Design Leadership Jobs
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Principal Product Designer, Questbank
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Questrade Financial Group 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead the design vision for the Questbank consumer banking platform, focusing on complex, cross-cutting flows and platform-level patterns. Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to drive strategy and elevate the overall design practice through mentorship and evidence-based validation.
Principal Product Designer, Conversational Platforms
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Remitly 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
The Principal Product Designer will collaborate with various teams to design and launch conversational experiences across multiple platforms. This role involves leading the design of complex customer-centric conversational flows and evolving the shared conversational platform.
Senior/Principal Product Designer - OP02142
🇧🇬 Sofia, Sredec, Bulgaria
Dev.pro 🇧🇬 Sofia, Sredec, Bulgaria
In this role, you'll own end-to-end product design while influencing product strategy and direction. You will collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, and Design on product strategy and execution priorities.
Senior/Principal Product Designer - OP02142
🇷🇴 Bucharest, Romania
Dev.pro 🇷🇴 Bucharest, Romania
In this role, you'll own end-to-end product design while influencing product strategy and direction. You will collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, and Design on product strategy and execution priorities.
Principal Product Designer, Conversational Platforms
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Remitly 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Lead the design of next-generation conversational experiences across AI platforms, messaging apps, and voice/chat interfaces. Collaborate with product, engineering, and research teams to define requirements and develop scalable design standards for conversational platforms.
Principal Product Designer, Supply (Remote)
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Ezcater Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Define and drive the design strategy for the Supply ecosystem, ensuring a user-centered vision that aligns with business goals. Lead cross-domain design initiatives and mentor designers to elevate the overall design quality and impact.
Senior/Principal Product Designer - OP02142
🇵🇹 Porto, Portugal
Dev.pro 🇵🇹 Porto, Portugal
In this role, you'll own end-to-end product design while influencing product strategy and direction. You'll collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, and Design on product strategy and execution priorities.
Principal Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Hackajob 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
As the Principal Product Designer, you will set the vision for the onboarding platform, ensuring it is safe, efficient, and scalable. You will collaborate with various teams to create localized onboarding KYC journeys and transform complex regulatory requirements into user-friendly experiences.
Principal Product Designer, Supply (Remote)
Remote (🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America)
Ezcater, Inc Remote (🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America)
Lead the design strategy and vision for the Supply ecosystem to improve how catering partners operate and grow. Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Data leadership to define roadmaps and mentor other designers to elevate the overall craft.
Senior/Principal Product Designer - OP02142
🇵🇱 Wrocław, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Dev.pro 🇵🇱 Wrocław, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
In this role, you'll own end-to-end product design while influencing product strategy and direction. You will collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, and Design on product strategy and execution priorities.
Senior/Principal Product Designer - OP02142
🇵🇱 Wrocław, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Dev.pro 🇵🇱 Wrocław, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Own end-to-end product design for AI-native enterprise products and a large-scale data infrastructure platform. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define product strategy and streamline design-to-engineering workflows.
Senior/Principal Product Designer - OP02142
🇵🇹 Porto, Portugal
Dev.pro 🇵🇹 Porto, Portugal
Own end-to-end product design for AI-native enterprise products and a large-scale data infrastructure platform. Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to define product strategy and streamline design-to-engineering workflows.
Senior/Principal Product Designer - OP02142
🇧🇬 Sofia, Sredec, Bulgaria
Dev.pro 🇧🇬 Sofia, Sredec, Bulgaria
Own end-to-end product design for AI-native enterprise products and a large-scale data infrastructure platform. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to influence product strategy and streamline design-to-engineering workflows.
Senior/Principal Product Designer - OP02142
🇷🇴 Bucharest, Romania
Dev.pro 🇷🇴 Bucharest, Romania
Own end-to-end product design for AI-native enterprise products and a large-scale data infrastructure platform. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define product strategy and streamline design-to-engineering workflows.
Product Designer, Principal Associate Level
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Capital One 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
As a Product Designer, you will combine your craft expertise with an understanding of customers and the business to co-create innovative solutions. You will leverage your design skills to create artifacts such as journey maps, blueprints, high-fidelity designs, and prototypes.
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.