Design Leadership Jobs
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Principal Product Designer - Design Systems
🇳🇿 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Halter 🇳🇿 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Lead the design and evolution of design foundations across mobile and web platforms to ensure high craft and consistency. Collaborate with engineers to shape technical architecture and treat the design system as a product for internal users.
Senior Product Designer
🇳🇿 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Halter 🇳🇿 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Lead the design vision and strategy for farmer-facing product experiences, owning the process from discovery to launch. Partner with Product and Engineering teams to translate complex agricultural problems into intuitive, high-quality digital interfaces.
Senior Product Designer - Design Systems
🇳🇿 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Halter 🇳🇿 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Lead the design and evolution of design foundations across mobile and web platforms to ensure high craft and consistency. Collaborate with engineers to shape technical architecture and treat the design system as a product for internal users.
Senior Product Designer (Haircare)
🇨🇳 Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China
Philips 🇨🇳 Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China
Lead the end-to-end industrial and product design process for handheld consumer electronics, from initial concept to mass production. Conduct user research and usability testing to ensure design solutions are user-centered, consistent, and aligned with brand standards.
Graphic Designer
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
Agilegrid Solutions 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
Lead and coordinate engineering projects from initiation to completion while ensuring adherence to timelines, budgets, and quality standards. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders to define project scope and implement corrective actions for risks.
Senior Product Designer
🇳🇿 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Halter 🇳🇿 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Lead the design vision and strategy for a significant area of the farmer-facing product experience. Partner with product and engineering teams to define, prototype, and launch intuitive solutions for complex agricultural challenges.
Principal Product Designer
🇳🇿 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Halter 🇳🇿 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Lead the design vision and strategy for a significant area of the farmer-facing product experience. Partner with product and engineering teams to define, prototype, and launch intuitive solutions for complex agricultural challenges.
Principal Product Designer - Design Systems
🇳🇿 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Halter 🇳🇿 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
You will lead the design of a significant product area by setting and advancing design foundations across mobile and web platforms. Additionally, you will collaborate with engineers to shape technical architecture and mentor designers to raise the overall quality of the product experience.
Senior Product Designer - Design Systems
🇳🇿 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Halter 🇳🇿 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
You will own and advance design foundations across mobile and web while shaping the technical architecture and system structure. You will also mentor other designers and champion the design system across product, engineering, and design leadership.
Principal Product Designer, Core
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Betterup 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Architect the design vision for core product experiences and drive high standards of design quality across the organization. Partner with executive leadership to shape the company's AI strategy and lead complex design challenges from concept to execution.
Director, Design Systems
🇺🇸 Portland, Oregon, United States
Ebay 🇺🇸 Portland, Oregon, United States
Lead the team responsible for building and evolving eBay's design system while focusing on talent development and team growth. Partner with the Principal of Design Systems to translate strategic vision into clear priorities, ownership, and high-quality execution.
Senior Product Designer, Ads Platform
🇺🇸 Los Gatos, California, United States
Netflix 🇺🇸 Los Gatos, California, United States
The Senior Product Designer will lead the design and execution of critical advertising platform features and functionality for global brands and internal teams. They will partner with cross-functional teams to develop design systems and influence ads business strategy through specialized domain expertise.
Datacenter Infrastructure Design Manager
🇺🇸 Redmond, Washington, United States
Microsoft 🇺🇸 Redmond, Washington, United States
The Datacenter Infrastructure Design Manager facilitates the delivery and expansion of networking and telecommunication designs for Microsoft datacenters. This role provides technical leadership and manages the full project lifecycle from feasibility studies through construction and turnover to operations.
Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Franklin, Tennessee, United States
Rolling Hills Community Church 🇺🇸 Franklin, Tennessee, United States
The Graphic Designer will create high-quality digital and print assets to support various church ministries and marketing strategies. They will also collaborate with the Lead Graphic Designer to maintain brand consistency and manage project deliverables using project management software.
Design Manager
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Keka Hr 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
The Design Manager leads the Product Design team and oversees the development and execution of design projects. They ensure all designs align with company standards and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions.
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.