Design Leadership Jobs
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Product Designer - UX/UI & Design Systems
🇧🇷 Brazil
Jobgether 🇧🇷 Brazil
Lead end-to-end product design activities, including user research, UX strategy, wireframing, prototyping, and high-fidelity UI design across web and mobile platforms. Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and leadership teams to build intuitive, scalable, and high-performing digital experiences.
Lead Product Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
5paisa 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
The Lead Product Designer will create a scalable investing ecosystem while balancing business growth with user trust. They will also raise design quality across teams and simplify complexity across multiple products.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Vsco® 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Staff Product Designer will lead high-impact design initiatives and own products end-to-end, from strategy to delivery. This role involves defining the AI Agent experience and collaborating with product, engineering, and data teams to shape product direction.
Senior UX Designer (Remote)
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Ad Hoc Llc Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The Senior Designer will serve as an experienced individual contributor within a team, responsible for meeting scope, schedule, and delivery requirements. They will lead design work and collaborate with stakeholders to improve design processes and practices.
Senior Electrical Engineer, Data Center Design Engineering
Remote (🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America)
Fleet Data Centers Remote (🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America)
The Senior Electrical Engineer will lead the design, development, and implementation of electrical systems for large-scale data centers. This includes managing projects, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring compliance with regulations and performance standards.
Design Manager / Project Manager , Energy Projects
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Aurecon 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Lead the design and delivery of high voltage transmission and renewable energy infrastructure projects while managing multi-disciplinary teams. Interface with clients and stakeholders to ensure project targets are met in terms of scope, time, cost, and quality.
Senior Product Designer (Connect)
South Korea, Gyeonggi Seongnam-si
42dot South Korea, Gyeonggi Seongnam-si
Lead the design strategy for Connect IVI OS and mobile products, translating product vision into intuitive user experiences. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define product roadmaps and maintain consistent design systems.
Graphic Designer (5 Month Contract)
🇨🇦 Canada
Jobgether 🇨🇦 Canada
Design and produce a wide range of branded assets for digital and print platforms, including social content, presentations, and event visuals. Collaborate with creative leadership and marketing teams to maintain brand integrity and execute strategic visual solutions.
Design Manager / Project Manager , Energy Projects
🇦🇺 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Aurecon 🇦🇺 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Lead the design and delivery of high voltage transmission and renewable energy infrastructure projects. Manage multi-disciplinary teams and ensure project governance, quality assurance, and client engagement.
Physical Layer SW Design manager
🇨🇦 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Ericsson 🇨🇦 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
You will build and lead a new L1/Physical Layer embedded software team, ensuring the design, implementation, integration, and verification of embedded L1 software. Collaborate with architects and project leaders to deliver product commitments and drive AI-enabled software development practices.
UX Designer
🇸🇬 Singapore
Unison Group 🇸🇬 Singapore
As an Interaction/UX Designer, you will lead user research activities to understand user goals and needs, and develop models based on these findings. You will also design the overall structure and behavior of the system, ensuring that the product meets user goals through evaluative research.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Henne 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
As a Senior Graphic Designer, you will define and maintain Henne's design codes and lead the design and delivery of campaign assets across various channels. You will also partner with the Creative Director and Brand Marketing Manager to evolve the visual identity in line with brand strategy.
Senior Product Designer – Risk Management Group
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Macquarie Group 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
You will lead end-to-end design from discovery to delivery, collaborating with cross-functional teams to create scalable, high-impact solutions. You’ll develop wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs while contributing to and evolving the design system.
Product Designer - UX/UI & Design Systems
🇧🇷 Brazil
Jobgether 🇧🇷 Brazil
Lead end-to-end product design activities including user research, UX strategy, and high-fidelity UI execution for web and mobile platforms. Develop and maintain robust design systems while using product analytics to optimize user engagement and conversion.
UX Designer
🇸🇬 Singapore
Unison Group 🇸🇬 Singapore
Lead user research and develop models to create products that enhance user experiences for the financial supervision industry. Design the overall system structure, information flows, and workflows while refining products through evaluative research.
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.