Design Leadership Jobs
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UX Designer
🇺🇸 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America
Love's Travel Stops 🇺🇸 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America
Design intuitive and visually consistent experiences for iOS and Android mobile applications while collaborating with cross-functional teams. Lead design initiatives, contribute to the design system, and conduct usability testing to ensure high-quality implementation.
Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Boise, Idaho, United States of America
Ericsson 🇺🇸 Boise, Idaho, United States of America
The Graphic Designer is responsible for producing high-quality creative assets across digital, print, web, and social media platforms. They will collaborate with creative leadership to execute campaign concepts while maintaining brand standards and project timelines.
Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Plano, Texas, United States of America
Ericsson 🇺🇸 Plano, Texas, United States of America
The Graphic Designer is responsible for producing high-quality creative assets across digital, print, and web platforms to support business objectives. They will collaborate with creative leadership to extend brand concepts while ensuring production quality and consistency across all deliverables.
Sr. Manager, Physical Design Engineering, Annapurna Labs
🇺🇸 Cupertino, California, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Cupertino, California, United States of America
Build and lead a physical design team to deliver multi-billion-transistor ML accelerator SoCs for AWS cloud infrastructure. Manage the physical design strategy, roadmap, and tapeout execution while driving continuous PPA improvement and technology node adoption.
Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Fyxer Ai 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
You will serve as the senior product design voice, leading design decisions for an AI-powered productivity platform. You will collaborate directly with the Group PM and engineers to create intuitive, complex user experiences while defining the company's design culture.
Head of Design
🇺🇦 Kyiv, Ukraine
Makeberry Affiliates 🇺🇦 Kyiv, Ukraine
The Head of Design will lead four design departments, managing team performance, production processes, and strategic development. They are responsible for aligning design output with business goals, optimizing workflows, and fostering professional growth within the team.
Senior Design Manager
🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Resourceful Recruitment 🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Lead and manage the design aspects of commercial construction projects from concept through to completion. Coordinate with clients, architects, and engineers to ensure design solutions are functional, compliant, and meet project requirements.
CPU Front-end Design Manager
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Intel Corporation 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
The manager will lead the Memory Execution Unit (MEU) Front-End development team, overseeing RTL design, verification, and formal verification processes. They are responsible for driving microarchitecture strategy, ensuring PPA objectives are met, and fostering a high-performing, collaborative engineering culture.
Site Design Engineering Lead Mechanical Engineer
🇺🇸 Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Terrapower 🇺🇸 Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
The Site Design Engineering Lead will oversee the onsite mechanical engineering team to support construction, testing, and commissioning of the Natrium Demonstration Project. They will serve as the primary technical interface for stakeholders and ensure all design deliverables comply with nuclear safety and regulatory standards.
Senior Product Designer, Capital Advances
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lightspeed Commerce 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead the design vision for the Capital Advances team by transforming complex operational workflows into intuitive, automated merchant experiences. Collaborate closely with product, engineering, and risk teams to build and refine internal tools and customer-facing interfaces.
Product Designer, Trust & Safety
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Meta 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead the design vision and strategy for trust and safety experiences across Instagram, focusing on youth safety, parental controls, and creator protections. Drive alignment across cross-functional teams including Product, Policy, Engineering, and Legal to deliver intuitive, human-centered experiences.
Product Designer
🇮🇱 Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
Reelu 🇮🇱 Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
The Product Designer will own the visual identity and creative direction of the brand while collaborating with Product, Marketing, and Engineering teams. They will lead the design of high-impact marketing assets and UI components to ensure a consistent and functional user experience.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Redpath Partners 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
The Design Manager leads the design development and coordination of hospitality capital works programs, including refurbishments and new developments. They manage external consultants and contractors to ensure projects are delivered within budget, timeline, and brand standards.
Staff Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Aleph Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Own the end-to-end design process, including customer research, problem definition, prototyping, and implementation. Collaborate with engineering, CX, and leadership to shape product direction and create coherent, delightful user experiences.
Industrial Design Manager
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Jool Baby 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead the design and product development process from early concepts through production while managing a team of designers. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure products are innovative, safe, and commercially successful.
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.