Design Leadership Jobs
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Ux Ui Designer
🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Tropicfeel 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
The Ux Ui Designer will lead the design strategy and optimization of web touchpoints, ensuring a seamless and conversion-optimized experience. Responsibilities include driving experimentation strategies and managing web content for optimal performance.
Lead Product Designer (YouTrack)
🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain
Jetbrains 🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain
You will lead a small design team and shape the future of project management in an AI-native world. This includes designing user interactions with AI capabilities and ensuring a cohesive user experience across the product.
Lead Product Designer
🇧🇬 Sofiya, Bulgaria
Opentag 🇧🇬 Sofiya, Bulgaria
Lead the product design strategy and execution across web, mobile, and internal tools for B2B and B2C gaming platforms. Own the evolution of the design system and drive user research to translate complex requirements into scalable product experiences.
Design Manager - Infrastructure
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Mace 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Manage and coordinate multi-disciplinary design activities across project stages to ensure compliance with briefs, budgets, and schedules. Lead the resolution of technical queries, design clashes, and interface issues while maintaining design management systems.
Lead Product Designer (YouTrack)
🇦🇲 Yerevan, Armenia
Jetbrains 🇦🇲 Yerevan, Armenia
Lead a small design team to evolve project management and issue tracking tools within an AI-native framework. Balance high-level design quality and systemic coherence across a complex product while acting as an individual contributor on difficult problems.
UX Researcher (Senior/Staff-level)
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Synthesia 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead end-to-end strategic and tactical qualitative research to shape the transition from a single product to a multi-product AI platform. Establish research operations, build participant panels, and partner with product and data teams to influence executive-level decisions.
Senior Learning Design Manager (AI-Enabled)
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Vectra 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Lead the global learning organization's execution and serve as the onsite lead for the Bangalore team. Translate business goals into AI-enabled learning architectures, curricula, and production-ready content.
Digital Design Manager
🇪🇬 Cairo, Egypt
Silvaco 🇪🇬 Cairo, Egypt
Lead the micro-architecture specification and RTL design of digital controllers through the full project lifecycle. Manage development and verification teams while overseeing delivery schedules, resource planning, and customer engagement.
Senior Design Manager - Infrastructure
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Mace 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Lead and develop a multi-disciplinary design team to deliver major mixed-use and infrastructure projects in Saudi Arabia. Oversee the entire design process from concept to construction, ensuring compliance with technical standards, budgets, and safety requirements.
UX&UI Designer
🇵🇱 Poland
Time4it 🇵🇱 Poland
The UX/UI Designer will lead UX workshops with clients and create UX mockups and UI designs for e-commerce stores and mobile applications. They will collaborate closely with the development team and project managers.
Senior Graphic Designer (all genders) - Lounge by Zalando
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Zalando 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Lead end-to-end creative projects and manage robust design systems to ensure brand consistency across all digital touchpoints. Conceptualize and execute high-impact static and motion assets for social media and marketing channels to elevate the brand's visual storytelling.
Geotechnical Senior Design Manager
🇮🇳 Reserve Bank of India, Shahid Bhagat Singh Marg, Fort, - 400038, Maharashtra, India
Atkinsréalis 🇮🇳 Reserve Bank of India, Shahid Bhagat Singh Marg, Fort, - 400038, Maharashtra, India
Lead project teams in providing comprehensive geotechnical design services for international transportation and infrastructure projects. Manage the technical delivery and commercial success of jobs while ensuring innovation and sustainability in solutions.
UX Designer
🇩🇪 Germany
Fetchjobs.co 🇩🇪 Germany
You will be responsible for transforming complex financial transactions into intuitive user experiences and ensuring UX consistency across all touchpoints. Additionally, you will lead discovery and research activities and support the evolution of design systems.
Design Manager/Group Engineer/ Senior Group Engineer/ Senior Design Manager
🇮🇳 Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Atkinsréalis 🇮🇳 Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Lead civil engineering teams in developing solutions from concept through construction for wastewater projects. Provide technical sign-off, assurance, and guidance during the delivery and handover of assets while ensuring regulatory compliance.
Senior Product Designer | Data & AI
🇺🇸 Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, United States of America
Epicor 🇺🇸 Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, United States of America
Lead end-to-end design for major features and product initiatives, ensuring design outcomes reflect real user needs. Collaborate closely with Product Management and Engineering while mentoring other designers and advancing design craft.
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.