Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior/Staff Growth Product Designer
🇩🇰 1357 København K, Denmark
Pleo 🇩🇰 1357 København K, Denmark
The Senior/Staff Product Designer will own the end-to-end design for key Product-Led Growth (PLG) surfaces, including signup flows, onboarding, activation, and conversion experiences. This involves working in a cross-functional pod to move fast, make evidence-based decisions, and design experiments that directly impact key business metrics.
Senior UX Researcher I
🇩🇰 9000 Aalborg, Denmark
Elsevier 🇩🇰 9000 Aalborg, Denmark
The role focuses on understanding user needs, integrating UX feedback, aligning teams, and sharing insights to guide strategy and design decisions across a business or product line. Responsibilities include leading user-centered design through diverse UX research techniques and mentoring junior team members.
Senior UX Researcher I
🇩🇰 9000 Aalborg, Denmark
Remitly 🇩🇰 9000 Aalborg, Denmark
This role involves leading the understanding of user behaviors, needs, and motivations to set the direction for UX Research across a business or product line, while also supporting the team through mentoring fellow researchers. Responsibilities include focusing on customer needs, applying creative problem solving, leading user-centered design through diverse research techniques, and using data-driven analysis to inform strategy.
Product Designer (Mid-Level)
🇧🇬 Bulgaria
Acronis 🇧🇬 Bulgaria
The Product Designer will contribute to designing product features from concept to delivery, working closely with senior designers, and will be responsible for creating user flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity designs for platform improvements. They will also produce prototypes, collaborate with product managers and engineers, support usability testing, and prepare design specifications.
Graphic Designer (fixed-term)
🇸🇪 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Voi Technology 🇸🇪 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
The designer will support the Senior Designer and Commercial team by creating clear, engaging visual communication across print and digital, focusing on tenders, presentations, marketing assets, and social media content. Key tasks include owning the design and layout of tender documents, refining Google Slides presentations, and developing visual assets for marketing campaigns.
Senior UI/UX Designer (AI Tools)
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Netapp, Inc. 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
This role involves supporting the work of hundreds of engineers across several products within an AI-forward UX organization, expecting team members to leverage responsible AI to drive measurable outcomes. The designer will be an individual contributor leading teams with complex across-feature/theme interaction and influencing day-to-day design and research work spanning multiple themes.
Senior Product Designer - 12 Month Fixed Term Role
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Bankwest 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
The role involves leading end-to-end product design from discovery through delivery, focusing on shaping clear problem definitions and iterating towards validated outcomes within the Customer Trust and Security Crew. Responsibilities include designing key trust and security experiences like authentication, fraud protection, and account recovery, balancing customer experience with security needs.
Senior Product Designer
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Commonwealth Bank 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Lead discovery work to uncover customer problems and translate insights into concepts and prototypes, while creating engaging wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity UX/UI designs consistent with the design system. Collaborate closely with stakeholders throughout the agile lifecycle to champion customer-centricity and contribute to product strategy and roadmap discussions.
AP - Senior Graphic Designer (Remote)
Remote (🇿🇦 Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa)
D2b Remote (🇿🇦 Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa)
The Senior Graphic Designer will be responsible for creating and adapting visually compelling graphics and assets across POS, print, digital, and social platforms to promote the brand and support marketing campaigns. Key duties include producing high-quality finished art, performing advanced retouching, developing distinctive brand assets, and suggesting process improvements using automation and AI tools.
Graphic Designer, Senior
🇺🇸 Tampa, Florida, United States of America
Booz Allen Hamilton 🇺🇸 Tampa, Florida, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer will create a wide range of impactful visual materials, including FINTEL, logos, publications, and presentations, ensuring compliance with Section 508 accessibility standards. This role requires leveraging design principles to maintain brand consistency while managing multiple assignments in a fast-paced environment.
Graphic Designer, Senior
🇺🇸 Tampa, Florida, United States of America
Booz Allen Hamilton 🇺🇸 Tampa, Florida, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer will create a wide range of impactful visual materials, including FINTEL, logos, publications, and presentations, ensuring compliance with Section 508 accessibility standards. This role requires leveraging design principles to maintain brand consistency while managing multiple assignments in a deadline-driven environment.
Staff UX Researcher
Remote (🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America)
Newfire Global Partners Remote (🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America)
The Staff UX Researcher will be the most senior research voice, responsible for shaping the research agenda, designing programs that translate user insight into product and business direction, and building scalable research frameworks across clients. Responsibilities include leading multi-phase research programs, synthesizing findings across studies, and serving as the primary user advocate in product planning and design critiques.
Senior UX Designer
Remote (🇭🇷 City of Zagreb, Croatia)
Newfire Global Partners Remote (🇭🇷 City of Zagreb, Croatia)
The Senior UX Designer will lead design for complex enterprise healthcare applications, partnering with the UX Research team to conduct studies and translate findings into design direction. Responsibilities also include prototyping, contributing to design systems, navigating healthcare compliance, and building strong relationships with product, engineering, and client stakeholders.
Senior UI-UX-Designer (f/m/x)
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Bonial International Gmbh 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
The Senior UI/UX Designer will lead end-to-end design projects for the kaufDA app, driving product discovery and translating insights into high-quality, scalable design solutions. This role involves actively contributing to the design system and advocating for design excellence across all touchpoints.
Senior Product Designer
🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal
Santander 🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal
The Senior Product Designer will lead the design of digital experiences for banking products across web, mobile, and new channels, ensuring alignment with strategic business goals. This involves transforming customer insights and data into high-quality flows, wireframes, and prototypes while collaborating closely with product, technology, and business teams.
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.