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Senior UI Designer
🇦🇹 Vienna, Austria
Loop® 🇦🇹 Vienna, Austria
Lead the visual design process to create polished, scalable, and user-centered interfaces for web and mobile platforms. Develop and maintain comprehensive design systems and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality digital product delivery.
Senior Visual Designer - Wise Platform
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Wise 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the visual identity of the Wise Platform by creating event experiences and marketing materials across web and digital surfaces. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate brand guidelines into scalable templates and engaging storytelling assets.
Lead UX Researcher
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Cyncly 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Establish and lead the user research practice from the ground up, defining methodologies, tooling, and standards across a global product portfolio. Conduct hands-on research across generative and evaluative methods to influence product strategy and design direction.
CREATIVE GRAPHIC DESIGNER
🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
House Of Première 🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
The Graphic Designer leads the development and execution of visual communication across all brand touchpoints, ensuring high-quality design outputs. Responsibilities include developing visual concepts for marketing campaigns, designing assets for various platforms, and guiding junior designers.
UX Designer
🇩🇪 Germany
Fetchjobs.co 🇩🇪 Germany
You will ensure UX coherence and continuous development within your federation, collaborating closely with the Product Lead and UX colleagues. Additionally, you will lead discovery and research activities to gather user insights and inform design decisions.
Head of Design and Impact
🇮🇳 New Delhi, India
Wwf 🇮🇳 New Delhi, India
Lead the design, measurement, and learning aspects of WWF India's programmes to ensure robust impact and evidence-based outcomes. Collaborate with fundraising teams to develop high-quality proposals for corporates, HNIs, and strategic donors.
UI UX Designer
🇺🇦 Ukraine
Geo Ermes 🇺🇦 Ukraine
The Senior UI/UX Designer will lead the design process from discovery through delivery, advocating for users throughout. Responsibilities include conducting UX research, designing user journeys, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Fieldguide 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design of complex, ambiguous audit workflows and AI-assisted features. Partner with Product and Engineering to shape strategy and maintain a high bar for craft and consistency across the product.
Product Designer
🇫🇷 64420 Hours, France
Self-directed Trader/analyst 🇫🇷 64420 Hours, France
As a Product Designer, you will lead the design process from user research to high-fidelity mockups, focusing on creating intuitive user experiences for financial data. You will collaborate with product and engineering teams to ensure the execution of elegant, data-driven tools.
Lead Product Designer
🇺🇸 Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
Circle 🇺🇸 Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
You will audit existing workflows and unify them into a cohesive platform experience. Additionally, you will design user experiences for roles, permissions, and billing systems.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 Santa Monica, California, United States of America
Favorited 🇺🇸 Santa Monica, California, United States of America
Lead the design of user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity visuals for a gamified live streaming experience. Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and game designers to create intuitive and engaging interfaces.
Lead Product Designer
🇺🇸 Tampa, Florida, United States of America
Circle 🇺🇸 Tampa, Florida, United States of America
The Lead Product Designer will architect the foundational systems for Circle, focusing on user experience for Authentication, Roles & Permissions, and Billing. They will unify fragmented workflows into a cohesive platform experience.
Principal Visual Designer
🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Legalzoom 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Lead the visual direction and execution of high-impact design initiatives across LegalZoom's marketing ecosystem. Partner closely with various teams to translate business goals and customer insights into thoughtful visual solutions.
Principal Visual Designer
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Legalzoom 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Lead the visual direction and execution of high-impact design initiatives across LegalZoom's marketing ecosystem. Partner closely with various teams to translate business strategy into compelling visual experiences that strengthen the brand.
Experiential Graphic Designer - Aviation Market
🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Gresham Smith 🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
The Experiential Graphic Designer will deliver design solutions that are both functional and aesthetically pleasing, providing creative leadership and crafting tailored customer experiences. They will collaborate with various design disciplines to create integrated design elements and ensure the project meets client objectives.
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.