Design Leadership Jobs
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Sr. Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Lalaland Support Center Llc 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Develop and execute visual concepts and layouts for print, packaging, signage, promotional materials, social media, and other brand assets while maintaining La La Land’s visual standards. Lead projects from concept through delivery, collaborate with marketing, operations, printers, vendors, and colleagues, and manage multiple deadlines.
Senior Product Designer
🇪🇸 Spain
Olx 🇪🇸 Spain
Lead design strategy across product squads, translating user needs and business goals into product direction, and use AI-native workflows to prototype and iterate directly in code. Establish reusable design patterns and system components, uphold craft standards, mentor designers, and partner with Product and Engineering to validate decisions and deliver measurable outcomes.
Sr. Graphic Designer (B2B)
🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Selkirk Sport 🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Create premium B2B presentations, sales materials, campaigns, event collateral, and experiential marketing assets across Selkirk Sport’s brands and partner initiatives. Collaborate with marketing and creative teams, manage multiple projects through production, maintain brand standards, and provide leadership for a Graphic Designer.
Senior Staff UX Designer, Shopping Cart and Checkout
🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Google 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Lead design strategy and create cohesive shopping experiences across Google products, collaborating with leaders and teams across areas including Search, Gemini, Ads, YouTube, Google Pay, and Photos. Develop and guide innovative design solutions, own design processes or systems across teams, incorporate user testing and stakeholder input, and prioritize project resources while working primarily as an individual contributor and partly as a manager.
Senior Staff UX Designer, Shopping Cart and Checkout
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Google 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead design strategy and create cohesive shopping experiences across Google products, collaborating with leaders and teams across areas including Search, Gemini, Ads, YouTube, Google Pay, and Photos. Develop and guide innovative design solutions, own design processes and systems, incorporate user testing and stakeholder feedback, and manage project priorities while working primarily as an individual contributor and partly as a team manager.
Staff UX Designer
🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Google 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Lead the UX design process from concept through prototyping and specification, creating high-quality experiences and design patterns for Pixel phones and emerging hardware. Collaborate across product, engineering, hardware, and software teams to shape cohesive experiences, develop design strategy, and mentor junior designers.
Lead Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Blinkrx 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead product design across multiple product areas, creating intuitive user experiences that meet patient needs and business goals. Facilitate collaborative design work, use research and data to guide decisions, develop and document end-to-end designs, and build processes and toolkits that scale the design team.
Lead Product Designer
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Blinkrx 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Lead product design across multiple product areas, partnering with stakeholders, product managers, engineers, and designers to shape and deliver BlinkRx’s product vision. Create and document user-centered experiences through research, design workshops, interaction models, prototypes, and scalable design processes.
Lead Product Designer
🇺🇸 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Blinkrx 🇺🇸 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Lead product design across multiple product areas, partnering with product managers, engineers, stakeholders, and designers to deliver intuitive experiences aligned with user needs and business goals. Facilitate collaborative design work, conduct and synthesize user research, create and document designs and prototypes, and develop processes and toolkits that scale the design team.
Lead UX Designer
🇺🇸 Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
Integres, Llc 🇺🇸 Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
Lead UX strategy and design for the eMMA modernization program, conducting research and creating user journeys, workflows, prototypes, and accessible designs. Establish UX standards, collaborate with stakeholders and delivery teams, review partner deliverables, maintain design documentation, and use testing and feedback to guide iterative improvements.
Design Lead, Design Systems - Freelance
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Akqa 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead and mentor designers while providing hands-on creative direction for a flagship digital product experience. Guide the creation and evolution of scalable design systems, align creative work with client and user needs, and collaborate with UX, strategy, and development teams to deliver and present high-quality solutions.
Senior Staff UX Designer, Shopping Cart and Checkout
🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Google 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Lead design strategy and innovative solutions for cohesive shopping experiences across Google products, collaborating with leaders and teams across areas including Search, Gemini, Ads, YouTube, Google Pay, and Photos. Own design processes and priorities, improve designs using UX testing and stakeholder input, and contribute primarily as an individual designer while also managing a small team.
Lead Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Blink Health 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead product design across multiple areas, partnering with product managers, engineers, stakeholders, and designers to deliver intuitive experiences aligned with BlinkRx’s product strategy. Use research and data to shape user flows, information architecture, prototypes, and product opportunities, while documenting design decisions and developing processes that scale the design team.
Hardware Design Manager
🇬🇧 Southampton, England, United Kingdom
Spectrum It Recruitment 🇬🇧 Southampton, England, United Kingdom
Lead and grow the RTL and digital hardware engineering organisation, providing technical direction across ASIC and FPGA development while recruiting, mentoring, and developing engineers. Improve engineering processes and design flows, introduce automation and AI-assisted tools, collaborate with architects and senior stakeholders, and ensure high-quality hardware delivery aligned with the technology and product roadmap.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom
The Resolute Group Ltd 🇬🇧 Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom
Lead and coordinate electrical design for power transmission and distribution projects from ECI and pre-construction through detailed design and delivery. Work with engineering, construction, commercial, client, consultant, and design teams to ensure designs are compliant, coordinated, and buildable.
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.