Design Leadership Jobs
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Product Designer (Mid-Level)
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Airtasker 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Own problem spaces end-to-end by coordinating with cross-functional teams to deliver shipped solutions. Focus on building, shipping, and learning through rapid prototyping and the integration of AI into the product and design process.
Data Product Designer (Mid-level)
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Shgh Group 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
The role involves creating custom-coded interactive dashboards, data stories, and tools to translate complex research and models into intuitive digital interfaces. You will develop reusable components and templates while utilizing AI-assisted workflows to accelerate development and maintain consistency.
Principal Product Designer, Customer Design Lead
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Thumbtack 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead the end-to-end customer experience across native and web platforms to ensure product coherence and consistency. Drive strategic product direction by identifying systemic gaps and mentoring senior and mid-level designers.
Principal Product Designer, Customer Design Lead
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Thumbtack 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end customer experience across native and web platforms to ensure product coherence and consistency. Drive strategic product direction by identifying systemic gaps and mentoring senior and mid-level designers.
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.
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Lead Product Designer (Contract to Hire)
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Lob Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The Lead Product Designer will scale the product by designing systems and UX philosophies for the AI era. Responsibilities include driving roadmap prioritization, refining design processes with AI, and mentoring junior and mid-level designers.
UX Designer
🇸🇬 Singapore
Thermo Fisher Scientific 🇸🇬 Singapore
The role involves exploring and implementing UX designs for new digital user experiences while collaborating with cross-functional teams. The designer will lead mid-level digital initiatives and deliver consistent UX assets and documentation.
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.