Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior Product Designer (bi-lingual English)
🇺🇸 Allen, Texas, United States
Inbenta 🇺🇸 Allen, Texas, United States
Lead the design of new product features from inception to delivery, ensuring seamless user experiences. Collaborate with the product and engineering teams to translate user requirements into actionable designs.
Senior Product Designer (bi-lingual Portuguese/English)
🇧🇷 Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Inbenta 🇧🇷 Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Lead the design of new product features from inception to delivery, ensuring user experiences are seamless and intuitive. Collaborate with the product and engineering teams to translate user requirements into actionable designs.
Senior Product Designer - Pay Ecosystem
🌍 Remote
Remote 🌍 Remote
Influence strategy for the product team and identify opportunities for impact in collaboration with stakeholders. Craft high-fidelity user interfaces and lead vision initiatives for the team, ensuring scalability and quality in user experiences.
Senior Product Designer - Pay Ecosystem
🌍 Remote
Remote 🌍 Remote
Influence strategy for the product team and identify opportunities for impact in collaboration with stakeholders. Lead initiatives for the team, ensuring holistic problem-solving and effective communication.
Senior Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Remote 🌍 Remote
Influence strategy for the product team and identify opportunities for impact in collaboration with stakeholders. Lead initiatives for the team and domain, ensuring quality user experiences and advocating for design principles.
Product Designer (Formless)
🇮🇪 Ireland
Typeform 🇮🇪 Ireland
You will design clear and trustworthy agent experiences across Sales and Research use cases while owning execution from specs to prototyping and design reviews. Your work will help deliver efficient lead capture, qualification, and handoff, and produce credible qualitative insights.
Senior Product Designer, Bitbucket
🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States
Atlassian 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States
Design experiences used by millions of software developers globally and lead high-impact product design projects that improve the experience of a complex and technical product.
Product Designer (UX Designer)
🇳🇿 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Vista Group 🇳🇿 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
The Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design of user journeys across web and app, ensuring a seamless and visually cohesive experience. They will collaborate with product and engineering teams to refine user flows and drive meaningful product improvements.
Staff Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Servicenow 🌍 Remote
You will lead large, complex initiatives and deliver world-class experiences that influence product strategy. You will drive end-to-end product experiences and develop frameworks to standardize cross-team work.
Staff Product Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Rubrik Job Board 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Lead the design strategy and execution for complex product areas while collaborating with Product Management and Engineering. Mentor other designers and help evolve the design language and component libraries.
Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Tampa, Florida, United States
Red Gate Group 🇺🇸 Tampa, Florida, United States
The Graphic Designer will collaborate with editors and senior leadership to produce visual products that align with mission objectives. This includes conceptualizing and designing graphics for briefings, presentations, and official engagements.
Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
U S National Whitewater Center 🇺🇸 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
The Graphic Designer will lead the creation and design of all marketing deliverables for the Whitewater brand across various channels. Responsibilities include ensuring brand consistency, managing creative teams, and developing design strategies aligned with marketing objectives.
Senior UX Designer
🇮🇱 Tel Aviv, Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Skai 🇮🇱 Tel Aviv, Tel-Aviv District, Israel
As a Senior UX Designer, you will lead the UX for complex, data-driven product areas from discovery to delivery. You will collaborate with Product Managers, Engineers, and other Designers to create intuitive user experiences for B2B marketers.
Senior Product Designer
🇩🇰 Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
Formalize 🇩🇰 Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
Lead the end-to-end design process for new integrations and collaborate with the Product Manager and Tech Lead to define the design strategy. Build high-quality solutions while maintaining and evolving the design system for consistency across the platform.
Senior Product Designer
🇮🇳 Pune, Maharashtra, India
Assent 🇮🇳 Pune, Maharashtra, India
The Senior Product Designer will connect customers with insights and tools to mitigate sustainability risks, driving design influence within product teams. Responsibilities include understanding user needs, leading research initiatives, and validating design decisions.
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.