Design Leadership Jobs

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Senior Graphic Designer (must have FMCG/Food packaging exp) - Remote

Remote (🇵🇭 Manila, Capital District, Philippines)

The Senior Graphic Designer will create packaging, marketing materials, and digital assets for global retail products. They will manage the full design lifecycle from concept through to production, ensuring quality and consistency across international markets.

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Senior Graphic Designer

🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Design and produce creative assets across digital, retail, and marketing channels to maintain a consistent brand identity. Partner with cross-functional teams to execute seasonal campaigns, product launches, and brand initiatives.

$76,000 - $120,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer, Redesign

🇺🇸 Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States of America

You will execute high-craft visual updates and rapid experimentation across core mobile product surfaces. You will also partner with product managers and engineering teams to deliver user experiences while defending design decisions to executive leadership.

$129,000 - $195,000Full-timeSenior
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Sr. Product Designer - HER

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

The Senior Product Designer will own end-to-end product experiences for iOS and Android apps, focusing on sapphic-first differentiation and revenue growth. They will collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Data teams to shape roadmaps, conduct user testing, and iterate on designs based on performance metrics.

$160,000 - $180,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer - International Wealth and Premier Banking

🇺🇸 Sparta, Illinois, United States of America

Influence the vision, strategy, and roadmap for customer experience design while ensuring high standards of craft across UX, UI, and content. Translate complex financial and regulatory requirements into intuitive, engaging, and trustworthy digital experiences.

Full-timeSenior
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Senior UI/UX Designer

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

You will lead large-scale digital innovation projects by connecting design, business, and technology for global clients. Responsibilities include conducting design research, creating interfaces across platforms, and collaborating with teams to deliver high-quality digital experiences.

Hybrid$100,000 - $125,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer

Remote (🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)

The Senior Product Designer will lead end-to-end design processes from discovery to delivery while acting as the primary design voice for their Squad. They will partner with clients and internal teams to build intuitive product experiences, maintain design systems, and ensure high-fidelity execution.

Remote$110,000 - $170,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior Graphic Designer

🇺🇸 Long Beach, California, United States of America

The Senior Graphic Designer translates brand and campaign strategies into polished design systems and assets across digital, social, and print channels. They own the Figma design systems and maintain brand guidelines to ensure consistency across all creative output.

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Senior Graphic Designer

🇺🇸 Long Beach, California, United States of America

The Senior Graphic Designer will translate brand and campaign strategies into polished design systems across digital, social, print, and site platforms. They will also maintain brand guidelines and provide creative guidance to the team to ensure consistency and high-quality output.

Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer

🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brazil

Lead the end-to-end discovery and design process, including conducting user research and synthesizing findings into actionable product improvements. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build accessible, aesthetically consistent interfaces that align with user workflows and business goals.

$60,000 - $84,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer

🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

You will own the design of complex, expert-facing workflows for an AI-native security and compliance platform. This includes maintaining high design-to-build fidelity, managing the design system, and mentoring junior team members.

$100,000 - $140,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior UI/UX Designer

🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America

The designer will create wireframes, interactive prototypes, and high-quality UI assets for a new mobile narrative game. They will collaborate with Game Design, Art, and Engineering teams to ensure a cohesive and scalable user experience across various devices.

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Sr. UX Researcher, AFT - Experience Design

🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America

The Senior UX Researcher will lead research programs to improve fulfillment center operations by partnering with product, design, and engineering teams. They will build repeatable research infrastructure and mentor team members to drive actionable insights across the global fulfillment network.

Onsite$152,200 - $205,900Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer

🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Own a problem area end-to-end across connected surfaces, from initial research and definition to delivery and measurement. Drive commercial outcomes such as activation and retention while ensuring designs meet regulatory standards in the healthcare market.

Full-timeSenior
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Sr. UI/UX Designer (m/f/d)

🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany

The Senior UI/UX Designer will own the design quality and customer journey for the HOLY Shop, building and governing the design system while collaborating with cross-functional teams. They are responsible for translating brand narrative into high-converting experiences and ensuring technical accuracy through design handoffs and QA.

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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.