Design Leadership Jobs
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Product Designer (Staff / Principal Level) (£115k-140k) at Anima
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Jack & Jill/external Ats 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The role involves leading the end-to-end design for multiple new product opportunities, focusing on high-retention features and clinical efficiency. This includes deep collaboration with the user community by visiting GP practices to understand and solve complex workflow pain points.
Senior UX Product Designer
🇨🇦 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Cognitive Systems Corp 🇨🇦 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
The role involves leading discovery and validation through various research methods, owning usability testing end-to-end, and designing holistic user journeys and information architecture for the Caregiver experience. Responsibilities also include translating goals into detailed designs in Figma and partnering with Product and Engineering to ensure high-quality implementation.
Senior UX Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Maker Lab 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
The Senior UX Designer will lead and partner with multidisciplinary teams on technical implementation, collaborating closely with client product and engineering teams while extending existing design systems. Responsibilities include driving interactive design ideas, conducting product audits, gathering user insights, documenting user journeys, and delivering implementation-ready designs.
Staff Product Designer - AI Agent Studio
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Freshworks 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
This role involves leading design for intelligent, human-centered AI experiences across the Freshworks product portfolio, shaping user interaction with machine learning, automation, and generative AI in daily workflows. The designer will contribute to and define the UX strategy for both AI infrastructure and product-specific use cases while collaborating with Product and Engineering teams.
Senior Product Designer
🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
Expressvpn 🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
The role involves leading the creative and optimization strategy for key revenue funnels and campaigns to improve conversion rates, while defining and evolving data-informed design systems for rapid experimentation. Designers will collaborate with product, growth, and marketing teams to translate business goals and user insights into high-converting, user-centered experiences.
Product Designer, Growth Pricing
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Stripe 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
The role involves redesigning Stripe's pricing packages to simplify offerings and evolving how they appear across marketing and dashboard experiences for new users. Responsibilities include designing industry-leading onboarding experiences and partnering with cross-functional teams to launch user-facing product features that aid in initial activation and scaling.
Product Designer, Apparel
🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
Eleven Eleven 🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
This role involves owning the end-to-end product development process for women's apparel, from initial concept and design execution through production approval. Key duties include creating detailed tech packs, leading fittings, refining samples, and managing direct communication with overseas factories to ensure quality standards are met.
Senior Principal, Design Engineering
🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Celestica International Lp 🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
This role involves leading the hands-on design and coding of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures and agentic workflows to allow hardware engineers to query complex design data accurately. Key duties include writing custom Python scripts for data extraction, fine-tuning foundation models for domain expertise, and developing multimodal analysis capabilities for visual engineering data.
Events Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America
Quintevents 🇺🇸 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America
The designer will lead the creation of graphics for event venue spaces, collaborating with the operations team to ensure the vision and brand essence are captured across all visual assets. Responsibilities include designing various elements like wall wraps, signage, menus, and packaging while ensuring projects meet brand guidelines from start to finish.
Web Designer
🇧🇷 Guará, Região Integrada de Desenvolvimento do Distrito Federal e Entorno, Brazil
Crossroads Church (cincinnati, Oh) 🇧🇷 Guará, Região Integrada de Desenvolvimento do Distrito Federal e Entorno, Brazil
The Web Designer will create and design web pages, digital assets, and products for Crossroads, utilizing current brand standards and developing new ones. This role involves collaborating with stakeholders and leaders to distill complex messaging into singular web page experiences.
Senior Web Designer
🌍 Remote
Upstart 13 🌍 Remote
This role will lead the creation of a premium digital presence, including the website and logo, crafting a cohesive and elevated brand experience that supports high-stakes fundraising initiatives. The designer will translate brand strategy into refined, responsive, and emotionally compelling web journeys that inspire trust, engagement, and action.
Senior Web Designer & Project Manager, Federal Digital Services
🇺🇸 Dulles, VA 20102, United States of America
Edj Associates, 🇺🇸 Dulles, VA 20102, United States of America
This role involves leading senior-level web design and development efforts for both external and internal NSF websites while managing associated projects, priorities, and schedules. The individual will also advise staff on best practices regarding web design, accessibility, and usability.
Senior UX Designer
🇷🇴 Bucharest, Romania
Lseg 🇷🇴 Bucharest, Romania
The role involves leading the entire design process for a responsive web application, from creating low-fidelity wireframes to pixel-perfect designs and clickable prototypes, while owning and improving the Issuer Services Design System in collaboration with developers. Key duties also include guiding implementation decisions, performing testing, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and documenting business rules related to designs.
Senior Specialist, Product Experience Design (UX Designer / Researcher)
🇮🇳 Pune, Pune City, India
Mastercard 🇮🇳 Pune, Pune City, India
The Senior Specialist will lead end-to-end design for complex domains, owning delivery from discovery through production assets, and creating advanced artifacts like journey maps and high-fidelity UI designs. They will champion customer-centric thinking by advocating for user needs and challenging assumptions in collaboration with product owners and engineers.
Senior UX Designer (m/f/d)
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Azeti Gmbh 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
The UX Designer will collaborate with key users to translate requirements into intuitive solutions, leading the end-to-end UX design from discovery through delivery. This includes conducting research, mapping user journeys, optimizing processes, supporting the design system development, and ensuring smooth implementation of the UX strategy with cross-functional teams.
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.