Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America
Bank Of Hawaii 🇺🇸 Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer leads the design and production of complex digital, social, and print assets while ensuring alignment with brand standards. This role also involves creative consultation with internal stakeholders to clarify needs and resolve visual challenges.
Principal Product Designer, SeekrGuard
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Seekr 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
The Principal Product Designer will own the end-to-end design vision for SeekrGuard, focusing on AI model evaluation and certification workflows. This includes leading user discovery, defining systems-level UX, and collaborating with Product and Engineering to make model risk legible and trustworthy.
Principal Product Designer, Questbank
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Questrade Financial Group 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead design on complex problems across the consumer banking platform, ensuring a coherent and integrated experience. Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to influence product strategy and elevate the design practice.
Staff Product Designer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Pantheon 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The role involves defining UX/UI strategy and leading product direction for a significant part of Pantheon's product roadmap. The candidate will design, build, lead, and drive product strategy from day one.
Staff Product Designer (Multiple Openings)
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Faire 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
As a Staff Product Designer, you will define the vision by identifying gaps and influencing roadmap prioritization while leading end-to-end design processes. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to explore new paradigms and push Faire’s design system forward.
Head of Design Engineering (Silicon)
🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Sbt 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
The Head of Design Engineering will own the SoC execution from RTL to GDSII, ensuring quality and schedule from synthesis through tape-out. They will also lead silicon bring-up readiness and provide hands-on technical leadership across physical implementation.
Principal Product Designer, SeekrGuard
🇺🇸 Reston, Virginia, United States of America
Seekr 🇺🇸 Reston, Virginia, United States of America
The Principal Product Designer will drive SeekrGuard's design from discovery and concept through detailed design, delivery, and iteration. They will define information architecture and interaction patterns while leading user discovery and research.
Principal Product Designer, SeekrGuard
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Seekr 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
The Principal Product Designer will drive SeekrGuard's design from discovery and concept through detailed design, delivery, and iteration. They will define information architecture and interaction patterns while leading user discovery and research.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Pantheon 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
The role involves defining UX/UI strategy and leading product direction for a significant part of Pantheon's product roadmap. The candidate will design, build, lead, and drive product strategy from day one.
Product Design Manager, Premium Design
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Capital One 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead the design vision for high-spender customer experiences, creating personalized and high-impact end-to-end product journeys. Collaborate with cross-functional partners to solve complex design challenges while mentoring junior designers and influencing product strategy.
Senior UX Researcher
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Intact Fc 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead the planning and execution of user research studies to gather deep insights into user behaviors and motivations. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to create research roadmaps and translate findings into strategic design recommendations.
Principal Product Designer, Questbank
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Questrade Financial Group 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead the design vision for the Questbank consumer banking platform, focusing on complex, cross-cutting flows and platform-level patterns. Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to drive strategy and elevate the overall design practice through mentorship and evidence-based validation.
Staff Product Designer
🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Dialpad 🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Lead the design of foundational layers and platform-wide AI initiatives to define interaction models and patterns. Partner with leadership to ship production code and coded prototypes while mentoring other designers on AI fluency and craft.
Digital Product Designer
🇨🇦 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Alterna Savings 🇨🇦 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Lead the end-to-end design lifecycle for iOS, Android, and web platforms, from conceptualization to final delivery. Collaborate with stakeholders and engineering teams to create user-centric interfaces and maintain a consistent design system.
Sr. Project Design Technologist - AEI
🇺🇸 United States of America
Cannondesign 🇺🇸 United States of America
The role involves partnering with project leadership and clients to define and lead project-specific digital strategies, ensuring the digital health and delivery of projects. Responsibilities include overseeing model management frameworks, leading digital coordination meetings, and mentoring project teams in digital practices.
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.