Design Leadership Jobs
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Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 McLean, VA 22101, United States of America
Appian 🇺🇸 McLean, VA 22101, United States of America
Create polished, production-ready creative for campaigns, events, presentations, digital experiences, and other brand touchpoints. Partner with creative leadership, marketing teams, stakeholders, agencies, and vendors to translate business objectives into compelling visual storytelling while maintaining and thoughtfully extending Appian’s brand.
Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Appian 🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Design polished, production-ready creative for campaigns, events, presentations, digital experiences, and other marketing initiatives while applying and thoughtfully extending Appian’s global brand system. Partner with creative leadership, cross-functional stakeholders, agencies, and vendors to translate business and technology concepts into compelling visual narratives and ensure high-quality execution.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Anglian Water's @one Alliance 🇬🇧 Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Lead design delivery for a portfolio of water recycling and wastewater projects, managing multidisciplinary engineering teams and project plans covering scope, programme, cost, risk, and resources. Collaborate with alliance partners and suppliers to deliver safe, affordable, innovative, low-carbon designs while promoting digital engineering, standardisation, and team development.
Design Manager - Water Sector
🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Stantec 🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Lead multidisciplinary teams in delivering water-sector projects from concept through detailed design, including clean water, wastewater, flood risk, and urban drainage work. Plan and oversee technical delivery across major projects, collaborate with clients and project managers, and ensure value and service excellence.
Design Manager - Water Sector
🇬🇧 Warrington, England, United Kingdom
Stantec 🇬🇧 Warrington, England, United Kingdom
Lead multidisciplinary teams in planning and delivering major water-sector projects, from concept through detailed design, including design-and-build and owner's engineer services. Act as the technical lead alongside the Project Manager, coordinating clients and internal and external specialists to deliver high-quality, cost-effective outcomes.
Lead Product Designer - CRM
🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
Monday.com 🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
Lead end-to-end design of AI-powered CRM experiences across desktop and mobile, including large cross-product initiatives and vision work. Partner with product and engineering leaders, guide designers, advocate for customers, and advance design practices and AI-enabled workflows.
Design Manager
🇳🇴 3870 Fyresdal, Norway
Cts Group 🇳🇴 3870 Fyresdal, Norway
Lead design delivery from concept through construction, coordinating consultants, engineering teams, subcontractors, clients, and architectural, structural, and MEP disciplines. Manage design reviews, changes, schedules, compliance, procurement input, BIM coordination, technical submissions, and resolution of site issues.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Zapp 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead end-to-end design for Zapp’s customer-facing mobile app and internal operations and commercial tools, partnering with Product, Engineering, Operations, and Commercial teams. Conduct research and testing, design workflows and interfaces for fulfillment systems, and evolve the design system, processes, and documentation.
Schedule Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Easyjet 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the end-to-end design and development of airline schedules, balancing long-term commercial value, strategic priorities, and operational resilience. Manage planning scenarios and milestones, guide analysts and planners, and establish governance and improved methods for evidence-based decisions and controlled handovers.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Irving, Texas, United States of America
Kforce Inc 🇺🇸 Irving, Texas, United States of America
Lead complex design initiatives from problem identification through implementation, establishing standards, processes, and governance that improve consistency and scalability. Develop workflows, interaction patterns, prototypes, documentation, and testing approaches, partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver practical, accessible solutions.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Cedar City, Utah, United States of America
Novax Recruitment Group 🇺🇸 Cedar City, Utah, United States of America
Manage insulated metal panel and wall-system design packages from project award through completion, coordinating clients, architects, engineers, and external detailing partners. Oversee schedules, submittals, RFIs, and deliverables; review technical drawings; lead project calls; and identify design or constructability issues to ensure accurate, timely delivery.
Product Designer - Chinese Speaking
🇺🇸 Buena Park, California, United States of America
Cofreight Inc 🇺🇸 Buena Park, California, United States of America
Lead design for new web and mobile features, including user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and final UI, while improving existing product areas based on customer feedback, usability testing, and analytics. Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Research, use AI tools to accelerate design work, maintain design systems and documentation, and support implementation through build reviews and design presentations.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Herndon, Virginia, United States of America
Unissant 🇺🇸 Herndon, Virginia, United States of America
Lead discovery with stakeholders and users, then translate complex business processes into accessible user journeys, workflows, prototypes, and implementation-ready designs. Collaborate with analysts and engineers, validate designs through usability feedback, and support accessibility conformance, user acceptance testing, training materials, and ongoing product improvement.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Nexhealth 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead end-to-end UX design across NexHealth’s platform, from research and user flows through prototypes and final UI, while building scalable design systems. Partner with product managers and engineers to shape product scope, influence technical architecture, and simplify user experiences.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 Los Angeles County, CA 91608, United States of America
Nbcuniversal 🇺🇸 Los Angeles County, CA 91608, United States of America
The Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design process for web and mobile platforms, creating intuitive user experiences from discovery to final implementation. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams including Product Managers and Engineers to define requirements and maintain design systems.
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.