Research to define product strategy and deliver scalable design across multiple platforms.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Knix 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Senior Graphic Designer will design and produce materials across all marketing channels, including digital advertising, email, and in-store signage, while collaborating with the Creative team to develop marketing concepts. This role involves maintaining brand consistency, mentoring other designers, and translating high-level concepts into compelling visual assets for large-scale projects.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇿🇦 Cape Town, City of Cape Town, South Africa
Moo 🇿🇦 Cape Town, City of Cape Town, South Africa
This role involves creating bespoke designs for Business Customers across the full product range while adhering to brand guidelines and acting as a communication lead for partnering teams to manage timelines and troubleshoot issues. The Senior Graphic Designer will also independently design or delegate and project manage Sales Enablement resources, catalogs, and tools, while consistently meeting strict turnaround times.
Senior UI Designer
🇦🇲 Yerevan, Armenia
Brainrocket 🇦🇲 Yerevan, Armenia
The primary responsibility is to create and implement new projects bordering on games with a team of designers and artists, which includes designing original pieces like illustrations and infographics. Additionally, the role involves reviewing junior designers' work, generating ideas for product advertising, and maintaining brand consistency across marketing projects while working with Figma components.
Senior UX Designer
🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Aristocrat Gaming 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
The Senior UX Designer will own the UX design for new features and improvements for the Heart of Vegas game, balancing player needs with product goals. This involves creating user flows, wireframes, and prototypes, and collaborating closely with Product, Art, UI, and Research partners.
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.