Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior Product Designer and Researcher, FME
🇨🇦 Canada
Safe Software 🇨🇦 Canada
The role involves contributing across the full design lifecycle, from discovery and problem framing through iterative design, while executing end-to-end design work for FME features, producing artifacts like user flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity specifications. Additionally, the person will execute and drive user research activities, delivering actionable insights and providing research mentorship to the team.
Senior Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Tradeify 🌍 Remote
The Senior Product Designer will own the end-to-end design for major product initiatives, translating complex trading workflows into intuitive, high-performance user experiences. This role involves leading discovery through research and prototyping, designing data-heavy interfaces, and establishing/evolving the product design system.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Funding Circle 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The Senior Product Designer will lead end-to-end design projects, focusing on creating elegant, systematic UI and maintaining design systems as the company expands to a multi-product experience. Responsibilities include translating complex problems using diagrams and flows, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, and validating hypotheses through user research and testing.
Sr. Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Chalkboard 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will own the end-to-end design process, transforming complex sports gaming flows into simple, intuitive, and high-impact user experiences across key product surfaces. This involves leading product discovery, translating insights into thoughtful designs, and continuously refining the design system for consistency and scalability.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 Warrendale, Allegheny County, PA 15086, United States of America
Green Cabbage 🇺🇸 Warrendale, Allegheny County, PA 15086, United States of America
The Senior UI/UX Designer will own and evolve the design vision, establishing a unified design language, defining UI standards, and creating a scalable design system in Figma across the company's SaaS products. This role involves translating product requirements into high-fidelity designs, conducting user research, and ensuring intuitive, professional, and accessible implementation in collaboration with Product and Engineering teams.
Senior Product Designer - London
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Sequence 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The role involves designing AI-first product experiences across billing, invoicing, collections, and finance agent workflows, partnering closely with Product Managers and engineers from discovery through shipping. Responsibilities also include exploring agentic AI workflow behavior, moving between broad concepts and tactical deliverables, rapid prototyping, and contributing to the design culture.
(Senior) Product Designer (UI) (m/f/d)
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Sap Fioneer 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
The Product Designer will be responsible for designing user flows, screens, and high-fidelity mockups, collaborating closely with product, engineering, and design teams to ensure intuitive and production-ready UI. Key tasks include utilizing design systems, supporting cross-functional teams with assets, and staying current on industry trends to elevate the design practice.
Senior Product Designer - San Francisco
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Plaud 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The role involves owning the end-to-end product design for complex AI-powered workflows across web, desktop, and mobile platforms. This includes partnering closely with Product Management and Engineering to drive experience decisions from discovery through launch and leading design quality within a dedicated Pod.
Freelance Senior Graphic Designer
🇯🇴 Amman, Amman Sub-District, Jordan
Tarjama& 🇯🇴 Amman, Amman Sub-District, Jordan
The Freelance Senior Graphic Designer is responsible for developing and executing advanced creative concepts aligned with branding objectives, translating complex briefs into compelling visual narratives for high-level corporate materials. This includes designing reports, proposals, presentations, and marketing assets, ensuring all deliverables are production-ready and maintain brand consistency.
Freelance Senior Graphic Designer
🇪🇬 Cairo, Egypt
Tarjama& 🇪🇬 Cairo, Egypt
The Freelance Senior Graphic Designer is responsible for developing and executing advanced creative concepts aligned with branding objectives, translating complex briefs into compelling visual narratives for high-level corporate materials. This includes designing reports, proposals, presentations, and marketing assets while ensuring print-ready and digital-ready file accuracy.
Senior Product Designer
🇪🇬 Cairo, Egypt
Dsquares 🇪🇬 Cairo, Egypt
The Senior Product Designer will lead the complete design process for new features and product enhancements, spanning from initial concept through to final launch. Key duties include planning and executing user research, crafting detailed designs and prototypes, and collaborating closely with product managers.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany)
Cosuno Remote (🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany)
The role involves taking full ownership of the end-to-end product design process, collaborating closely with the Product Team from ideation through to shipping visual designs. Responsibilities include evolving the design language, working with engineering to deliver feasible solutions, and maintaining the design system in Figma.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Reston, Virginia, United States of America
Amentum 🇺🇸 Reston, Virginia, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer develops and implements design concepts integrating brand strategy across digital, print, and multimedia platforms, while designing and producing high-impact, executive-level presentations for C-Suite leadership and external materials. This role also serves as the brand steward, maintaining the visual identity system and mentoring other designers.
Senior Product Designer (4-6 years)
The Senior Product Designer will partner with product managers to define goals, conduct research, and translate insights into product vision and design strategy. Key tasks include creating high-fidelity prototypes in Figma, building scalable design systems, and collaborating with engineering for implementation.
Web Graphic Designer
🇵🇭 Pasig, Eastern Manila District, Philippines
Kdci 🇵🇭 Pasig, Eastern Manila District, Philippines
The role involves creating daily visual assets for social media, websites, and marketing collateral based on approved briefs and adapting master designs across various formats while maintaining brand consistency. Responsibilities also include preparing and exporting final files for web and print and supporting senior designers in preparatory creative tasks.
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.