Design Leadership Jobs
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Experienced Product Designer - Design System (m/f/n)
🇸🇰 Bratislava, Bratislava II, Slovakia
Eset 🇸🇰 Bratislava, Bratislava II, Slovakia
As an Experienced Product Designer, you will lead specific areas of the Design System and advocate for best practices across the organization. You will also validate design decisions through usability testing and collaborate with various stakeholders.
Visual Designer Lead
🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Epos 🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
As a Visual Designer Lead, you will manage the creative lifecycle from conceptualization to production, ensuring brand consistency across all outputs. You will design high-impact social media assets and oversee technical production aspects for offline marketing materials.
Senior E-commerce Design Manager
🇬🇧 Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Goliath 🇬🇧 Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Lead the creation of high-quality product imagery and digital assets for e-commerce platforms, ensuring compliance and strong visual presence. Collaborate with various teams to align creative output with brand and sales objectives while managing projects from concept to delivery.
Head of Design
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Capcade 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Establish and lead the design discipline, setting the craft bar and building a design system from the ground up. Own the end-to-end user experience for complex B2B workflows, focusing on AI-powered features and onboarding.
Lead Product Designer, Core
Remote (🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America)
Bubble Remote (🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America)
Serve as the Lead Product Designer for Bubble’s core platform visual editor, shaping the design vision and execution for the foundational capabilities that power the entire builder experience. Drive cross-functional alignment by partnering closely with PMs, engineers, and other designers to integrate new interaction patterns, workflows, and technologies.
Assistant Design Manager
🇰🇼 Kuwait City, Qibla, Kuwait
United Real Estate Company (urc) 🇰🇼 Kuwait City, Qibla, Kuwait
The Assistant Design Manager assists the Design Manager in coordinating various design disciplines and managing technical coordination with consultants. They lead design meetings, track milestones, and ensure compliance and quality in design submissions.
Senior E-commerce Design Manager
🇬🇧 Guildford, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Goliath 🇬🇧 Guildford, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Lead the creation of high-quality product imagery, pack shots, and Amazon A+ content to enhance digital shelf presence and conversion. Manage the end-to-end creative process from concept and art direction to final QA and asset delivery across global markets.
Junior Mechanical Product Designer
🇹🇼 Taipei, Taiwan
Ubiquiti 🇹🇼 Taipei, Taiwan
Collaborate with Industrial Design to translate concepts into manufacturable mechanical designs using 3D CAD and 2D drawings. Lead the product development lifecycle from prototyping and validation through to mass production and tooling.
Mechanical Engineer, Data Center Design Engineering
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Meta 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead and assist in the design of new data center products, focusing on mechanical systems strategies from concept through construction. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure designs are optimized for cost, efficiency, and sustainability.
Staff Product Designer
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Airwallex 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
The Staff Product Designer will partner with cross-functional teams to define problems, map user flows, and launch new products. They will also lead the work of designers and product managers, ensuring consistency with the brand and product architecture.
Senior Design Manager
🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Besix Watpac 🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
The Senior Design Manager will provide design leadership to the project team and ensure that all project, commercial, and time targets are met regarding design and documentation outputs. This includes collaborating with stakeholders, managing consultants, and overseeing compliance and documentation submissions.
Product Designer mid senior
🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain
Zapiens Design 🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain
Lead the end-to-end product design process, including research, information architecture, flows, wireframes, visual design, and handoff. Collaborate closely with the design team and other disciplines to generate value at every stage of the process.
CMF Design Manager (m/f/d)
🇩🇪 65428 Rüsselsheim am Main, Germany
Opel 🇩🇪 65428 Rüsselsheim am Main, Germany
Define Opel’s Color, Material, and Finish (CMF) vision and strategy, ensuring coherence across all vehicle lines. Lead and mentor the CMF team while building partnerships with other design and engineering teams.
Product Designer - Agent+
🇦🇷 Argentina
Tempo (yc S23) 🇦🇷 Argentina
As a Product Designer, you will lead the design of user interfaces and experiences for an AI-powered visual IDE. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to transform ideas into elegant design solutions.
Senior Product Designer
🇵🇱 Poland
Bolt 🇵🇱 Poland
Lead design efforts for the SuperApp/Checkout product, creating user-centered experiences. Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to define the vision and improve the product.
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.