Design Leadership Jobs
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Junior Graphic Designer
Remote (🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal)
Convatec Remote (🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal)
The designer will develop clear and impactful visual communication tools to convey business strategies to global internal and external audiences, including healthcare professionals and executives. Key duties involve partnering with leadership to create corporate presentations and designing marketing materials for the Healthy Bonds Umbrella Campaign.
Junior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Socure 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The role primarily involves production-focused design, executing within existing systems to create high-quality marketing and brand assets quickly and consistently. A major component is designing and producing polished presentation decks by translating complex content into clear, structured visual slides for internal and external use.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇮🇩 Special Capital Region of Jakarta, Java, Indonesia
Bukuwarung 🇮🇩 Special Capital Region of Jakarta, Java, Indonesia
This role involves owning projects end-to-end, contributing to creative direction, managing timelines, and guiding junior designers to ensure high-quality, brand-aligned visual output. Key duties include developing strong visual concepts, maintaining consistency across all channels, and proactively communicating project status and risks.
Graphic Designer & Motion Artist
🇬🇧 Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom
The Drum 🇬🇧 Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom
This role involves overseeing and delivering high-quality design and animation for The Drum and its customers, while managing design projects from inception to completion and ensuring brand consistency across all platforms. Responsibilities include generating concepts, producing visual design for print and digital media, creating short-form animations for social media, and delegating tasks to junior staff or freelancers.
Senior Product Designer | Manila
🇵🇭 Makati, Southern Manila District, Philippines
Lawadvisor Ventures Ltd. 🇵🇭 Makati, Southern Manila District, Philippines
The role involves championing design by leading the strategy and creation of end-to-end experiences and visual designs, while effectively communicating and testing solutions with teams and users. Responsibilities also include analyzing complex problems using feedback and research, aligning cross-functional teams to the product vision, and mentoring junior designers.
Graphic Designer & Motion Artist
🇺🇸 Miami Beach, Florida, United States of America
The Drum 🇺🇸 Miami Beach, Florida, United States of America
This role involves overseeing and delivering high-quality design and animation for The Drum and its customers, while managing design projects from inception to completion and ensuring brand consistency across all platforms. Key tasks include generating concepts, producing visual design for print and digital media, creating short-form animations for social media, and delegating tasks to junior staff or freelancers.
Junior UX Designer
🇵🇭 Makati, Southern Manila District, Philippines
The Citco Group Limited 🇵🇭 Makati, Southern Manila District, Philippines
The Junior Designer will participate in upstream design processes, prototype and iterate UX design, and deliver specifications to engineering streams. This role involves collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders, engineers, and product managers to deliver elegant user experience design.
Senior Product Designer - KICK
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Easygo 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
The Senior Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design process for their product area, transforming complex requirements into intuitive, scalable, and engaging user solutions. This role involves close collaboration with Product and Engineering teams, mentoring junior designers, and actively contributing to the evolution of KICK’s design systems.
Junior Product Designer
🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal
Complyadvantage 🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal
The role involves end-to-end design, creating wireframes, workflows, and high-fidelity UI designs in Figma, while collaborating closely with Product Design teams and Product Managers on strategy and roadmaps. Additionally, 20% of the time will be dedicated to supporting the CPTO with high-impact external materials and presentations, alongside contributing to the design system.
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.