Design Leadership Jobs
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Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Fanduel 🇬🇧 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
The designer will explore and shape ideas based on user and business needs, leading small to medium-sized projects with growing independence while delivering high-quality UX and UI design across user journeys. They must use prototyping and testing to validate solutions, implement AI in the design lifecycle, and contribute to the design system.
Senior Technical Product Designer
🇺🇸 Houston, Texas, United States of America
Ipt Global 🇺🇸 Houston, Texas, United States of America
The Senior Technical Product Designer will own the end-to-end design of the B2B SaaS engineering platform, focusing on translating complex engineering workflows and operational data into intuitive, scalable user experiences across dashboards, reporting, and analytics interfaces. This role also involves defining product design standards, leading UX strategy, and providing secondary design support for high-value marketing initiatives.
Senior UI/UX Designer - Evinova
🇺🇸 Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America
Astrazeneca 🇺🇸 Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America
The role involves leading cross-functional alignment to define shared standards and evolving Figma libraries to reflect a code-first component architecture, ensuring scalability and alignment with the implemented system. Key duties include enabling AI-assisted workflows, embedding accessibility standards, creating documentation, and driving continuous improvement of the design system roadmap.
Senior Product Designer (all genders)
🇫🇷 Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
Shiftmove 🇫🇷 Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
The Senior Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design process, partnering with Product and Engineering to deliver scalable solutions aligned with user and business goals. This role also involves conducting user research, introducing best design practices, and driving a transition toward product-led thinking within the French Geo product teams.
Senior Product Designer (all genders)
🇫🇷 Paris, France
Shiftmove 🇫🇷 Paris, France
The Senior Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design process, partnering with Product and Engineering to deliver scalable solutions aligned with user and business goals. This role involves conducting user research, introducing best design practices, and driving a transition toward product-led thinking within the French Geo products teams.
Product Designer
🇳🇴 Oslo, Norway
Ardoq 🇳🇴 Oslo, Norway
The Product Designer will act as the user's voice within a cross-functional team, translating deep research insights into intuitive, end-to-end product experiences for complex digital landscapes. Responsibilities include bridging design and engineering using Figma tools, leading design hypotheses for complex modules, and grounding decisions in user research insights.
Product Designer
🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Connecteam 🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv District, Israel
The Product Designer will be responsible for designing end-to-end solutions for complex features across mobile and web platforms, collaborating closely with Product Managers and Developers. This role involves leading the entire design process, from research and prototyping through visual design and testing, while maintaining and evolving the design system.
Principal Product Designer (m/f/d)
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Autoscout24 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
The Principal Product Designer will lead and oversee the user experience of a product from conception to launch in partnership with cross-functional teams, taking end-to-end responsibility for a specific product design experience. This role also involves contributing to strategic decisions, translating research insights into concepts, and representing design in various forums.
Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Fresha 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The Product Designer will partner with product managers, engineering, and leadership to design and ship features across the entire product, while articulating design vision to key stakeholders. They will also build product knowledge through research and data monitoring to inform use cases and improvements.
SENIOR GRAPHIC DESIGNER
🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Gisou 🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
The Senior Graphic Designer will define and execute the company's visual identity across digital and physical channels, leading visual development for global campaigns from concept to execution. Key duties include creating digital assets for e-commerce and social media, contributing to packaging design, and providing art direction and mentorship to junior designers.
UX Designer, VP
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Rbs 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
The UX Designer will lead, invent, and design compelling and seamless customer experiences for websites and software applications across desktop and mobile platforms. This involves developing high-level storyboards, wireframes, and prototypes to communicate design ideas and driving consistent, efficient, and enjoyable UX designs.
Manager Silicon Design Engineering
🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc 🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
The role involves leading a high-performance Silicon Engineering group, nurturing team talent, and meeting schedule commitments while supporting various customers. This includes collaborating with multi-functional leaders to drive the success of AMD's next generation of computing technologies.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 Bellevue, Washington, United States of America
Walmart 🇺🇸 Bellevue, Washington, United States of America
This role involves leading the creation and continuous improvement of user experience tools, documentation, and processes by defining solution frameworks and contributing to site standards based on research and industry standards. The designer will manage the entire user experience design lifecycle, from research and prototyping to specification writing, ensuring designs advance business, marketing, and branding objectives.
Sr. Manager Silicon Design Engineering
🇲🇾 George Town, Penang, Malaysia
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc 🇲🇾 George Town, Penang, Malaysia
The role involves leading a high-performance Silicon Engineering group, forming and nurturing talent within the team, and meeting schedule commitments while providing strong support to customers. This leader will also collaborate with multi-functional leaders across the organization to drive AMD's overall success.
Web Designer
Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
Paddle Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
The Web Designer will lead the design, implementation, and optimization of the brand across marketing sites, resource hubs, and campaign microsites, focusing on turning curiosity into qualified pipeline. Key duties include driving the conversion experience on the marketing website and owning/scaling the web-based design system.
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.