Design Leadership Jobs
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UX Researcher , UX Reseacher, Amazon Customer Service
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Uxr Hunt 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Lead user research for the Self-Service and Automation space, focusing on next-generation customer service experiences like voice and chat bots. Partner with design and product teams to build research roadmaps and translate complex technical problems into intuitive user interactions.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Symbiotic 🇺🇸 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 to optimize the user journey.
Senior Product Design Manager & Collection Lead (H/F)
🇫🇷 Nice, Maritime Alps, France
French Tex By Uit 🇫🇷 Nice, Maritime Alps, France
Lead the artistic direction of seasonal collections for Road, Gravel, and Lifestyle ranges while ensuring brand consistency. Manage and mentor a junior designer and oversee the creative production of all clothing and accessories.
Graphic Designer + Video Editor for a Co-working Brand
🇮🇳 India
Weekday Ai (yc W21) 🇮🇳 India
Create high-quality static and video content for social media to strengthen brand presence for a B2B audience. Collaborate with marketing and leadership teams to maintain a consistent visual identity and deliver impactful creative assets.
VDC Electrical Design Manager
🇺🇸 Gibsonton, FL 33534, United States of America
Power Design, Inc. 🇺🇸 Gibsonton, FL 33534, United States of America
Lead the virtual design and coordination process for electrical construction projects from preconstruction through completion. Manage BIM deliverables, clash detection, and constructability reviews to ensure code-compliant and cost-effective installations.
VDC Electrical Design Manager
🇺🇸 Gibsonton, FL 33534, United States of America
Power Design, Inc. 🇺🇸 Gibsonton, FL 33534, United States of America
Lead the virtual design and coordination process for electrical construction projects from preconstruction through completion. Manage BIM deliverables, clash detection, and constructability reviews to ensure code-compliant and cost-effective installations.
Product Designer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Creative Niche 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead interaction design strategy by creating wireframes, prototypes, and design artifacts to improve user experiences. Facilitate usability testing and research to inform product decisions and present solutions to stakeholders.
Graphic Designer + Video Editor for a Co-working Brand
🇮🇳 India
Weekday Ai 🇮🇳 India
Create high-quality static and video content for social media to strengthen brand presence and B2B engagement. Collaborate with leadership to maintain a consistent visual identity and produce thought leadership assets.
Principal Product Designer
🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Bitpanda La 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Lead the long-term vision and strategy for Bitpanda's Design System and shared product design language. Partner with senior leadership to ensure high-quality, accessible, and consistent user experiences across all platforms.
Junior UI/UX & Visual Designer
🇺🇸 Reston, Virginia, United States of America
Inadev 🇺🇸 Reston, Virginia, United States of America
The designer will lead the visual identity and UI/UX strategy for federal and commercial accounts, focusing on emerging technologies like AI/ML and augmented reality. Responsibilities include creating wireframes, prototypes, and responsive designs while collaborating within an Agile cross-functional team.
Senior Product Designer B2C (m/w/d)
🇩🇪 Hamburg, Germany
Rabot Energy 🇩🇪 Hamburg, Germany
Responsible for the end-to-end B2C product design of the conversion and winback funnels to drive customer acquisition and retention. This includes leading the discovery process, implementing an AI-first design workflow, and iterating directly within the codebase.
Founding Product Designer
🇺🇸 Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States of America
Fit:match.ai 🇺🇸 Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end product design for a new clinical platform and establish the company's first design system and visual identity. Collaborate with engineering and clinicians to create high-stakes user experiences for Body AI technology across healthcare, sports, and retail.
Design Manager, Hosiery
🇺🇸 Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Implus 🇺🇸 Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Lead the design and development of active and lifestyle sock categories, including accessories and private label programs for mass-market retailers. Manage and mentor a team of designers while driving the seasonal process from concept to commercialization.
Product Designer L1 (Consumer Facing / Marketing) (Bangkok - Based)
🇺🇦 Kyiv, Ukraine
Agoda 🇺🇦 Kyiv, Ukraine
The role involves leading discovery phases, testing prototypes with users, and designing intuitive, scalable customer journeys for consumer-facing products. The designer will collaborate with product managers and engineers to ensure a cohesive and customer-centric user experience across the platform.
Senior Product Designer
🇪🇸 Spain
Rover.com 🇪🇸 Spain
The Senior Product Designer will lead the creation of intuitive user experiences across web, iOS, and Android platforms by collaborating with product managers and engineers. They will own the design process from concept to delivery, utilizing user research and data to refine features and maintain the company's 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.