Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior UI/UX Designer
🇱🇧 Basta Tahta, Beirut Governorate, Lebanon
Vml 🇱🇧 Basta Tahta, Beirut Governorate, Lebanon
Lead the UI design process from concept to implementation, ensuring visual excellence and strategic alignment for diverse client projects. Collaborate with CX strategists and developers to translate business objectives into intuitive, user-centric digital interfaces.
UI Designer
🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain
Vml 🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain
Create distinctive visual languages and translate brand strategies into differentiated digital experiences across multiple channels. Lead art direction for various projects and mentor junior to mid-level designers to guide their professional growth.
Web Designer & UX Sr.
🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico
Vml 🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico
Lead end-to-end UX/UI design for complex web projects, including brand sites and high-impact landing pages. Create and maintain design systems while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver cohesive digital solutions.
Senior UX/UI (Product) Designer
🇵🇱 Poznan, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland
Vml 🇵🇱 Poznan, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland
Lead the end-to-end design of digital products and services, from early discovery and experience definition to high-fidelity UI execution. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to solve complex problems and create impactful, user-centric digital experiences.
Senior Graphic Designer
🌍 Remote
Brnd Wgn 🌍 Remote
Lead the design and development of brand and campaign assets across digital, social, and traditional platforms. Translate strategic direction into scalable visual systems and guide the overall creative standard of the team.
Principal Product Designer, Vrbo
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Expedia 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design of Vrbo traveler experiences, focusing on shopping, discovery, and booking journeys. Translate brand strategy into high-quality product experiences while integrating AI-enabled workflows and maintaining scalable design systems.
Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America)
Marble Technology Inc. Remote (🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America)
Lead the branding and end-to-end UX design for an AI-powered tax platform, defining the company's design system and language. Collaborate with founders and engineering to translate complex accounting workflows into intuitive product experiences.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Noon 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead the design of core AI-native product experiences, including prototyping workflows and shared workspaces. Partner with founders and engineering to turn complex systems into intuitive interaction models.
Staff Product Designer
🇳🇱 Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
Zeno 🇳🇱 Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
Lead the design of a complex AI-native legal platform, focusing on creating a coherent intelligence layer and system-level experience. Partner with engineering and leadership to define interaction models and establish high quality standards for the product.
Product Designer, Marketplace
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Thumbtack 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Product Designer will create customer-centric experiences for the Marketplace team, turning complex problems into intuitive user interfaces. They will lead product visions and collaborate with cross-functional partners to shape the product roadmap and measure success through data.
Senior Product Designer
Lead the end-to-end design process for core AI products, from initial concept and user research to high-fidelity execution. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create scalable user interfaces and maintain consistent design systems.
Principal UX Researcher
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Good Maven 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the quantitative research strategy and execution to measure and predict user behavior at scale across core product surfaces. Establish methodological standards, build UX measurement frameworks, and integrate AI/ML techniques into the research pipeline.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Check Technologies Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Own the end-to-end design of major product enhancements for the Check Console, translating complex payroll systems into intuitive user experiences. Collaborate with engineering and product leadership to conduct user research and establish core product patterns.
Sr. Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Cloaked 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design of mobile and web user experiences from research and strategy to polished UI delivery. Build and maintain a scalable cross-platform design system while collaborating with Product and Engineering teams to align user needs with business goals.
UX Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Pressw 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead the end-to-end user experience redesign of a healthcare scheduling platform, including extensive user research and auditing of existing workflows. Develop a comprehensive design system and high-fidelity prototypes for both worker-facing and admin-facing interfaces.
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.