Design Leadership Jobs
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UI UX Designer - MCCMS - Rochester
🇺🇸 Rochester, Minnesota, United States
Mayo Clinic 🇺🇸 Rochester, Minnesota, United States
The UI/UX Designer will lead the design process for digital environments by creating wireframes, mockups, and UI documentation while collaborating with researchers and developers. They are responsible for ensuring accessibility, incorporating brand identity, and iterating on design patterns to improve user experience.
UI/UX Designer - AI Products (Remote)
🌍 Remote
Hire Feed 🌍 Remote
The role involves designing intuitive user interfaces for web and mobile applications to improve usability and accessibility. The designer will collaborate with cross-functional teams to create wireframes and prototypes based on user research and data.
Lead UX Designer
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States
Texas Capital 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States
The Lead UX Designer will establish design standards and lead the creation of intuitive, user-centered digital experiences across various platforms. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into elegant design solutions while advocating for accessibility and usability.
Lead UX Designer
🇺🇸 Tampa, Florida, United States
Citi 🇺🇸 Tampa, Florida, United States
The Lead UX Designer will lead the design of digital products by collaborating with product, engineering, and research teams throughout the entire UX lifecycle. Responsibilities include creating high-fidelity designs, ensuring accessibility compliance, and mentoring junior team members.
UX Designer
🇮🇳 Karnataka, India
Vmc Soft Technologies, Inc 🇮🇳 Karnataka, India
The role involves building production-quality web experiences with a focus on design craft, performance, and accessibility. The designer will own the front-end implementation layer to create fluid and inclusive interfaces across various devices and browsers.
RQ00637 - UX Designer - Intermediate
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Maarut 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The UX Designer will design intuitive, user-centered interfaces and translate them into functional front-end code using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. They will also collaborate with cross-functional teams to maintain web applications and ensure adherence to accessibility and usability standards.
Product Designer
🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Therapieland 🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
You will own the end-to-end design process, from understanding user and clinical needs to prototyping and validating solutions with real data. You will orchestrate AI tools to generate interfaces while ensuring consistency, accessibility, and clinical safety.
UI/UX Designer - AI Products (Remote)
🌍 Remote
Hire Feed 🌍 Remote
Design and refine intuitive user interfaces for web and mobile applications to improve usability and accessibility. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create wireframes and prototypes based on user research and data.
Principal Product Designer, Design Systems
🇺🇸 United States
Pluralsight 🇺🇸 United States
Define and maintain the architectural direction of the Pando design system to ensure consistency and scalability across the organization. Partner with engineering to build tooling, governance, and accessibility standards while articulating a data-backed roadmap for the system.
Lead Product Designer
🇮🇳 India
Highlevel 🇮🇳 India
Lead design strategy and execution for product pillars while partnering with engineering and product leaders to define vision and roadmaps. Drive design quality, set standards for usability and accessibility, and mentor other designers to elevate the overall craft of the team.
Digital Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Overland Park, Kansas, United States of America
Capitol Federal® Savings Bank 🇺🇸 Overland Park, Kansas, United States of America
The Digital Graphic Designer develops and executes customer-focused digital creative assets across various channels to support marketing and brand objectives. They collaborate with stakeholders to ensure designs align with brand standards while optimizing assets for performance and accessibility.
UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 Chantilly, VA 20153, United States of America
Dcca 🇺🇸 Chantilly, VA 20153, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design process using Human-Centered Design principles to create wireframes, prototypes, and design systems. Collaborate with developers to ensure technical feasibility and strict adherence to federal accessibility standards.
Senior Product Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Hevo Data 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
You will own the end-to-end UX for complex, high-stakes workflows and lead the design process from research to high-fidelity mockups. Additionally, you will maintain and extend the design system while pushing the team to uphold high standards for accessibility and edge cases.
Mid Product Designer | Manila
🇵🇭 Makati, Southern Manila District, Philippines
Lawadvisor Ventures Ltd. 🇵🇭 Makati, Southern Manila District, Philippines
You will lead end-to-end product design initiatives, tackling complex challenges within the legal tech domain while collaborating cross-functionally to align on product vision. Your role involves creating high-fidelity mockups, maintaining accessibility standards, and driving design strategy to improve user outcomes.
Principal Product Designer
🇬🇧 Staines-upon-Thames, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Ifs 🇬🇧 Staines-upon-Thames, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
You will own the end-to-end product design for specific feature areas, working within a cross-functional squad to solve complex problems for maintenance and field service industries. This includes conducting user research, creating production-ready designs, and integrating AI-driven features while maintaining high accessibility standards.
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.