Design Leadership Jobs

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UX/UI / Product Designer – Produits IA (H/F)

🇫🇷 Paris, France

The UX/UI Product Designer will lead end-to-end design processes for AI-integrated products, conducting user research and mapping complex workflows. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams including developers and data scientists to create intuitive interfaces and ensure successful implementation.

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Senior Product Designer, Growth & Promotions

🇺🇸 United States of America

You will lead the end-to-end design of growth and promotion experiences, transforming complex mechanics into intuitive, engaging products. You will collaborate closely with product, engineering, and marketing teams to drive user engagement and maintain brand consistency.

$150,000 - $190,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior Graphic Designer

🇪🇬 Alexandria, Egypt

Lead visual design projects to support the brand and real estate portfolio, creating marketing collateral and digital assets. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate project concepts into compelling visual narratives across various channels.

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Senior Product Designer – XR, Spatial UX

🇵🇱 Poland

Lead the end-to-end design of immersive XR products, focusing on spatial interactions, user flows, and premium visual interfaces. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to translate complex business requirements into intuitive VR, AR, and MR experiences.

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Product Designer (AI Prototyping) - 202609

🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America

The role involves translating feature decisions into interactive, AI-powered prototypes and UX flows to validate ideas before engineering. You will simplify complex security workflows and collaborate closely with the Platform Pod Lead and engineers to ship intuitive browser-native experiences.

Onsite$78,000 - $93,000Full-timeMid-level
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Lead Product Designer (Commerce)

🇺🇸 United States of America

Lead design strategy and execution for defined product pillars while partnering with product and engineering leaders to shape vision. Drive quality standards, mentor designers, and influence leadership decisions through data-informed design and customer empathy.

$152,000 - $191,000Full-timeSenior
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European Senior Product Designer (Mobile & Digital Experience)

🇷🇴 Bucharest, Romania

Lead end-to-end product design for native mobile and responsive web experiences across European markets. Collaborate with product, engineering, and business teams to deliver accessible, data-informed, and scalable digital solutions.

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Lead Product Designer (UX/UI)

🇳🇴 Oslo, Norway

Lead the end-to-end design process for Ground Control Station capabilities, from initial concept to implementation and field deployment. Build and mentor a growing design team while ensuring high-quality, intuitive interfaces for autonomous system operators.

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Head of Design

🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America

You will lead the global design team to shape the Dataiku brand identity across all marketing, product, and event touchpoints. This involves balancing strategic brand leadership with hands-on creative direction while fostering a high-performing, collaborative team environment.

$168,000 - $220,000Full-timeDirector
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Founding Product Designer

Remote (🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)

Lead the end-to-end design of a new product from zero to one, transforming ambiguous problems into elegant solutions. Collaborate with Product Managers and Engineers to define roadmaps, conduct user research, and establish the foundations of the design practice.

Remote$45,000 - $82,000Full-timeSenior
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Design Manager / Design Director / Head of Design

🇧🇭 Bahrain

Lead the organization's design strategy and creative direction to ensure visual and product experiences align with business objectives. Manage design teams, establish quality standards, and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver consistent brand assets and user experiences.

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Graphic Designer

🇮🇳 Mumbai, Mumbai Suburban District, India

The Senior Graphic Designer will lead the design team and develop creative concepts for various projects. They are responsible for producing high-quality visual materials while staying updated on design and AI technology trends.

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Senior Product Designer

🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany

You will independently lead design efforts for a cross-functional team, translating complex technical problems into clean, scalable user experiences. You will act as the voice of user experience and design standards while collaborating closely with engineers, marketing, and sales.

Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer

🇫🇷 Paris, France

You will lead end-to-end product design projects, creating high-fidelity visuals and prototypes while collaborating with cross-functional teams. Additionally, you will own the design system, conduct user research, and contribute to the overall product strategy.

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Founding UX Designer

🇬🇧 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom

You will lead the end-to-end design of the product, establishing the design system and visual direction while ensuring complex emissions data is actionable. Additionally, you will build structures for continuous customer engagement and collaborate closely with engineering and product teams.

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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.