Design Leadership Jobs
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Principal UX Designer
🇺🇸 California, United States of America
Palo Alto Networks 🇺🇸 California, United States of America
Leads complex cross-team initiatives to build scalable, AI-enhanced design processes and integrations. Aligns stakeholders around design decisions and elevates the quality of work across the product through mentorship and critique.
Principal Engineer, R&D – Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Glenview, Illinois, United States of America
The Kraft Heinz Company 🇺🇸 Glenview, Illinois, United States of America
Research, design, and develop mechatronic systems and machine components for food process and packaging projects. This includes performing CAE simulations, creating conceptual and detailed CAD designs, and overseeing product fabrication and testing.
Principal Product Designer, Ecosystems
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Life360 Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Lead end-to-end product design for the Ecosystems team, focusing on integrating external partner data and experiences into the Life360 app. This includes rapid prototyping of AI-native concepts and developing scalable design frameworks to unify standards across platforms.
Principal Product Designer, Real Estate
Remote (🇳🇱 Netherlands)
Olx Remote (🇳🇱 Netherlands)
Lead the craft and quality of the Real Estate vertical by defining interaction patterns and scalable design systems. Drive the evolution of AI-ready design foundations to enable machine-readable patterns and AI-assisted creation.
Principal Product Designer, Real Estate
Remote (🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
Olx Remote (🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
Lead the craft and quality of the Real Estate vertical by defining interaction patterns and maintaining a high bar for UX and visual design. Drive the evolution of design systems into AI-ready, machine-readable foundations to enable scalable and consistent customer experiences.
Principal Product Designer, Real Estate
Remote (🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands)
Olx Remote (🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands)
Lead the craft and quality of the Real Estate vertical by defining interaction patterns and scalable design systems. Drive the evolution of AI-ready design foundations to enable machine-readable patterns and automated workflows.
Principal Product Designer, Real Estate
Remote (🇵🇹 Portugal)
Olx Remote (🇵🇹 Portugal)
Lead the craft and quality of the Real Estate vertical by defining interaction patterns and scalable design systems. Drive the evolution of AI-ready design foundations to enable machine-readable patterns and AI-assisted creation.
Principal Product Designer, Real Estate
Remote (🇪🇸 Spain)
Olx Remote (🇪🇸 Spain)
Lead the craft and quality of the Real Estate vertical by defining interaction patterns and scalable design systems. Drive the integration of AI-ready design foundations to create intelligent, machine-readable customer experiences.
Principal Product Designer, Real Estate
Remote (🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal)
Olx Remote (🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal)
Lead the craft and quality of the Real Estate vertical by defining interaction patterns and scalable design systems. Drive the evolution of AI-ready design foundations to create intelligent, consistent, and machine-readable customer experiences.
Principal Product Designer (Contract-to-Hire)
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Chorus Innovations Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Lead the design strategy and vision to create intuitive user experiences for complex healthcare technology platforms. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to transform confusing workflows into elegant solutions while mentoring other designers.
Principal UX Designer, AWS Security, Search, Observability & Governance
🇺🇸 Santa Clara County, California, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Santa Clara County, California, United States of America
Define and own the end-to-end design strategy for AWS's security, observability, and agentic AI product portfolio. Lead the design of complex interfaces while mentoring senior designers and driving design-as-code practices.
Electronic Design Engineering, Principal
🇨🇭 Zurich, Switzerland
Macom Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc. 🇨🇭 Zurich, Switzerland
The principal design engineer will architect, design, and characterize high-frequency ICs from concept through to productization. They will also manage projects, support customers, and collaborate with test and application engineering teams.
Principal UX Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 Texas, United States of America)
Newfold Digital Remote (🇺🇸 Texas, United States of America)
The Principal UX Designer will lead end-to-end UX strategy for portal surfaces and mentor the design team to ensure high-quality execution. They will collaborate cross-functionally to drive product engagement while integrating AI-native workflows into the design process.
Principal UX Designer
🇧🇪 Mechelen, Belgium
Cochlear 🇧🇪 Mechelen, Belgium
Lead UX strategy and design quality across the Audiology portfolio by providing hands-on delivery and influencing cross-functional teams. Ensure coherent, evidence-based, and compliant end-to-end experiences for clinicians, recipients, and partners.
Principal Product Designer
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Safewill 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
You will drive product discovery and strategy by turning user insights into clear, actionable product directions. Additionally, you will lead end-to-end design processes while collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality, impactful product outcomes.
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.