Design Leadership Jobs
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UX Designer
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Verizon 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
As an Experience Designer, you will tackle meaningful design problems and create impactful user experiences while collaborating closely with senior team members. You will take ownership of specific features and leverage AI skills to enhance design workflows.
Senior Product Designer
🇨🇦 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
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Clio 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, 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
🇨🇦 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 Clio 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
🇨🇦 Canada
Clio 🇨🇦 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 (Connected Products)
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Yoto 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Own and champion the end-to-end connected product experience, ensuring hardware, firmware, packaging, and app experiences feel like one coherent product. Shape the first-time journey from unboxing through setup and activation, designing experiences that help families get started quickly and confidently.
Senior UX Designer
🇮🇪 Ireland
Expel 🇮🇪 Ireland
The role focuses on improving the Workbench product by conducting user research and designing lean experiments to iterate on complex workflows. You will collaborate with engineering and product management to guide the product vision and ensure scalable solutions.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇵🇱 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Tenengroup Ltd. 🇵🇱 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Lead the evolution of the brand's visual language and create high-quality assets for web, email, and social media. Oversee visual concepts for product launches and seasonal campaigns from mood boarding to final execution.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Clio 🇺🇸 United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will own the end-to-end 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 UX Researcher
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Hinge Health 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Own end-to-end research across product pods, from scoping questions to delivering insights. Collaborate with product managers, designers, and clinical partners to influence product decisions and advocate for member needs.
Senior Product Designer (Temp-to-Hire)
🇺🇸 Pasadena, California, United States of America
Prorata.ai 🇺🇸 Pasadena, California, United States of America
Design end-to-end product experiences for AI-driven products, translating complex AI capabilities into user-friendly interfaces. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity visuals while contributing to the AI design system.
Senior Product Designer
🇨🇦 Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Clio 🇨🇦 Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Own the end-to-end design of the 120-day customer onboarding and activation journey to reduce churn and increase product adoption. Design in-product guidance and internal tooling for onboarding and data migration teams to streamline customer setup.
Lead UX / Product Designer Senior H/F
🇫🇷 Bordeaux, Gironde, France
Soors 🇫🇷 Bordeaux, Gironde, France
The main responsibilities include designing and evolving digital products in a complex environment and conducting user needs analysis. The role also involves collaborating with product teams to ensure continuous improvement of interfaces and user experiences.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Bovis 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
The Senior Design Manager will deliver Design Management on projects from pre-bid to handover, working independently with the senior project team. They will manage high-value complex projects and represent the business at a senior level with clients and partners.
Senior Engineer, Gas Planning and Design Engineering
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Natgridprod 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Senior Engineer will ensure the completion of corrosion control programs within regulated timeframes and budgets while promoting safety procedures. The role involves developing engineering plans and maintaining compliance with federal and state regulations.
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.