Design Leadership Jobs
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Lead UX Designer
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Athenahealth 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
The Lead Designer will primarily focus on design execution, identifying and framing complex user-centered problems across clinical and operational workflows, and guiding teams from discovery through delivery. They will also be responsible for design strategy, planning exploratory research, and contributing to product vision artifacts that guide prioritization.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Crio Inc. Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The Senior Product Designer will lead user research initiatives, translating findings into actionable design decisions, and drive the end-to-end design process from concept through final delivery, producing necessary artifacts like wireframes and high-fidelity mockups. They will also actively contribute to the design system, champion accessibility, and collaborate closely with engineers to ensure faithful implementation of design intent.
Lead Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States of America
Foth 🇺🇸 Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States of America
The Lead Graphic Designer will serve as a lead creative resource, guiding visual direction and partnering with marketing leadership to support and maintain brand guidelines and scalable visual systems. Responsibilities include designing and producing a wide range of print and digital deliverables, leading projects from concept through final production, and coordinating with external suppliers.
Sr Product Designer
🇺🇸 Irving, Texas, United States of America
Sonepar 🇺🇸 Irving, Texas, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will lead research- and data-informed design initiatives to solve complex workflow and operational challenges, translating user insights into practical design outcomes that support enterprise efficiency. This role owns the full design lifecycle, from discovery and user flows to polished visual execution, ensuring designs are usable, accessible, and operationally effective.
Graphic Designer
Remote (🇨🇿 Prague, Czechia)
Aisle Remote (🇨🇿 Prague, Czechia)
The role involves owning the vision, strategy, and roadmap for aisle.com, defining the web product backlog, and leading the development and improvement of the front-end architecture. This includes building new features, optimizing the website for performance and scalability, and managing infrastructure integrations.
Senior Product Designer
🌍 Remote
1password 🌍 Remote
The Senior Product Designer will lead the design of new product experiences, focusing on making security clear, usable, and trustworthy for both individuals and businesses. This involves owning complex problem spaces end-to-end by partnering with cross-functional teams to define problems, explore opportunities, and deliver high-quality solutions.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead 🇺🇸 United States of America
The role involves shaping the future of financial technology by creating intuitive banking experiences, owning the end-to-end user experience for features, and contributing to the evolution of the design system. Responsibilities include crafting visual identity, defining design systems, and collaborating across UX, product, and engineering teams to deliver user-focused designs.
Senior UX Designer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Changemakers 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The primary responsibilities involve leading the creation of website and app user interface designs from concept to final deliverables, while owning, governing, and scaling Figma design systems across the team. This role also includes leading UX research initiatives, overseeing email template development, and acting as a design thought leader for complex challenges.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🌍 Remote
540 🌍 Remote
The Senior UI/UX Designer will lead the design of intuitive, user-centered interfaces for a complex aircraft maintenance platform, translating operational workflows and technical requirements into usable designs. This role involves creating and iterating on design artifacts, collaborating with engineers and stakeholders, and conducting user interviews to validate solutions.
Senior Product Designer, Design Systems - 13 Month Contract
🇳🇿 Auckland, New Zealand
Xero 🇳🇿 Auckland, New Zealand
The Senior Product Designer will lead the definition of the future of Xero's products by shaping the vision, strategy, and end-to-end experiences within the design system. Key initial focuses include leading the rollout of the New Xero Design Language (XDL) and evolving the existing design system (XUI) into an AI-ready system.
Senior Product Designer, Agentic Experience
🇺🇸 San Mateo, California, United States of America
Roblox 🇺🇸 San Mateo, California, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will pioneer the 'Agentic Experience' by designing LLM-powered interfaces to transform how engineers interact with complex data and compute primitives. This role involves leading end-to-end UX design for Analytical Data and Machine Learning platforms, unifying fragmented developer tools into a cohesive platform.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇨🇴 Colombia)
Huzzle Remote (🇨🇴 Colombia)
The Senior Product Designer will lead the end-to-end product design lifecycle across web and/or mobile platforms, including conducting user research and translating complex requirements into intuitive user experiences. Key duties involve creating design artifacts, collaborating cross-functionally, and maintaining scalable design systems.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇦🇷 Argentina)
Huzzle Remote (🇦🇷 Argentina)
The Senior Product Designer will lead the end-to-end product design lifecycle across web and/or mobile platforms, which includes conducting user research and translating complex requirements into intuitive user experiences. Key duties involve creating design artifacts like wireframes and prototypes, collaborating cross-functionally, and maintaining scalable design systems.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇧🇷 Brazil)
Huzzle Remote (🇧🇷 Brazil)
The Senior Product Designer will lead the end-to-end product design lifecycle across web and/or mobile platforms, including conducting user research and translating complex requirements into intuitive user experiences. Key duties involve creating design artifacts, collaborating cross-functionally, and maintaining scalable design systems.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇵🇦 Panama)
Huzzle Remote (🇵🇦 Panama)
The Senior Product Designer will lead the end-to-end product design lifecycle across web and/or mobile platforms, encompassing discovery, user research, prototyping, and final UI delivery. Key duties include translating complex requirements into intuitive experiences and collaborating cross-functionally to maintain scalable design systems.
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.