Design Leadership Jobs
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UX Designer, Vice President - Omnichannel Employee Platforms
🇺🇸 Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
Jpmorgan Chase & Co. 🇺🇸 Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
Develop and execute design and research strategies for complex projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives and user needs across multiple product areas. Lead end-to-end design initiatives by diagramming service flows, designing wireframes, and prototyping interactions for key touchpoints.
Lead UX Writer - Vice President
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Jpmorgan Chase & Co. 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The Lead UX Writer will deliver clear, user-focused content for B2B products, simplifying complex technical concepts and developing end-to-end journeys for dedicated product areas. This role involves guiding content integration based on customer insights, managing stakeholders, and leading content governance across Product, Design, and Controls.
Manager, Design Engineering - Packet
🇺🇸 Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States of America
Zayo Group 🇺🇸 Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States of America
The manager is responsible for leading a team of design engineers to deliver managed optical or packet services, ensuring projects meet revenue commitment dates and managing team performance against productivity SLAs. This includes tracking implementation orders, organizing the team for strong production levels using metrics, and developing relationships with internal partners to drive timely project delivery.
Staff Product Designer
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Productboard 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
The Staff Product Designer will identify and solve strategically important design problems, owning complex, high-impact initiatives across product areas while guiding other designers. Responsibilities include using AI to understand customer needs, translating them into product experiences, establishing quality standards, and serving as a thought leader for design and AI-first product development.
Staff Product Designer
🇨🇿 Prague, Czechia
Productboard 🇨🇿 Prague, Czechia
The Staff Product Designer will identify and solve strategically important design problems, owning complex, high-impact initiatives across product areas while guiding other designers. Responsibilities include using AI to understand customer needs, translating them into product experiences, establishing quality standards, and serving as a thought leader for design and AI-first product development.
Middleweight Graphic Designer (E-Commerce)
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Trip 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The role involves owning digital creative production across Amazon, DTC channels (website, email, Meta), and TikTok Shop, focusing on creating high-quality, on-brand, and performance-led assets for UK and US markets. A key responsibility is leading the development of the AI-powered creative function by exploring and testing new workflows using various AI platforms.
Senior UX Designer
🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Ing 🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
The Senior UX Designer will lead UI design efforts to create engaging and consistent interfaces for transaction services and analytics, while establishing and maintaining a cohesive visual identity through contribution to a robust design system. This role also involves guiding junior designers, collaborating strategically with stakeholders, and optimizing design processes.
Product Designer (All Genders)
🇭🇷 City of Zagreb, Croatia
F24 🇭🇷 City of Zagreb, Croatia
The Product Designer will lead end-to-end experience design for product components, focusing on understanding user problems, validating solutions through rapid experimentation, and translating insights into intuitive designs. They will collaborate daily with engineering and Product Management to ensure solutions are elegant and implementable while measuring and improving UX outcomes iteratively.
Senior Product Designer II, Customer Journey
Remote (🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom)
Hubspot Remote (🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom)
The role involves leading design work across multiple stages of the customer journey, from discovery through launch and iteration, focusing on creating guided, adaptive experiences for activation and value realization. Designers will connect systems and surfaces by designing flows and patterns that ensure continuity across products while collaborating closely with Product Managers, Engineers, and Researchers.
Senior Product Designer II, Customer Journey
Remote (🇮🇪 Ireland)
Hubspot Remote (🇮🇪 Ireland)
The role involves leading design work across the entire customer journey, from discovery through launch and iteration, focusing on creating guided, adaptive experiences to help customers achieve outcomes quickly. Designers will also be responsible for connecting systems and surfaces by designing continuity frameworks across products while collaborating closely with cross-disciplinary partners.
Senior Digital Product Designer Senior Digital Product Designer
🇪🇸 08950 Esplugues de Llobregat, Spain
Nestle Operational Services Worldwide Sa 🇪🇸 08950 Esplugues de Llobregat, Spain
The Senior Digital Product Designer will lead end-to-end digital design processes, integrating user insights and analytics to create innovative, visually refined, and conversion-focused experiences for the Nespresso eCommerce App and beyond. This role involves conducting user research, developing wireframes and prototypes, and mentoring junior designers while championing the design system.
[OVERDARE] Product Designer
South Korea, Seoul
Overdare South Korea, Seoul
The role involves leading the end-to-end product design for a global game platform, covering the entire design process from problem definition to solution enhancement for various user groups like players and creators. Responsibilities also include building and operating a design system for scalability and consistency, and maximizing design productivity by actively integrating AI tools and technologies into workflows.
Executive - Design Engineering
🇱🇰 Biyagama 11672, Sri Lanka
Mas Holdings 🇱🇰 Biyagama 11672, Sri Lanka
The role involves preparing sample designs and knitting programs, evaluating them for quality and feasibility against customer expectations, and analyzing measurement specifications throughout the development cycle. This individual will also develop products, identify challenges, coordinate with internal customers, and attend meetings to ensure a smooth product lifecycle meeting customer expectations and lead times.
Product Designer - Software Platform
🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Tive 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
The role involves leading end-to-end design for complex product areas, from discovery through implementation, and translating user needs and business goals into intuitive experiences. This includes driving design decisions using various artifacts and partnering closely with Product Managers and engineers.
Senior UX Designer, Future of AI, Envisioning Studio
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Google 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design of next-generation AI creativity and learning tools, establishing new design systems and interaction models through rapid prototyping. Partner with cross-functional teams to transform emerging AI research into high-impact product surfaces and drive large-scale projects from concept to shipped prototypes.
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.