Design Leadership Jobs
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Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 Oakland, California, United States of America
Everlaw 🇺🇸 Oakland, California, United States of America
This role involves driving strategic vision for high-impact initiatives, defining the future of the AI-powered litigation platform by establishing industry-leading AI design patterns, guardrails for control, and transparency. The designer will also provide cross-functional leadership by partnering with senior Product and Engineering leaders to guide strategic decisions and evolve organizational design craft standards.
Principal Product Designer, Moveworks
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Servicenow 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
The Principal Product Designer will lead large, strategic, cross-product initiatives critical to business success, driving product experiences that exemplify beautiful design and catalyze user productivity. This role involves providing strategic direction and vision for collaborative efforts with multidisciplinary teams while acting as an industry thought leader.
Principal Product Designer, Moveworks
🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Servicenow 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
This role involves leading large, strategic AI and web initiatives critical to business success, focusing on transforming how people work globally through elegant design that catalyzes productivity. The designer will provide strategic direction and vision for multidisciplinary teams while acting as an industry influencer and thought leader.
Principal Product Designer, Moveworks
🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Servicenow 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
This role involves leading large, strategic AI and web initiatives critical to business success, focusing on transforming how people work globally through intuitive, human-centric solutions. The designer will drive product experiences that demonstrate deep understanding of machine learning, create extensible systems, and provide strategic vision and leadership to multidisciplinary teams.
Principal Product Designer, Moveworks
🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Servicenow 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
The Principal Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design vision for Agent Studio, a unified workspace for building, testing, and deploying AI agents across enterprise systems, while also shaping how both technical and non-technical users interact with these complex workflows. This role involves driving large, cross-functional initiatives, defining UX strategy in the Agentic AI space, and developing scalable design patterns and principles.
Principal Product Designer
The Principal Product Designer will lead the end-to-end UX design process, from ideation through implementation, focusing on creating seamless, gamified user experiences for the digital wealth platform. This involves developing user artifacts, designing high-fidelity interfaces, and ensuring adherence to brand guidelines while collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Principal UX Designer: Generative AI & Computational Design
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Autodesk 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The role involves leading UX strategy and definition for next-generation, AI-powered product design workflows, requiring the invention and prototyping of new creation models blending computational design, simulation, and generative techniques with intuitive UX patterns. Responsibilities also include architecting end-to-end workflow solutions and collaborating across product, engineering, and research teams to deliver experiences that accelerate creativity while supporting manufacturability.
Principal Product Designer (12 month FTC - Mat Cover)
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Clearscore Technology Limited 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The Principal Product Designer will own a full product evolution cycle from deep discovery through to handover, delivering high-impact Credit Health initiatives that solve user needs and align with business strategy. Additionally, they will act as interim Service Design Lead, championing service thinking across the Design community and presenting direction regularly to C-level executives.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 Redmond, Washington, United States of America
Microsoft 🇺🇸 Redmond, Washington, United States of America
The role involves shipping world-class, AI-powered consumer experiences with an emphasis on quality, trust, and positive societal impact, while staying current with new AI innovations. Responsibilities include owning the user experience for a product domain, managing the end-to-end product development process collaboratively, and ensuring accountability for user experience quality.
Principal Engineer, VLSI Design Engineering (C++ & SystemC- Functional Modeling, Verification)
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Sandisk 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
The role involves leading architectural decisions, providing technical guidance to cross-functional teams, and collaborating with stakeholders to define technical requirements and solutions. Key technical duties include hands-on development of C++ & System C models and test creation, along with validating models using SV/UVM testbenches.
Principal Engineer, Systems Design Engineering
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Sandisk 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
The role involves representing the systems engineering team in product development for next-generation solid-state products, focusing on delivering design specifications, test objectives, and debugging while balancing technical, cost, and schedule tradeoffs. Key duties include leading the design process from concept through validation and tracking system milestones to ensure product goals are met.
Senior UX Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Alegeus 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
The Principal UX Designer will be responsible for delivering high-quality, customer-centered user experiences through flows, wireframes, and prototypes, while leading design excellence across teams through critiques and improved handoffs. This role also involves serving as the primary UX partner for India-based teams, translating global strategy into actionable plans, and driving consistency across products.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Premier Inc. 🇺🇸 United States of America
This role involves defining and evolving the end-to-end user experience across complex, multi-product ecosystems, setting strategic design vision, and leading hands-on design execution for high-quality, accessible UX/UI solutions. Responsibilities also include maintaining scalable design systems, collaborating cross-functionally, and mentoring other designers to elevate overall design quality.
Principal UX Researcher
🇺🇸 Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America
Constant Contact 🇺🇸 Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America
This role involves evolving the research function into an AI-driven insights engine by architecting organizational capability to produce high-velocity insights for an AI-native, mobile-first world. Key duties include spearheading strategic discovery for major initiatives using AI to accelerate insight cycles and scaling research capability by coaching product managers and designers.
Senior/Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
New Era Technology 🇺🇸 United States of America
The Principal Product Designer will set and elevate design standards for enterprise digital products, contributing hands-on design leadership across web experiences managed by the Enterprise Web Initiative (EWI). This role involves translating product strategy and user needs into intuitive, accessible, and high-fidelity design solutions while ensuring consistency with the enterprise design system.
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.