Design Leadership Jobs
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Product Designer, Principal Associate Level
🇺🇸 McLean, VA 22101, United States of America
Capital One 🇺🇸 McLean, VA 22101, United States of America
As a Product Designer, you will combine your craft expertise with an understanding of customers and the business to co-create innovative solutions. You will leverage your design skills to create artifacts such as journey maps, blueprints, high-fidelity designs, and prototypes.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Gen2tek 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
The Design Manager will take ownership of Design Management and Building Regulation Principal Designer duties, managing design compliance and engaging duty holders. The role involves working on high-rise residential, mixed-use, and commercial refurbishment projects.
Principal UX Designer, Prime Video Experience Design (PVXD)
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Prime Video & Amazon Mgm Studios 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Design end-to-end experiences at the edge of emerging technology, focusing on AI conversational characters and generative video. Collaborate closely with teams on ideation, prototyping, and risk-taking in high-ambiguity environments.
Principal UX Designer, Prime Video Experience Design (PVXD)
🇺🇸 Culver City, CA 90232, United States of America
Prime Video & Amazon Mgm Studios 🇺🇸 Culver City, CA 90232, United States of America
Design end-to-end experiences using emerging technologies, focusing on AI conversational characters and generative video. Collaborate with teams on ideation and prototyping while advocating for innovative directions.
Principal UX Designer, Prime Video Experience Design (PVXD)
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Prime Video & Amazon Mgm Studios 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Design end-to-end experiences using emerging technologies, focusing on AI conversational characters and generative video. Collaborate with teams on ideation, prototyping, and advocating for innovative directions.
Principal UX Designer
🇧🇪 Antwerp, Belgium
Cochlear 🇧🇪 Antwerp, Belgium
The Principal UX Designer will lead UX strategy and quality across the Audiology portfolio, ensuring coherent and compliant experiences. This role involves hands-on design work, guiding teams, and influencing decisions at various levels.
Principal UX Designer, Prime Video Experience Design (PVXD)
🇺🇸 Culver City, CA 90232, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Culver City, CA 90232, United States of America
Lead the design of experimental, AI-first entertainment experiences including conversational characters and generative video for Prime Video. Partner with science and engineering teams to prototype bold, high-ambiguity concepts and advocate for the future vision of the product.
Principal, Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Celestica 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
The Principal, Design Engineering will lead the design, development, and implementation of technical solutions for complex projects. They will work with cross-functional teams to ensure robust and high-quality product development.
Principal, Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Celestica International Lp 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Lead the design, development, and implementation of complex mechanical systems and modules. Provide technical leadership to global engineering teams and manage project elements including financials and customer specifications.
Principal Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lseg 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
The Principal Product Designer will create design solutions that achieve business goals and deliver customer value. This includes conducting user research, collaborating with various teams, and ensuring design consistency across products.
Principal, Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Celestica International Lp 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Lead the design, development, and implementation of complex mechanical systems and modules. Provide technical leadership to global engineering teams while managing project planning, customer specifications, and manufacturing support.
Principal Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lseg 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the design of complex collaboration experiences within the Microsoft ecosystem for financial and risk professionals. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate product strategy into high-value user interfaces across desktop, mobile, and web platforms.
Principal Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lseg 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the design of complex financial platforms and products to deliver maximum customer value across desktop, mobile, and web. Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to define product strategy, conduct user research, and evolve the enterprise design system.
Principal Graphic Designer (Experience required in Threejs/ Webgl)
🇮🇳 India
Imerit Technology 🇮🇳 India
The Principal Graphics Engineer will lead the development of a browser-based visualization engine for multi-sensor data annotation. Responsibilities include architecting high-performance GPU rendering pipelines and optimizing rendering techniques for real-time 3D visualization.
12 - Principal, Design Engineering
🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Celestica 🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Lead the design and coding of RAG architectures and workflows while managing relationships with AI research partners. Implement systems that enhance internal efficiency and meet customer-specific design standards.
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.