Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior AI Product Designer
🇦🇺 Bowen Hills QLD 4006, Australia
Askable 🇦🇺 Bowen Hills QLD 4006, Australia
Shape a new AI-native product from strategy to execution, focusing on user-centered design and rapid prototyping. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to find product-market fit and iterate based on user feedback.
Senior Product Designer (AI Experiences)
Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
Smartrecruiters Inc Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
The Senior Product Designer will lead the design of AI-driven experiences, focusing on conversational and multi-agent interactions. This role involves end-to-end experience design, including discovery, prototyping, and validation.
Senior Product Designer (AI Experiences)
Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
Smartrecruiters Inc Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
The Senior Product Designer will lead the design of AI-driven experiences, focusing on conversational and multi-agent interactions. This includes owning the end-to-end design process from discovery to validation, ensuring high-quality user experiences across various platforms.
Senior Product Designer (AI Experiences)
Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
Smartrecruiters Inc Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
The Senior Product Designer will lead the design of AI-driven experiences, focusing on conversational systems and multi-agent interactions. This role involves end-to-end experience design, including prototyping, validation, and defining agent behaviors.
Senior Product Designer (AI Experiences)
Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
Smartrecruiters Inc Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
The Senior Product Designer will lead the design of AI-driven experiences, focusing on conversational and multi-agent interactions. This includes owning the end-to-end design process from discovery to validation, ensuring high-quality user experiences across various platforms.
Senior Product Designer (AI Experiences)
Remote (🇫🇷 47130 Clermont-Dessous, France)
Smartrecruiters Inc Remote (🇫🇷 47130 Clermont-Dessous, France)
The Senior Product Designer will lead the design of AI-driven experiences, focusing on conversational and multi-agent interactions. This includes owning the end-to-end design process from discovery to validation, ensuring high-quality user experiences.
Senior Product Designer (AI Experiences)
Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
Smartrecruiters Inc Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
The Senior Product Designer will lead the design of AI-driven experiences, focusing on conversational and multi-agent interactions. This includes owning the end-to-end design process from discovery to validation, ensuring high-quality user experiences across various platforms.
Senior Graphic Designer, AI Focus
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Newell Brands 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer will integrate AI into graphic design processes, optimizing workflows and enhancing creativity. They will also lead training on AI tools and collaborate with various teams to implement AI-driven insights.
Graphic Designer/Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America
Raftelis 🇺🇸 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America
The Graphic Designer or Senior Graphic Designer will develop creative solutions to design and business challenges while collaborating with marketing teams. They will also assist in leading projects and contribute to defining the visual identity of the brand.
Senior Graphic Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Data Direct Networks Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The Senior Graphic Designer will create visually compelling designs for various channels, including events, presentations, and digital assets. They will ensure brand consistency while delivering high-quality work that elevates customer engagement.
Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Fire 🇺🇸 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
The Graphic Designer will create print and digital design content, collaborating with the Senior Graphic Designer. Key duties include designing print materials and digital assets while ensuring adherence to brand standards.
Senior Graphic Designer, Visual Merchandising & Packaging Design
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Bubble Skincare 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
You will lead the design and development of innovative packaging and in-store experiences. This role blends hands-on creative execution with cross-functional collaboration to bring new product launches and campaigns to life.
UX Designer
🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
Ey 🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
As a Senior UX/UI Designer, you will develop and implement technology solutions for audit clients, ensuring user-friendly designs. You will collaborate with development teams to transition designs into final products.
Senior Principal AI Product Designer Senior Principal AI Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Bae 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Design intuitive AI-powered experiences and lead end-to-end design processes. Guide teams towards research-driven design decisions while ensuring high-quality delivery.
Senior UX Designer (12 Month FTC/Secondment)
🇬🇧 Bristol, City of Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Lloyds Banking Group 🇬🇧 Bristol, City of Bristol, England, United Kingdom
The Senior UX Designer will shape and implement experience strategy for the product area, focusing on customer needs and business priorities. They will lead a multidisciplinary design team and provide guidance to stakeholders and development teams.
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.