Design Leadership Jobs
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Lead Product Designer
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
S&p Global 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
The Lead Product Designer is responsible for creating visual design specifications and interaction models for digital products. They will work closely with product managers and development teams to ensure design elements meet functional and business requirements.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Stellar Creative Lab 🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
The Senior UI/UX Designer will advocate for artists by conducting user research and translating their needs into functional interface requirements. They will also create wireframes and prototypes, lead usability testing, and maintain a unified design system.
Anthropologie Senior Graphic Designer, Print & Packaging
🇺🇸 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Anthropologie 🇺🇸 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
The Senior Graphic Designer will assist and lead in the concept, design, and implementation of exclusive own brands, including brand identity management and product packaging. Responsibilities also include managing seasonal retail packaging, printed collateral, and campaign assets.
Senior Graphic Designer, Marketing
🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Pacific National Exhibition 🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Lead the creative development and execution of design assets for various events and campaigns. Ensure brand consistency and high-quality design across all guest and partner touchpoints.
Senior/Experienced Product Designer
Lead end-to-end product design, turning ambiguous ideas into cohesive user experiences that drive business outcomes. Collaborate with product, engineering, and data science teams to ship high-quality experiences quickly.
Senior Product Designer (UX)
🌍 Remote
Moniepoint 🌍 Remote
As a Senior Product Designer, you will lead the design process for financial products, ensuring they are intuitive and effective. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams and mentor junior designers while advocating for user-centered design principles.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Forethought 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
The Senior Product Designer will lead various innovative initiatives and work with a cross-functional team to enhance the customer service product experience. Responsibilities include conducting user research, defining strategy, and crafting product journeys.
Senior UX Designer (hybrid)
🇺🇸 Westford, Massachusetts, United States
Johnson Controls 🇺🇸 Westford, Massachusetts, United States
Lead UX design efforts for access control and video solutions while collaborating with teams in multiple locations. Craft visually stunning and intuitive interfaces that align with user needs and business goals.
Principal UX Designer, Devices Experience Design
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Amazon 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Lead the UX design strategy for Amazon's device offerings, ensuring alignment with business goals and brand identity. Mentor senior designers and influence design frameworks and methodologies across multiple product lines.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Narmi 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Lead projects through the end-to-end design process, including discovery, design strategy, and prototyping. Collaborate with product managers and engineers to ensure a cohesive user experience and deliver solutions that balance user needs with company goals.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 Menlo Park, California, United States
Meta 🇺🇸 Menlo Park, California, United States
The Product Designer will lead and deliver design projects, transforming broad ideas into valuable user experiences for over 2 billion users. They will collaborate with product managers, engineers, and researchers to oversee the user experience from conception to launch.
Lead UX Designer
🌍 Remote
Autorabit Holding Inc. 🌍 Remote
As Lead UX Designer, you will own and scale the end-to-end user experience across multiple products and lead high-impact projects. You will also define and evolve the design system, ensuring consistency and accessibility across the platform.
Product Designer, Business Intelligence
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Patreon 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Lead design for insights and analytics experiences that help creators understand their business performance and take action to grow. Design tools and touchpoints that help creators identify what's working, spot opportunities, and make confident decisions about their content and membership strategy.
Senior UX Designer
🇨🇦 Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Reliable Controls 🇨🇦 Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
As a Senior UX Designer, you will lead user experience design across multiple projects and platforms, ensuring that software products are intuitive and effective. You will collaborate with various teams to implement designs that deliver real value to customers.
Staff Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Opensea 🌍 Remote
Lead design initiatives from concept through launch, collaborating closely with engineers and other designers. Create end-to-end experiences balancing user needs, technical feasibility, and business goals.
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.