Design Leadership Jobs
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Principal Design Manager
🇬🇧 Camberley, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Costain Group Plc 🇬🇧 Camberley, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
As Principal Design Manager, you will lead a design management team and oversee design and engineering management for high-value projects. You will establish collaborative relationships with clients and ensure adherence to design management processes.
Principal Design Manager
🇬🇧 Camberley, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Costain Group 🇬🇧 Camberley, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Lead design management for high-value, programme-critical water and wastewater projects to ensure solutions are delivered within budget and schedule. Manage design processes across multiple projects or frameworks while identifying and mitigating technical risks.
Principal, Design Engineering - TPL
🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Celestica 🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
The Principal, Design Engineering will lead the hardware design and implementation of compute systems, driving compute strategies and recommending best practices. They will engage with customers and collaborate with product teams to bridge technology roadmaps into hardware products.
Associate Principal, Mechanical, Data Center Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America
Introba 🇺🇸 Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America
The Associate Principal will manage mechanical engineering design solutions and oversee project execution while mentoring junior engineers. They will also engage in client-facing activities, including proposal preparation and participation in trade shows.
Associate Principal, Mechanical, Data Center Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America
Global Infrastructure 🇺🇸 Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America
Lead the mechanical design and execution of hyper-scale data center projects while managing client relationships and business development. Oversee the full product lifecycle from conceptual analysis to implementation, providing mentorship to junior engineering staff.
Principal, Design Engineering - TPL
🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Celestica International Lp 🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Lead the hardware design, implementation, and management of compute systems while driving strategies and recommending industry best practices. Collaborate with cross-functional teams and strategic customers to define technology roadmaps and bridge them into hardware products.
Principal UX Designer, Alexa for Shopping
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Amazon 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the design of new AI-driven shopping features for Alexa, translating customer needs into high-level strategy and detailed interaction flows. Collaborate with cross-functional teams and science experts to train LLMs and deliver world-class user experiences.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 Emeryville, CA 94608, United States of America
Zuma ⚡ 🇺🇸 Emeryville, CA 94608, United States of America
As a Principal Product Designer, you will lead product excellence and user experience across the platform, collaborating with the executive team to define product strategy. You will design for multiple user personas and drive user-centric thinking while scaling the design function.
Principal Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Boldin 🌍 Remote
Own end-to-end design for major product surfaces, translating complex financial modeling into intuitive user experiences. Partner with PMs and engineers to define problems, validate ideas through AI-driven prototyping, and maintain Figma as the source of truth.
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.