Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior Graphic Designer
🇵🇰 Karachi Division, Sindh, Pakistan
Adsharx 🇵🇰 Karachi Division, Sindh, Pakistan
Lead the visual design of marketing campaigns, branding materials, and digital assets across multiple platforms. Collaborate with strategists and content creators while mentoring junior designers to maintain high creative standards.
Staff Product Designer, Growth
Remote (🇩🇪 Germany)
Jobgether Remote (🇩🇪 Germany)
Lead the end-to-end design strategy for growth, focusing on activation, onboarding, and engagement for a global B2B SaaS product. Drive business outcomes through iterative experimentation and the integration of generative AI to enhance user value.
Staff Product Designer, Growth
Remote (🇪🇸 Spain)
Jobgether Remote (🇪🇸 Spain)
Lead the end-to-end design strategy for growth, focusing on activation, onboarding, and engagement for a global B2B SaaS product. Drive business outcomes through iterative experimentation and the integration of generative AI to enhance user value.
Manager, Mechanical Design Engineering 2
🇹🇭 Chao Phraya Surasak City Municipality, Si Racha District, Thailand
Celestica 🇹🇭 Chao Phraya Surasak City Municipality, Si Racha District, Thailand
Lead and manage engineers in developing new mechanical systems and maintaining existing designs using 3D modeling and simulation. Coordinate cross-functional teams and manage project financials, schedules, and customer requirements to ensure high-quality product development.
Senior Product Designer
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Commonwealth Bank 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Lead end-to-end product design from discovery through to delivery within a cross-functional squad. Partner with product managers and engineers to define outcomes, conduct user research, and iterate on intuitive digital experiences.
ASIC and Logic Design Engineering Manager (Compute Test, North Reading)
🇺🇸 North Reading, MA 01864, United States of America
Teradyne 🇺🇸 North Reading, MA 01864, United States of America
Lead a team of 4-6 engineers in designing and verifying FPGAs for next-generation compute test products. Manage project schedules, budgets, and staffing while collaborating across engineering disciplines to ensure product requirements are met.
Senior Product Designer
🇦🇺 River Of Life City Church, Slacks Creek, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Sime Darby 🇦🇺 River Of Life City Church, Slacks Creek, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Lead the end-to-end design process from discovery and research to prototyping and delivery for digital products. Collaborate with stakeholders and cross-functional teams to create intuitive UX/UI experiences and maintain design systems.
Design Manager (Transportation P3 / Alternative Delivery)
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Jacobs 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Lead technical reviews and multidisciplinary design integration for large-scale transportation projects to ensure high-quality, constructible solutions. Coordinate across engineering disciplines to identify technical risks and manage subconsultants to ensure efficient project delivery.
Regional Design Manager
🇳🇱 Amstelveen, North Holland, Netherlands
Sisk Group 🇳🇱 Amstelveen, North Holland, Netherlands
Lead and manage the regional design function for data center projects, ensuring solutions meet client expectations and statutory requirements. Oversee technical governance, resource planning, and the integration of sustainability and digital standards across the business unit.
Mechanical Design Manager
🇬🇷 Paiania Municipal Unit, East Attica, Greece
Metlen 🇬🇷 Paiania Municipal Unit, East Attica, Greece
Manage and coordinate the Process and New Energy Technology Group's design tasks and risk analysis studies. Lead the team in reviewing technical deliverables, conducting factory acceptance tests, and providing troubleshooting support during project execution.
Sr. UX Designer
🇺🇸 Draper, Utah, United States of America
Canopy 🇺🇸 Draper, Utah, United States of America
The role involves embedding with product and engineering teams to design AI-powered user flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity visuals. The designer will lead customer research and collaborate with stakeholders to ensure a cohesive, user-centric product experience.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 Somerville, Massachusetts, United States of America
Babel Street 🇺🇸 Somerville, Massachusetts, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design of complex product experiences from discovery through delivery and optimization. Partner with cross-functional teams to drive UX strategy and influence the product roadmap using customer insights and design thinking.
Process Design Manager (Operations)
🇨🇦 Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Goeasy Ltd. 🇨🇦 Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
The role focuses on redesigning customer journeys and operational processes to reduce friction and improve efficiency. This includes mapping future-state workflows, leading improvement initiatives, and partnering with cross-functional teams to implement scalable automation and digitization.
Brand & Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Tavus 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead the market-facing visual identity and high-fidelity web experiences while ensuring a cohesive transition into the product. You will evolve the brand across social and sales collateral and contribute to the product design system for high-visibility moments.
Product Design Manager
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Patreon 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead a team of product designers to drive the consumer experience across Patreon's core surfaces. Partner with product and engineering leadership to shape design strategy and maintain high craft 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.