Design Leadership Jobs
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Lead UX Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Talent 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead UX design across a portfolio of retail brands to improve end-to-end digital shopping experiences. You will build and scale multi-brand design systems while delivering production-ready UI and prototypes using Figma.
Senior Product Designer - Defence
🇬🇧 England, United Kingdom
Faculty 🇬🇧 England, United Kingdom
Lead the design of bespoke, AI-native solutions by creating complex user interfaces and managing the end-to-end design process. You will oversee user research, develop design systems, and collaborate with engineers to ensure high-quality, accessible product delivery.
Product Designer (UX/UI)
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Purple 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design process from user research and wireframing to high-fidelity UI execution within Figma. Collaborate with engineering and product management to define the visual design language and design systems for the Pilotis platform.
Lead – UX Designer
🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
Lollypop Design Studio Japan 🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
Lead the design process by reviewing wireframes, storyboards, and user flows while ensuring high-quality deliverables that meet client needs. Manage design effort scoping, including LOE, SOW, and proposals, while mentoring team members and maintaining design standards.
Founding Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Glocomms 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The role involves designing intuitive end-to-end product experiences and workflows for an AI-driven platform. You will lead the design process from discovery and research through to high-fidelity mockups and the evolution of the company's design system.
Senior Product Designer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Swoon 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead the end-to-end design process from initial research to final high-fidelity designs for desktop and mobile. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to simplify complex user journeys and implement established design systems.
Senior UX Researcher
🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Aj Bell 🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Lead end-to-end UX research across complex D2C problem spaces to inform product and business decisions. Collaborate with stakeholders to translate research findings into actionable insights and maintain a central research repository.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Moose Toys 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
The Design Manager leads product development from concept to production while managing the performance and output of the creative team and vendors. They are responsible for ensuring products meet brand standards, budget constraints, and technical specifications across an allocated portfolio.
Store Design Manager (CAD)
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
New Look 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Develop innovative and creative retail store designs, refits, and fixtures while ensuring technical robustness and brand alignment. Lead architectural coordination across consultants and stakeholders to deliver compliant, budget-friendly projects from feasibility to completion.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇪🇬 Sheikh Zayed, Giza, Egypt
Talent-360.me 🇪🇬 Sheikh Zayed, Giza, Egypt
Lead the development of visual content for branding, marketing campaigns, and product launches across digital and print platforms. Responsibilities include designing packaging, creating motion graphics, and ensuring brand consistency across all communication channels.
Senior UX Researcher
🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Aj Bell 🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Lead end-to-end UX research for complex D2C problem spaces to inform product and business decisions. Collaborate with Product Managers and UX Designers to translate challenges into actionable insights and maintain a research repository.
Design Manager - Water & Wastewater
🇬🇧 Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Aecom 🇬🇧 Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Lead the multi-disciplinary technical delivery of water and wastewater infrastructure projects from feasibility through to asset management. Act as the primary technical interface for clients and contractors while mentoring team members and overseeing key work packages.
Mechanical Design Manager
🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Edge Group Pjsc 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Responsible for the mechanical design and optimization of critical gas-turbine components and systems for turbojet and turbofan propulsion. This includes performing integrity assessments, conducting safety reviews, and providing technical leadership and mentoring to junior engineers.
Staff Product Designer, Agentic Experiences
Remote (🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America)
Affirm Remote (🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America)
Lead the design of AI and agentic initiatives to create proactive, conversational, and intuitive consumer experiences. Partner with cross-functional teams to define the design language and roadmap for Affirm's future AI-driven interactions.
Brand Design Manager
🇺🇸 Houston, Texas, United States of America
Gensler 🇺🇸 Houston, Texas, United States of America
Lead the design and detailing of signage, wayfinding, and environmental graphic systems while managing project financial performance and staffing. Collaborate with regional teams to develop client projects and assist in strategic business development and proposal creation.
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.