Design Leadership Jobs
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Product Designer | Senior
🇱🇹 Vilnius, Vilnius city municipality, Lithuania
Nord Security 🇱🇹 Vilnius, Vilnius city municipality, Lithuania
The role involves collaborating with product owners, engineering, and UX research, taking the lead on problem-solving without hand-holding. Responsibilities include navigating the unknown through rapid prototyping of wild ideas and building thoughtful, scalable solutions for complex systems.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 Greenwood Village, Colorado, United States of America
Transunion 🇺🇸 Greenwood Village, Colorado, United States of America
The Product Designer will lead end-to-end design for high-impact initiatives, partnering with product, engineering, and research to solve complex problems and deliver clear, thoughtful solutions across web and mobile experiences. This includes owning design from discovery to delivery, contributing to the design system, and presenting informed design opinions to shape direction.
Lead Product Designer
🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Monzo 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
The Lead Product Designer will tackle complex design challenges, transforming ambiguity into elegant, scalable solutions that empower teams and enhance customer experience. This role involves defining and delivering large-scale projects, creating compelling product visions, and raising the bar for visual execution across motion and interaction.
Senior Product Designer
🇦🇷 Buenos Aires, Comuna 1, Argentina
Spyrosoft 🇦🇷 Buenos Aires, Comuna 1, Argentina
The Senior Product Designer will lead the entire design process from discovery and research through to delivery and ongoing optimization, creating end-to-end flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity visuals for web and mobile platforms. Key duties include defining and scaling the Design System, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and mentoring junior designers.
AI Product Designer
Remote (🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
Durable Remote (🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
The role involves leading the design of intelligent, AI-native systems, inventing new interaction patterns for AI, and simplifying complex tasks into intuitive flows for small business owners. The designer will also collaborate cross-functionally to define and set the standard for excellent AI UX.
Product Designer - Editor
Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
Pencil Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
The Product Designer will own the core Editor experience, leading design from strategy to execution to help users create, edit, and export ads faster with AI. Key tasks include partnering with Product and Engineering to rapidly ship features that increase content generations and exports, and designing AI-powered editing workflows.
Staff AI Product Designer, Growth & Discovery, GeminiApp
🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Deepmind 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
The role involves leading the design of user interfaces and consumer experiences for Gemini across various platforms, ensuring natural and efficient interaction with AI models. This includes collaborating with Product and Engineering to define product strategy and translating user needs into groundbreaking design solutions.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Bezos Academy 🇺🇸 Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
The Principal Product Designer will lead the design of end-to-end experiences for new products supporting young children, teachers, and families, guiding the design process from initial concept through to launch. This role involves crafting intuitive and responsive experiences grounded in deep user insight to nurture early learning and empower educators and families.
Associate Product Designer
🇺🇸 Irving, Texas, United States of America
Bioworld Inc 🇺🇸 Irving, Texas, United States of America
The Associate Graphic Designer assists Designers and Category Managers with all aspects of design and development for licensed accessories, including researching trends, concepting, building presentations, and sample development. This support role helps bring new and unique styles to market weekly by ideating product concepts and partnering with various leads to bring them to life.
Sr. Graphic Designer
🇮🇳 Bangalore North, India
Corporate Stalwarts 🇮🇳 Bangalore North, India
The role involves owning end-to-end design and video execution for various digital assets, including paid ads, email, and website content, while conceptualizing and producing high-performing static and motion creatives for multiple digital platforms. Additionally, the designer will mentor a small team, lead creative ideation for initiatives, and collaborate cross-functionally to ensure creative alignment with business goals.
Graphic Designer
🇲🇽 Guadalajara, Mexico
Neostella 🇲🇽 Guadalajara, Mexico
The Graphic Designer will lead the creative development and execution of marketing and brand assets across digital and print channels, translating strategic briefs into compelling visual narratives. This role involves owning and enforcing brand standards, providing creative direction and mentorship, and collaborating cross-functionally to align creative work with business goals.
Video Editor & Motion Graphic Designer
🇹🇭 Bangkok, Thailand
Anga 🇹🇭 Bangkok, Thailand
The role centers on leading end-to-end video production, optimizing short-form content for platforms like TikTok and Reels, and elevating designs with motion graphics to align with the brand identity. Responsibilities also include transforming marketing briefs into compelling visual stories and systematically incorporating client feedback.
Group Graphic Designer
🇸🇬 Singapore
Hirsch Bedner Associates 🇸🇬 Singapore
The Group Graphic Designer will lead and manage the design development for a wide range of internal and external marketing and brand communications, contributing to ideation, visual identity, and design execution across print and digital platforms. Key tasks include designing presentations, reports, pitch decks, brochures, infographics, and supporting marketing campaigns and brand initiatives.
Senior Product Designer | Manila
🇵🇭 Makati, Southern Manila District, Philippines
Lawadvisor Ventures Ltd. 🇵🇭 Makati, Southern Manila District, Philippines
The role involves championing design by leading the strategy and creation of end-to-end experiences and visual designs, while effectively communicating and testing solutions with teams and users. Responsibilities also include analyzing complex problems using feedback and research, aligning cross-functional teams to the product vision, and mentoring junior designers.
Founding Product Designer / Design Engineer
Remote (🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America)
Red Frog Solutions Remote (🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America)
The role involves leading product design across the platform, including user flows and interfaces, while partnering closely with engineering and leadership to translate technical capabilities into intuitive product experiences. Responsibilities also include designing and prototyping new features and establishing a scalable design system, alongside owning brand design for marketing materials.
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.