Design Leadership Jobs
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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.
Staff / Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States
Ethos Life 🇺🇸 United States
Lead design strategy across multiple business units and help set the vision for the overall user experience. Build new products and iterate on existing ones while managing executive stakeholders across various departments.
Staff Product Designer, Platform
🌍 Remote
Boulevard 🌍 Remote
The Staff Product Designer will lead platform-level design strategy in partnership with Product and Engineering, defining success metrics and designing foundational concepts, patterns, and frameworks to enable scalability across the ecosystem. This includes evolving the platform for upmarket customers, multi-location businesses, and international expansion while translating complex technical problems into intuitive user experiences.
UX Researcher
🇪🇪 Tallinn, Estonia
Bonapolia 🇪🇪 Tallinn, Estonia
The Senior UX Researcher will lead user research projects and develop strategies that align with business goals. They will analyze data to generate actionable insights and present findings to senior stakeholders.
Content / UX writer
🇪🇪 Tallinn, Estonia
Bonapolia 🇪🇪 Tallinn, Estonia
The Senior Content / UX Writer will lead the creation and management of digital content across banking platforms. They will develop content strategies aligned with business objectives and collaborate with various teams to ensure cohesive user experiences.
Senior UX Researcher, New Product Innovation
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Linda Werner & Associates 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
The Senior UX Researcher will partner with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities and deliver new products. They will lead research studies throughout the product lifecycle and contribute insights to shape product strategy.
Senior UX Researcher, New Product Innovation
🌍 Remote
Linda Werner & Associates 🌍 Remote
The Senior UX Researcher will partner with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities and deliver new products. They will lead research studies throughout the product lifecycle and manage external research vendors.
Senior UX Researcher
🇨🇭 Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Dentsply Sirona, Inc 🇨🇭 Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Lead research initiatives to uncover insights into user needs and behaviors for cloud-based dentistry applications. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate research findings into the design and development process.
Lead UX Researcher
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
The Knot Worldwide 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Define and own the long-term research roadmap for the B2B Vendor ecosystem while leading complex foundational and generative research. Partner closely with Product, Design, and Engineering leadership to integrate user evidence into early-stage roadmap planning.
Senior UI Designer (Visual-Led) - m/f/d
🇩🇪 Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Sungrow Emea 🇩🇪 Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Lead the full-lifecycle UI design for digital products across desktop and mobile platforms, ensuring high visual and design quality. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to maintain a cohesive product visual and design language.
Graphic Designer
🇮🇹 Cesena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Technogym S.p.a. 🇮🇹 Cesena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
The Graphic Designer will develop and execute innovative ad experiences across various media while collaborating with multiple teams. They will create user-centric concepts and lead campaign creativity to align with Technogym's design patterns.
Graphic Designer (Mid Shift)
🇵🇭 Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines
Arcadis 🇵🇭 Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines
This role involves working closely with Bids & Proposals teams to provide visual communication ideas, manage graphics files, and lead challenges related to proposal development, scheduling, and production. The designer will also align with marketing to ensure consistent brand application across various printed and digital assets.
Senior Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Oag Aviation Worldwide 🌍 Remote
Lead design for complex, data-rich product areas and design end-to-end journeys from discovery through high-fidelity execution. Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Data teams to deliver high-quality solutions and evolve the 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.