Design Leadership Jobs

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Network Design Manager, BR Transportation team

🇧🇷 Brazil

The role focuses on supporting transportation excellence through data collection, monitoring operational metrics, and executing improvement initiatives. Key duties include writing strategic documents and leading weekly stakeholder meetings to ensure operational goals are met.

Full-timeMid-level
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Design Manager - Healthcare - Senior

🇺🇸 Oakland, California, United States of America

Lead and deliver a variety of healthcare project types through all phases while serving as the primary point of contact for clients. Manage cross-functional teams, project budgets, and consultant coordination to ensure high-quality design and client satisfaction.

$125,000 - $148,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior UX Product Designer - Stores Experience

🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Lead the design of intuitive digital and physical solutions for the in-store guest and team member experience. Partner with cross-functional teams to translate complex business problems into scalable design artifacts and UX standards.

$98,000 - $176,000Full-timeSenior
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Design Lead, Design Systems - Future Freelance

🇺🇸 United States of America

Lead the creation of scalable, accessible, and expressive design systems to ensure visual consistency across digital products. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate client goals into high-functioning user interfaces and human-device interactions.

Full-timeLead
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Design Manager - Healthcare - Senior

🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America

The Design Manager will lead complex healthcare projects from design through construction administration, acting as the primary liaison between clients and the project team. They are responsible for managing resources, budgets, and financial performance while mentoring staff and developing client engagements.

$140,000 - $170,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior UX Designer - Online Team

🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

The role involves driving product strategy and alignment by combining user research with business goals and leading stakeholder meetings. Additionally, the designer will execute end-to-end UX artifacts, conduct usability testing, and mentor junior team members.

Full-timeSenior
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Design Manager (Water Projects)

🇬🇧 Liverpool, England, United Kingdom

Lead and manage complex design projects within the water sector, overseeing engineering work from concept to completion. Ensure compliance with UK regulations and safety standards while coordinating multi-disciplinary teams and managing client relationships.

Full-timeManager
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Senior Product Designer

🇨🇭 Zurich, Switzerland

Lead the product design function by collaborating with leadership and engineering to create clean user flows for on-chain complexity. Conduct user research and partner with engineering to define problems and design within protocol constraints.

Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer

🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal

Symbiotic is a company that provides infrastructure for collateral markets, enabling new categories of on-chain finance applications. They are looking for a product designer to lead the product design function and collaborate with leadership, engineering, and marketing teams.

Full-timeSenior
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Graphic Designer (English speaker) - Tunis, Hybrid

🇹🇳 Tunis, Tunisia

Partner with customers via video and phone consultations to transform their ideas into impactful visual solutions and custom designs. Lead the creative process by presenting design rationale, gathering real-time feedback, and guiding customers toward the best design decisions.

HybridFull-time
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Senior Product Designer

🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom

Lead the product design function by collaborating with leadership and engineering to create clean user flows for on-chain financial products. Conduct user research and translate findings into concrete feature scopes while managing the full user journey.

Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer

🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Lead the product design function by designing full user journeys and making complex on-chain processes legible. Conduct user research and partner with engineering to define problems and design within protocol constraints.

Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer

🇭🇰 Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering Co. Ltd. (HAECO), South Perimeter Road, New Territories, Hong Kong

Lead the product design function by collaborating with leadership and engineering to create clean user flows for on-chain complexity. Conduct user research and partner with engineering to define problems and design within protocol constraints.

Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer

🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America

Lead the product design function by collaborating with leadership and engineering to create clean user flows for on-chain financial products. Conduct user research and translate findings into concrete feature scopes while managing the full user journey.

Full-timeSenior
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BetterUp is hiring: Principal UX Researcher in Austin

🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America

Define and evolve BetterUp's UX research vision, methodologies, and governance to ensure user insights shape product decisions. Lead strategic research programs and scale research operations while integrating AI-augmented workflows into the research practice.

$136,450 - $231,650Full-timeSenior
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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.