Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 West Palm Beach, Florida, United States of America
Hive Collective 🇺🇸 West Palm Beach, Florida, United States of America
This role involves maintaining the brand identity by managing and executing design projects across print, digital, and in-store mediums, combining hands-on design with creative oversight. Key duties include designing advertisements, owning email marketing campaigns, producing all physical collateral, and coordinating vendors and production timelines.
Senior UX Researcher - Enterprise & AI‑Driven Workflows
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Linda Werner & Associates Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The role involves planning and conducting qualitative studies, such as interviews and usability testing, focused on complex enterprise financial and operational systems like budgeting and procurement. Key duties include synthesizing findings into actionable insights and presenting them to product, engineering, and leadership stakeholders.
Senior UX Researcher
🇺🇸 United States of America
Tria Federal 🇺🇸 United States of America
The Senior UX Researcher will lead and execute end-to-end human-centered research across the product lifecycle, planning and facilitating various qualitative and quantitative methods to drive evidence-based design decisions for federal digital services. This role involves synthesizing complex findings into actionable deliverables and partnering with multidisciplinary teams to ensure products are usable, accessible, and aligned with real-world workflows.
Senior UX Researcher, Google TV
🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Google 🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Responsibilities include influencing stakeholders to support user-centric solutions, owning project priorities aligned with product goals, and driving product and service improvements through research-driven insights and recommendations. The role also involves leading teams to evaluate ecosystem impact and owning strategy discussions by synthesizing user and business needs.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇪🇸 National Library of Spain, Paseo de Recoletos, 20-22, 28071 Madrid, Spain
Samy 🇪🇸 National Library of Spain, Paseo de Recoletos, 20-22, 28071 Madrid, Spain
The role involves designing corporate campaigns and digital content for social media, including banners and visual assets, alongside creating editorial materials like whitepapers and presentations. The specialist will also develop key visuals for corporate events and ensure all creative assets adhere to brand guidelines.
Senior Product Designer (Design System)
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Heliosx 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The Senior Product Designer will own and lead the end-to-end design process for complex product initiatives, translating intricate healthcare and regulatory needs into accessible user experiences across global contexts. This role involves championing the Design System, partnering with cross-functional teams to shape roadmaps, and mentoring other designers.
Senior UI/UX Designer (Shopify Theme Development)
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Onhires Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The role involves transforming product and business requirements into user flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity designs for conversion-focused eCommerce experiences. Responsibilities also include building and customizing Shopify themes using Liquid, creating reusable components, and improving storefront performance.
Sr. Principal, Product Designer
🇺🇸 Irvine, California, United States of America
Ingram Micro 🇺🇸 Irvine, California, United States of America
The Senior Principal Product Designer will lead design strategy and execution for the Cart & Checkout domain, focusing on improving how customers review, manage, and complete complex B2B transactions. This involves partnering with Product Managers and Engineers to translate complex challenges into clear, effective, and scalable user experiences.
Senior Product Designer
🇫🇷 Paris, France
Modjo 🇫🇷 Paris, France
The role involves designing and building successful, delightful products by deeply understanding customer challenges through research and data analysis, aiming to amplify seller impact and eliminate busywork. You will also be responsible for evolving the Design System and raising the collective bar for Product Design craft within the team.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Commure 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
The role involves end-to-end product design, creating high-quality UI/UX designs, wireframes, and interactive prototypes using tools like Figma and Cursor to enhance productivity experiences for healthcare providers. Responsibilities also include conducting user research, developing insights, and collaborating with cross-functional partners to conceptualize and refine product features.
Senior Product Designer - International Wealth and Premier Banking
🇺🇸 Sparta, Illinois, United States of America
Hsbc 🇺🇸 Sparta, Illinois, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will influence the vision, strategy, and roadmap to position HSBC at the forefront of customer experience design while elevating design quality and championing design thinking across UX, UI, and UX Writing in collaboration with a global team. This role requires translating complex financial and regulatory requirements into simple, engaging digital experiences and using research and data to validate customer value.
Senior UI/UX Designer
Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)
Deep Origin Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)
The role involves driving customer UX research, conducting usability testing, and rapidly creating low- and high-fidelity prototypes to support discovery and experimentation. Responsibilities also include working closely with product management and engineering to align design direction and ensure consistent delivery of user-centric solutions.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Fetch Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The Senior Product Designer will lead efforts within a focused team to measurably improve people’s lives by taking ownership and significantly impacting the final product experience within the Fetch app. Responsibilities include leading design critiques, influencing team decisions, exploring new opportunities, and launching features into production within the first year.
Sr. UX Designer - Canada
Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)
Novoed, Inc. Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)
The Senior UX Designer will own 1-2 major projects, leading design from initial problem exploration through final implementation, while partnering closely with product management to define scope and recommendations. Responsibilities also include conducting user research, providing production-ready assets to engineers, and contributing to product strategy and roadmap discussions.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Tria Federal 🇺🇸 United States of America
The Senior UX Designer will lead end-to-end UX design efforts across the product lifecycle, translating complex requirements into intuitive workflows, interaction models, and scalable experience patterns for a large-scale federal healthcare initiative. This includes creating various design artifacts, partnering with researchers, and ensuring design fidelity throughout implementation.
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.