Design Leadership Jobs
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Founding Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
P-1 Ai Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The role involves architecting the interaction between engineering customers and the agentic AI, Archie, by defining logic, conversational flows, and rigorous design systems. Responsibilities include leading UX research, shaping AI communication, and bridging design with the technical engineering pipeline.
Sr Staff Product Designer, Emerging Agents
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Adobe 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The role involves leading the design and delivery of intelligent agentic systems for complex creative and enterprise workflows, focusing on building AI-native capabilities that allow users to delegate, steer, and evaluate these systems with confidence. Key tasks include establishing mental models for human-AI collaboration, designing interaction frameworks for multi-step workflows, and prototyping AI-native capabilities by working directly with large language models.
Lead UX Designer
🇺🇸 San Diego, California, United States of America
Dexcom 🇺🇸 San Diego, California, United States of America
The Lead UX Designer will design solutions for consumer biosensor products, focusing on helping users manage health through data insights related to glucose, nutrition, activity, and sleep. This involves leading design from concept through engineering handover while collaborating with cross-functional teams like Product Management, Engineering, and Regulatory.
Lead UX Designer
🇺🇸 San Diego, California, United States of America
Dexcom 🇺🇸 San Diego, California, United States of America
The Lead UX Designer will design solutions for consumer biosensor products, focusing on health management through data and insights, while collaborating with cross-functional teams from concept through delivery and approvals. This role involves leading design strategy, translating raw data into meaningful user insights, and advocating for patient and user needs across various health and wellness monitoring activities.
Lead Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Circle.so 🌍 Remote
The role involves owning a product area end-to-end, which includes identifying opportunities, framing problems, setting design direction, and shipping experiences while operating as a peer to Product and Engineering. Responsibilities also include driving craft standards, collaborating closely with engineers, and raising the bar for the broader design team through feedback and shared frameworks.
Senior Product Designer - Post Purchase
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Stubhub 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
This role involves leading the design of end-to-end user experiences, from problem framing to solution delivery, while partnering closely with product and engineering leaders to define strategy and roadmap priorities. The designer will also be responsible for upholding design excellence, contributing to the design system evolution, and coaching junior designers.
Senior Product Designer - Post Purchase
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Stubhub 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
This role involves leading the design of end-to-end user experiences, from problem framing to solution delivery, while partnering closely with product and engineering leaders to define strategy and priorities. The designer will also be responsible for upholding design excellence, contributing to the design system, and coaching junior team members.
Product Designer
Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)
Rockstar Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)
The contractor will shape intuitive digital product experiences across web and app by applying research, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs, while also conducting user research to inform feature planning. Responsibilities also include leading visual direction, designing presentation collateral, and collaborating closely with engineering and product teams.
Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Lehi, Utah, United States of America
Nature's Sunshine Products 🇺🇸 Lehi, Utah, United States of America
The role involves conceptualizing and executing design across various integrated marketing assets, including print, digital, social, and motion, to bring the brand vision to life. Responsibilities include contributing high-quality design across all touchpoints, leading campaign photo shoots for creative direction, and maintaining brand guidelines.
Sr. Graphic Designer (US Remote)
Remote (🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America)
First Advantage Remote (🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America)
This upper-level creative role involves creating compelling visual designs across print, digital, web, email, and video deliverables, while independently formulating concepts to meet communication objectives. The designer will collaborate with internal clients, vendors, and executive teams, leading brainstorming sessions and ensuring compliance with global brand strategy and tone of voice.
Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
Swoop Technologies 🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
The role involves leading the visual evolution of the company website, creating motion graphics using 3D renders and After Effects to shape technical narratives, and partnering with leadership to transform complex ideas into persuasive presentations and training materials. Additionally, the designer will build custom visual assets and define the external brand understanding of the company's mission.
Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America
The Raymond Corporation 🇺🇸 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America
The Graphic Designer will elevate the brand through high-impact visual storytelling across digital, print, motion, and video channels, partnering with marketing, sales, HR, and leadership. This role involves designing marketing assets, leading video production end-to-end, and creating materials for internal communications and sales enablement.
Military Analyst / Graphic Designer (CIG)
🇺🇸 Dale County, Alabama, United States of America
Summit Technologies, Inc. 🇺🇸 Dale County, Alabama, United States of America
The Military Analyst / Graphic Designer supports AVCOE leadership by creating visual communication products such as graphics, charts, presentations, and multimedia to align with strategic messaging objectives. Key duties involve designing visual materials, developing PowerPoint briefings, and producing digital media content.
Senior Product Designer
🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Propertyguru Group 🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Lead product design for complex, cross-functional initiatives spanning multiple squads and shape the design strategy for the product area by identifying the right problems to solve. Set craft standards through design reviews and mentorship while contributing to and evolving the company's design system.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇭🇺 Hungary)
Goto Remote (🇭🇺 Hungary)
The Senior Product Designer will lead end-to-end product design across the full lifecycle, from discovery to delivery, creating prototypes and specifications. They will use data and insights to inform design decisions while collaborating closely with PMs, engineers, and researchers to deliver user-centered solutions.
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.