Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior Graphic Designer
🌍 Remote
Bjak 🌍 Remote
The Senior Graphic Designer will create high-impact design assets for various marketing channels and collaborate with different teams to deliver cohesive campaigns. They will also mentor junior designers and maintain design quality across all brand touchpoints.
Product Designer 3-Digital Banking Kotak 811-Regional Sales
The Product Designer will own the UI design process from concept to execution, ensuring consistency and adherence to brand guidelines. They will collaborate with UX designers and developers to create prototypes, conduct usability testing, and mentor junior designers.
Lead UX Product Designer - Guest UX
🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Target 🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
As a Lead UX Designer, you will define experience strategy and drive complex initiatives, ensuring solutions deliver value for both guests and the business. You will create UX patterns, lead end-to-end UX for ad-tech features, and mentor junior designers.
Junior Product Designer (Full Remote - Germany)
🌍 Remote
Everai 🌍 Remote
The Junior Product Designer will own the end-to-end design process for features across multiple product areas, translating complex AI capabilities into engaging user experiences. They will collaborate with Product Managers, Engineers, and Marketers to deliver high-quality designs and support fast-paced A/B testing.
Junior Product Designer (Full Remote - Italy)
🌍 Remote
Everai 🌍 Remote
The Junior Product Designer will own the end-to-end design process for features across multiple product areas, translating complex AI capabilities into engaging user experiences. They will collaborate with Product Managers, Engineers, and Marketers to deliver high-quality designs and support fast-paced A/B testing.
Junior Product Designer (Full Remote - Ireland)
🌍 Remote
Everai 🌍 Remote
The Junior Product Designer will own the end-to-end design process for features across multiple product areas, translating complex AI capabilities into engaging user experiences. They will collaborate with Product Managers, Engineers, and Marketers to rapidly prototype and test ideas.
Junior Product Designer (Full Remote - France)
🌍 Remote
Everai 🌍 Remote
The Junior Product Designer will own the end-to-end design process for features across multiple product areas, translating complex AI capabilities into engaging user experiences. They will collaborate with Product Managers, Engineers, and Marketers to deliver high-quality designs and support fast-paced A/B testing.
Junior Product Designer (Full Remote - EMEA)
🌍 Remote
Everai 🌍 Remote
The Junior Product Designer will own the end-to-end design process for features across multiple product areas, translating complex AI capabilities into engaging user experiences. They will collaborate with Product Managers, Engineers, and Marketers to deliver high-quality designs while maintaining a unified design system.
Junior Product Designer (Full Remote - Europe)
🌍 Remote
Everai 🌍 Remote
The Junior Product Designer will own the end-to-end design process for features across multiple product areas, translating complex AI capabilities into engaging user experiences. They will collaborate with Product Managers, Engineers, and Marketers to deliver high-quality designs at speed.
Junior Product Designer (Full Remote - Portugal)
🌍 Remote
Everai 🌍 Remote
The Junior Product Designer will own the end-to-end design process for features across multiple product areas, translating complex AI capabilities into engaging user experiences. They will collaborate with Product Managers, Engineers, and Marketers to deliver high-quality designs and support fast-paced A/B testing.
Junior Product Designer (Full Remote - Spain)
🌍 Remote
Everai 🌍 Remote
The Junior Product Designer will own the end-to-end design process for features across multiple product areas, translating complex AI capabilities into engaging user experiences. They will collaborate with Product Managers, Engineers, and Marketers to deliver high-quality designs and support fast-paced A/B testing.
Junior Product Designer (Full Remote - UK)
🌍 Remote
Everai 🌍 Remote
The role involves owning the end-to-end design process for features across multiple product areas and translating complex AI capabilities into engaging user experiences. The designer will collaborate with various teams to prototype and test ideas, ensuring high-quality experiences at scale.
Graphic Designer, Senior
🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Booz Allen Hamilton 🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Design, develop, and execute solutions in support of intelligence organizations and missions. Work independently with some guidance and review or guide activities of more junior employees.
Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Omaha, Nebraska, United States
Hdr 🇺🇸 Omaha, Nebraska, United States
The Graphic Designer will plan, manage, and deliver projects from concept through completion while collaborating with clients and other designers. They will also ensure quality control and mentor junior team members.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Provo, Utah, United States
Qualtrics 🇺🇸 Provo, Utah, United States
The Senior Graphic Designer will lead the design and execution of visual assets across various marketing channels, ensuring brand consistency and high-quality output. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams and mentoring junior designers to enhance the team's creative capabilities.
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.