Design Leadership Jobs
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Principal UX Designer
🇺🇸 United States
Athenahealth 🇺🇸 United States
As a Principal UX Designer, you will define and craft the clinical experience across key platforms, focusing on user-centered solutions for healthcare professionals. You will lead design execution, strategy, and mentor fellow designers to foster innovation within the team.
Principal Product Designer, Agentforce Revenue Management
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Salesforce 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
The role involves communicating clear and compelling ideas to stakeholders using documentation, reviews, and presentations, while serving as a bridge connecting design, product, engineering, and marketing teams. Responsibilities also include overseeing multiple application features, creating designs adhering to style guides, generating final design specs, and mentoring new design staff.
Principal Product Designer, Yahoo! Fantasy
🇫🇷 Uz, Occitania, France
Yahoo 🇫🇷 Uz, Occitania, France
The Principal Product Designer will drive strategic design initiatives aligned with the sports strategy by understanding market needs and competition, and will be responsible for creating impactful user experiences that delight users and drive engagement across iOS, Android, and web platforms.
Principal Product Designer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Captivateiq 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Define and drive the design vision for CaptivateIQ’s Incentive Compensation Management product line while leading design across multiple teams. Identify and lead complex initiatives that drive customer and business impact, and mentor other designers to elevate execution standards.
Principal UX Researcher (News & Sports)
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
The Walt Disney Company 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
The Principal UX Researcher will develop and manage research programs to gather insights on user needs and behaviors, translating findings into actionable recommendations. They will collaborate with design and product teams to ensure research informs key business decisions and drive innovation.
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Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States
Microsoft 🇺🇸 United States
You will lead the production of visual designs and improve product UX through interaction models. Additionally, you will guide communication with cross-disciplinary teams and influence key stakeholders.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Ellevation 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Lead UX strategy and evolve the design systems for the integrated ELD platform. Collaborate closely with Product and Engineering teams to define strategy and execute improvements.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 Redmond, Washington, United States
Microsoft 🇺🇸 Redmond, Washington, United States
You will lead the production of visual designs and improve product UX through interaction models. Additionally, you will guide communication with cross-disciplinary teams and tell compelling product stories to influence stakeholders.
Principal Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Function Health 🌍 Remote
The Principal Product Designer will work with product, engineering, and operations teams to create user-friendly experiences and optimize member impact. They will guide cross-functional teams through the design process and support user experience research.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States
Microsoft 🇺🇸 United States
Lead the design and prototyping of AI-driven user experiences across multiple M365 products. Collaborate with product, engineering, and research teams to deliver high-quality, user-centered outcomes.
Remote Sr. Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Jobgether 🌍 Remote
The Principal Product Designer will lead cross-functional teams to align stakeholders and identify design opportunities that enhance member satisfaction. They will create design deliverables focusing on usability across multiple devices.
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.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 Redmond, Washington, United States
Microsoft 🇺🇸 Redmond, Washington, United States
The Principal Product Designer will engage with customers to identify challenges and design AI-powered solutions. They will also create visually compelling interfaces and evolve design systems for enterprise workflows.
Principal Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Devoted Health 🌍 Remote
This role will own the interaction design for the Member Portal across desktop, mobile web, iPhone, and Android platforms, leading cross-functional teams to define implementable solutions that meet user, business, and regulatory needs in a hyper-compliant healthcare environment. The designer will independently identify opportunities to drive business results and member satisfaction, focusing on AI-first and conversation-forward interactions.
Principal UX Designer
🇺🇸 Georgetown, Massachusetts, United States
Boston Scientific 🇺🇸 Georgetown, Massachusetts, United States
The Principal UX Designer will lead the design of enterprise workforce planning platforms and talent analytics experiences, shaping the end-to-end user experience. This role involves defining UX vision, translating complex concepts into intuitive experiences, and advocating for human-centered design practices.
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.