Design Leadership Jobs
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Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Savvy Wealth 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Own the end-to-end design journey for advisors and clients to make wealth management intuitive and transparent. Lead complex initiatives from discovery and research through high-fidelity execution and launch.
Product Designer, Instagram Cross-Meta Growth
🇺🇸 Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States of America
Meta 🇺🇸 Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States of America
Lead the design strategy for Instagram Cross-Meta Growth to create holistic solutions for cross-app growth across surfaces like feed, reels, and stories. Develop and uphold design principles and guidelines that ensure simplicity and quality across Meta's ecosystem.
Sr. Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Irvine, California, United States of America
Revelyst Outdoor 🇺🇸 Irvine, California, United States of America
Lead and execute creative design projects across print, digital, and social platforms while ensuring brand consistency. Mentor junior designers and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality visual assets.
Senior Product Designer
🇨🇦 British Columbia, Canada
Swiftly, Inc. 🇨🇦 British Columbia, Canada
Lead the end-to-end design process for transit agency software, focusing on either real-time passenger information or ridership analysis. Partner with product and engineering teams to translate complex data into intuitive, high-fidelity interfaces and strategic product directions.
Design Manager - Water
🇺🇸 Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America
Wharton-smith 🇺🇸 Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America
Leads the planning, coordination, and budgeting for municipal water and wastewater projects during the pursuit and preconstruction phases. Collaborates with engineers and estimating teams to ensure constructability and seamless transition into construction.
Senior Product Designer, Point of Sale
🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Toast 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Lead end-to-end design for Point of Sale experiences, focusing on complex operational workflows across terminal and handheld surfaces. Partner with product and engineering leadership to shape the roadmap and mentor other designers to raise the collective quality of craft.
Staff Product Designer, AI Labs
🇺🇸 United States of America
Fetch 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead design efforts to improve user experience within the Fetch app and AI Labs. Guide team culture through mentorship, thought leadership, and the implementation of user-centered practices across the organization.
Sr UX & UXP & UI Designer
🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico
Vml 🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico
Lead the design of digital experiences from start to finish, ensuring usability and alignment with project goals. Conduct user research to identify needs and translate findings into tangible design improvements.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇵🇱 Warszawa, 83-433 Nowe Polaszki, Poland
Tenengroup Ltd. 🇵🇱 Warszawa, 83-433 Nowe Polaszki, Poland
The Senior Graphic Designer will evolve the visual language of the brand and lead visual concepts for product launches and seasonal campaigns. They will design various digital assets including homepage banners, landing pages, and email marketing newsletters.
Senior Product Designer (UX Specialist) - Media Company
🇲🇽 Mexico
Truelogic Software 🇲🇽 Mexico
Lead end-to-end product design initiatives, transforming complex workflows into intuitive user-centered experiences. Establish and evolve design systems while collaborating closely with Product Managers and Engineers.
Product Designer - HashiCorp Secure
🇬🇧 Markham, NP12 0QB, United Kingdom
Ibm 🇬🇧 Markham, NP12 0QB, United Kingdom
You will lead a design team dedicated to HashiCorp’s security products, collaborating with Product Designers, Product Managers, and Engineers to deliver high-quality designs. The role involves owning the end-to-end design process and adapting designs based on user and stakeholder feedback.
Sr. Product Designer, Public Space Incubator (English Services) (Hybrid/Telework)
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Radio-canada 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Lead Product Designer for PSI is responsible for driving design-led solutions through strategic consultation and collaboration. This includes guiding the evolution of the design system and ensuring high design standards and accessibility.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇿🇦 Parow, 7501, South Africa
Herotel 🇿🇦 Parow, 7501, South Africa
Lead the end-to-end digital experience for a telecoms brand, from discovery and user research to delivering developer-ready designs. Govern the design system and optimize user flows across websites, apps, and customer portals.
Senior Product Designer
Lead the UI/UX and data visualization strategy to translate complex research into intuitive digital products and dashboards. Manage the end-to-end design process for the website and mentor other designers and contributors.
Freelance Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Akqa 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Senior Product Designers lead the design of complex systems of interactions and contribute to design systems from both UX and UI perspectives. They develop high-fidelity wireframes and prototypes, ensuring clarity and coherence in multi-step 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.