Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 Orange, CT 06477, United States of America
Iberdrola 🇺🇸 Orange, CT 06477, United States of America
The Senior UX Designer will lead product design activities within agile teams, including creating wireframes, prototypes, and user journeys to improve network operations. They will collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders and researchers to optimize digital experiences and ensure alignment with established design systems.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Basingstoke, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
Wates Group 🇬🇧 Basingstoke, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
Lead and coordinate the design process for residential construction projects from tender through to completion. Manage consultants, subcontractors, and design information to ensure buildability, compliance, and commercial viability.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 Basingstoke, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
Wates Group 🇬🇧 Basingstoke, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
The Senior Design Manager will lead the design process from pre-construction through to project completion, ensuring all designs are compliant, buildable, and commercially viable. They will coordinate internal teams, consultants, and subcontractors while managing design programmes, technical approvals, and project risks.
Hardware Design Manager
🇬🇧 Southampton, England, United Kingdom
Yoh, A Day & Zimmermann Company 🇬🇧 Southampton, England, United Kingdom
Lead and grow a distributed RTL design team while building the processes and structure necessary to support organizational growth. You will collaborate with architects and stakeholders to deliver complex FPGA and ASIC products while ensuring high engineering quality and performance.
Federal Design Manager
🇺🇸 Huntsville, Alabama, United States of America
Parsons Corporation 🇺🇸 Huntsville, Alabama, United States of America
The Federal Design Manager leads the design execution process for federal design-build projects, ensuring compliance with contract requirements and federal standards. They serve as the primary interface between owners and contractors to manage design development, submittals, and constructability throughout the project lifecycle.
Federal Design Manager
🇺🇸 Huntsville, Alabama, United States of America
Parsons Corporation 🇺🇸 Huntsville, Alabama, United States of America
The Federal Design Manager leads and manages the design execution process for federal design-build projects, ensuring compliance with contract requirements and federal standards. They serve as the primary interface between the owner, contractor, and design teams to facilitate seamless transitions from design through construction and closeout.
Senior Product Designer (Temporary)
🇺🇸 United States of America
Instride Health 🇺🇸 United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will lead design initiatives across the digital platform, refining complex clinical and operational workflows. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality, intuitive user experiences while maintaining the design system.
Graphic Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Voy 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the creation of high-impact, performance-driven design for paid social and digital channels to drive user action. Collaborate with growth, marketing, and copy teams to translate performance insights into compelling visual concepts and iterative creative assets.
Senior Product Designer
🇨🇴 Bogota, Colombia
Payjoy 🇨🇴 Bogota, Colombia
The Senior Product Designer will lead visual design, UX, and product strategy across iOS, Android, and web platforms. They will collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Marketing teams to raise the visual quality bar and influence end-to-end product development.
Design Manager, Airport
🇨🇦 Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Aecom 🇨🇦 Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
The Design Manager leads the implementation of multi-disciplinary design standards and oversees all pre-construction services, including planning and permitting. They serve as the primary client interface and manage design consultancy agreements to ensure technical, budgetary, and schedule alignment.
Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Tampa, Florida, United States of America
People Technology And Processes Llc 🇺🇸 Tampa, Florida, United States of America
Develop high-quality visual content including presentations, exhibits, and marketing materials for print and digital platforms. Collaborate with subject matter experts and leadership to translate complex information into compelling visual products.
Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Fyxer 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
You will serve as the senior product design voice, leading the design of complex AI-powered interfaces and internal tooling. You will collaborate directly with product managers and engineers to translate human behavior insights into intuitive, high-quality product experiences.
Lead Product Designer
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Zendesk 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Lead end-to-end design for AI Agents, from discovery and strategy through to launch and iteration. Partner with cross-functional teams to translate complex technical capabilities into simple, intuitive customer experiences.
Head of Design
🇺🇦 Ukraine
Company 🇺🇦 Ukraine
The Head of Design will lead the design department, overseeing four key creative functions and managing a team of over 15 people. They are responsible for setting strategic goals, optimizing production processes, and ensuring design output aligns with business performance metrics.
Senior Surface Design Manager
🇺🇸 Apex, North Carolina, United States of America
Mary Square, Llc 🇺🇸 Apex, North Carolina, United States of America
Lead the development of original prints, patterns, and surface designs across apparel and lifestyle collections while mentoring the design team. Manage the entire print development process from seasonal concept creation to production-ready artwork and vendor collaboration.
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.