Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior Graphic Designer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Phoenix 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead the creative direction for growth and marketing initiatives by designing high-performing assets across paid, owned, and earned channels. Collaborate with Growth and Product teams to translate performance data into visual strategies and maintain a scalable creative library.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Altadena, California, United States
Enhaus Design Build 🇺🇸 Altadena, California, United States
Lead and develop a design team while ensuring the technical quality and constructability of residential drawing sets from schematic design to construction documents. Establish standardized systems and SOPs to optimize the design workflow and coordinate with external consultants.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Allara 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
The Senior Product Designer will own the end-to-end design craft for the core patient experience across web and mobile platforms. Key duties include evolving the design system, conducting user research, and partnering with product and engineering teams to ship high-quality designs.
Senior UX Researcher
🇺🇸 Natick, Massachusetts, United States
Mathworks 🇺🇸 Natick, Massachusetts, United States
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to research, design, and validate innovative UX solutions for technical software products. Conduct qualitative and quantitative research to improve user trust and transparency, specifically regarding AI-generated design work and state machine workflows.
Senior Manager Mechanical Design Engineering, GI Robot
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Intuitive 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Lead a team of mechanical engineers in the design, development, and launch of a new GI Robot platform. Manage the functional operations of the group, including staffing, budgeting, and ensuring compliance with FDA design history file guidelines.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Brightspeed 🇺🇸 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
The Senior Product Designer will lead complex UX/UI projects from discovery to delivery while setting the quality standard for the team. They will also translate strategic goals into concrete design approaches and leverage AI-assisted methods to improve digital experiences.
Senior Graphic Designer - GPC Asia Pacific Brisbane
🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Gpc Asia Pacific 🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Lead the design studio team to deliver high-quality print and digital marketing collateral for Repco Trade across ANZ. Manage direct reports while balancing hands-on design work and coordinating with various internal marketing and content teams.
Senior Graphic Designer (212853)
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Aquent Australia 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
The role involves producing retail assets, promotional catalogues, and POS displays across print and digital channels. The designer will manage task queues and collaborate with the internal studio team to meet tight retail deadlines.
Senior UX Designer, Digital Program
🇺🇸 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Ascensus 🇺🇸 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Design user experiences for web and mobile solutions to help customers achieve financial goals. Collaborate across business, design, and development teams to guide projects from concept through completion.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Nve Experience Agency 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Lead the design and development of visual systems and assets for brand experiences across physical and digital touchpoints. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to translate creative concepts into high-quality executions while mentoring junior designers.
Senior Product Designer II, Revenue Experimentation
🌍 Remote
Life360 🌍 Remote
Design and execute a high volume of experiments across revenue and monetization surfaces to drive subscription growth. Partner with cross-functional teams to translate data and research into testable hypotheses and measurable business impact.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇪🇸 Spain
Superside 🇪🇸 Spain
The role involves producing high-quality visual content for branding and digital campaigns using a mix of traditional design and Generative AI tools. The designer will experiment with AI workflows to enhance creative speed and quality while collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Senior Graphic Designer - GPC Asia Pacific Brisbane
🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Genuine Parts Company 🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Lead and manage the design studio team to deliver high-quality print and digital marketing collateral for Repco Trade. Collaborate with internal departments to execute brand-aligned campaigns while managing project timelines and stakeholder expectations.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States
Nve Experience Agency 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States
Lead the design and development of visual systems and assets for brand experiences across physical and digital touchpoints. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to translate creative concepts into high-quality executions while mentoring junior designers.
Senior Product Designer II, Revenue Experimentation
🌍 Remote
Life360 🌍 Remote
Design and execute a high volume of experiments across revenue and monetization surfaces to drive subscription growth. Partner with cross-functional teams to turn data-driven hypotheses into validated learnings that shape the product roadmap.
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.