Design Leadership Jobs
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Junior Graphic Designer
🇿🇦 Stellenbosch Local Municipality, Cape Winelands District Municipality, South Africa
Hazendal Wine Estate 🇿🇦 Stellenbosch Local Municipality, Cape Winelands District Municipality, South Africa
The Junior Graphic Designer will assist in creating visual concepts for digital and print materials, including social media graphics, brochures, and presentations, while ensuring consistency with the brand identity in the hospitality industry. This role involves supporting senior designers, preparing and editing layouts, managing multiple projects, and revising designs based on feedback.
Junior Graphic Designer
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Williams Lea 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The role involves creating engaging motion graphics and animations using tools like After Effects and Premiere Pro, alongside producing high-quality visual assets for various digital and print channels. The designer will also support senior colleagues with concept development and manage their own workload across multiple tasks and deadlines.
Junior Motion Graphic Designer
🇮🇳 Mumbai City, India
Oliver Agency - Apac 🇮🇳 Mumbai City, India
The Junior Motion Graphic Designer is responsible for designing and creating digital content, interactive programs, and videos primarily for Beauty/Lifestyle brands, focusing on enhancing storytelling through motion animation for digital assets.
Lead Digital Product Designer - Commercial Banking
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Fifth Third Bank 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
This role involves designing intuitive digital product experiences for commercial banking clients by leading design thinking workshops, developing experience recommendations through artifacts like wireframes and prototypes, and guiding user research initiatives. The Lead Designer will also mentor junior team members and ensure design intent is carried through to final implementation by collaborating with product owners and development teams.
Lead Specialist, UX Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Pearson 🇺🇸 United States of America
This role involves designing and leading complex, mixed-methods research initiatives to understand user needs, synthesizing insights into compelling narratives for executive audiences, and partnering with cross-functional teams to drive strategic decision-making. The specialist will also mentor junior researchers and build systems to democratize research insights and improve operations.
Lead Specialist, UX Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Pearson 🇺🇸 United States of America
This role involves designing and leading complex mixed-methods research initiatives to understand user needs, synthesizing findings into compelling narratives for executive audiences, and partnering with cross-functional teams to drive strategic decision-making. The specialist will also mentor junior researchers and build systems to democratize research insights and improve operations.
Lead Specialist, UX Designer
🇺🇸 Hoboken, NJ 07030, United States of America
Pearson 🇺🇸 Hoboken, NJ 07030, United States of America
This role involves designing and leading complex mixed-methods research initiatives to understand user needs, synthesizing insights into compelling narratives for executive audiences, and partnering with cross-functional teams to drive strategic decision-making. The specialist will also mentor junior researchers and build systems to democratize research insights and improve operations.
Product Designer, Data Solutions & Initiatives
🇺🇸 Cupertino, California, United States of America
Apple 🇺🇸 Cupertino, California, United States of America
The Product Designer will own the end-to-end design of complex data products, moving beyond mockups to build functional prototypes using code and designing transparent interfaces for AI model predictions. Responsibilities include driving clarity in ambiguity, leading cross-functional workshops, maintaining the Design System, and mentoring junior colleagues.
3686-Senior Product Designer ( Galaxy)
🇮🇳 Noida, Gautam Buddha Nagar, India
Innovaccer Analytics 🇮🇳 Noida, Gautam Buddha Nagar, India
The Senior Product Designer will drive the product vision in collaboration with Product and Engineering teams, ensuring seamless integration across Innovaccer's offerings. They will also be responsible for optimizing design processes, managing team operations, and mentoring junior designers to foster growth and quality.
Junior UX Designer
🇿🇦 Cape Town, City of Cape Town, South Africa
Ozow 🇿🇦 Cape Town, City of Cape Town, South Africa
The Junior UX Designer will assist in designing end-to-end user experiences across Ozow's products by translating user needs and requirements into intuitive UX solutions, including creating user flows, wireframes, and prototypes. Responsibilities also involve participating in user research, analyzing feedback, collaborating with product and development teams, and contributing to the design system.
Junior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Emergency University 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Junior Graphic Designer will collaborate with the Senior Graphic Designer and Marketing team to develop creative concepts and designs for online courses, marketing campaigns, and social media content across digital and print mediums. Responsibilities also include assisting with video production, contributing innovative ideas, and ensuring all designs adhere to brand guidelines.
Associate User Experience (UX) Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Boeing 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
The selected individual will develop, maintain, and improve ecommerce applications for Boeing Global Services (BGS) by executing user-centered design activities from discovery to delivery, including conducting user research and usability tests. This role involves close collaboration with cross-functional teams globally to translate user needs into designs, manage technical debt, and provide mentorship to junior resources.
Associate User Experience (UX) Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Boeing 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
The selected individual will develop, maintain, and improve ecommerce applications for Boeing Global Services (BGS) by executing user-centered design activities from discovery to delivery, including conducting user research and usability tests. Responsibilities also involve collaborating with cross-functional teams globally, creating design documentation, and mentoring junior resources.
Senior UI/UX Designer - Gram Games
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Zynga 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The Senior UI/UX Designer will manage the entire design process for complex user interfaces, from initial concept through to engine implementation, ensuring high standards of usability and visual quality. This role involves mentoring junior designers and collaborating with various teams to deliver superior user experiences.
Junior Graphic Designer (all gender) - Print, Digital & Motion
🇩🇪 Hamburg, Germany
Tui 🇩🇪 Hamburg, Germany
You will support the team in designing digital and print media as well as creating motion content. This includes developing layouts for campaigns, brochures, flyers, and banners while ensuring compliance with corporate identity guidelines.
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.