Design Leadership Jobs
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UX Designer III
🇺🇸 Hoboken, NJ 07030, United States of America
Walmart 🇺🇸 Hoboken, NJ 07030, United States of America
This role involves leading medium-sized, cross-functional User Experience projects, such as a new check-out system, by coordinating design, architecture, writing, prototyping, and research activities to deliver the overall user experience solution. The designer will also mentor junior staff and support User Experience strategy by evaluating the competitive landscape and presenting proposed solutions for strategic alignment.
Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America)
Nex Remote (🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America)
The Product Designer will lead the design process for the operating system, focusing on user needs, usability, and creating delightful interactions for both children and adults. Key tasks include designing and prototyping the UI/UX for the custom Android-based OS and developing user-friendly web features for account management.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇨🇦 Kitchener, Ontario, Canada)
Ground News Remote (🇨🇦 Kitchener, Ontario, Canada)
The Senior Product Designer will own features end-to-end, from initial concept through shipping, encompassing research, interaction design, visual design, and prototyping across web and mobile platforms. Key duties include leading visual and motion design efforts and managing/evolving the Figma component library and design system during a full product redesign.
Senior Product Designer (12 month temp)
🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Match Group 🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
The Senior Product Designer will lead growth-focused design initiatives across activation, engagement, retention, and conversion, translating ambiguous problems into intuitive experiences that measurably move metrics. They will drive the full design process from discovery through launch, partnering closely with cross-functional teams, and contribute to product strategy by framing problems and evaluating tradeoffs.
Manager, Die Design Engineering - APTD
🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
Micron Technology 🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
This role involves leading, mentoring, and growing a team of die build and layout engineers, defining team goals, and owning the end-to-end die design and layout strategy for HBM die programs from concept through validation. Key technical duties include defining TSV placement strategy, overseeing micro-bump array design, and ensuring die design supports advanced packaging processes like TCB bonding.
UX Researcher
Remote (🇨🇴 Colombia)
Holafly Remote (🇨🇴 Colombia)
The UX Researcher will align research initiatives with business goals to de-risk strategic product decisions and identify market opportunities through proactive research proposals. Key duties include leading end-to-end mixed-method studies and translating complex data into compelling narratives to influence cross-functional teams.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America
Ford 🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America
The role involves leading the design of features and improvements for ADAS/DI products, ensuring alignment with business objectives and user needs, utilizing tools like Figma to create compelling user experiences. Responsibilities also include taking ownership of design tracks, managing timelines, developing user flows, mockups, and prototypes, and applying data-driven insights to inform design decisions.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Promise 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Product Designer will lead the transformation of ambiguous problems into intuitive, scalable product experiences, acting as a strategic partner to Engineering, Product, and Deployment Strategists from discovery through shipping. Key duties include shaping design strategy, creating end-to-end designs, rapid prototyping for validation, evolving the design system, and raising the overall quality bar through leadership and mentorship.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Linkedin 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
This role focuses on building and accelerating Trust & Safety systems, requiring the designer to operate as a leader with strong engineering depth to support end-to-end experience strategy and drive high-fidelity, implementation-quality design and front-end code. Responsibilities include partnering with designers to co-create interaction models, building and maintaining frontend components for Trust & Safety experiences, and evolving shared design systems.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Linkedin 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
This role involves leading platform design strategy to enable self-serve and AI-powered workflows through cohesive system design, and driving 0→1 product design in ambiguous problem spaces by framing opportunities and defining foundational systems. The designer will also build for scale by creating extensible, modular design frameworks to support evolving business needs.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Draper, UT 84020, United States of America
Amh 🇺🇸 Draper, UT 84020, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will lead the design strategy for assigned product lines, owning the end-to-end design vision from discovery through delivery, and partnering with Product Management to define problems and success metrics. Responsibilities also include conducting user research, designing high-quality interactive and visual assets, driving the evolution of the design system, and mentoring other designers.
Lead Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Jama Software Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The Lead Product Designer will drive product design excellence across multiple areas, translating complex workflows into intuitive experiences while ensuring solutions balance customer needs, technical constraints, and business goals. This role involves serving as the design lead for cross-functional squads, shaping roadmaps, and advocating for user experience in strategic discussions.
Principal UX Designer, Engagement
🇺🇸 Irvine, California, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Irvine, California, United States of America
The Principal UX Designer will shape the long-term vision for user engagement with the platform, streamers, and communities, partnering with researchers and product managers to translate insights into design programs. This role involves driving design strategy and execution for complex engagement features while leading and mentoring a small group of designers.
Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Overland Park, Kansas, United States of America
Shamrock Trading Corporation 🇺🇸 Overland Park, Kansas, United States of America
The role involves designing digital assets for various campaigns, including emails, social graphics, and presentations, while also creating and editing short-form video content for social media and marketing initiatives. The designer will collaborate with leadership to define content strategy and ensure all creative assets adhere to established brand guidelines.
Product Designer
Remote (🇿🇦 South Africa)
Pavago Remote (🇿🇦 South Africa)
The Product Designer will lead end-to-end digital product experience by conducting user research, creating prototypes, establishing design systems, and collaborating with engineering and product management. Key tasks include translating insights into functional designs, ensuring accessibility, and maintaining component libraries for consistency.
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.