Design Leadership Jobs
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Junior Graphic Designer
🇷🇴 Romania
Arrise 🇷🇴 Romania
The Junior Graphic Designer will be responsible for creating visually engaging table felts, concepts, and print-ready designs while contributing creative ideas and supporting the evolution of design systems. This role involves collaborating with product and studio teams, participating in design reviews, and ensuring visual consistency across all assets.
Senior UX Researcher I
🇩🇰 9000 Aalborg, Denmark
Elsevier 🇩🇰 9000 Aalborg, Denmark
The role focuses on understanding user needs, integrating UX feedback, aligning teams, and sharing insights to guide strategy and design decisions across a business or product line. Responsibilities include leading user-centered design through diverse UX research techniques and mentoring junior team members.
Junior Marketing Graphic Designer
🇮🇱 Raanana, Petah Tikva Subdistrict, Israel
Moburst 🇮🇱 Raanana, Petah Tikva Subdistrict, Israel
The role involves creating high-quality visual designs for digital platforms, such as banners, videos, and social posts, ensuring they align with client brand visions. Responsibilities also include collaborating with cross-functional teams and managing multiple projects from concept to completion while meeting deadlines.
Junior Graphic Designer - Marketing Focus
🇺🇸 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Printfresh Llc 🇺🇸 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
The Junior Graphic Designer will support the creation of marketing collateral across digital and print formats, including executing website graphic updates by applying UI/UX principles to support conversion goals. They will also be responsible for production support, including creating mockups and preparing production-ready files, while ensuring all creative work aligns with brand guidelines.
Experiential Graphic Designer IV
🇺🇸 St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
Cannondesign 🇺🇸 St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
This role involves leading conceptual and design development across multiple projects, mentoring junior team members, and translating client needs into compelling concepts that express their mission. The designer will execute projects from strategy through final design, developing documentation for graphic programs, wayfinding, signage, and exhibits.
Junior Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 Durham, North Carolina, United States of America)
Pocket Prep Remote (🇺🇸 Durham, North Carolina, United States of America)
The role involves leading small-scale design projects, clarifying user flows with wireframes, and developing high-fidelity visual designs in Figma using the design library. Responsibilities also include communicating designs to engineers, performing visual quality assurance, and supporting larger initiatives through scoped tasks.
Junior UI/UX Designer (Wisey)
🇺🇦 Kyiv, Ukraine
Universe Group 🇺🇦 Kyiv, Ukraine
The role involves designing screens for funnels, quizzes, and paywall screens, alongside working on Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO) experiments like modals and pop-ups. Responsibilities also include improving visual quality, supporting the design system, preparing designs for development (handoff, UI QA), and analyzing competitors.
Mechanical Project Engineer, Project Execution, Design Engineering Quality
🇺🇸 Springdale, Ohio, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Springdale, Ohio, United States of America
This role involves owning and executing the mechanical design for automated fulfillment center projects, taking full responsibility for subsystems from concept through installation. The engineer will also provide direct oversight and mentorship to junior engineers, ensuring their work meets project standards and developing their technical capabilities.
Mid Level - Graphic Designer
🇮🇳 Mumbai, Mumbai Suburban District, India
The Works 🇮🇳 Mumbai, Mumbai Suburban District, India
The designer will lead the design process from concept to execution, creating high-quality visual assets for marketing materials, social media, and more. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, managing a project pipeline, and mentoring junior designers.
Graphic Designer/ Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Fussball Club Cincinnati Llc (“fc Cincinnati”) 🇺🇸 Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
This role involves leading the creative development and execution of high-impact paid media assets across various digital and physical platforms, optimizing designs for platform best practices and conversion goals. The designer will partner with performance marketing teams, maintain brand consistency, and provide creative leadership and mentorship to junior staff.
Graphic Designer II
🇺🇸 Alpharetta, Georgia, United States of America
Nelson Worldwide 🇺🇸 Alpharetta, Georgia, United States of America
The Graphic Designer II is responsible for basic graphic design assignments, supporting concept development, planning, designing, and design production across all project phases. This role involves executing design intent, mentoring junior staff, and professionally interacting with clients, co-workers, and vendors.
Junior Graphic Designer - Job ID 1729948
🇺🇸 Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Dcm Inc 🇺🇸 Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
This role involves creating various marketing assets such as social media graphics, digital ads, and email layouts, while supporting the development of product packaging and retail environmental graphics. The designer will also prepare files for print production and organize design assets under the guidance of senior staff.
Junior UX Designer
🇬🇧 London, UB8 1SB, United Kingdom
Motorola Solutions 🇬🇧 London, UB8 1SB, United Kingdom
The Junior UX Designer will be responsible for designing and developing a key part of the product from day one, working closely with Visual Designers and engineers throughout the complete design process. Responsibilities include contributing to informational structure to convey complex information in an easily understandable and user-friendly way.
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.
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.
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.