Design Leadership Jobs
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Principal UX Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Onetrust 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
The designer will create deliverables across the entire design process, including information architecture, interface design, interaction design, and prototyping for a OneTrust Product Offering. This role also involves identifying and analyzing UX metrics, defining UX best practices, and serving as a mentor to junior designers.
Principal Product Designer. - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Pagerduty 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Principal Product Designer will define and drive the design vision for PagerDuty's AI and automation capabilities, including AI agents, while leading cross-functional collaboration to translate complex AI features into intuitive and trustworthy user experiences. This role involves establishing design principles for AI transparency and mentoring other designers on AI-UX best practices.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America
Constant Contact 🇺🇸 Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America
The Principal Product Designer defines the long-term UX vision and design strategy for a major product pillar, owning the end-to-end design lifecycle for the most ambiguous and technically challenging product areas. This role acts as the highest-level design authority, influencing stakeholders across Product, Engineering, and Executive Leadership, and serving as a core leader for the Design System.
Principal Product Designer - Unified Global Experience Ecosystem
Remote (🇺🇸 Sacramento, California, United States of America)
Speridian Technologies Remote (🇺🇸 Sacramento, California, United States of America)
This role involves leading the design of a unified global experience platform, including the application shell, navigation, and cross-application UX standards to ensure coherence across mission-critical applications. The Principal Designer will translate enterprise platform strategy into durable user experience standards and define patterns for other product teams to build within.
Principal UX designer (Cloud Application Security)
🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
Palo Alto Networks 🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
The role involves designing, building, and shipping industry-defining products for application security practitioners and developers, focusing on solving complex UX challenges with streamlined flows. Responsibilities include creating UX/UI concepts, redesigning visualizations, expanding the Design System, and collaborating closely with engineering teams through implementation.
Principal Product Designer (CDI)
🇺🇸 Glendale, California, United States of America
The Walt Disney Company 🇺🇸 Glendale, California, United States of America
This role involves independently driving multiple complex projects, setting team goals and direction, and solving difficult design problems while elevating the work of peers. Key responsibilities include shaping strategy and design vision for the advertising platform, focusing on campaign planning, creative review, and interactive ad formats.
Principal Product Designer. - Atlanta
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Pagerduty 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
The Principal Product Designer will define and drive the design vision for PagerDuty's AI and automation capabilities, including AI agents, while leading cross-functional collaboration to translate complex AI capabilities into intuitive and trustworthy user experiences. This role involves establishing design principles for AI transparency and mentoring other designers on AI-UX best practices.
Product Designer (Staff / Principal Level) (£115k-140k) at Anima
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Jack & Jill/external Ats 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The role involves leading the end-to-end design for multiple new product opportunities, focusing on high-retention features and clinical efficiency. This includes deep collaboration with the user community by visiting GP practices to understand and solve complex workflow pain points.
Senior Principal, Design Engineering
🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Celestica International Lp 🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
This role involves leading the hands-on design and coding of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures and agentic workflows to allow hardware engineers to query complex design data accurately. Key duties include writing custom Python scripts for data extraction, fine-tuning foundation models for domain expertise, and developing multimodal analysis capabilities for visual engineering data.
Principal Product Designer, AI
🇨🇦 Quinte West, Ontario, Canada
Gusto, Inc. 🇨🇦 Quinte West, Ontario, Canada
This Principal Product Designer will define the interaction model, UX principles, and product direction for Artificial Intelligence across the Gusto platform, focusing initially on the Gus conversational assistant and expanding into AI-powered workflows. Responsibilities include leading Tier 1 AI initiatives from concept to launch, designing full AI workflows, establishing scalable interaction patterns, and mentoring other designers on AI features.
Principal UI/UX Designer
Remote (🇵🇭 Manila, Capital District, Philippines)
Human Intelligence Remote (🇵🇭 Manila, Capital District, Philippines)
The role involves leading the design strategy, system development (including tokenized Figma systems mapping to FlutterFlow), and execution of UI/UX across 15+ modules for white-label wellbeing products. Responsibilities include designing ethical gamification loops and shipping micro-interactions using Rive/Lottie that integrate natively in Flutter.
Principal UI/UX Designer
Remote (🇷🇴 Bucharest, Romania)
Human Intelligence Remote (🇷🇴 Bucharest, Romania)
The role involves leading the strategy, system, flows, UI, and motion design for over 15 product modules, requiring the creation of a tokenized Figma system that maps directly to FlutterFlow themes. Responsibilities also include shipping micro-interactions using Rive/Lottie and designing ethical gamification loops to drive user adherence.
Principal UI/UX Designer
Remote (🇺🇦 Kyiv, Ukraine)
Human Intelligence Remote (🇺🇦 Kyiv, Ukraine)
The role involves leading the strategy, system design, flows, UI, and motion for over 15 product modules, creating a tokenized Figma system that maps to FlutterFlow themes for rapid cloning. Responsibilities also include shipping micro-interactions using Rive/Lottie and designing ethical gamification loops to drive user adherence.
Principal UI/UX Designer
Remote (🇵🇱 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland)
Human Intelligence Remote (🇵🇱 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland)
The role involves leading the strategy, system, flows, UI, and motion design for over 15 product modules, requiring the creation of a tokenized Figma system that maps directly to FlutterFlow themes. Designers will also implement micro-interactions using Rive/Lottie and design ethical gamification loops to drive user adherence.
Principal UI/UX Designer
Remote (🇧🇬 Sofia, Sredec, Bulgaria)
Human Intelligence Remote (🇧🇬 Sofia, Sredec, Bulgaria)
The role involves leading the design strategy, system development, user flows, UI, and motion across 15+ product modules, creating a tokenized Figma system that maps directly to FlutterFlow themes for rapid cloning. Responsibilities also include shipping micro-interactions using Rive/Lottie, designing ethical gamification loops, and ensuring WCAG 2.2 compliance through prototyping and testing.
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.