Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior UX Researcher
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Super.com Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The Senior UX Researcher will lead and manage end-to-end UX research projects, designing and executing mixed-methods studies to answer critical questions across key product journeys. They will translate evidence into actionable insights to directly influence roadmaps, product requirements, and experiment design while mentoring cross-functional partners.
Senior Product Designer
🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Klue 🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
The Senior Product Designer will own the end-to-end experience of major product areas, driving everything from discovery and research through interaction design, visual execution, and production handoff. This role involves facilitating user research, maintaining high visual craft standards, and building shared patterns to enable the broader team to ship consistent UI.
UI/UX Designer Senior
🇧🇷 Brazil
Newfold Digital 🇧🇷 Brazil
The role involves end-to-end design processes, from discovery and prototyping to validation and delivery, while collaborating with Product and Engineering teams to define solutions. Responsibilities also include mapping user journeys, identifying friction points, and ensuring interface consistency using design systems.
UI/UX Designer Senior
Remote (🇧🇷 Brazil)
Hostgator Remote (🇧🇷 Brazil)
The role involves end-to-end design processes, including discovery, prototyping, validation, and delivery, while collaborating with Product and Engineering teams to define solutions. Responsibilities also include mapping journeys, identifying friction points, creating flows for web and mobile, conducting research, and ensuring interface consistency using design systems.
Senior Product Designer
🇨🇱 Santiago, Provincia de Santiago, Chile
Front 🇨🇱 Santiago, Provincia de Santiago, Chile
The Senior Product Designer will be involved in all aspects of product development, from brainstorming with Product Management to final pixel tweaking with Engineering, focusing on designing features for developer integrations and AI-powered automation. Responsibilities include executing and evolving the design system, designing experiences across web, desktop, and mobile, and championing users in cross-functional decisions.
Senior Product Designer
🇧🇷 Brazil
Valtech 🇧🇷 Brazil
The Senior Product Designer will lead design execution across the full product lifecycle, translating complex requirements into clear, effective user-centered digital experiences. Responsibilities include creating various design artifacts, conducting research, leveraging AI tools intentionally, and contributing to product strategy.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇨🇴 Colombia)
Valtech Remote (🇨🇴 Colombia)
The Senior Product Designer will lead the design of thoughtful, scalable, and user-centered digital experiences, driving design execution across the full product lifecycle from strategy through execution. Responsibilities include creating various design artifacts, conducting research, leveraging AI tools critically, and collaborating closely with cross-functional teams and clients.
Senior Product Designer
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Starrez 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
The Product Designer will conduct user research and usability testing to gather insights and refine designs based on real user feedback while collaborating closely with Product Managers and Engineers. They will own design problems from start to finish, ensuring solutions solve user needs by involving customers in the design process and advocating for users within the business.
(Senior) Product Designer (UI) (m/f/d)
🇩🇪 Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Sap Fioneer 🇩🇪 Munich, Bavaria, Germany
The Product Designer will be responsible for designing user flows, screens, and high-fidelity mockups, collaborating closely with product, engineering, and design teams to ensure intuitive and production-ready UI. Key tasks include utilizing design systems, supporting cross-functional teams with assets, and staying current on industry trends to elevate design practice.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Front 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design for Front’s core inbox and application experience, taking ownership of a product area to set direction, define principles, and ship high-quality solutions. This involves driving discovery and research, partnering deeply with Product and Engineering, and designing complex systems-level interactions across web, desktop, and mobile platforms.
Senior Product Designer, CNN Growth, Acquisition Wholesale
🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Warner Bros. Discovery 🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will execute across all phases of the design process, including wire-framing, prototyping, and visual design, while driving large-scale, business-critical projects. This role focuses on creating design expressions for CNN Digital web, mobile, and OTT apps dedicated to converting the audience to new subscribers of the CNN streaming product.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 Bellevue, Washington, United States of America)
Blink Ux Remote (🇺🇸 Bellevue, Washington, United States of America)
The role involves leading and executing innovative digital product designs that delight customers and achieve business goals, while working within cross-functional teams to produce various design artifacts like wireframes and prototypes. Responsibilities also include providing design direction, ensuring consistency with design systems, and partnering with researchers and developers to test and optimize the end-to-end digital experience.
UX Designer
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Accretive Technology Group 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
The Senior UX Designer will lead the end-to-end UX design process, from discovery and research through final design delivery, creating intuitive and scalable experiences for complex product features. This role involves close collaboration with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to translate business requirements into effective design solutions.
Senior Visual / Product Designer
🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Captech Consulting 🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Responsibilities include designing engaging digital experiences for web and mobile products, extending existing designs, and producing clear presentations to communicate design rationale to clients and internal teams. Designers will also consult on accessible design, contribute to user research artifacts, and collaborate with developers to ensure design fidelity.
Senior Interaction / Product Designer
🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Captech Consulting 🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Responsibilities include creating personas, customer journeys, wireframes, prototypes, and responsive web/mobile interface designs following best practices, while also designing new digital experiences and enhancing existing ones based on design systems. The role involves presenting design rationale clearly to clients and teams, consulting on accessible design, and providing constructive feedback on designs.
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.