Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Oregon, United States
Community Phone 🇺🇸 Oregon, United States
You will set the design strategy across the entire customer journey, including physical unboxing, mobile apps, and AI-powered voice check-ins. You will also operate as a strategic partner to leadership, influencing product roadmaps and ensuring high-quality adoption metrics.
Sr. Graphic Designer, Marketing & Communications
🇺🇸 Hawthorne, California, United States
Spacex 🇺🇸 Hawthorne, California, United States
The Senior Graphic Designer will lead the creative development and execution of visual projects to inspire and educate the public. They will partner with communications and creative teams to produce assets across print, digital, and experiential platforms.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Meta 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
The Product Designer leads large-scale design projects, transforming conceptual ideas into usable interfaces for billions of users. They collaborate with cross-functional partners to oversee the entire user experience from conception to launch.
Product Designer
🇵🇭 Philippines
Rightsteps.app 🇵🇭 Philippines
The role involves translating complex product requirements into intuitive user journeys and high-fidelity designs for a digital learning platform. Additionally, the position requires leading the UX/UI team through mentoring, design reviews, and quality oversight.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Miami, Florida, United States
Suffolk Construction 🇺🇸 Miami, Florida, United States
The Design Manager leads integrated teams through an end-to-end design-build process from inception to completion. They are responsible for realizing the client's vision while ensuring project performance, cost, and schedule objectives are met.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States
Beast Health 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States
Create high-performing digital assets for web and social media while leading the design and production of physical product packaging. Maintain brand consistency across multiple SKUs and iterate quickly based on cross-functional feedback.
Manager, Electrical Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Maple Grove, Minnesota, United States
Celestica International Lp 🇺🇸 Maple Grove, Minnesota, United States
The Manager of Electrical Design Engineering leads the development of new electrical systems and products while managing technical teams to meet customer demands. They are responsible for project planning, resource allocation, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality technical solutions across multiple industries.
UX Lead / Product Designer - Product Experience Lead
🇺🇸 Hilliard, Ohio, United States
Volto Consulting 🇺🇸 Hilliard, Ohio, United States
Lead the end-to-end product experience from discovery to launch, defining UX strategy and information architecture. Create high-fidelity UI designs and maintain scalable design systems while collaborating with product and engineering teams.
Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Montgomery County, Maryland, United States
Ca&m 🇺🇸 Montgomery County, Maryland, United States
The Graphic Designer will lead the design and production of visual materials, including publications, public health campaigns, and digital signage, while managing project timelines and stakeholder coordination. They are responsible for translating complex medical and military information into engaging visual aids and infographics that align with the organization's brand standards.
Design Manager (13570)
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Tilbury Douglas 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Lead the design management process for high-specification commercial fit-out projects from tender through to handover. Coordinate multiple subcontractor packages and resolve technical interfaces to ensure design intent is maintained and buildable.
Founding UI/UX & Graphic Designer
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Clera 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
You will own the end-to-end UI/UX design for the iOS app and lead the visual presence across web, social, and marketing channels. You are responsible for defining and maintaining a cohesive, premium consumer design language for the brand.
Lead Product Designer
🇸🇪 Stockholm, Sweden
Epidemic Sound 🇸🇪 Stockholm, Sweden
The Lead Product Designer will set the creative direction and quality standards for experience design across multiple teams. They will lead high-impact AI-native initiatives from ideation to live product, working closely with engineering in a build loop.
Staff Product Designer, Provider CRM & Prospect Management
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Headway 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Lead the design of a provider CRM to transform static client lists into active prospect pipelines. Develop an AI-driven front desk and scheduling assistant to automate inquiries and bookings for mental health providers.
Product Designer ($90k-$150k + Equity) at Aios Medical
🇩🇪 Germany
Jack & Jill 🇩🇪 Germany
Lead the end-to-end design of customer-facing mobile apps for GLP-1 treatments and optimize internal clinical tools. Collaborate with engineering and product leadership to balance user needs with regulatory and commercial constraints.
Graphic Designer
🇨🇴 Bogota, Capital District, RAP (Especial) Central, Colombia
Xploy Solutions 🇨🇴 Bogota, Capital District, RAP (Especial) Central, Colombia
The role involves leading the visual identity by creating high-impact digital and print assets across various marketing channels. Additionally, the designer will maintain brand guidelines and mentor junior team members to ensure visual 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.