Design Leadership Jobs
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Principle UI Designer
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Fanduel 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Define and elevate the visual language and quality bar for FanDuel's Sportsbook across iOS, Android, and Web platforms. Lead the evolution of design systems, interaction models, and AI-assisted workflows while coaching other designers through critique and mentorship.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Fanduel 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Lead the design and evolution of FanDuel Racing, Fantasy, and Retail products from concept to delivery. Collaborate with cross-functional partners to deliver innovative features while mentoring other designers and advocating for user-centered goals.
Analog/Mixed-Signal IC Design Manager | High Performance Radar
🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States
Texas Instruments 🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States
Lead a team of analog design engineers to develop high-performance analog and mixed-signal IPs for mmWave Radar front-end sub-systems. Define IC design R&D roadmaps and oversee the entire lifecycle from architectural analysis to post-silicon validation and debug.
Sr. UX Designer, Security
🇺🇸 United States
Cribl 🇺🇸 United States
Lead end-to-end design for security product experiences, including detection, alerting, and AI-assisted workflows. Collaborate with product, engineering, and research teams to create cohesive, user-centered solutions across the platform.
Graphic Designer (Elearning)- Senior Associate
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Lrn 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
The role involves leading the visual design and creative direction for eLearning, digital, and print projects. You will translate learning content into engaging visual concepts and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality production.
Sr Product Designer, Growth & Experimentation
🇫🇷 Uz, Occitania, France
Yahoo 🇫🇷 Uz, Occitania, France
Lead the design strategy across high-leverage growth surfaces to drive measurable impact on user activation and retention. Collaborate with cross-functional partners to define feature visions while maintaining high craftsmanship in interaction and visual design.
Product Designer, Partnerships and Brand Experience
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Thumbtack 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Product Designer will lead product experience initiatives by conducting user research and transforming ambitious ideas into validated, high-craft product solutions. They will collaborate across teams to integrate brand systems into the product while driving go-to-market efforts through interactive demos and motion-rich experiences.
Sr Product Designer, Growth & Experimentation
🇺🇸 United States
Yahoo 🇺🇸 United States
Lead the design strategy for growth surfaces such as onboarding and engagement loops to drive measurable impact on user activation and retention. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to run rapid experiments and integrate AI-driven efficiencies into the design workflow.
Sr. Design Manager - Data Center
🇺🇸 United States
Iron Mountain 🇺🇸 United States
Lead end-to-end design execution for major data center developments and complex operational upgrades. Coordinate multidisciplinary teams and external consultants to ensure technical decisions align with safety, resilience, and sustainability goals.
Product Designer, Partnerships and Brand Experience
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Thumbtack 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Lead product experience initiatives by transforming ambitious ideas into business cases and executing them through research and cross-functional collaboration. You will drive high-impact projects from concept to scale while ensuring brand consistency across partner-facing and in-product experiences.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Thomson Reuters 🇺🇸 Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Lead the end-to-end design of AI-powered features, translating complex model behaviors into intuitive and trustworthy user workflows. Collaborate with cross-functional teams including data science, engineering, and research to define interaction patterns and ensure responsible AI practices.
Founding UI/UX and Graphic Designer
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Clera 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
You will own the end-to-end UI/UX design for the iOS app and lead the visual presence across all digital and physical brand touchpoints. This includes creating wireframes, production assets, and maintaining a unified design language for the company.
Senior Design Technologist
🇨🇦 Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
Wsp 🇨🇦 Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
Lead the development and delivery of complex Civil 3D models and design packages for civil infrastructure projects. Provide technical mentorship to junior staff while ensuring design excellence and adherence to corporate standards.
Senior Product Designer - Air Taxi
🇺🇸 San Carlos, California, United States
Joby Aviation 🇺🇸 San Carlos, California, United States
Lead the product design and development of core operational applications, including flight operations scheduling and pilot Electronic Flight Bags. Collaborate with engineering and flight operations to create scalable apps for helicopter and eVTOL operations.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇨🇴 Bogota, Capital District, RAP (Especial) Central, Colombia
Xploy Solutions 🇨🇴 Bogota, Capital District, RAP (Especial) Central, Colombia
The role involves architecting and evolving the global brand identity and design systems across all audience touchpoints. The designer will lead multi-channel campaigns and mentor junior designers while partnering with executive leadership.
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.