Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior UX researcher
🇵🇱 Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
Avenga 🇵🇱 Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
The Senior UX Researcher will design and conduct qualitative and quantitative research to understand customer needs and behaviors, planning and executing usability testing, interviews, and research workshops. They will collaborate with product designers, product owners, and data teams to translate findings into actionable product recommendations and compelling presentations for stakeholders.
Senior UX Writer and Content Designer, Google Shopping
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Google 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The role involves partnering with product leads and UX to develop and document content design for Generative AI use cases, guiding teams from strategy through evaluation. Responsibilities include executing content strategies by writing sample content, defining UX content design frameworks for GenAI experiences, and developing strategies to improve GenAI experiences by analyzing user needs.
Senior UX researcher
🇺🇦 Ренійська міська громада, Izmail Raion, Ukraine
Avenga 🇺🇦 Ренійська міська громада, Izmail Raion, Ukraine
The primary responsibility involves planning, conducting, and translating user research into actionable product insights to help teams understand customer needs and validate concepts across discovery, concept validation, and prototype stages. This role will also design and conduct research, establish and improve research processes, and synthesize findings into evidence-based recommendations for product teams.
Senior UX researcher
🇧🇦 Banja Luka, City of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Avenga 🇧🇦 Banja Luka, City of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
The primary responsibility involves planning, conducting, and translating research into actionable product insights to better understand customer needs, validate concepts, and improve user experience across discovery, concept validation, and prototype stages. This role will also design and conduct user research, support strategic initiatives, and establish/improve research processes.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Village of Alfred, Allegany County, NY 14802, United States of America
Alfred University 🇺🇸 Village of Alfred, Allegany County, NY 14802, United States of America
This role is responsible for producing high-quality, on-brand design solutions across digital advertising, print publications, web, email, and social media, primarily supporting enrollment and recruitment marketing. The Senior Graphic Designer will also develop, maintain, and communicate brand guidelines and visual standards across campus materials.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Aiwyn Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The role involves developing and championing user experiences that simplify complex tax workflows, ensuring intuitive interactions that minimize errors and cognitive load. This includes rapid prototyping, validation using tools like Figma, and strategic documentation to articulate design rationale.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 California, United States of America
Zocdoc 🇺🇸 California, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will lead and successfully deliver design projects of significant scope, ambiguity, and complexity, ensuring high-quality outcomes while designing and iterating quickly to support product decisions. They will also communicate design rationale clearly and tackle complex, data-rich workflows, translating them into intuitive interfaces.
Senior Graphic Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 Colton, CA 92324, United States of America)
Ashley Furniture Industries Remote (🇺🇸 Colton, CA 92324, United States of America)
The Senior Graphic Designer will be responsible for creating sophisticated, on-brand designs across various digital and print platforms, leading the visual direction for campaigns and promotions. This role also involves mentoring other designers and transforming photography into engaging visual narratives.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Kearney, Nebraska, United States of America
The Buckle, Inc. 🇺🇸 Kearney, Nebraska, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer leads creative concepts and oversees design projects from inception to completion, collaborating with cross-functional teams to develop strategic and innovative design solutions. This role involves leading the design and execution of marketing materials while also supervising and mentoring junior designers.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
O9 Solutions, Inc. 🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
The Senior Graphic Designer will execute the company's creative direction, ensuring all design iterations align with brand identity, and develop visual assets for digital campaigns and events across various mediums. They will also be responsible for mentoring other designers and maintaining up-to-date brand materials.
Senior UI/UX Designer - Krakow
🇵🇱 Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
Ubiquiti Inc. 🇵🇱 Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
The Senior UX/UI Designer will collaborate with product, development, and design teams to craft intuitive, delightful, and impactful user experiences across the company's product portfolio. This involves designing user interfaces and experiences for both web and mobile applications.
Senior UX Designer — Discovery & Strategy Focus
Remote (🇦🇷 Argentina)
Cnx Remote (🇦🇷 Argentina)
The role centers on leading end-to-end discovery efforts using research, interviews, and mapping to uncover user needs and opportunities, translating insights into clear problem statements and experience principles. Responsibilities also include owning early-stage ideation, defining user journeys, and designing at the concept and structure level to explore and test ideas quickly.
Senior Product Designer
🇪🇬 Cairo, Egypt
Majid Al Futtaim 🇪🇬 Cairo, Egypt
The Senior Product Designer will lead the creative direction for the e-commerce brand across product design, media campaigns, and user experience, while managing and mentoring a team of designers. This role involves translating global brand guidelines into localized, customer-centric creative executions for all customer-facing touchpoints.
Senior Product Designer - Consumer Platform
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Opentable 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Senior Product Designer will be embedded in the Diner Engagement team, collaborating with cross-functional partners to define strategy and drive the future of OpenTable's customer experience. This role involves building impactful user experiences, evolving current designs, and navigating the full design process from research to high-fidelity designs.
Senior UX Designer, Agentic AI
🇺🇸 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Flagship Pioneering, Inc. 🇺🇸 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Own UX for defined product areas and translate AI behavior into intuitive experiences. Collaborate with product and engineering teams to iterate designs based on user feedback.
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.