Design Leadership Jobs
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Principal UX Design Systems Engineer (Net Sec Product Design)
🇺🇸 Santa Clara County, California, United States of America
Palo Alto Networks 🇺🇸 Santa Clara County, California, United States of America
Modernize and scale the enterprise design system by designing components, UI patterns, and documentation. Ensure high-quality file-to-production alignment between Figma and the codebase while integrating GenAI workflows.
Principal UX Designer (NetSec)
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Palo Alto Networks 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Drive design excellence for global B2B product suites by architecting systemic solutions for complex enterprise environments. Lead the UX vision, oversee design system evolution, and mentor senior designers to elevate design maturity.
Principal Engineer / Senior Design Manager
🇮🇳 Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Atkinsréalis 🇮🇳 Gurgaon, Haryana, India
The role involves serving as a Principal Engineer or Senior Design Manager to lead engineering design efforts. The candidate will be responsible for managing design processes and ensuring technical excellence.
Principal UX Designer
🇺🇸 Santa Clara County, California, United States of America
Palo Alto Networks 🇺🇸 Santa Clara County, California, United States of America
Lead end-to-end product design for complex cybersecurity workflows and drive UX strategy in partnership with cross-functional leadership. Mentor other designers and champion consistency across the product ecosystem through the advancement of the design system.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Rho 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead design efforts for end-to-end product features across multiple surfaces and own complex design problems with minimal oversight. Collaborate with product managers and engineers to shape scope, identify dependencies, and optimize user flows.
Senior Principal, Design Engineering
🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Celestica 🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
The Senior Principal AI Engineer will architect and oversee the development of an enterprise hardware intelligence platform, transforming complex engineering data into predictive design intelligence. This role involves building data pipelines and architecting frameworks for a multi-agent AI system to enhance the hardware design process.
Senior Director, Design Engineering 1
🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Celestica International Lp 🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Serve as the principal technical advisor for a key customer, designing innovative solutions using emerging technologies like AI/ML. Lead and mentor a high-performing engineering team while overseeing the full software development lifecycle and ensuring quality outcomes.
Senior Principal, Design Engineering
🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Celestica International Lp 🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Architect and oversee a next-generation enterprise hardware intelligence platform by bridging Generative AI with complex hardware engineering. Lead the development of a domain-specific LLM and multi-agent AI system to automate design intelligence and reduce board spins.
Principal, R&D UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Vizient 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Define and drive the user experience strategy for next-generation healthcare platforms, focusing on AI and intelligent design systems. Lead innovation in complex healthcare workflows and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver human-centered product experiences.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Permitflow 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
The Principal Product Designer will dive into construction permitting, licensing, and inspections, leading end-to-end design projects while collaborating with various teams. They will also identify opportunities for UX improvements and help design a permitting product that is both functional and aesthetically pleasing.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Square 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead vision-heavy design projects for the core Point of Sale experiences. Collaborate closely with design, product, and engineering leadership to shape strategy and execution.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 California, United States of America
Block 🇺🇸 California, United States of America
Lead vision-heavy design projects to reinvent the core Point of Sale experience for sellers and buyers. Collaborate with design, product, and engineering leadership to shape strategy and execute ambitious product visions.
Principal Visual Designer
🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Mxzoom 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Lead the visual direction and execution of high-impact design initiatives across LegalZoom's marketing ecosystem. Partner closely with various teams to translate business goals and customer insights into thoughtful visual solutions.
Principal Product Designer | UX/UI & AI Experience Design
🇷🇴 Bucharest, Romania
Human Intelligence 🇷🇴 Bucharest, Romania
Lead the UX/UI strategy and complete product design lifecycle for AI-powered platforms across healthcare, education, and wellbeing. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to transform complex AI technology into intuitive, human-centered digital experiences.
Principal Product Designer | UX/UI & AI Experience Design
🇺🇦 Kyiv, Ukraine
Human Intelligence 🇺🇦 Kyiv, Ukraine
Lead the UX/UI strategy and complete product design lifecycle for AI-powered platforms across healthcare, education, and wellbeing. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to transform complex AI technology into intuitive, human-centered digital experiences.
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.