Design Leadership Jobs
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Manager, Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Tomball, Texas, United States of America
The Friedkin Group 🇺🇸 Tomball, Texas, United States of America
The Manager, Design Engineering supports new product development and launch under the Director of Engineering and Manufacturing, ensuring adherence to ASG engineering processes and enhancing cross-functional coordination. Key duties include leading design engineers, defining product requirements and documentation, overseeing design evaluation, and managing product quality problem-solving efforts.
Product Designer
Remote (🇰🇪 Kenya)
Pavago Remote (🇰🇪 Kenya)
The Product Designer will lead end-to-end product experience design, encompassing user research, prototyping, and establishing design systems to meet user needs and business objectives. Key duties involve collaborating closely with engineering and product management to deliver functional, intuitive, and scalable digital products.
Product Designer
🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico
Palo It 🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico
The Lead Design Ops will be responsible for defining, scaling, and governing the Design Operations practice across multidisciplinary teams to ensure consistency, efficiency, and high-quality design delivery within an AI-first environment. This includes establishing design systems operations, optimizing workflows, managing tooling architecture, and leveraging AI to automate processes and enhance productivity.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 San Mateo County, California, United States of America
Brightedge 🇺🇸 San Mateo County, California, United States of America
The Senior UX Designer will lead UX design for new platform initiatives, from concept through interface refinement, while shaping intuitive experiences influenced by AI and automation workflows. Responsibilities also include creating prototypes, contributing to visual design evolution, ensuring high-quality implementation, and collaborating with stakeholders on design strategy.
Sentinel Design Engineering - Thermodynamics Section Manager (18435)
🇺🇸 Roy, UT 84067, United States of America
Northrop Grumman 🇺🇸 Roy, UT 84067, United States of America
The manager will lead a team of thermal analysis engineers, responsible for all managerial tasks relevant to thermodynamic analysis while dedicating 80% of time to thermal analysis engineering as directed by the program IPT Lead. Responsibilities also include establishing communications, scheduling, and technical reviews, alongside functional home room support covering recruiting, staffing, and performance management for approximately 20% of the time.
Graphic Designer
🇨🇴 Medellín, Valle de Aburrá, Colombia
Neostella 🇨🇴 Medellín, Valle de Aburrá, Colombia
The Graphic Designer will lead the creative development and execution of marketing and brand assets across digital and print channels, translating strategic briefs into compelling visual narratives. Responsibilities also include enforcing brand standards, providing creative direction and mentorship, and collaborating cross-functionally with marketing, sales, and leadership.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Arlington County, Virginia, United States of America
Govini 🇺🇸 Arlington County, Virginia, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate user needs into product features, concepts, and user experiences, while designing and documenting user flows, wireframes, and interactive prototypes for data visualization and exploration within the Ark platform. Responsibilities also include presenting designs to stakeholders, contributing to the design system, and leading/mentoring other product designers.
Senior Product Designer (Ecommerce/Growth)
🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Cover Genius 🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
The Senior Product Designer will lead the design and optimization of embedded purchase flows, sales panels, and product discovery experiences that drive conversion within partner retail and banking platforms. This role involves designing for diverse partner contexts, leading rapid experimentation, and driving the evolution of the design system.
Senior Product Designer (Logistics)
🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Cover Genius 🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
The Senior Product Designer will lead the design of UI-led solutions to improve the performance and usability of logistics workflows, including shipment lifecycle management and claims experiences. This role involves balancing hands-on design leadership with research, driving design strategy, and mentoring other designers to reduce friction and improve operational outcomes.
Product Designer
🇨🇦 Vaughan, Ontario, Canada
Price Industries Limited 🇨🇦 Vaughan, Ontario, Canada
The successful candidate will develop manufacturing details and release engineering packages for customized orders, while also completing detailed engineering drawings for sales and customer review within established lead times. Responsibilities also include designing and managing projects from conception to completion and providing exceptional production support throughout manufacturing.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America
Ford Motor Company 🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America
The role involves leading the design of product features and improvements, ensuring alignment with business objectives and user needs, while utilizing tools like Figma to develop compelling in-vehicle user experiences. Responsibilities also include taking ownership of design tracks, managing timelines, developing user flows, and applying data-driven insights to inform design decisions.
Web Designer UX/UI
🇺🇸 Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
Jpmorgan Chase & Co. 🇺🇸 Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
The role focuses on designing intuitive, accessible, and scalable data visualization experiences, leading end-to-end design from discovery and wireframes to polished UI in Figma. Responsibilities include designing dashboards and reports that clarify complex information using data visualization principles and ensuring designs translate cleanly into production UI with engineering partners.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Bet365 🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will lead design efforts for the US office, creating intuitive and engaging user experiences across digital platforms, focusing on innovative mobile app experiences for the American audience. This involves working with international design teams to push forward the Sports app, challenging market leaders by realizing innovative concepts into high-fidelity designs.
Principal Product Designer, Vrbo
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Expedia Group 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
This role involves leading and shaping end-to-end Vrbo traveler experiences, focusing on core shopping, discovery, and booking journeys to elevate the brand's quality bar. The designer will drive ambiguous, high-priority zero-to-one design programs, defining future states from early concepts through delivery.
Staff Product Designer, Knowledge Graph
Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)
Gitlab Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)
The Staff Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design process for cross-cutting platform features and workflows that impact users across the entire product, defining both tactical deliverables and strategic outputs. This involves partnering closely with Product Managers and Engineering Managers to shape priorities, scope Minimum Viable Concepts (MVCs), and ensure design intent is maintained through development.
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.