Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior Graphic Designer
🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Westgroupe 🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
The Senior Graphic Designer is responsible for creating visual marketing materials for all company brands, focusing on campaign visuals, catalogues, and promotional materials. The role involves collaboration with various teams to ensure creative materials align with brand guidelines.
Senior Product Designer - Engagement & Loyalty
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Gamblingcareers.com 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Lead the end-to-end design of engagement and loyalty experiences, ensuring they drive user progression and retention. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define success metrics and continuously improve user experiences.
Senior UX Designer
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Vml 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
The Senior UX Designer will contribute to the definition and shaping of digital banking products, collaborating with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders. They will design user flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity UI while applying an established design system.
Senior Engineer, Product Design Engineering
🇨🇳 Jinjiang City, Fujian, China
Wd 🇨🇳 Jinjiang City, Fujian, China
You will support HDD and key component product design validation, characterization, and qualification activities. This includes analyzing product and manufacturing data to evaluate performance and support continuous improvement in product quality.
Senior UI/UX Designer - Evinova Design System
🇺🇸 Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America
Evinova 🇺🇸 Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America
Drive the evolution of the design system across multiple products, including component strategy, governance, adoption, and ongoing improvement. Partner with Design, Engineering, and Product to align on standards and support clear decision-making.
Senior Design Manager – MEPH
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Systra Uk & Ireland 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
The Senior Design Manager is responsible for managing MEPHFC design matters, ensuring compliance with design standards and facilitating communication between various teams. This role includes overseeing design verification, managing subcontractor proposals, and coordinating with multiple disciplines to ensure successful project delivery.
Senior/Principal Design Manager for Design & Build
🇬🇧 Bristol, City of Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Atkinsréalis 🇬🇧 Bristol, City of Bristol, England, United Kingdom
The Senior Design Manager will lead a team of engineers in delivering technical design work on complex multi-disciplinary Design & Build projects. They will also manage project design deliverables and contribute to business operational activities.
Senior Product Designer, Onboarding & Activation
🇨🇦 Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Clio 🇨🇦 Calgary, Alberta, Canada
The Senior Product Designer will own the design of the onboarding and activation experience for new customers during their first 120 days. This includes mapping the customer journey, designing in-product guidance, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure a coherent onboarding experience.
Senior Product Designer, Onboarding & Activation
🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Clio 🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
The Senior Product Designer will own the design of the onboarding and activation experience for new customers over their first 120 days. This includes mapping the customer journey, designing in-product guidance, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure a coherent onboarding experience.
Senior Product Designer, Onboarding & Activation
🇨🇦 Canada
Clio 🇨🇦 Canada
The Senior Product Designer will own the design of the onboarding and activation experience for new Clio customers, focusing on the critical first 120 days. This includes mapping the customer journey, designing in-product guidance, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure a coherent onboarding experience.
Senior Product Designer (UX/Product Strategy)
🇧🇷 Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
4df Connect 🇧🇷 Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
The Senior Product Designer will help reorganize the product experience, simplify complex flows, and create an information architecture that allows customers to quickly understand the platform's value. The role involves understanding the business, engaging with clients, mapping journeys, identifying usability bottlenecks, and transforming a feature-rich platform into a simple, intuitive experience.
Senior Engineer, Product Design Engineering
🇨🇳 Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
Western Digital 🇨🇳 Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
Support HDD and key component product design validation, characterization, and qualification using data-driven methodologies. Analyze performance and reliability data to identify design risks and assist in root cause analysis for quality issues.
Senior Digital IP Design Manager
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Onsemi 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Lead the design of digital datapath and subsystem IP for next-generation CMOS image sensors and the Treo platform. Manage a team of digital design engineers while driving technical execution and integrating AI/automation to improve productivity.
Senior UX Researcher, GP Studio
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Uxr Hunt 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Develop and execute a research plan aligned with GP Studio strategy. Lead research studies to understand pain points and identify opportunities for AI improvements.
Senior Graphic Designer, Fashion Ecommerce Brand
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
24 Seven Talent 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer will design creative assets across various platforms including web, social media, and retail. They will lead projects from concept to execution and collaborate with marketing and product teams on brand initiatives.
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.