Design Leadership Jobs
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Design Manager
🇬🇧 Gloucester, England, United Kingdom
Bovis 🇬🇧 Gloucester, England, United Kingdom
The Design Manager will oversee design management from pre-bid to handover, integrating with the senior project team and managing consultants. They are responsible for ensuring compliance with regulations, managing project governance, and representing the business to clients and supply chain partners.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Cirencester, England, United Kingdom
Bovis 🇬🇧 Cirencester, England, United Kingdom
The Design Manager will lead design management processes from pre-bid to handover, integrating with senior project teams and external consultants. They are responsible for representing the business, managing design reviews, and ensuring compliance with regulatory frameworks and project governance.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇯🇵 Japan
Threetrader 🇯🇵 Japan
Execute high-performing marketing assets and translate complex financial concepts into compelling visuals for the Japanese retail investor market. Maintain brand consistency across digital channels while utilizing AI tools to accelerate production and iterating based on performance data.
Senior UX / Digital Product Designer (Mensch), Schwerpunkt FinTech
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Taikonauten Gmbh 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
You will lead the end-to-end UX and product design process, from initial problem framing and discovery to final delivery and validation. You are responsible for creating high-quality UX concepts, UI designs, and design systems while facilitating workshops and managing stakeholder expectations.
Senior Product Designer - Client Platforms - Private Bank Digital, Vice President
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Jpmorganchase 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Execute high-quality UX/UI design work to translate complex financial challenges into intuitive digital products for the Private Bank. Collaborate with cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders to implement scalable design systems and user-centric solutions.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇨🇳 China
Threetrader 🇨🇳 China
You will design high-performing marketing assets for the Japanese retail investor market, including social ads, landing pages, and email templates. You will also collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure visual consistency and apply AI-powered tools to accelerate creative production.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Oakham, England, United Kingdom
Bovis 🇬🇧 Oakham, England, United Kingdom
The Design Manager will oversee design processes from pre-bid to handover, integrating with senior project teams and managing consultants. They are responsible for ensuring compliance with regulations, managing third-party interfaces, and representing the business to clients and supply chain partners.
Graphic Designer | Mid-Senior
🇱🇹 Vilnius, Vilnius County, Lithuania
Nord Security 🇱🇹 Vilnius, Vilnius County, Lithuania
The Graphic Designer will develop innovative design concepts and creative assets for various marketing channels while collaborating with cross-functional teams. They are also responsible for maintaining brand guidelines, managing project timelines, and mentoring other designers on the team.
Senior Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Rootstocklabs 🌍 Remote
Own the end-to-end product design process from problem definition to final delivery across web and mobile platforms. Collaborate with product, engineering, and marketing teams to build, maintain, and evolve a scalable design system.
Senior Manager, Battery Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Los Alamitos, California, United States
Brelle 🇺🇸 Los Alamitos, California, United States
Lead a small engineering team in the design and development of battery module and pack architectures from concept to production. Drive technical decisions across mechanical, electrical, thermal, and safety domains while maintaining hands-on involvement in prototyping and analysis.
Senior Design Engineer, Design Systems
🌍 Remote
Clipboard 🌍 Remote
You will build and scale the design system from the ground up, serving as the connective tissue between design and engineering. Additionally, you will create AI-powered tooling and documentation to enable the product team to build high-quality, consistent experiences.
Senior UX Designer — Accessibility
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Speria 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States
The Senior UX Designer will own the end-to-end UX design for three SaaS products while ensuring all design system components meet rigorous accessibility standards. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to conduct audits, validate designs through testing, and advocate for inclusive design practices.
Senior UX Designer — Accessibility
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Speria 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States
You will own UX design work across three SaaS products while ensuring all design system components meet rigorous accessibility standards. This involves conducting accessibility audits, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and advocating for inclusive design practices throughout the product lifecycle.
Senior Design Engineer, Design Systems
🌍 Remote
Clipboard 🌍 Remote
You will build and scale the design system from the ground up to serve as the infrastructure for all product development. This involves creating reusable components, defining architectural standards, and developing AI tooling to streamline the design-to-code workflow.
Senior Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Kercus 🌍 Remote
Design and evolve the end-to-end AssessFirst user experience, transforming complex problems into intuitive interfaces. A significant focus is placed on creating AI-native interactions including agents, copilots, and conversational interfaces.
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.