Design Leadership Jobs

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Senior Product Designer

🇺🇸 Olathe, Kansas, United States of America

The Senior Product Designer will lead design efforts for the Garmin Connect application, managing the full feature development process from wireframing to final pixel-perfect execution. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to research, prototype, and deliver high-quality interaction solutions while mentoring junior designers.

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Senior Product Designer - Aviation Web/Mobile

🇺🇸 Olathe, Kansas, United States of America

The Senior Product Designer will lead design direction for aviation web and mobile applications while collaborating with cross-functional teams to create intuitive user experiences. Responsibilities include mentoring junior designers, conducting user research, and managing the end-to-end feature development process.

Onsite$90,000 - $120,000Full-timeSenior
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Graphic designer junior

🇮🇹 50041 Calenzano FI, Italy

Develop and adapt graphic materials for retail shop windows and points of sale, from initial brief to final production files. Collaborate with project managers and suppliers to ensure designs are correctly translated into physical installations.

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Sr. UI/UX Designer (DES-2-082026)

🇮🇳 India

Lead end-to-end UI/UX design processes for web and mobile applications while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver user-centered solutions. Mentor junior designers and oversee the development and maintenance of design systems to ensure consistency and quality.

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Product Designer

🇷🇴 Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania

You will own the end-to-end UX process, translating complex business goals and user needs into simple, validated design solutions. You will also collaborate closely with product managers and engineers while mentoring junior designers to foster a strong design culture.

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Junior Graphic Designer

🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom

The Junior Designer will create and produce innovative content for 360-degree campaigns across various media touchpoints including digital, social, and retail. They will also collaborate with copywriters and senior creatives to ensure brand guidelines are strictly followed.

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Senior Graphic Designer

🇮🇳 Reserve Bank of India, Shahid Bhagat Singh Marg, Fort, - 400038, Maharashtra, India

The Senior Graphic Designer is responsible for ensuring brand consistency across print and digital marketing projects, including logos, websites, and ad campaigns. They will also manage junior designers and collaborate with marketing teams to enhance website content and digital strategies.

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Senior Graphic Designer | Junior Art Director

🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

The role involves designing and art directing marketing communications across email, social, and digital channels for a luxury brand. Responsibilities include developing creative concepts, maintaining design systems, and ensuring brand consistency across global markets.

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Junior Graphic Designer

🇦🇺 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Support the creative team in developing brand identities, design systems, and campaign assets for national clients. Work across brand, campaign, and digital projects from initial ideation through to final execution.

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Senior Product Designer

🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom

Own end-to-end design for complex, ambiguous problems while setting standards for usability and visual consistency. Collaborate with product and engineering leadership to influence strategy and mentor junior designers to raise the team's craft bar.

$65,000 - $80,000Full-time
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Junior Graphic Designer

🇺🇸 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America

The role involves designing and producing visual assets for digital marketing, e-commerce, and social media channels. The designer will adapt creative concepts into various formats while ensuring consistency with brand guidelines and technical specifications.

$20 - $22ContractJunior
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Senior Product Designer

🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India

Lead the design of complex product features from discovery to delivery, ensuring scalable and intuitive user experiences. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define product strategy and mentor junior designers to maintain high design standards.

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Junior Graphic Designer

🇺🇸 United States of America

The designer will create weekly marketing emails via Klaviyo and develop engaging paid social assets for lifestyle brands. They will also support the creative team with photo retouching, light video editing, and general digital creative needs.

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Senior Product Designer

🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

You will own the design of complex, expert-facing workflows for an AI-native security and compliance platform. This includes maintaining high design-to-build fidelity, managing the design system, and mentoring junior team members.

$100,000 - $140,000Full-timeSenior
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Junior Product Designer

🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

You will own design execution by creating Figma flows and prototypes while collaborating with engineering and forward-deployed engineers. You will also engage in hands-on customer work to understand the platform's compliance domain and iterate on features from problem to design.

$60,000 - $70,000Full-timeJunior
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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.