Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior UX designer
🇮🇳 Pune City, Maharashtra, India
Cognyte 🇮🇳 Pune City, Maharashtra, India
The Senior UX/UI Designer will own the UX for large product areas and translate complex analytical needs into usable designs. They will lead design discovery and produce high-quality design outputs while collaborating closely with Product, Engineering, and domain experts.
Product Designer
🇰🇷 Seoul, South Korea
Tridge 🇰🇷 Seoul, South Korea
Lead the UX/UI conceptual design of products and features to solve customer problems. Collaborate with relevant departments to design a consistent user experience and implement abstract ideas into concrete screen designs and interactions.
Senior UX Designer - Fruit Ninja
🌍 Remote
Userwise Services 🌍 Remote
The Senior UX Designer will translate gameplay concepts into user flows and wireframes while collaborating with game designers and product managers. They will also lead playtesting sessions and provide mentorship to junior team members.
Senior UX Designer
🌍 Remote
Revalize 🌍 Remote
Lead and evolve the UX/UI vision across products using user-centered design principles and data-driven insights. Own the end-to-end design process, producing high-quality deliverables and collaborating closely with Product Managers and Engineering teams.
Lead Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Yoto 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
The Lead Product Designer will own design outcomes across the Player Experience cluster, ensuring quality and coherence in design decisions. This role also involves line managing and coaching designers while contributing hands-on to design work.
Senior Product Designer (UI)
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Collinson 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Lead the design of mobile-first interfaces and define animations and micro-interactions. Collaborate with product managers and engineers to bring ideas from concept to production.
Lead Product Designer – Content Solutions
🌍 Remote
Fueled 🌍 Remote
Lead end-to-end design for marketing, editorial, and information-rich web and mobile experiences. Collaborate closely with internal cross-discipline teams to provide design leadership and explore innovative approaches.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States
Ford Motor Company 🇺🇸 United States
The Senior Product Designer will guide the user experience across website strategy and work with multiple product teams. The role involves leading design efforts and optimizing processes based on stakeholder feedback.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States
Ford Motor Company 🇺🇸 United States
The Senior Product Designer will guide the user experience across website strategy and work with multiple product teams. They will lead design efforts and optimize processes based on stakeholder feedback.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States
Ford Motor Company 🇺🇸 United States
The Senior Product Designer will guide the user experience across website strategy and work with multiple product teams. They will lead and optimize work products based on feedback from various stakeholders.
Lead Product Designer (In-Store Operations)
🌍 Remote
Relex Solutions 🌍 Remote
As Lead Product Designer, you will own the holistic In-Store user experience and lead design work at a product-area level. You will set and maintain shared interaction patterns and act as a design authority within the product area.
Staff Product Designer, Mobile Platform
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Servicenow 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
You will lead large, complex initiatives and deliver world-class experiences that influence product strategy. You will drive end-to-end product experiences that consider user and product ecosystems.
UX / UI Designer
🇮🇪 Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
Beqom 🇮🇪 Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
As a UX/UI Designer, you will lead design for key product features, including research, wireframing, prototyping, and visual design. You will also collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, engineers, and QA from ideation through to release and iteration.
UX / UI Designer
🇵🇱 Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
Beqom 🇵🇱 Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
The UX/UI Designer will lead design for key product features, including research, wireframing, prototyping, and visual design. They will also collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, engineers, and QA from ideation through to release and iteration.
Graphic Designer
🇮🇳 Kozhikode, Kerala, India
Make Your Own Perfume (myop) Llp 🇮🇳 Kozhikode, Kerala, India
The Junior Designer will lead the creation of brand assets across various platforms and uphold the visual identity of the brand. They will also drive visual narratives and take initiative in creative brainstorming sessions.
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.