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Principal Product Designer Lead
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Linktree 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Lead and develop a team of senior designers while remaining hands-on with high-leverage design problems. Set the design vision and craft standards to ensure a coherent product experience across the platform.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States
Linktree 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States
Lead and develop a team of senior designers while remaining hands-on with high-leverage design problems. Set the design vision and craft standards to ensure quality and consistency across the product.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Linktree 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Lead and develop a team of senior designers while remaining hands-on with high-leverage and ambiguous design problems. Set the design vision and craft standards while partnering with Product, Engineering, and Marketing leaders to align with business priorities.
Principal Product Designer Lead
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Linktree 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Lead and develop a team of senior designers while remaining hands-on with high-leverage and ambiguous design problems. Set the design vision and craft standards while partnering with Product, Engineering, and Marketing leaders to align with business priorities.
Principal Product Designer Lead
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States
Linktree 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States
Lead and develop a team of senior designers while remaining hands-on with high-leverage design problems. Set the design vision and craft standards to ensure a coherent product experience across the platform.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States
Linktree 🇺🇸 United States
Lead and develop a team of senior designers while remaining hands-on with high-leverage design problems. Set the design vision and craft standards to ensure quality and consistency across the product.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States
Linktree 🇺🇸 United States
Lead and develop a team of senior designers while remaining hands-on with high-leverage design problems. Set the design vision and craft standards to ensure quality and consistency across the product.
Principal Product Designer Lead
🇺🇸 United States
Linktree 🇺🇸 United States
Lead and develop a team of senior designers while remaining hands-on with high-leverage design problems. Set the design vision and craft standards to ensure quality and consistency across the product.
Product Designer, Subscriptions
🇺🇸 Menlo Park, California, United States
Meta 🇺🇸 Menlo Park, California, United States
Lead and deliver complex design projects while collaborating with cross-functional partners to define product strategy and user experience. Translate conceptual ideas into useful interfaces and contribute to the evolution of visual systems across the company's platforms.
Design Manager (Water Projects)
🇬🇧 Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
Wsp In The Uk & Ireland 🇬🇧 Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
Lead and manage complex design projects within the water sector, overseeing engineering work from concept to completion. Ensure compliance with UK regulations and safety standards while coordinating multi-disciplinary teams and managing client relationships.
Design Manager (Water Projects)
🇬🇧 Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Wsp In The Uk & Ireland 🇬🇧 Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Lead and manage complex design projects within the water sector, overseeing engineering work from concept to completion. Ensure compliance with UK regulations and safety standards while coordinating multi-disciplinary teams and managing client relationships.
UX Researcher & Designer
🇪🇸 Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
Iqvia 🇪🇸 Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
Lead end-to-end UX research and design for AI-enabled clinical technology solutions, translating complex workflows into scalable product experiences. Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver evidence-based designs using the IQVIA Agentic Operating Model.
Textile Design Manager
🇬🇧 Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Fxi 🇬🇧 Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
The Manager of Textile Design will own the creative and technical direction of the mattress cover portfolio from concept through commercialization. They will lead cross-functional collaboration to ensure designs meet aesthetic, performance, cost, and manufacturing standards.
Sr. Graphic Designer (Alani Nu & Rockstar)
🌍 Remote
Celsius 🌍 Remote
The Sr. Graphic Designer will develop and execute high-quality visual work across packaging, digital, social, and retail touchpoints for the Alani Nu and Rockstar brands. They will collaborate with creative leadership and cross-functional teams to translate strategic briefs into compelling, consistent visual solutions.
Senior Product Designer (Fully Remote)
🌍 Remote
Padsplit 🌍 Remote
Lead end-to-end product design for a two-sided housing marketplace, focusing on simplifying complex workflows and creating scalable user experiences. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate AI-powered features and drive product strategy based on user research and data.
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.