Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
Believe 🇬🇧 Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
The Senior Product Designer will lead the end-to-end UI/UX design process for complex data management products. They will collaborate with Product Managers, Engineers, and Insights Analysts to develop tools that support various publishing services.
Product Designer II, CCM
🇫🇷 Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Datadog 🇫🇷 Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Lead end-to-end design work for commitment programs, collaborating closely with cross-functional partners to define problems and ship high-quality solutions. Help shape information architecture and interaction patterns as the product evolves into a multi-cloud experience.
Senior Product Designer II
🇺🇸 United States
Kfc Europe 🇺🇸 United States
The Senior Product Designer II will lead design for the Menu platform, shaping experience strategy and execution across a complex operational system. This role requires working autonomously while collaborating deeply with Product and Engineering teams.
Graphic Designer III & Communications Specialist
🇺🇸 Irvine, California, United States
Georg Fischer 🇺🇸 Irvine, California, United States
The Graphic Designer III & Communications Specialist manages and leads projects, developing creative concepts and visual solutions that align with the company's brand and marketing goals. This role involves creating graphics for various platforms and mentoring junior designers.
Graphic Designer III & Communications Specialist
🇺🇸 Irvine, California, United States
Georg Fischer 🇺🇸 Irvine, California, United States
The Graphic Designer III & Communications Specialist manages and leads projects, developing creative concepts and visual solutions that align with the company's brand and marketing goals. This role involves collaborating with various teams and mentoring junior designers while managing multiple design projects.
Graphic Designer
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Edelman 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
The Graphic Designer will manage, concept, and execute high-quality creative work across multiple accounts and projects. Responsibilities include leading the conceptual direction for various brands and collaborating closely with the creative team.
Graphic Designer - Athletics
🇺🇸 Abilene, Texas, United States
Abilene Christian University 🇺🇸 Abilene, Texas, United States
The graphic designer will lead the creation and management of brand assets for ACU's athletics programs, focusing on various media platforms. They will also collaborate with teams to ensure brand consistency and meet project deadlines.
Midweight Graphic Designer
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Atkinsréalis 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
The Midweight Graphic Designer will lead and support various cross-discipline projects while being an influential member of a talented team. The role involves designing for print, events, web, virtual reality, or motion, ensuring high-quality delivery.
UX\ UI Designer
🇮🇱 Netanya, Center District, Israel
Bright Data 🇮🇱 Netanya, Center District, Israel
The UX/UI Designer will lead the design process from conceptualization to high-fidelity UI, collaborating with Product Managers and Developers. They will also design and upgrade features for the SaaS platform and maintain the company's Design System.
Lead Product Designer, Loom Meeting Recordings
🌍 Remote
Atlassian 🌍 Remote
Own the end-to-end core meeting recording experience and drive design work from low to high fidelity. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact features and elevate design craft.
Senior Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Upguard 🌍 Remote
Lead the design of end-to-end product experiences and collaborate with PMs, engineers, and subject matter experts. Improve core user flows and contribute to the design system while refining designs based on feedback.
Lead Product Designer (£90k - £100k) at Innovative Consumer Electronics Startup
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Jack & Jill/external Ats 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Manage and coach a team of product designers while owning the design outcomes for the core platform experience. Collaborate with product and engineering heads to translate complex problems into actionable roadmaps.
UX Designer
🇸🇬 Singapore, Singapore
Unison Group 🇸🇬 Singapore, Singapore
The UX Designer will lead user research activities to understand user goals and behaviors, and design the overall structure and behavior of the system. They will also test and refine the product through evaluative research to ensure it meets user needs.
Lead Product Designer, Grab For Business
🇸🇬 Singapore, Singapore
Grab 🇸🇬 Singapore, Singapore
The Lead Product Designer will distill broad ideas into practical interfaces and define product strategy. They will advocate for users through data and research while creating flows, prototypes, and mockups to communicate concepts.
Senior UX/UI Product Designer
🇮🇱 Tel Aviv, Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Axonius 🇮🇱 Tel Aviv, Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Lead the UX/UI lifecycle for the Automation domain, ensuring designs are intuitive and high-quality. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolve UX friction points and present design strategies to senior leadership.
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.