Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior Specialist CX & UX Designer
🇿🇦 City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa
Sabenza It & Recruitment 🇿🇦 City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa
This role involves shaping and guiding customer and user experience strategies to solve complex problems and leading the development of multifaceted business process solutions. The specialist will drive user research, translate insights into strategic design solutions, and influence policies across digital transformation projects.
ETIC, Product Designer - Senior Manager
🇪🇬 Cairo, Egypt
Pwc 🇪🇬 Cairo, Egypt
The Product Designer/Senior Manager is responsible for executing the product vision and strategy, acting as the critical link between customer needs, market opportunities, and the delivery team to shape the product concept and roadmap. Key activities include executing product strategy, developing roadmaps, synthesizing market insights, managing development sprints, and leading/mentoring junior team members in product practices.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇵🇱 Wrocław, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Capgemini 🇵🇱 Wrocław, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
The Senior UI/UX Designer will design and lead the creation of user-centered interfaces for mobile and web applications, including scalable design systems. This role involves close collaboration with designers, clients, and developers to ensure seamless design handover and contributing to design thinking practices.
Senior UI/UX Designer
Remote (🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Huzzle Remote (🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina)
The Senior UI/UX Designer will lead the entire design process for web and mobile applications, encompassing user research, wireframing, high-fidelity UI creation, and usability testing. Key duties include collaborating with cross-functional teams and maintaining design systems to ensure product consistency and optimal usability.
Senior UI/UX Designer
Remote (🇷🇸 Serbia)
Huzzle Remote (🇷🇸 Serbia)
The Senior UI/UX Designer will lead the end-to-end design process for web and mobile applications, encompassing research, wireframing, high-fidelity UI creation, and usability testing. Key duties include conducting user research, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and maintaining design systems for consistency.
Senior UI/UX Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 Georgia, United States of America)
Huzzle Remote (🇺🇸 Georgia, United States of America)
The Senior UI/UX Designer will lead the entire design process for web and mobile applications, encompassing research, wireframing, high-fidelity UI creation, and usability testing. Key duties include collaborating with cross-functional teams and maintaining design systems for product consistency.
Senior UI/UX Designer
Remote (🇷🇴 Romania)
Huzzle Remote (🇷🇴 Romania)
The Senior UI/UX Designer will lead the end-to-end design process for web and mobile applications, encompassing research, wireframing, high-fidelity UI creation, and usability testing. Key duties include conducting user research, translating insights into design decisions, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver seamless user experiences.
Senior UI/UX Designer
Remote (🇭🇺 Hungary)
Huzzle Remote (🇭🇺 Hungary)
The Senior UI/UX Designer will lead the end-to-end design process for web and mobile applications, encompassing research, wireframing, high-fidelity UI creation, and usability testing. Key duties include conducting user research, translating insights into design decisions, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver seamless user experiences.
Senior UI/UX Designer
Remote (🇭🇷 Croatia)
Huzzle Remote (🇭🇷 Croatia)
The Senior UI/UX Designer will lead the entire design process for web and mobile applications, encompassing research, wireframing, high-fidelity UI creation, and usability testing. Key duties include collaborating with cross-functional teams and maintaining design systems for product consistency.
Junior Graphic Designer
Remote (🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal)
Convatec Remote (🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal)
The designer will develop clear and impactful visual communication tools to convey business strategies to global internal and external audiences, including healthcare professionals and executives. Key duties involve partnering with leadership to create corporate presentations and designing marketing materials for the Healthy Bonds Umbrella Campaign.
Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Brea, California, United States of America
Envista Holdings Corporation 🇺🇸 Brea, California, United States of America
The Graphic Designer will conceptualize and execute innovative visual graphics and lead-generating marketing campaigns, collaborating with the Creative Team and Marketing Managers to promote dental consumables. This role involves designing a wide range of deliverables from print to motion graphics, ensuring all collateral meets branding guidelines from concept through production.
Junior Graphic Designer
🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal
Convatec 🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal
The designer will develop clear and impactful visual communication tools for global audiences, partnering with senior leadership to create compelling corporate presentations and marketing materials. Key duties include designing assets for the Healthy Bonds Umbrella Campaign while ensuring strict global brand consistency.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Frank & Eileen 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
This role is responsible for designing and executing all brand creative assets across channels like Email, SMS, site, social, and print, ensuring a consistent visual expression of the brand. The designer will also lead, mentor, and inspire a team of graphic designers while translating campaign strategy into compelling visual assets.
Graphic Designer
🇦🇺 QLD 4822, Australia
Vitality Brands Worldwide 🇦🇺 QLD 4822, Australia
Responsibilities include leading design development from brief to final artwork across digital, print, packaging, and campaign outputs, while producing high-quality digital assets and designing print and retail materials.
Senior UX Designer (remote, UTC-3 to UTC+3)
Remote (🇵🇱 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland)
Checkly Remote (🇵🇱 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland)
The Senior UX Designer will lead the design vision and execution for the Checkly platform, acting as the primary design decision-maker and collaborating closely with Product Managers and Engineers. Responsibilities include shaping new features from exploration to implementation, maintaining the design system, and championing high UI/UX and developer experience 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.