Design Leadership Jobs

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Require a Graphic Designer (Packaging Specialist) in Mumbai

🇮🇳 Mumbai, Mumbai Suburban District, India

This role involves leading the design and development of packaging for new product launches, ensuring the unboxing experience and shelf appeal on e-commerce platforms are optimized. The designer must balance technical nutritional information with premium, clean-label aesthetics across all packaging touchpoints.

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Lead Product Designer

🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America

The Lead Product Designer will own the end-to-end feel of Fohr's products, defining the visual and emotional tone in partnership with the CEO. They will collaborate closely with the product team and engineers to shepherd designs into reality while balancing product velocity with long-term usability.

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Staff Product Designer, Moveworks

🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America

The Staff Product Designer will shape how technical and non-technical users build, test, and deploy Agentic AI workflows across enterprise systems, focusing on designing the Agent Studio experience. This role involves turning complex tasks into simple UI interactions and leading UX opportunities within the Agent AI space.

Onsite$166,500 - $291,400Full-timeSenior
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Product Designer

🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America

The Product Designer will drive the entire product design experience from initial concept sketches and user flows through prototyping and final shipping to customers. This involves partnering closely with product and engineering teams on requirements and sequencing for initiatives they lead.

Hybrid$225,000 - $275,000Full-timeSenior
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Graphic Designer

Remote (🇺🇸 Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America)

The role involves designing high-quality visual assets for various digital and print marketing initiatives, translating brand guidelines into consistent creative across all platforms. Responsibilities also include leading projects from ideation through final production and collaborating cross-functionally with marketing, product, sales, and leadership teams.

Remote$59,400 - $66,600Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer

🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America

The Senior Product Designer will own the end-to-end design for the Investor team experiences, including onboarding, payments, transfers, and account management, leading efforts to drive retention and platform preference. Responsibilities include serving as the primary design lead, owning journey maps, collaborating with cross-functional partners, creating high-fidelity mockups, and leading the evolution of the design system.

Hybrid$170,000 - $190,000Full-timeSenior
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Product Designer - Associate

🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India

The Product Designer will define product strategy and drive the delivery of user-centered design solutions for complex business problems, shaping next-generation private banking platforms. Responsibilities include delivering design artifacts across all project phases and leading research initiatives such as stakeholder workshops and user studies.

Onsite$100,000 - $150,000Full-timeSenior
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Staff Product Designer (They/She/He)

🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

The Staff Product Designer will act as a strategic partner to define team strategy, influence major product decisions, and shape roadmaps for complex initiatives while defining the long-term user experience vision. This role involves leading the entire design process from concept through high-fidelity implementation and serving on the UX leadership team.

HybridFull-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer (H/F/N)

🇫🇷 Paris, France

The role involves designing the user experience and interfaces for Believe's products aimed at artists, labels, and internal employees, working closely with product managers and developers within a team of six designers. Key tasks include identifying user needs through various stakeholders, leading design reviews and user testing, and supporting development phases to ensure efficient and scalable design implementation.

HybridFull-timeSenior
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Staff Product Designer (They/She/He)

🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

The Staff Product Designer will act as a strategic partner to define team strategy, influence major product decisions, and shape roadmaps for complex initiatives while defining the long-term user experience vision. This role involves leading the entire design process from concept through high-fidelity implementation and serving on the UX leadership team to ensure design consistency.

HybridFull-timeSenior
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Sr. UX Designer, Connect

🇺🇸 San Mateo, California, United States of America

The Senior UX Designer will own UX for core platform surfaces or end-to-end player journeys, leading design from concept through launch across console, web, and companion experiences. Responsibilities include translating complex constraints into intuitive experiences, defining interaction models, and partnering with cross-functional teams to shape strategy and evolve platform standards.

Hybrid$152,300 - $228,500Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer, Client Experience

🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America

The Senior Product Designer will own the end-to-end client experience journey, designing interfaces and interactions to make wealth management intuitive, transparent, and personal, bridging human expertise with modern technology. Responsibilities include leading complex initiatives from discovery through execution, designing across multiple user types, optimizing for service realities, and identifying opportunities for AI enhancement.

Onsite$180,000 - $215,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer

🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom

The Senior Product Designer will lead the design of groundbreaking, user-centered solutions for the platform, integrating research findings with business goals to drive design improvements and strategic decisions. Responsibilities include end-to-end design delivery, evolving design systems, championing accessibility, and mentoring team members.

HybridFull-timeSenior
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Product Designer

🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America

The role involves partnering with executive and product teams to define product vision, strategy, and roadmap, while owning complex, cross-functional product initiatives from concept through launch. Responsibilities also include translating ambiguous problems into design frameworks, leading product thinking through clear design rationale, and driving research to inform product direction.

Onsite$175,000 - $250,000Full-timeSenior
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UX Writer, Apple TV

🇺🇸 Cupertino, California, United States of America

The UX Writer will be responsible for writing end-to-end flows and in-product copy across platforms for Apple TV, designing features with cross-functional partners, and defining the product roadmap. Key duties also involve developing style guidance, leading discussions on terminology, and presenting work to senior leaders.

Onsite$140,000 - $170,000Full-timeSenior
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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.