Design Leadership Jobs

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Senior UX Researcher

🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom

You will lead complex research across the university's digital estate to turn user insights into meaningful product improvements. Additionally, you will mentor other researchers and champion user-centred design practices across the organization.

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Senior Design Manager

🇬🇧 West Midlands, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom

The Senior Design Manager will serve as the principal point of contact for managing design aspects of tenders and active projects. They are responsible for leading the design service throughout both the bid and delivery stages to ensure professional and sustainable outcomes.

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Senior UI/UX Product Designer

🇮🇳 India

The Senior UI/UX Product Designer will own the end-to-end design process, from research and wireframing to high-fidelity visual design and developer handoff. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to create intuitive, scalable digital products that meet business and user requirements.

$1,000,000 - $1,600,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior Motion Graphic Designer

🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates

Create dynamic motion graphics, 3D assets, and visual content for marketing campaigns and social media. Integrate AI-powered tools into creative workflows while collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure brand consistency.

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Senior UX Designer

🇸🇪 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Lead end-to-end UX research initiatives and synthesize data to uncover user friction points across web and mobile platforms. Drive continuous discovery and contribute to the shared design system to ensure scalable framework consistency.

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CPU Cache Subsystem Senior Design Manager

🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America

Lead and manage a front-end design team to develop next-generation CPU subsystems, focusing on micro-architecture and RTL design. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize performance, power, and area while ensuring project milestones are met.

$240,000 - $333,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior Motion Graphic Designer

🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia

Create dynamic motion graphics, 3D assets, and branding materials for marketing campaigns and social media. Integrate AI-powered tools into the creative workflow to improve production efficiency while maintaining high visual quality.

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Senior Graphic Designer

🇩🇪 Hamburg, Germany

You will lead the execution of brand vision across global marketing channels by producing high-quality visual assets and maintaining scalable design systems. You will collaborate with marketing and product teams to translate commercial objectives into effective, story-driven design.

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Senior Product Designer, Partner Marketplace

🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to lead the design process from conception to completion for consumer and client-facing platforms. Actively contribute to the evolution of the design system while serving as the voice of the user to deliver innovative, high-quality design solutions.

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Senior Motion Graphic Designer

🇹🇷 Turkey

The Senior Motion Graphic Designer will create dynamic motion graphics, 3D assets, and visual identities for marketing campaigns and social media. They will also integrate AI-powered tools into production workflows while collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure brand consistency.

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Gameloft Saigon

Graphic Designer (Middle/Senior)

🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Create high-quality 2D marketing assets, in-game visuals, and branding materials to drive user engagement across various digital and print channels. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure visual consistency and adherence to brand and licensing guidelines.

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Senior Motion Graphic Designer

Remote (🇮🇹 Italy)

The role involves creating dynamic motion graphics, video content, and 3D assets for marketing campaigns and social media. You will also integrate AI-powered tools into creative workflows while collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure brand consistency.

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Senior Motion Graphic Designer

Remote (🇮🇱 Israel)

You will create dynamic motion graphics, video content, and 3D assets for marketing campaigns and social media. The role involves integrating AI-powered tools into creative workflows while collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure brand consistency.

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Senior Motion Graphic Designer

Remote (🇪🇸 Spain)

The Senior Motion Graphic Designer will create dynamic visual content for marketing campaigns, social media, and advertisements using a mix of 2D, 3D, and AI-powered tools. They will manage the full creative pipeline from concept development to final execution while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

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Senior Motion Graphic Designer

Remote (🇵🇹 Portugal)

Create dynamic motion graphics, video content, and 3D assets for marketing campaigns and social media. Integrate AI-powered tools into creative workflows while collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure brand consistency.

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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.