Design Leadership Jobs
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Principal Design Technologist, AWS Search, Security, Observability, & Governance
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Amazon Web Services (aws) 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Advise design leadership on emerging interaction models, build high-fidelity prototypes to validate their technical feasibility, and establish new interaction patterns for AWS Security, Search, Observability, and Governance products. Convert validated prototypes into production-ready Rhythm design-system components, develop tools that scale innovation, and raise technical craft across the design organization.
Principal Design Technologist, AWS Search, Security, Observability, & Governance
🇺🇸 Bellevue, Washington, United States of America
Amazon Web Services (aws) 🇺🇸 Bellevue, Washington, United States of America
Advise design leadership on emerging interaction models, build working prototypes to validate their technical feasibility, and establish new reusable patterns for AWS Security, Search, Observability, and Governance products. Convert validated prototypes into production-ready Rhythm design-system components, develop tools that scale interaction insights, and raise technical craft across the design organization.
Principal Product Designer, AWS Search, Security, Observability, Governance
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Amazon Web Services (aws) 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Define the design vision and quality bar for observability products, and lead the design of complex experiences such as dashboards, alerting, and incident workflows. Partner with engineering and cross-functional teams to prototype and deliver accessible, coherent solutions, develop scalable design systems, mentor senior designers, and communicate strategy to executives.
Principal UX Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Aspida 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead high-impact design strategy, experience architecture, and design system consistency across product lines while managing and developing a team of designers. Establish rigorous research practices and guide responsible adoption of AI tools across prototyping, research, and design-to-code workflows.
Principal Design Technologist, AWS Search, Security, Observability, & Governance
🇺🇸 Santa Clara County, California, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Santa Clara County, California, United States of America
The Principal Design Technologist will serve as a technical advisor to innovate and validate novel interaction models for AWS SSOG. They will build high-fidelity prototypes and translate them into production-ready components for the Rhythm design system.
Principal Product Designer, AWS Search, Security, Observability, Governance
🇺🇸 Santa Clara County, California, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Santa Clara County, California, United States of America
Define the design vision and quality standards for observability products while leading the creation of complex, multi-surface experiences. Partner with engineering and product teams to translate technical challenges into intuitive, shippable user experiences.
Principal Data Center Design Manager (Nashville, TN)
🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
Oracle 🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
Manage the end-to-end design process for new and retrofit data center projects while coordinating with internal teams and external consultants. Ensure all design packages align with Oracle's technical standards, scalability goals, and operational efficiency requirements.
Principal UX Designer
🇺🇸 Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Aspida Financial Services Llc 🇺🇸 Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
The Principal UX Designer leads high-impact design strategy while managing and developing a team of designers who own both design and research. This role shapes experience architecture, drives design system maturity, and integrates AI-enabled workflows into the design and research process.
Staff / Principal Product Designer
🇸🇪 Stockholm Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden
Lovable 🇸🇪 Stockholm Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden
Lead product design projects from conception through delivery, creating user flows, high-fidelity mockups, and design assets in close collaboration with engineering. Improve the design quality of Lovable’s AI, establish scalable design processes, champion impactful improvements, and help shape the company’s design standards and culture.
Principal Design Manager
🇺🇸 Tampa, Florida, United States of America
Arcadis 🇺🇸 Tampa, Florida, United States of America
The Principal Design Manager will lead and manage project delivery within the municipal water and wastewater market, ensuring successful project execution and client satisfaction. They will also contribute to strategic growth, mentor junior staff, and oversee quality assurance and control for complex engineering projects.
Principal Product Designer
🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Inception Artificial Intelligence L.l.c - O.p.c 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
The Principal Product Designer will lead design strategy and manage a design pod to create innovative, AI-native products across a diverse portfolio. They will own the full design lifecycle, from discovery through delivery, while ensuring high-quality standards and seamless integration with engineering and science teams.
Principal Engineer VLSI Design Engineering
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Sandisk 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Lead an I/O design engineering team and drive next-generation I/O IP development, managing the end-to-end design lifecycle through silicon and productization. Oversee project execution, resources, innovation, power optimization, and communication with business units, stakeholders, and senior management.
Staff/Principal Design Systems Lead
🇺🇸 United States of America
Render 🇺🇸 United States of America
Set the vision and build Render’s design system hands-on, including its architecture, components, guidance, and AI-readable rules, while raising the bar for visual design, interaction, accessibility, and product quality. As the function grows, hire and lead the team, drive adoption across product teams, and develop evaluations that help ensure human- and AI-generated work meets the system’s standards.
Staff/Principal Design Systems Lead
🇺🇸 United States of America
Render 🇺🇸 United States of America
Set the vision and architecture for Render’s design system, initially building its foundations hands-on through components, guidance, and quality standards. Make the system usable by people and AI agents, measure output quality, drive adoption across product teams, and grow and lead the design systems team.
Principal Product Designer (Remote)
Remote (🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Openlane Remote (🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
The Principal Product Designer will lead end-to-end design initiatives and define strategic design vision for complex enterprise problems. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams, mentor junior designers, and ensure design consistency across the product ecosystem.
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.