Design Leadership Jobs
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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 engage with stakeholders to deliver effective solutions.
Senior UX Designer
🇭🇺 Budapest, Hungary
Clario 🇭🇺 Budapest, Hungary
As a Senior UX Designer, you will lead user research and design processes to improve usability and accessibility of products. You will refine designs based on user feedback and collaborate with development teams to ensure usability requirements are met.
Senior UX Designer
🇨🇿 Brno, okres Brno-město, Czechia
Tricentis 🇨🇿 Brno, okres Brno-město, Czechia
Lead the design process for major features or components of the product and conduct advanced user research and usability studies to guide design decisions. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define product requirements and design solutions.
Senior, UI/UX Designer - EG, Remote: Colombia - Costa Rica, Fulltime, Digital Product Development
The Senior UI/UX Designer will gather user requirements, create visual designs, and develop prototypes while collaborating with an Agile team. They will also articulate design decisions and ensure alignment with the product vision.
Senior Digital Product Designer (6 months)
Remote (🇬🇧 Bristol, City of Bristol, England, United Kingdom)
Rbs Remote (🇬🇧 Bristol, City of Bristol, England, United Kingdom)
As a Senior Digital Product Designer, you will lead design thinking in projects, focusing on user needs and delivering high-quality designs. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to produce effective design solutions and manage workshops.
UX Designer @DARWIN
🇷🇴 Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania
Marsh Mclennan 🇷🇴 Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania
As a UX Designer, you will work collaboratively with senior designers and contribute to the product experience design lifecycle. You will conduct user research, create detailed design specifications, and collaborate with Product Managers and Software Engineers to implement designs effectively.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Tzafon 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Develop the visual language for the Lightcone platform and design interaction patterns for workflows involving human guidance of agents. Collaborate with the executive team and design partners to maintain brand simplicity and align vision.
Senior Product Designer
🇫🇮 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
Hoxhunt 🇫🇮 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
You will own the product design of critical areas such as Admin, Integrations, and Reporting, ensuring clarity and usability. Your role involves collaborating with Product Managers and Developers to create high-fidelity designs that meet user needs and system constraints.
Senior Product Designer
🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
Yotpo 🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
As part of the Loyalty Product team, you will shape the future of the loyalty experience by creating intuitive and customer-centric designs. You will partner closely with Product and Engineering to craft meaningful user experiences.
Senior UX Designer (Web + Mobile) | Remote
Remote (🇲🇽 Mexico)
Gramian Consulting Group Remote (🇲🇽 Mexico)
The Senior UX Designer will translate product goals into intuitive user experiences across web and mobile platforms. They will own the design process from exploration to deliverables, ensuring scalability and usability.
Senior UX Designer (Web + Mobile) | Remote
Remote (🇧🇷 Brazil)
Gramian Consulting Group Remote (🇧🇷 Brazil)
The Senior UX Designer will translate product goals into intuitive user experiences for web and mobile platforms. They will own the design process from exploration to deliverables, ensuring scalability and usability across different states.
Senior Product Designer (Temporal)
🇪🇸 San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain
Optibus 🇪🇸 San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain
Lead end-to-end design projects and collaborate cross-functionally with product managers and engineers. Conduct user research and testing while maintaining and evolving design systems.
Senior Product Designer (Temporal)
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Optibus 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Lead end-to-end design projects and collaborate cross-functionally with product managers and engineers. Conduct user research and testing to inform design decisions and maintain design systems.
SanS, Senior Product Designer (Temporal)
🇪🇸 San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain
Optibus 🇪🇸 San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain
Lead end-to-end design projects and collaborate cross-functionally with product managers and engineers. Conduct user research and testing while maintaining and evolving design systems.
Berlin, Senior Product Designer (Temporal)
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Optibus 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Lead end-to-end design projects and collaborate cross-functionally with product managers and engineers. Conduct user research and testing to inform design decisions and maintain design systems.
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.