Design Leadership Jobs
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Principal Product Designer, Devices Experience Design
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
The role involves setting the design vision and direction for product experiences, bringing concepts to life through high-fidelity visuals, motion, and various prototypes. Responsibilities also include defining and driving the end-to-end design strategy across all phases of the design cycle, from discovery through execution.
Principal UI Designer
🇺🇸 Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Clinisys 🇺🇸 Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
The Principal UI Designer will be responsible for shaping software products by owning the Design System, ensuring UI consistency, and leading the design direction and creative strategy for product design work. This role involves collaborating across departments to translate functional requirements into intuitive, enjoyable user interfaces that align with company branding and strategic goals.
Principal Product Designer
Remote (🇨🇿 Prague, Czechia)
Restream Remote (🇨🇿 Prague, Czechia)
The main challenge involves elevating the product design by setting new quality standards through a hands-on approach, finding elegant solutions to product and UX challenges with attention to detail. Responsibilities include contributing to the overall product and design direction, creating flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity visuals, and collaborating across teams during the product lifecycle.
Principal Product Designer, Emerging Agents
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Adobe 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Principal Designer will define interaction paradigms for agentic systems, focusing on delegation, control, evaluation, and trust across complex workflows. This involves establishing mental models, designing frameworks for multi-step processes, and creating mechanisms for AI reasoning transparency and evaluation.
Principal UX Designer
🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Here Technologies 🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
The Principal UX Designer will define and lead the UX vision, design strategy, and multi-year experience roadmap for mobile solutions, championing a user-centered, data-informed approach. This role involves evolving design standards, collaborating across functions, influencing senior partners, and leading strategic discovery efforts.
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Principal UX Researcher, Kiro
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
As a Principal UX Researcher, you will own the complete research lifecycle for web products and drive strategic impact across the developer experience. Your research will influence how developers interact with Kiro's AI-powered development platform.
Principal UX Designer, Amazon Customer Service Technology
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
The Principal UX Designer will shape the future of customer service experiences by leading the design of AI-powered tools. This role involves setting strategic direction while actively engaging in hands-on design work.
Principal Product Designer: Travel & Conversion
🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Move Travel Sdn. Bhd. 🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
The Principal Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design of complex travel booking journeys for flights and hotels, focusing on UX architecture, flow optimization, and conversion rates. This role involves elevating design craft quality through high-fidelity motion design and mentoring junior designers by setting high standards for execution and strategic thinking.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 Tampa, Florida, United States of America
Shift4 🇺🇸 Tampa, Florida, United States of America
This role bridges design and engineering by translating design specifications and components into high-quality, reusable front-end code and maintaining the coded design system in partnership with design system owners. Responsibilities also include building interactive prototypes using AI-assisted tools and establishing foundational tools and workflows for design-to-code processes.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Valence 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The role involves designing features to evolve the coaching platform into a multiplayer collaboration tool, including manager tooling and context-sharing, while establishing and evolving the design system for consistency at scale. Designers will work embedded with product and engineering to ship high-quality experiences weekly, balancing strategic thinking with hands-on execution.
Principal Product Designer: Travel & Conversion
🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Airasia 🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
The Principal Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design of complex travel booking journeys for flights and hotels, focusing on UX architecture, user flows, and motion design to optimize conversion rates. This role also involves setting the standard for design craft quality and informally mentoring junior designers by demonstrating best practices.
Product Designer, Principal Associate Level
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Capital One 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Product Designer will combine deep expertise in product design across interaction, visual, and service design to elevate the design practice and co-create innovative solutions for complex problems. This involves championing the customer through the design process by leveraging critical thinking, data, research insights, and understanding technical constraints.
Principal Product Designer, Hotels.com
Remote (🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom)
Expedia Group Remote (🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom)
The Principal Product Designer will shape world-class user experiences for Hotels.com, leading collaboration with cross-functional teams to evolve the product experience. Responsibilities include defining problem framing best practices, leading customer experience vision, and owning end-to-end experiences from discovery through iteration.
Principal Product Designer – Engineering Platforms & AI
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Commonwealth Bank 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
This role is accountable for the holistic design of engineering tooling, SDLC workflows, AI-powered engineering interactions, and platform experiences. The Principal Product Designer will shape how engineers experience internal platforms and AI-enabled workflows, ensuring they are usable, coherent, scalable, and aligned to engineering standards and business outcomes.
Sr. Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 Oakland, California, United States of America
Fivetran 🇺🇸 Oakland, California, United States of America
The role involves owning the end-to-end design strategy and execution for key product areas, delivering creative solutions, and shaping workflows for technical users to explore and understand data. This includes collaborating closely with stakeholders to shape roadmaps, aligning design strategy with business goals, and championing user-centered projects from concept to release.
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.