Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior Product Designer, VGo Carrier Technology
🇱🇹 Kaunas, Kaunas County, Lithuania
Vinted 🇱🇹 Kaunas, Kaunas County, Lithuania
The Senior Product Designer will create intuitive and accessible design solutions for businesses and consumers across various channels for Vinted Go. Responsibilities include mapping flows, prototyping interactions, and conducting usability tests to validate design ideas.
Senior Product Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Aidash, Inc. 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
You will define the standard for AI-augmented design practice by integrating AI tools into research, prototyping, and production workflows. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver design solutions while mentoring the team on AI adoption and best practices.
Senior UI Designer – Stockholm
🇸🇪 Stockholm, Sweden
Sway Sourcing 🇸🇪 Stockholm, Sweden
The role involves designing scalable UI solutions and managing a robust design system to ensure consistency across platforms. You will collaborate closely with developers to implement design concepts and integrate accessibility standards throughout the development process.
Senior Product Designer — AI Startup
🇬🇷 Athens, Attica, Greece
-workethix 🇬🇷 Athens, Attica, Greece
Take end-to-end ownership of product design across a portfolio of AI products, from problem definition to shipping polished experiences. Collaborate with engineering and leadership to turn ambiguous ideas into intuitive products and evolve design systems.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States
Community Phone 🇺🇸 United States
Lead the end-to-end design strategy across physical unboxing, mobile apps, web dashboards, and AI voice interfaces. Drive adoption metrics and build the foundational design language and research habits for a growing organization.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇨🇳 China
奇华顿 🇨🇳 China
The Senior Graphic Designer creates visual assets including print materials, videos, and presentation templates to bring fragrance concepts to life. They are also responsible for sourcing props and maintaining design equipment and libraries for client presentations.
Senior Product Designer
🇳🇱 Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
Housinganywhere 🇳🇱 Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
The Senior Product Designer will own the Listing & Finding experience, shaping the long-term vision for search and discovery. They will lead projects from discovery to launch, collaborating with Product, Engineering, and Data teams to improve the rental journey.
Senior Product Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Servicetitan 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
You will own a product area end-to-end, from framing problems with your product triad to shipping and iterating on solutions. You will also partner closely with product managers and engineers to shape priorities and influence the roadmap while mentoring teammates.
Senior Product Designer
🇦🇺 Richmond, Victoria, Australia
Kolmeo 🇦🇺 Richmond, Victoria, Australia
The Senior Product Designer will define and own customer experience outcomes for the core Property Manager platform while mentoring team members. They will collaborate across product, technology, and customer teams to drive the experience roadmap and translate insights into actionable release plans.
Senior UI/UX Designer — Casablanca
🇲🇦 Casablanca-Settat, Morocco
Globres 🇲🇦 Casablanca-Settat, Morocco
The Senior UI/UX Designer is responsible for creating intuitive user experiences by analyzing user needs and developing wireframes, mockups, and prototypes. They collaborate with product, development, and marketing teams to optimize user journeys and define UI/UX guidelines.
Senior Product Designer, Transit Operations
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Via 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Lead the design of the Transit Operations platform, focusing on booking and dispatching modules for public sector transit agencies. The role involves creating intuitive user journeys for special needs populations and contributing to the company's scalable design system.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Paraform 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Partner with product managers and engineers to design intuitive products from discovery through shipping. Build and maintain a design system while collaborating with founders to iterate rapidly on marketplace features.
Senior UI/UX Designer (all genders)
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Quantum Stack Jobs 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Responsible for the end-to-end design process of complex professional applications, from strategic vision and design language to final UI. This includes managing design systems, advising clients on digital product development, and leading small UX/UI teams.
Senior Product Designer- Manage and Own / Home Buying
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Commonwealth Bank 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Lead end-to-end design for mission-critical initiatives while partnering with product and engineering teams to deliver measurable outcomes. Facilitate user research, design intuitive workflows, and evolve design systems to ensure scalable and accessible digital experiences.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States
Community Phone Company 🇺🇸 United States
Set the end-to-end design strategy across physical unboxing, mobile apps, web dashboards, and AI voice interfaces. Drive adoption metrics and build the foundational design language and research habits for a growing organization.
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.