Design Leadership Jobs
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UI UX Designer (Mid-Level)
🇺🇸 Gwinnett County, Georgia, United States of America
Neptune Technology Group 🇺🇸 Gwinnett County, Georgia, United States of America
Design visually refined and intuitive user experiences for web and mobile platforms, focusing on data-rich enterprise tools. Collaborate with product teams to translate complex requirements into high-fidelity designs and scalable UI patterns.
Mid-level Graphic Designer, Cape Town (all genders)
🇿🇦 Cape Town, City of Cape Town, South Africa
Fraser 🇿🇦 Cape Town, City of Cape Town, South Africa
Create high-quality visual designs for digital and marketing campaigns across various platforms including social and web. Collaborate with international Art Directors and multidisciplinary teams to ensure brand consistency and quality across all deliverables.
Mid-Level Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Cresco Labs 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
The Mid-Level Graphic Designer independently executes print and digital deliverables across retail and wholesale brands, including web assets, email campaigns, and in-store signage. The role involves collaborating cross-functionally to strengthen national brand presence and providing guidance to junior designers.
Graphic Designer (Mid-level) | Digital and Data
🇭🇺 Budapest, Hungary
Civitta 🇭🇺 Budapest, Hungary
As a Graphic Designer, you will create visual communication concepts and design solutions while developing digital communication assets. You will collaborate with colleagues from various teams to generate ideas and prepare sketches for advertising campaigns.
Senior Graphic Designer | Marketing focus | EU-based
🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Hostinger 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Develop high-impact advertising campaigns across digital and print channels, ensuring every design decision drives engagement, trust, and conversion. Mentor junior and mid-level designers and push the brand's visual identity forward.
Senior Graphic Designer | Marketing focus | EU-based
🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Hostinger 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Develop high-impact advertising campaigns across digital and print channels to drive engagement and conversion. Push the brand's visual identity forward while mentoring junior and mid-level designers to raise creative 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.