Design Leadership Jobs
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Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Greenville, South Carolina, United States
Carolinas Center For Oral & Facial Surgery 🇺🇸 Greenville, South Carolina, United States
The Graphic Designer will act as a primary creative partner, leading collaboration and ideation to translate strategic direction into high-quality visual solutions across various media. Responsibilities include creating layouts, illustrations, and animations for marketing materials while maintaining and updating content management systems.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Stream Realty 🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States
The Senior Graphic Designer will lead the creative execution of complex marketing projects and design high-impact marketing materials. They will also mentor junior designers and serve as a trusted creative advisor for brokers and market leaders.
Senior Web Designer
🌍 Remote
Jane 🌍 Remote
The Senior Web Designer will lead the design execution behind Jane’s web experience, collaborating with engineering and marketing to build a modern web platform. This role involves setting design patterns and standards that influence how work is done across the company.
Product Designer Ssr & Sr
🇦🇷 Cordoba, Córdoba Province, Argentina
Naranja X 🇦🇷 Cordoba, Córdoba Province, Argentina
The Product Designer will lead and actively contribute to the design of exceptional experiences and innovative solutions that impact the quality and success of products. Responsibilities include guiding the design process from user research to final product delivery and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Senior Product Designer – Digital Health & AI Experiences
🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States
Guardant Health 🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States
Lead the end-to-end design strategy for Guardant’s digital experiences, focusing on AI-powered clinical and patient tools, and define the design vision across AI-driven platforms to present complex data insights with clarity and humanity. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop high-fidelity prototypes, conduct usability tests, and ensure visualizations meet clinical accuracy, accessibility, and comprehension expectations.
Lead Product Designer - Remote
🌍 Remote
Cycloid 🌍 Remote
The Lead Product Designer will own and drive the product design vision for Cycloid, focusing on complex workflows and platform UX. They will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to design new product features and ensure design consistency and quality.
AI UX Designer
🇵🇭 Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines
Lrn Corporation 🇵🇭 Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines
The Senior UX Designer will work closely with cross-functional teams to translate business objectives into effective design solutions. They will lead end-to-end UX design for product features, applying Human-Centered Design and Design Thinking practices.
Lead UX Designer
🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Cd Projekt Red 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
The Lead UX Designer will define the overall user experience for Project Sirius, focusing on creating an inclusive and immersive experience. This includes collaborating with various teams, leading UX design efforts, and refining user experiences based on feedback.
Lead UX Designer
🇵🇱 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Cd Projekt Red 🇵🇱 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
The Lead UX Designer will define the overall user experience for Project Sirius, focusing on creating an inclusive and immersive experience. This includes collaborating with various departments, leading a team of UX designers, and refining the user experience based on player feedback.
Lead UX Designer
🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Cd Projekt Red 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
The Lead UX Designer will define the overall user experience for Project Sirius, focusing on inclusivity, intuition, immersion, and reward across UI navigation, game flow, and moment-to-moment interaction. This involves leading the UX design of layouts, guiding a team of UX designers, defining playtest goals, and collaborating cross-departmentally to translate research into player-centered design.
Product Designer (POS)
🇩🇰 Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
Nexi Group 🇩🇰 Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
Design end-to-end experiences for POS software and payment products, focusing on merchant journey design and product direction. Collaborate with a Lead Designer to create scalable patterns that work across devices and markets.
UI/UX Designer - B2B experience
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States
Syncreon Consulting 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States
The User Experience and Design Team is responsible for software design across mobile, web, and desktop platforms. The team leads design reviews, creates design solutions, and maintains high standards while collaborating with partners.
Bilingual Lead Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Producepay 🌍 Remote
Lead the end-to-end design process, focusing on user research, UX/UI design, and implementation. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to iterate on designs based on user testing and data-driven feedback.
Bilingual Lead Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Producepay 🌍 Remote
Lead the end-to-end design process, focusing on user research, UX/UI design, and implementation. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to iterate on designs based on user testing and data-driven feedback.
Bilingual Lead Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Producepay 🌍 Remote
Lead the end-to-end design process, focusing on user research, UX/UI design, and implementation. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to iterate on designs based on user testing and data-driven feedback.
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.