Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior Product Designer (UX-Focused)
🌍 Remote
Impruvon Health 🌍 Remote
Design end-to-end user flows for high-stakes processes like medication administration and compliance. Collaborate closely with product, engineering, and customer-facing teams to create intuitive user experiences.
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.
Senior UI Designer (all genders)
🇩🇪 Hamburg, Germany
Jakala Germany Gmbh 🇩🇪 Hamburg, Germany
You will work on the creative design of a native mobility app for Hamburg and other cities, developing exceptional interface concepts for our clients. Additionally, you will define design patterns and guidelines while collaborating with UX design, development, and project management teams.
Senior Graphic Designer - Healthcare Comms
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Real Chemistry 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Create visually engaging graphics and data visualizations for scientific communications and medical education materials. Collaborate with team members to ensure projects meet client requirements and are delivered on time.
Graphic Designer | Remote | LATAM Only | 85144
🌍 Remote
Remote Talent Latam 🌍 Remote
The Senior Graphic Designer will own graphic design execution across email campaigns, paid advertising, and social media assets. They will develop concept-driven designs and manage projects from concept through final delivery.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Isometric 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
The Senior Product Designer will be a key member of a small design team, contributing to the design of a complex product for carbon removal verification. They will also elevate design across the company, impacting branding, sales materials, and social media.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States
Kognitos 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States
Own end-to-end product and UX design for key product areas during a transition period. Collaborate closely with Product and Engineering to scope, iterate, and deliver solutions.
Senior Product Designer UI/UX
🌍 Remote
Masv 🌍 Remote
You will translate complex business problems into clear design solutions and establish a scalable design system. Additionally, you will collaborate with stakeholders and engineers to ensure usability and deliver value quickly.
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.
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.
Senior Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Secureframe 🌍 Remote
The Senior Product Designer will take ownership of a Secureframe product area, overseeing the overall user experience and iterating on design principles and processes. They will work closely with engineers and product managers to solve user challenges and contribute to product strategy.
Senior Staff Product Designer, Crypto
Lead the design lifecycle for complex crypto features and create a strategic roadmap for the Crypto business unit. Mentor designers and ensure alignment across the SoFi ecosystem while fostering mainstream adoption of blockchain technology.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Heartflow 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Create UX deliverables such as wireframes and mockups, and conduct user research to translate insights into design solutions. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate user experience throughout the product development lifecycle.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 San Mateo, California, United States
31st Union 🇺🇸 San Mateo, California, United States
The Senior UI/UX Designer will guide conversations with partners and own feature design against product specifications. They will create UX wireframes, UI mock-ups, and prototypes while stewarding UI/UX design efforts through leadership approvals and cross-functional implementation.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 San Mateo, California, United States
2k 🇺🇸 San Mateo, California, United States
The Senior UI/UX Designer will guide feature design conversations, create UX wireframes and UI mock-ups, and steward UI/UX design efforts through leadership approvals and cross-functional implementation. They will also build documentation to communicate UX vision and apply visual scripting when needed.
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.