Design Leadership Jobs
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Principal Product Designer | UX/UI & AI Experience Design
🇵🇱 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Human Intelligence 🇵🇱 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Lead the UX and UI strategy for AI-powered products across healthcare, education, and wellbeing platforms. Own the full design lifecycle from discovery and research to high-fidelity design and developer handoff.
Principal Product Designer | UX/UI & AI Experience Design
🇧🇬 Sofia, Sredec, Bulgaria
Human Intelligence 🇧🇬 Sofia, Sredec, Bulgaria
Lead the UX/UI strategy and complete product design lifecycle for AI-powered platforms across healthcare, education, and wellbeing. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to transform complex technology into intuitive, human-centered digital experiences.
Principal Product Designer | UX/UI & AI Experience Design
🇳🇬 Lagos, Lagos Island, Nigeria
Human Intelligence 🇳🇬 Lagos, Lagos Island, Nigeria
Lead the UX/UI strategy and complete product design lifecycle for AI-powered platforms across healthcare, education, and wellbeing. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to transform complex AI technology into intuitive, human-centered digital experiences.
Principal Product Designer
🇵🇹 Portugal
Olx 🇵🇹 Portugal
Lead the quality of interaction, UX, and visual design across business units while defining and governing design systems. Mentor the design team and influence product strategy through design-led thinking.
Principal Product Designer
🇳🇱 Netherlands
Olx 🇳🇱 Netherlands
Lead the quality of interaction, UX, and visual design across business units while defining and governing design systems. Mentor and elevate the design team, ensuring high-quality execution and alignment with product strategy.
Principal Engineer, Mixed Signal Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Wilmington, MA 01887, United States of America
Analog Devices 🇺🇸 Wilmington, MA 01887, United States of America
As a Principal Mixed Signal Design Engineer, you will drive architecture decisions and lead complex projects from concept to production. You will also mentor other engineers and provide technical leadership that influences the company's technology direction.
Senior Principal Engineer, Digital Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Wilmington, MA 01887, United States of America
Analog Devices 🇺🇸 Wilmington, MA 01887, United States of America
The role involves architecting signal processing solutions for broadband communication systems and leading the design and integration of broadband communications subsystems. The candidate will collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop high-speed digital communication systems.
Principal Product Designer, Energy
🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Dow Jones 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
The Principal Product Designer will set design strategy across multiple product areas and work directly with executive leadership to resolve strategic conflicts. This role involves identifying company-wide opportunities and establishing design practices that become industry benchmarks.
Principal Product Designer
🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Olx 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Lead the quality of interaction, UX, and visual design across business units while defining and governing design systems. Mentor the design team and influence product strategy through design-led thinking.
Principal Product Designer
🇪🇸 Spain
Olx 🇪🇸 Spain
Lead the design quality across business units and establish design systems and governance. Mentor the design team and influence product strategy through design-led thinking.
Principal Product Designer, Energy
🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Dow Jones 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Set design strategy across multiple product areas and collaborate with C-suite executives to shape company direction. Establish industry-benchmark design practices and mentor senior design talent to drive business metrics and platform evolution.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Ethos 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead design strategy across multiple business units and help set the vision for the overall user experience. Direct and guide the work of other designers while managing executive stakeholders across various departments.
Principal UX Designer, AWS Search, Security, Observability, & Governance
🇺🇸 Santa Clara County, California, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Santa Clara County, California, United States of America
Define and own the end-to-end design strategy for Amazon OpenSearch, focusing on search, observability, and agentic AI experiences. Lead the architecture of AI design patterns and drive 'design-as-code' practices by committing directly to production codebases.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Ethos Life 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead design strategy and vision across multiple business units while directing the work of other designers. Build and iterate on products while managing executive stakeholders across engineering, product, and marketing.
Principal Product Designer, FinTech
🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Engine 🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
As a Principal Product Designer, you will lead projects from vision to execution, focusing on creating simple and effective payment experiences and billing portals. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and deliver features that meet user needs.
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.