Design Leadership Jobs

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Graphic Designer (Onsite)

🇨🇴 Bogota, Colombia

Oversee the end-to-end design process to create impactful digital marketing collateral and ensure consistent branding across platforms. Collaborate with cross-functional teams and clients to develop creative strategies and provide leadership to the design team.

Full-timeSenior
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Sr. Electrical Design Engineer, APAC Data Center Design Engineering

🇮🇳 Mumbai, Mumbai Suburban District, India

Lead the electrical design of data centers across the APAC region, coordinating construction documents and managing critical power infrastructure. Collaborate with utilities, vendors, and commissioning teams to ensure high reliability and compliance with regional codes.

Onsite$120,000 - $160,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer

🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Lead the end-to-end design process from discovery to delivery for diverse client projects, including AI tools and data dashboards. Collaborate with developers and stakeholders to translate user insights into high-fidelity interactive prototypes and design solutions.

HybridFull-timeSenior
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Staff Product Designer (PST)

Remote (🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America)

Lead the end-to-end design of high-stakes AI surfaces, including developer workflows and agent interfaces, while evolving the company's design system to be AI-native. Partner with product leadership to shape strategy and establish research practices that drive measurable business outcomes.

RemoteFull-timeSenior
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UX Designer — Self-Service

🇸🇪 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Lead the end-to-end design of the self-service onboarding experience for clinic owners to enable product-led growth. This includes conducting user research, creating prototypes, and building a self-service component library.

Onsite$80,000 - $110,000Full-timeMid-level
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Sr. Graphic Designer

🇺🇸 Easton, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Lead the design and execution of high-impact creative assets across digital, print, and brand initiatives. Manage creative workflows and collaborate with external partners to scale output while maintaining brand standards.

OnsiteFull-timeSenior
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Graphic Designer - Chinese Speaker

🇲🇾 Malaysia

Lead the design and execution of creative assets for the Asia market across digital, print, and motion platforms. Translate complex financial concepts into brand-consistent visuals while ensuring alignment with global standards and regional compliance.

Onsite$80,000 - $120,000Full-timeSenior
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Lead Product Designer

Remote (🇨🇿 Prague, Hlavní město Praha, Czech Republic)

The Lead Product Designer will steward the MUI-based design system and mentor other designers while solving complex design challenges. They will also incorporate AI into design practices and maintain direct communication with customers to understand user needs.

RemoteFull-timeSenior
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Connectivity Engineer - Data Center Design, Engineering, & Construction

🇺🇸 New Albany, Plain Township, OH 43054, United States of America

Manage the full project life-cycle of data center connectivity projects, ensuring they are executed on schedule, within budget, and meet quality standards. Act as the technical field lead for installation methods and coordinate between design teams and on-site contractors.

Onsite$123,000 - $176,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior UX Researcher

Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)

Lead research strategy and execution across multiple product teams using mixed-method studies to solve complex problem spaces. Act as a strategic partner to Product and Design stakeholders to translate findings into prioritized product requirements and roadmaps.

Remote$90,000 - $120,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer - Manage

🌍 Remote

Lead end-to-end design for the Manage product area, focusing on financial data visualization and complex multi-stakeholder workflows. Drive the definition of greenfield spaces and integrate AI-powered features to improve grant compliance and efficiency.

Remote$160,000 - $205,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior UX Researcher, Applied AI Solution

🇺🇸 Sunnyvale, California, United States of America

Lead end-to-end research programs to shape AI-native business applications and reduce product ambiguity. Partner with cross-functional teams to translate customer evidence into actionable recommendations for product roadmaps.

Onsite$152,200 - $226,500Full-timeSenior
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Sr. UX Designer, Alexa Enterprise and Emerging Design

🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America

Lead the end-to-end design process for complex Alexa features, blending visual and voice interfaces to create intuitive personal experiences. Collaborate with engineers, product owners, and business development to develop concepts and maintain design systems in Figma.

Onsite$137,800 - $211,600Full-timeSenior
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Lead/Senior Product Designer

Remote (🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada)

The role involves owning and evolving Pebl's design system, transitioning it toward an AI-led toolkit while ensuring scalability and consistency. The designer will also contribute to end-to-end product design work to solve complex user problems.

RemoteFull-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer

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

As a Senior Product Designer, you will shape the experience of Bikky's product by defining, designing, and shipping features that help restaurant operators make better decisions with their data. You will lead design work for major initiatives across the analytics platform and collaborate closely with product and engineering teams.

Hybrid$150,000 - $200,000Full-timeSenior
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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.