Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior Graphic Designer & Creative Lead
🇬🇧 Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom
Potter Global Technologies 🇬🇧 Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom
The Senior Graphic Designer & Creative Lead will own creative execution across global marketing assets, acting as the primary creative authority to set visual standards and ensure brand consistency for international B2B audiences. This role involves translating complex, technical product content into clear, engaging visuals while partnering with marketing and regional teams on campaigns and launches.
Lead Graphic Designer
🌍 Remote
Bjak 🌍 Remote
Lead the creation of UK-focused visual assets for marketing campaigns and product marketing. Collaborate with various teams to ensure brand consistency and optimize visual performance.
Senior Graphic Designer AMM
🇯🇴 Amman, Amman, Jordan
Chain Reaction 🇯🇴 Amman, Amman, Jordan
The Senior Graphic Designer will lead the visual direction for campaigns and projects from concept through final execution, translating brand strategy into clear visual systems. Key duties include collaborating with the creative team, proposing art directions aligned with business goals, ensuring visual consistency, and reviewing the work of junior designers.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Ellevation 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Lead UX strategy and evolve the design systems for the integrated ELD platform. Collaborate closely with Product and Engineering teams to define strategy and execute improvements.
Staff UX Designer, Workbench
🇺🇸 San Bruno, California, United States
Verily 🇺🇸 San Bruno, California, United States
Take ownership of the user experience for product areas, designing interactions and interfaces while leading a small team of UX designers. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to influence product priorities and iterate on solutions.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Maybern 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
The Staff Product Designer will create design solutions by partnering with Product and Engineering teams to address complex user problems. They will also lead discovery and research to understand user needs and establish design standards.
Product Designer Sr. – Transformación Digital Banca Empresas
🇪🇸 Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
Bbva 🇪🇸 Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
The selected candidate will lead the design of digital experiences for corporate clients, participating in high-impact strategic projects. Responsibilities include designing end-to-end user experiences and collaborating with PMs, POs, and Tech Leads on scalable solutions.
Lead Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Txi 🌍 Remote
As a Lead Product Designer, you will own greenfield projects end to end, setting the design vision and ensuring quality outcomes. You will partner with product and engineering teams to cultivate client relationships and nurture design talent within the organization.
Senior Product Designer - Search
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Ebay 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The role involves leading the design and execution of end-to-end product experiences, from concept to polished UI, focusing on improving the search journey. This includes hands-on design work, prototyping using advanced tools, and partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative and intuitive solutions.
Staff Product Designer - Search
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Ebay 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Staff Product Designer will partner with leaders across eBay to shape the future of the end-to-end search experience, setting a clear vision and strategy across multiple surfaces. Responsibilities include creating world-class, user-centered designs, driving product design for end-to-end projects, and uniting related projects into a cohesive customer experience.
UX Designer III, Verily Me
🇺🇸 San Bruno, California, United States
Verily 🇺🇸 San Bruno, California, United States
The role involves designing and iterating on consumer-oriented features to simplify complex health data, drive behavior change, and encourage engagement. Responsibilities also include translating user research into scalable design frameworks and leading work streams to translate clinical and technical requirements into intuitive interfaces.
Mobile Product Designer
🇺🇸 Dearborn, Michigan, United States
Ford 🇺🇸 Dearborn, Michigan, United States
The candidate will lead the design of mobile app features and improvements, ensuring alignment with business objectives and user needs. They will manage independent design tracks, develop user flows, and apply data-driven insights to inform design decisions.
Lead Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Alt 🌍 Remote
The Lead Product Designer will drive user-centric thinking by applying a high-craft, systems-oriented approach to problem-solving and experimentation, while also championing AI-first design by translating emerging LLM capabilities into intuitive product experiences. They will also collaborate deeply with cross-functional teams and spend approximately 20% of their time evolving and maintaining the Design System.
Staff UI/UX Designer - Essex Management
🌍 Remote
The Emmes Corporation 🌍 Remote
The role involves owning and driving the Human Centered Design capability at Essex, leading the development of design solutions for complex UI/UX problems. It also includes mentoring design team members and contributing to business development activities.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 Redmond, Washington, United States
Microsoft 🇺🇸 Redmond, Washington, United States
You will lead the production of visual designs and improve product UX through interaction models. Additionally, you will guide communication with cross-disciplinary teams and tell compelling product stories to influence stakeholders.
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.