Design Leadership Jobs
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Lead/Principal Product Designer, Agentforce Platform
🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States
Salesforce 🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States
As a Lead/Principal UX Designer for Agentforce, you will shape how Employee Agents interact within Salesforce. You will define communication patterns and collaborate with teams to create scalable agent experiences.
Principal Product Designer, Platform
🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States
Microsoft 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States
Create and maintain design systems to enable multiple design teams to deliver AI-powered experiences. Collaborate with product leaders to manage the product development process and ensure user experience quality.
Principal Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Lseg 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Designing collaboration experiences using Microsoft Teams and Fluent UI, while following best practices from product discovery through delivery. Collaborate with various teams to inform product strategy and ensure user needs are represented in product decisions.
Principal UX Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Vapi 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
The Principal UX Designer will own key experiences from inception to release, focusing on user-centered design and collaboration with teams. They will also be responsible for improving user experiences and shaping the product roadmap based on customer needs.
Staff/Principal Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Skylight 🌍 Remote
As a product designer, you will advocate for users and turn insights into designs that improve government services. You will collaborate with various teams to research user needs, define interaction flows, and create accessible interfaces.
Principal UX Designer, Device Software and Services
🇺🇸 Seattle, WA
Amazon 🇺🇸 Seattle, WA
Principal UX Designer to lead UX design strategy across Amazon's most complex, cross-platform experiences.
Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Gensler 🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States
The Graphic Designer will collaborate with Regional Managing Principals to create impactful presentation decks and communication materials. This role involves translating complex ideas into compelling visual narratives and ensuring alignment with Gensler's brand voice.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, CA
Figure 🇺🇸 San Francisco, CA
Figure is seeking a Principal Product Designer to shape the experience of core products end-to-end, balancing craft with clarity, systems thinking with execution, and vision with technical pragmatism.
Product Designer, Principal Associate Level
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Capital One 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
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.
Principal UX Designer, Voice + AI (Plantation/Chicago Hybrid)
🇺🇸 Plantation, Florida, United States
Motorola Solutions 🇺🇸 Plantation, Florida, United States
As a Principal UX Designer, you will lead the design and development of voice user interfaces and multimodal experiences for mission-critical applications. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure user-centered design principles are applied effectively.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 Redmond, Washington, United States
Microsoft 🇺🇸 Redmond, Washington, United States
The Principal Product Designer will engage with customers to identify challenges and design AI-powered solutions. They will also create visually compelling interfaces and evolve design systems for scalability.
Principal Product Designer
🇨🇿 Capital City of Prague, Prague, Czechia
Gen 🇨🇿 Capital City of Prague, Prague, Czechia
As a Principal Product Designer, you will define and deliver user-first solutions across various platforms. You will collaborate with product, research, and engineering teams to translate strategy into high-quality experiences.
Principal UI/UX Designer
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Gram Games 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
The Principal UI/UX Designer will produce player-focused wireframes and user flows, create UI art assets, and design screens in Unity. Collaboration with designers, artists, and engineers is essential to ensure a consistent visual identity and successful implementation.
Principal Energy Process & Product Designer (m/f/d)
🌍 Remote
1komma5° Gmbh 🌍 Remote
The Principal Energy Process & Product Designer will define scalable product logic and ensure compliance with regulatory frameworks. They will also architect automated workflows and integrate innovation with traditional energy processes.
Principal Energy Process & Product Designer (m/f/d)
🌍 Remote
1komma5˚ 🌍 Remote
The Principal Energy Process & Product Designer will define scalable product logic and ensure operational processes are designed for mass volumes. They will also translate regulatory frameworks into logical requirements for product development.
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.