Design Leadership Jobs
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UX Designer
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Codemettle 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
The UX Designer will be responsible for planning and conducting user research, creating design artifacts like wireframes and prototypes, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive design decisions forward. Key duties also involve leading alignment sessions, contributing to the design system, and thoughtfully leveraging AI tools in the design process.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 Hoboken, NJ 07030, United States of America
Walmart 🇺🇸 Hoboken, NJ 07030, United States of America
This role involves leading the creation and continuous improvement of user experience tools, documentation, and processes by maintaining a holistic viewpoint and defining scalable solution frameworks. The designer will manage UX design, prototyping, and specification writing projects, translating research insights into actionable recommendations for design and business strategies.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Pano Ai 🇺🇸 United States of America
The role involves partnering with the Director of Product to define the user experience vision and design strategy for a new product, leading customer discovery through research and synthesis of insights. The designer will translate complex operational needs into intuitive, life-critical product experiences using various design artifacts.
Senior UX Designer - 12 Months Contract
🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Global Relay 🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
The Senior UX Designer will lead the end-to-end user experience design for a key product area within the information archiving platform, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams in an agile environment. Responsibilities include advocating for customers, partnering with stakeholders, applying research techniques, and creating design artifacts from concept through delivery.
Lead UX Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Couchbase, Inc. 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
The Lead Product Designer will lead the design of end-to-end product experiences for Couchbase's Capella platform, transforming complex requirements into user-centered designs from concept through execution. This includes owning design quality, developing prototypes, maintaining the design system, and mentoring junior designers.
Senior/Lead Product Designer - Design System
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Monday.com 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The role involves co-owning the design system by building and governing foundations, styles, components, and documentation, while also evolving internal workflows and tools for product builders. A key focus is rethinking the design system to support the next generation of AI-powered products and interaction models.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Pawtucket, Rhode Island, United States of America
Collette Travel Service Inc 🇺🇸 Pawtucket, Rhode Island, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer will lead the creation of compelling visual content supporting business goals, balancing hands-on design work with mentorship and leadership duties. This involves leading design projects from concept to completion across print and digital platforms while ensuring brand consistency.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Roo 🇺🇸 United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will drive product growth by designing and delivering new features across the website, responsive web app, and mobile app, acting as a strategic design lead within a squad. Responsibilities also include creating and governing design systems, defining design challenges, measuring impact through data, and coaching junior designers.
Senior Principal - Design Engineering Services
Remote (🇺🇸 Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America)
Geosyntec Consultants, Inc. Remote (🇺🇸 Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America)
This role involves defining the capital projects engineering service line strategy, owning growth targets, and building/scaling teams through development and recruiting. Key duties include securing energy transition projects, leading projects within scope/budget/schedule, and developing business opportunities with clients.
Co-op - Product Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Tustin, California, United States of America
Vesync 🇺🇸 Tustin, California, United States of America
The Co-op will contribute to building proof-of-concept rigs using 3D printed or CNC parts and custom micro-controller boards to gain early cross-functional buy-in for product roadmaps. They will also communicate complex engineering findings clearly to leadership and support consumer needs research to guide design solutions.
Product Designer (UAEN)
🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Black Pearl Consult 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
The Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design process for core digital products, creating artifacts like wireframes and high-fidelity prototypes to ensure intuitive user experiences. They will collaborate closely with Product and Engineering teams to influence strategy, gather user insights, and ensure high-quality design implementation.
Lead Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇦 Ukraine)
Obrio Remote (🇺🇦 Ukraine)
The Lead Product Designer will be responsible for building a strong design culture, scaling expertise, and establishing shared standards within the team. Key operational duties include managing the design team, optimizing design processes, and actively participating in forming the product's design strategy.
Senior Product Designer – My Account (Self-Serve & Transactional Experience)
🇵🇱 Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
Danaher Corporation 🇵🇱 Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
The Senior Product Designer will own and lead the end-to-end product design for the My Account experience, spanning discovery through continuous optimization of self-service and transactional journeys. This role involves shaping flows like orders and documentation to increase adoption and reduce customer support dependency.
Senior UX Researcher, Google Pay
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Google 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
The researcher will own and drive research roadmaps with multi-phase projects, designing and conducting foundational, generative, and evaluative research to define new opportunities and influence product strategy across the entire cycle. They will lead research activities using mixed methods to inspire cross-functional teams, co-define product direction, and navigate the ambiguity of early-stage product development (0-1).
Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Planning Center Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The Product Designer will collaborate across multiple disciplines to craft simple and intuitive user experiences for the Church Center product, taking ownership from problem framing through to shipping. A key responsibility involves taking a leading role in evolving Doxy, the design system for Church Center.
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.