Design Leadership Jobs
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Graphic Designer (Remote)
🌍 Remote
Hire Feed 🌍 Remote
Design and develop high-impact presentation decks for leadership and client-facing communications. Translate complex data and strategic concepts into visually compelling narratives while maintaining brand consistency.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇵🇹 Portugal
Intermedia Intelligent Communications 🇵🇹 Portugal
Define and design intuitive AI-powered experiences, including copilots and conversational interfaces, for business users. Lead the end-to-end design process from research and prototyping to implementation and post-launch optimization within a design system.
Senior Product Designer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Jobber 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
You will lead design system projects to refine components, interaction patterns, and design tokens that scale across web and mobile platforms. Additionally, you will partner with engineering and product teams to ensure high-quality implementation and advocate for UX quality and accessibility across the company.
Staff Product Designer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Jobber 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead the evolution of the design system across the product suite while collaborating with cross-functional teams to improve consistency and UX quality. Drive major design initiatives, define governance models, and mentor team members to foster a culture of high-quality design and engineering collaboration.
Senior Product Designer II - Lifecycle & Growth
🇨🇦 Wasaga Beach, Ontario, Canada
Instacart 🇨🇦 Wasaga Beach, Ontario, Canada
Lead high-impact growth initiatives by designing end-to-end customer journeys that improve conversion, engagement, and retention. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate ambiguous problems into intuitive, scalable product experiences through prototyping and visual craft.
Senior Product Designer - AVP (12-mth contract)
🇸🇬 Singapore
Ocbc 🇸🇬 Singapore
Lead the end-to-end design process for digital products, creating intuitive user flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity prototypes. Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product managers, engineers, and researchers to translate complex business requirements into scalable, human-centered solutions.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Beyond Studios 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
The role involves executing creative direction across branding, digital, print, and merchandise projects while leading projects from concept to execution. The designer will also mentor junior staff and collaborate with internal teams and clients to maintain brand consistency.
Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Tamarac, Florida, United States
Sonny's Enterprises Inc. - Conveyorized Car Wash Equipment Leader 🇺🇸 Tamarac, Florida, United States
The Signage Graphic Designer is responsible for creating a wide range of car wash signage, including menus and instructional assets, while maintaining brand consistency. This includes preparing accurate press files, creating mockups, and collaborating with the creative team to meet client business needs.
Product Designer, Accessibility
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Openai 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
You will lead the company-wide accessibility program by defining strategy, governance, and roadmaps while designing inclusive experiences across all product platforms. You will also partner with engineering, legal, and product teams to integrate accessibility standards into design systems and workflows.
Senior Design Manager, Industrial Manufacturing Construction
🇺🇸 Addison, Texas, United States
J.e. Dunn Construction Group Inc P 🇺🇸 Addison, Texas, United States
The Senior Design Manager leads the design process, participants, and technology for industrial and manufacturing projects from concept through completion. They are responsible for managing scope, budget, and schedule while coordinating with internal and external design partners to ensure project goals are met.
Senior Product Designer II - Lifecycle & Growth
🇺🇸 United States
Instacart 🇺🇸 United States
Lead high-impact growth initiatives across partnerships and lifecycle experiences, taking projects from ambiguous problem framing to launch. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to reimagine customer journeys and define scalable interaction patterns that drive engagement and retention.
Product Designer
🇨🇱 Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile
Andes Path 🇨🇱 Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile
The Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design of digital products, including interfaces for robots and data dashboards. They will collaborate with engineers and clients to translate complex technical concepts into intuitive, production-ready user experiences.
Lead Product Designer
🇭🇺 Budapest, Central Hungary, Hungary
Colossyan 🇭🇺 Budapest, Central Hungary, Hungary
You will lead the design team and own the design strategy across four cross-functional product-engineering teams. You will partner with product and engineering leadership to shape the vision while remaining hands-on with key design initiatives.
Product Designer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Cayde Ai 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead the end-to-end product design and visual language for the North American market, adapting the existing Korean design system. Own the candidate experience and website conversion paths while collaborating directly with founders to turn customer insights into design decisions.
Design Manager
🇮🇪 Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
Flynn 🇮🇪 Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
The Design Manager leads and coordinates the design process from concept to construction across multiple projects. They manage architectural, structural, and MEP consultants to ensure alignment with project goals, budgets, and timelines.
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.