Design Leadership Jobs
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Design Manager
🇦🇪 Ras Al-Khaimah, United Arab Emirates
Sphere Recruitment 🇦🇪 Ras Al-Khaimah, United Arab Emirates
Lead the group-wide design framework and oversee the delivery of a flagship AED 3bn luxury development in Abu Dhabi. Coordinate multi-disciplinary teams and external consultants to ensure design excellence, compliance, and commercial alignment.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇱🇺 Luxembourg, Canton Luxembourg
Vml 🇱🇺 Luxembourg, Canton Luxembourg
The Creative Lead/Senior Graphic Designer will drive the visual vision and creative direction for e-commerce projects while managing hands-on design execution. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams and clients to translate brand strategies into compelling visual experiences across various platforms.
Senior Product Designer
🇸🇬 Singapore
Codex Solutions 🇸🇬 Singapore
Lead end-to-end design for complex digital products, translating business goals and user insights into scalable, intuitive interfaces. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive design quality and mentor junior designers on UX practices.
Senior Graphic Designer (fashion) K/M
Remote (🇵🇱 Osielsko, Bydgoszcz County, Poland)
Volcano_brand Remote (🇵🇱 Osielsko, Bydgoszcz County, Poland)
The role involves creating the visual direction and storytelling for fashion collections, including prints and brand identity elements. It also requires leading and mentoring a team of designers while ensuring the highest quality of final production files.
Silicon Photonics Design Manager
🇨🇳 Shanghai, China
Kuntuo, An Iqvia Company 🇨🇳 Shanghai, China
Lead a design team in developing innovative silicon photonic circuits for communications and sensing applications like LIDAR and co-packaged optics. Coordinate with cross-functional teams and foundries to manage the full lifecycle from architecture and simulation to tapeout and characterization.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇮🇱 Israel
Alios 🇮🇱 Israel
The role involves creating strong brand identities and campaigns for leading clients in Israel. The designer will be responsible for conceptual thinking and execution of visual systems.
Graphic Designer
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Kogan.com 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
You will be responsible for designing marketing and campaign assets across digital, print, and social media platforms while leading creative ideation. Additionally, you will create and edit product imagery, produce animated assets, and collaborate with stakeholders to ensure brand alignment.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Baseten 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead end-to-end product design from research and prototyping to final implementation for a technical AI platform. Collaborate with engineering and customers to evolve the design system and improve complex technical workflows.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Baseten 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead end-to-end product design from research and prototyping to final implementation for a technical AI platform. Collaborate with engineers and customers to evolve the design system and improve complex technical workflows.
Staff Product Designer, Growth
🇩🇰 1357 København K, Denmark
Miro 🇩🇰 1357 København K, Denmark
Lead the design evolution of growth, activation, and onboarding experiences while leveraging generative AI to improve user engagement. Partner with product and engineering teams to build lean experiments and define the future of the product's user journey.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Built Australia 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
The Senior Design Manager will lead design coordination across consultants and stakeholders to ensure project milestones align with construction and procurement needs. They are responsible for reviewing documentation for quality, compliance, and buildability while translating client requirements into actionable design pathways.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Fieldguide Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Lead the end-to-end design of complex audit workflows and partner with Product and Engineering to shape strategy and roadmaps. Own significant product areas to translate customer needs into polished UI and scalable implementations.
UX Designer III
Remote (🇺🇸 Bentonville, Arkansas, United States of America)
Walmart Remote (🇺🇸 Bentonville, Arkansas, United States of America)
Leads cross-functional user experience projects by coordinating design, architecture, and research activities to deliver effective product solutions. Manages project deliverables, advocates for the customer, and translates research insights into actionable design and business strategies.
Senior UX Designer, National Arts Council
🇸🇬 Singapore
Govtech Singapore 🇸🇬 Singapore
Lead the design of the National Arts Council's centralized data platform, creating dashboards and analytical interfaces to make complex datasets actionable. Establish design practices within the NAC IT Division and manage the full design lifecycle from concept to production.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 Pleasanton, California, United States of America
Vagaro 🇺🇸 Pleasanton, California, United States of America
Own the full product lifecycle of features from problem framing and requirements to design and delivery. Partner closely with engineering to build and rigorously validate outcomes as the product lead and designer.
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.