Design Leadership Jobs
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Advanced Specialist, UX Researcher
🇺🇸 Jefferson City, Missouri, United States of America
Pearson 🇺🇸 Jefferson City, Missouri, United States of America
Lead end-to-end user research to shape product strategy and improve customer experiences. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and execute studies, synthesize findings, and communicate insights that influence product design and decisions.
Advanced Specialist, UX Researcher
🇺🇸 Dover, Delaware, United States of America
Pearson 🇺🇸 Dover, Delaware, United States of America
Lead end-to-end user research to shape product strategy and improve customer experiences. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design studies, synthesize findings, and influence product design and decisions.
Advanced Specialist, UX Researcher
🇺🇸 Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America
Pearson 🇺🇸 Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America
Lead end-to-end user research to shape product strategy and improve customer experiences. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and execute studies, synthesize findings, and communicate insights effectively.
Advanced Specialist, UX Researcher
🇺🇸 Des Moines, Iowa, United States of America
Pearson 🇺🇸 Des Moines, Iowa, United States of America
Lead end-to-end user research to shape product strategy and improve customer experiences. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and execute studies, synthesize findings, and communicate insights to influence product design and decisions.
Advanced Specialist, UX Researcher
🇺🇸 Carson City, Nevada, United States of America
Pearson 🇺🇸 Carson City, Nevada, United States of America
Lead end-to-end user research to shape product strategy and improve customer experiences. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and execute studies, synthesize findings, and communicate insights that influence product design and decisions.
Advanced Specialist, UX Researcher
🇺🇸 United States of America
Pearson 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead end-to-end user research to shape product strategy and improve customer experiences. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design studies, synthesize findings, and communicate insights that influence product design and decisions.
Head of Design and Research
🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Upside 🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Lead a small team of designers and researchers to elevate the quality, consistency, and polish of the consumer and payments experience. Partner with Product, Engineering, and Marketing to integrate design into early discovery and scale the research practice using AI-native approaches.
Design Manager, Marketing
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Dmcg Global 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Lead marketing creative across various channels while ensuring consistent output. Build scalable workflows and mentor designers to improve internal operations as the business scales.
Product Design Manager
🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brazil
Auto Avaliar 🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brazil
Lead the product design of the platform from user research to final UI. Build and maintain the company's design system to ensure scalability and consistency across B2B and B2C lines.
Data Centre Design Manager
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Wsp 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Lead design governance and multidisciplinary coordination for complex data centre programs from concept to handover. Establish design management frameworks and ensure alignment between technical, commercial, and sustainability objectives.
Senior Data Centre Design Manager (Building Services)
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Wsp 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Lead the design of data centre critical infrastructure by coordinating MEP disciplines, architects, and external consultants from concept to handover. Manage capital design budgets, drive process improvements, and ensure strict adherence to quality, safety, and environmental compliance.
Product Development - design engineering
🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
Medcepts Medical Sales & Marketing Network - Medical Devices / Pharmaceuticals 🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
Lead generating opportunities for new product development and updating existing products. Provide design engineering and testing services for electronics and software devices in regulated industries.
Design Manager - Design Build
🇺🇸 Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Jacobs 🇺🇸 Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
The Design Manager will lead the scoping, planning, and delivery of municipal and industrial water infrastructure projects, ensuring quality and financial performance. They will manage multi-disciplinary teams and interface with clients to meet project expectations.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Kikoff 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Own your product area like a business owner, tracking key metrics and proactively surfacing product gaps. Lead design end-to-end, from problem framing to pixel-perfect delivery, while collaborating closely with cross-functional teams.
UX Researcher – Digital Experience (Corporate & Institutional Banking)
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Uxr Hunt 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Lead end-to-end UX research and discovery efforts that align with business and product objectives. Partner with product managers, designers, and business stakeholders to define problems and guide research strategies.
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.