Design Leadership Jobs
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Graphic Designer - Scientific Illustration and Animation
🇺🇸 Alexandria, Virginia, United States of America
Guardians Of Honor Llc 🇺🇸 Alexandria, Virginia, United States of America
The role involves creating professional graphic designs and layouts for print and digital media, and producing original illustrations in traditional, digital, and 3D formats to clarify complex scientific data for the public and stakeholders. Responsibilities also include designing high-level presentations, infographics, video content, and ensuring all materials adhere to Section 508 accessibility and agency branding guidelines.
UI/UX Designer
🇿🇦 Cape Town, City of Cape Town, South Africa
Transperfect 🇿🇦 Cape Town, City of Cape Town, South Africa
The designer will be responsible for creating user interfaces and experiences for corporate and marketing websites, including designing wireframes, mockups, and high-fidelity designs for new features. Key duties also involve contributing to the creation and maintenance of a shared design system and ensuring designs meet accessibility and brand standards.
UI/UX Designer
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Version 1 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
The role involves defining user needs through various documentation like journey maps and service blueprints, and planning/conducting usability testing to inform design decisions. Designers will also create and iterate on user flows, wireframes, and prototypes while ensuring designs meet accessibility and responsive standards.
UX Designer - Júnior
🇧🇷 Salvador, Região Metropolitana de Salvador, Brazil
Ey 🇧🇷 Salvador, Região Metropolitana de Salvador, Brazil
The role involves participating in collaborative dynamics like Discovery and Kickoff, structuring low and medium-fidelity wireframes, and developing navigable prototypes while applying layout, typography, and accessibility principles. Responsibilities also include working in a multidisciplinary team to gather information, prototype digital products using a design system, and contributing basic design knowledge.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America
Instructure, Inc. 🇺🇸 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will play an influential role in designing workflows for educators, students, and support staff, while partnering closely with product managers and developers to solve complex problems and ensure high-quality, accessible solutions. Responsibilities also include advocating for accessibility, leading customer research, measuring product success post-release, and building prototypes for user testing.
Senior UX Designer, Public Service Division (PSD)
🇸🇬 Singapore
Public Service Division 🇸🇬 Singapore
The Senior UX Designer will lead the end-to-end UX design process for a career development platform, including framing problems, conducting user research, mapping journeys, and facilitating co-creation workshops. This role also involves advocating for accessibility, partnering with product and engineering teams, contributing to the design system, and mentoring junior designers.
Senior UX Designer
🇵🇦 Panama City, Distrito de Panamá, Panama
Dell Technologies 🇵🇦 Panama City, Distrito de Panamá, Panama
The Senior UX Designer will define the direction, quality, and execution of communication experiences across various channels and products, elevating design standards for clarity, accessibility, and consistency. Responsibilities include leading design initiatives, owning the end-to-end design of complex product areas, and translating customer insights into scalable visual frameworks.
UI/UX Designer - AI-Native Healthcare SaaS | Zenara Health
Remote (🇮🇳 India)
2070health Remote (🇮🇳 India)
The designer will own the entire visual and interaction layer across all Zenara products, including assessment, care/practice, and platform layers, by creating wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs. They must rapidly explore and iterate designs using AI tools, define UX hypotheses, conduct user research with clinicians, and maintain the design system while ensuring accessibility and collaboration with engineering.
Senior Product Designer II - Design Systems
Remote (🇨🇦 Wasaga Beach, Ontario, Canada)
Instacart Remote (🇨🇦 Wasaga Beach, Ontario, Canada)
The role involves owning the design system as a product, driving its roadmap based on product needs and system health, and defining the UX for components and patterns, including interaction states and accessibility defaults. Responsibilities also include leading the token strategy, establishing system governance, and partnering with engineering to ensure clean code implementation and design-to-code fidelity.
Senior Product Designer II - Design Systems
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Instacart Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The role involves owning the design system as a product, driving its roadmap based on product needs and system health, and defining the UX for components and patterns, including interaction states and accessibility defaults. Responsibilities also include leading token strategy, establishing system governance, and partnering with engineering to ensure clean code implementation and design-to-code fidelity.
Marketing Automation UX Designer
🇧🇷 Salvador, Região Metropolitana de Salvador, Brazil
Wex 🇧🇷 Salvador, Região Metropolitana de Salvador, Brazil
The role involves designing the visual logic for complex automated drip campaigns and creating high-converting, responsive designs for automated emails, SMS, and dynamic landing pages, focusing on accessibility and brand consistency. The designer will also collaborate with data analysts to use behavioral triggers for personalized UI elements.
Master UX Researcher and Designer
🇮🇪 Athlone, County Westmeath, Ireland
Ericsson 🇮🇪 Athlone, County Westmeath, Ireland
The role involves leading discovery to understand user needs, translating insights into inclusive interaction patterns, and using research, testing, and metrics to guide design decisions. Responsibilities also include planning and running user research, designing flows and interaction patterns with accessibility at the core, and building production-ready interfaces.
Product Designer 2 (Mid-Level)
🇩🇪 Euskirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Togetherwork 🇩🇪 Euskirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
The role involves owning the UX for specific products, modernizing complex or legacy workflows, and improving clarity, usability, and accessibility by reviewing analytics and participating in user interviews. Designers will also collaborate closely with product managers and engineers from discovery through delivery while contributing to shared design system components.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Alexandria, Virginia, United States of America
Dcg 🇺🇸 Alexandria, Virginia, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer will create visual materials for print and digital media, including posters, brochures, social media content, and animated explainer videos, all while adhering to NSF's brand identity and Section 508 accessibility standards. Responsibilities also include creating original illustrations to clarify complex scientific information and mentoring junior staff on visual guidance.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 Ashburn, VA 20147, United States of America
Peraton 🇺🇸 Ashburn, VA 20147, United States of America
The Senior UI/UX Designer will be responsible for crafting intuitive and accessible interfaces for advanced analytics and data visualization platforms, transforming complex data workflows into engaging user experiences. Key duties include conducting user research, developing wireframes and prototypes using tools like Figma, and collaborating with data engineers on dashboard design while ensuring compliance with accessibility standards.
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.