Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior Graphic Designer (Branding Focus)
🇵🇭 Philippines
Outsourcing Advantage 🇵🇭 Philippines
Lead end-to-end branding and graphic design projects to shape the visual identity of diverse clients. Create marketing collateral and collaborate directly with clients to present creative solutions.
Senior Graphic Designer (Branding Focus)
🇿🇦 South Africa
Outsourcing Advantage 🇿🇦 South Africa
Lead end-to-end branding and graphic design projects to shape the visual identity of diverse clients. Create marketing collateral and collaborate directly with clients to present and implement creative solutions.
Senior Graphic Designer (Branding Focus)
🇺🇦 Ukraine
Outsourcing Advantage 🇺🇦 Ukraine
Lead end-to-end branding and graphic design projects to shape the visual identity of diverse clients. Create marketing collateral and collaborate directly with clients to present professional design solutions.
Senior Graphic Designer (Branding Focus)
Remote (🇺🇸 Lebanon, Pennsylvania, United States of America)
Outsourcing Advantage Remote (🇺🇸 Lebanon, Pennsylvania, United States of America)
Lead end-to-end branding and graphic design projects to shape the visual identity of diverse clients. Create marketing collateral and collaborate directly with clients to present professional design solutions.
Senior Graphic Designer, MoMA Retail
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Museum Of Modern Art 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Develop high-level creative concepts and visual systems for MoMA Retail's omnichannel marketing campaigns and branded materials. Lead design projects from concept to final production across digital, print, packaging, and experiential formats.
Principal Product Designer, Retail
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lightspeed Commerce, Inc. 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead the design of agentic AI experiences for retail merchants, defining new interaction patterns and trust frameworks. Raise the overall craft bar of the design organization through hands-on contribution and influence across multiple product areas.
Designer Graphique Senior (Marketing) Contrat Temporaire - Senior Graphic Designer (Marketing) – Temporary Contract
🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Gameloft 🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Create engaging 2D marketing content and game-specific assets for performance channels like Facebook and Instagram. Produce high-quality ad creatives, logos, and brand guidelines while collaborating with the Creative Agency Lead.
Sr Visual / UI Designer (All Genders)
🇩🇪 Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Zooplus Se 🇩🇪 Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Lead the improvement of customer experience by developing scalable design systems and high-quality UI/visual components across web and app platforms. Collaborate with stakeholders and data teams to translate research into engaging, branded, and accessible digital experiences.
Lead Product Designer
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Circle 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
The Lead Product Designer will architect the foundational systems for Circle, focusing on areas like Authentication, Roles & Permissions, and Billing. They will unify fragmented workflows into a cohesive platform experience.
Product Design Manager - Experience Design Team
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Capital One 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
As a Product Designer, you will lead design projects and co-create innovative solutions to complex problems while influencing product strategy. You will also mentor junior team members and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders.
Product Design Manager - Experience Design Team
🇺🇸 Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
Capital One 🇺🇸 Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
As a Product Designer, you will lead design projects and co-create innovative solutions to complex problems while influencing product strategy. You will also mentor junior team members and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders.
Product Design Manager - Experience Design Team
🇺🇸 McLean, VA 22101, United States of America
Capital One 🇺🇸 McLean, VA 22101, United States of America
As a Product Designer, you will lead design projects and co-create innovative solutions to complex problems while influencing product strategy. You will mentor junior team members and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to enhance the overall product design practice.
Graphic Designer
🇲🇹 Malta
Arrise 🇲🇹 Malta
Lead the creation of premium visual designs and branding assets for Live Casino games and digital products. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business objectives into engaging, high-quality player experiences.
Senior UX Designer (all genders)
🇩🇪 Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Starface Gmbh 🇩🇪 Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Lead the UX vision for the STARFACE Group across all digital platforms and provide technical guidance to the UX/UI team. Responsible for creating wireframes, prototypes, and maintaining a cross-product design system for PBX systems and mobile/desktop apps.
Web Designer
🇿🇦 Sandton, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa
Kerridge Commercial Systems Corp 🇿🇦 Sandton, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa
The Digital Web Designer will lead the migration of global websites onto a single platform and create visual assets across digital and print channels. This includes developing landing pages, mock-ups, and marketing materials while adhering to global brand 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.