Design Leadership Jobs
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Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 Wyoming County, New York, United States of America)
South Geeks Remote (🇺🇸 Wyoming County, New York, United States of America)
Design and manage a government tech platform across the full product cycle, from customer research to shipping final specs. Collaborate with engineers and product leaders to iterate on workflows using AI-native development tools.
Senior Product Designer | Finster.ai
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Hirehire 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the end-to-end UX design for an AI-powered financial research platform, creating intuitive interfaces for complex, data-heavy workflows. Collaborate with product owners and engineers to maintain the design system and translate requirements into high-fidelity designs.
Lead Web Designer
Remote (🇲🇹 Malta)
Growth Leads Remote (🇲🇹 Malta)
Lead the end-to-end web design process from concept to delivery, creating user-friendly digital experiences across various brands. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to establish design standards, maintain style guides, and mentor junior designers.
Electronics Product Design Engineering - Senior Professional
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Schneider Electric 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Lead the definition, decomposition, and validation of hardware requirements while ensuring bi-directional traceability throughout the V-model. Translate these requirements into architectural choices for PCBs and guide teams through design analysis, validation, and regulatory compliance.
Copy of Lead Product Designer - Remote
Remote (🇦🇱 Tirana, Tirana County, Albania)
Replika Remote (🇦🇱 Tirana, Tirana County, Albania)
The Lead Product Designer will create high-quality user journeys and interactive interfaces across mobile and web platforms. They will own the design process from ideation to final delivery, collaborating with product managers and engineers to evolve the design system.
MTS Analog I/O Design Engineering
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Globalfoundries 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Lead the end-to-end development and delivery of IO IPs such as GPIO, LVDS, and MIPI across multiple technology nodes. Collaborate on architecture design, simulation verification, and post-silicon testing while supervising layout engineers.
Senior Product Designer
🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Spendesk 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Lead end-to-end design for AI-powered and automation-driven financial workflows within a cross-functional squad. Conduct independent user research and collaborate with product managers and engineers to simplify complex operational tasks.
Graphic Designer II
🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Fanatics 🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Lead the creative development of original apparel graphics by translating market trends and consumer insights into production-ready designs. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure brand consistency and technical accuracy across various sports-licensed product lines.
Senior UX Designer (m/w/d)
🇩🇪 Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Germany
Hellmann Worldwide Logistics 🇩🇪 Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Germany
The role involves leading the experience design for the HeRo Transport Management System, from initial user research to operational support. You will act as a facilitator to help cross-functional teams understand user needs and develop holistic UX concepts.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇸🇬 Singapore
Fuku 🇸🇬 Singapore
Pioneer new interaction models for human-robot communication across mobile, web, and physical interfaces. Lead the end-to-end design lifecycle and build scalable design systems for a Physical AI platform.
Senior Industrial Design Engineer, World Wide Engineering & Innovation Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
Lead strategic design initiatives for global sortation and transportation networks, focusing on automated material handling and robotics. Oversee large-scale engineering projects from conception to completion while presenting business cases to senior executives.
Front End Developer and Graphic Designer
🇵🇭 Quezon City, Eastern Manila District, Philippines
Excis Compliance Ltd 🇵🇭 Quezon City, Eastern Manila District, Philippines
Lead the frontend redesign of approximately 18 applications to modernize UI/UX and ensure a cohesive design language. Integrate AI tools into development and design workflows to accelerate production and enhance digital experiences.
Senior Staff Product Designer (Core UX)
South Korea, Seoul
Coupang South Korea, Seoul
Lead high-priority corporate projects to build world-class customer experiences for core e-commerce services and vertical shopping categories. Collaborate with cross-functional leaders to define release strategies and optimize the design lifecycle using data-driven insights.
EverWell - Lead Product Designer (Remote, New Zealand)
🇳🇿 New Zealand
Evercommerce 🇳🇿 New Zealand
Lead UX outcomes for Timely across desktop and mobile, delivering end-to-end product design from discovery to optimization. Collaborate cross-functionally to drive innovative, user-focused experiences and mentor fellow designers to improve team capability.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
T-mobile 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design lifecycle for enterprise software in the digital out-of-home advertising marketplace. Collaborate with product and engineering teams to translate user needs into intuitive product experiences and maintain the 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.