Design Leadership Jobs
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Product Designer ($90k-$150k + Equity) at Aios Medical
🇩🇪 Germany
Jack & Jill 🇩🇪 Germany
Lead the end-to-end design of customer-facing mobile apps for GLP-1 treatments and optimize internal clinical tools. Collaborate with engineering and product leadership to balance user needs with regulatory and commercial constraints.
Product Designer
🇫🇮 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
Ounas Health 🇫🇮 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
The Product Designer will lead the creation of user journeys, clinical workflows, and a comprehensive design system for a health-tech product portfolio. They will also conduct user research in clinical environments and manage usability engineering documentation for regulated medical device software.
Senior Staff Product Designer, Data & AI
🇺🇸 United States
Stripe 🇺🇸 United States
Lead the design of data products and ecosystems, focusing on analytics, databases, and data pipelines. Shape shared systems and create new products to help businesses understand and grow their revenue on the Stripe platform.
Sr. Mechanical Design Engineer, Data Center Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States
Amazon Web Services (aws) 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States
Design and implement energy-efficient mechanical systems for next-generation data centers while leading cross-functional teams. Oversee the full project lifecycle from conception to implementation, including budget management and performance monitoring.
Sr. Mechanical Design Engineer, Data Center Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Amazon Web Services (aws) 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Design and implement energy-efficient mechanical systems for next-generation data centers while leading cross-functional teams. Oversee the full project lifecycle from conception to implementation, including budget management and performance monitoring.
Principal Product Designer, Consumer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Flex 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Lead the design vision and strategy for a full business vertical, ensuring a cohesive end-to-end consumer experience. Partner with cross-functional teams to execute experiments and evolve the company's design system and AI workflows.
Principal Product Designer, Consumer
🇺🇸 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Flex 🇺🇸 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Lead the design vision and strategy for a full business vertical, ensuring a cohesive end-to-end consumer experience. Partner with cross-functional teams to execute experiments and evolve the company's design system and AI workflows.
Staff Product Designer, Consumer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Flex 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Lead end-to-end design execution for a specific product area, developing a long-term vision and north star for the consumer experience. Collaborate cross-functionally with product, engineering, and analytics to structure experiments and deliver high-quality, intuitive financial product flows.
Principal Product Designer, Consumer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Flex 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Lead the design vision and strategy for a full business vertical, ensuring a cohesive end-to-end consumer experience. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to execute experiments and evolve the company's design system and AI workflows.
Staff Product Designer, Consumer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Flex 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Lead end-to-end design execution for a specific product area, developing a long-term vision and north star for the consumer experience. Partner with cross-functional teams to structure experiments and translate complex financial constraints into intuitive user flows.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States
Sound Transit 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States
Leads and coordinates the delivery of design elements for transit projects, including buildings and stations, while overseeing design consultant teams. Manages technical resolution of design milestones and ensures coordination between various internal departments and external stakeholders.
Sr. Mechanical Design Engineer, Data Center Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Columbus, Ohio, United States
Amazon Web Services (aws) 🇺🇸 Columbus, Ohio, United States
Design and implement energy-efficient mechanical systems for next-generation data centers while leading cross-functional teams. Oversee the full project lifecycle from conception to implementation, including budget management and performance monitoring.
Sr. Mechanical Design Engineer, Data Center Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Herndon, Virginia, United States
Amazon Web Services (aws) 🇺🇸 Herndon, Virginia, United States
Design and implement energy-efficient mechanical systems for next-generation data centers while leading cross-functional teams. Oversee the full project lifecycle from conception to implementation, including budget management and performance monitoring.
Sr. Mechanical Design Engineer, Data Center Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Amazon Web Services (aws) 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Design and implement energy-efficient mechanical systems for next-generation data centers. Lead cross-functional teams through the full project lifecycle from conception to implementation and performance monitoring.
Sr. Mechanical Design Engineer, Data Center Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States
Amazon Web Services (aws) 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States
Design and implement energy-efficient mechanical systems for next-generation data centers. Lead cross-functional teams through the project lifecycle from conception to implementation, focusing on facility-equipment integration and continuous improvement.
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.