Design Leadership Jobs
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Sr. Principal Product Designer, Yahoo Sports
🇫🇷 Uz, Occitania, France
Yahoo 🇫🇷 Uz, Occitania, France
The Sr. Principal Product Designer will lead design initiatives that align with Yahoo Sports' strategy, creating impactful user experiences and collaborating across teams. They will also mentor teammates and contribute to a scalable design system.
Principal Product Designer, Integrated Workflows
🌍 Remote
Mural 🌍 Remote
Own the end-to-end design of Mural’s integrated workflows platform, collaborating with various teams to create user experiences for connecting systems and managing permissions. Design reusable patterns and frameworks that enable multiple product teams to build integrations consistently and safely.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Microsoft 🇺🇸 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
You will lead the production of visual designs and oversee the creation of various design documents. Additionally, you will guide communication with cross-disciplinary teams and tell compelling product stories to influence key stakeholders.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States
Gametime United 🇺🇸 United States
The Principal Product Designer will lead design for impactful consumer experiences, focusing on onboarding, discovery, and event exploration. This role involves end-to-end design processes, from problem definition to shipping and iterating solutions.
Principal Engineer, VLSI Design Engineering
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Sandisk 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
The Principal Engineer will be responsible for the Logic design development and ownership of the RTL modules for 3D NAND flash memory. This includes driving design activities, ensuring timing closure, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
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.
Principal Product Designer, Yahoo Search - Tentpole & Editorial Experiences
🇫🇷 Uz, Occitania, France
Yahoo 🇫🇷 Uz, Occitania, France
Define and drive the long-term design vision for tentpole and live-event experiences across Yahoo Search. Influence product and design strategy across multiple teams to ensure a cohesive user experience.
Principal Product Designer, Sales Cloud
🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States
Salesforce 🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States
Set the vision for Sales Cloud AI features and communicate ideas effectively to stakeholders. Mentor junior designers and advocate for accessibility in design.
Principal Associate, Product Designer
🇺🇸 Plano, Texas, United States
Capital One 🇺🇸 Plano, Texas, United States
As a Product Designer, you will combine your craft expertise with an understanding of customers and the business to co-create innovative solutions. You will leverage your product design skills to create artifacts such as journey maps, blueprints, high-fidelity designs, and prototypes.
Principal Product Designer (Math)
🇺🇸 United States
Savvas Learning Company 🇺🇸 United States
The Principal Product Designer will lead the creation and maintenance of the Savvas Product Design Systems, ensuring consistency and efficiency across product development. This role involves developing design guidelines, conducting audits, and driving the adoption of the design system across teams.
Principal Product Designer (m/f/d)
🇩🇪 Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Autoscout24 🇩🇪 Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Lead and oversee the user experience of a product from conception to launch, collaborating with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders. Contribute to strategic decisions and facilitate conversations to drive progress against goals.
Principal Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Valence 🌍 Remote
Design features that evolve AI coaching into a multiplayer collaboration platform and establish a design system for consistency as the company scales. Collaborate with product and engineering teams to ship high-quality experiences weekly.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 Redmond, Washington, United States
Microsoft 🇺🇸 Redmond, Washington, United States
Deliver world-class design solutions from initial concept through finished product while collaborating closely with product managers, engineers, and researchers. Advocate for design solutions by aligning them with business and user goals.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 Towson, Maryland, United States
Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. 🇺🇸 Towson, Maryland, United States
As a Principal Product Designer, you will deliver exceptional design work on complex initiatives and explore new approaches to design through prototyping and experimentation. You will also build design systems and frameworks while partnering with product managers, engineers, and researchers to create impactful experiences.
Principal UX Designer, Devices Experience Design
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Amazon 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Lead the UX design strategy for Amazon's device offerings, ensuring alignment with business goals and brand identity. Mentor senior designers and influence design frameworks and methodologies across multiple product lines.
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.