Design Leadership Jobs
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Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Fire 🇺🇸 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
The Graphic Designer will create print and digital design content, collaborating with the Senior Graphic Designer. Key duties include designing print materials and digital assets while ensuring adherence to brand standards.
Senior Graphic Designer, Visual Merchandising & Packaging Design
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Bubble Skincare 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
You will lead the design and development of innovative packaging and in-store experiences. This role blends hands-on creative execution with cross-functional collaboration to bring new product launches and campaigns to life.
UX Designer
🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Ey 🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Telangana, India
As a Senior UX/UI Designer, you will develop and implement technology solutions for audit clients, ensuring user-friendly designs. You will collaborate with development teams to transition designs into final products.
Senior Principal AI Product Designer Senior Principal AI Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Bae 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Design intuitive AI-powered experiences and lead end-to-end design processes. Guide teams towards research-driven design decisions while ensuring high-quality delivery.
Senior UX Designer (12 Month FTC/Secondment)
🇬🇧 Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Lloyds Banking Group 🇬🇧 Bristol, England, United Kingdom
The Senior UX Designer will shape and implement experience strategy for the product area, focusing on customer needs and business priorities. They will lead a multidisciplinary design team and provide guidance to stakeholders and development teams.
Senior UX Designer (12 Month FTC/Secondment)
🇬🇧 Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Lloyds Banking Group 🇬🇧 Bristol, England, United Kingdom
The Senior UX Designer will shape and implement experience strategy for the product area, focusing on customer needs and business priorities. They will lead a multidisciplinary design team and engage with stakeholders to deliver effective solutions.
Senior Product Designer Haircare
🇨🇳 Futian District, Guangdong Province, China
Philips 🇨🇳 Futian District, Guangdong Province, China
The Senior Product Designer will conduct user research, create design solutions, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure user-centric designs. They will also document design specifications and manage relationships with business stakeholders.
Senior UX Designer
🇭🇺 Budapest, Central Hungary, Hungary
Clario 🇭🇺 Budapest, Central Hungary, Hungary
As a Senior UX Designer, you will lead user research and design processes to improve usability and accessibility of products. You will refine designs based on user feedback and collaborate with development teams to ensure usability requirements are met.
Senior UX Designer
🇨🇿 Brno, South Moravian, Czechia
Tricentis 🇨🇿 Brno, South Moravian, Czechia
Lead the design process for major features or components of the product and conduct advanced user research and usability studies to guide design decisions. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define product requirements and design solutions.
Senior, UI/UX Designer - EG, Remote: Colombia - Costa Rica, Fulltime, Digital Product Development
The Senior UI/UX Designer will gather user requirements, create visual designs, and develop prototypes while collaborating with an Agile team. They will also articulate design decisions and ensure alignment with the product vision.
Senior Digital Product Designer (6 months)
🌍 Remote
Rbs 🌍 Remote
As a Senior Digital Product Designer, you will lead design thinking in projects, focusing on user needs and delivering high-quality designs. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to produce effective design solutions and manage workshops.
UX Designer @DARWIN
🇷🇴 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Marsh Mclennan 🇷🇴 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
As a UX Designer, you will work collaboratively with senior designers and contribute to the product experience design lifecycle. You will conduct user research, create detailed design specifications, and collaborate with Product Managers and Software Engineers to implement designs effectively.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Tzafon 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Develop the visual language for the Lightcone platform and design interaction patterns for workflows involving human guidance of agents. Collaborate with the executive team and design partners to maintain brand simplicity and align vision.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States
Magnopus 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States
The Senior UX Designer will execute UX design work across active product and XR experiences, supporting end-to-end product UX flows and interaction design. They will collaborate closely with various teams and maintain UX consistency across experiences already in development.
Senior Product Designer
🇫🇮 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
Hoxhunt 🇫🇮 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
You will own the product design of critical areas such as Admin, Integrations, and Reporting, ensuring clarity and usability. Your role involves collaborating with Product Managers and Developers to create high-fidelity designs that meet user needs and system constraints.
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.