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Principal Product Designer Lead
🇺🇸 United States
Linktree 🇺🇸 United States
Lead and develop a team of senior designers while remaining hands-on with high-leverage design problems. Set the design vision and craft standards to ensure quality and consistency across the product.
Principal Product Designer, AI Experience
🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Veed 🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Set the design vision for generative AI experiences across VEED's products, turning frontier model capabilities into intuitive tools for marketers. Define new interaction patterns for steering AI models and establish the quality bar for design across the company.
Principal Product Designer, AI Experience
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Veed 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Set the design vision for generative AI experiences across VEED's products, turning frontier model capabilities into intuitive tools for marketers. Define new interaction patterns for steering AI models and establish the overall quality bar for design across the company.
Principal Design Manager
🇬🇧 Altrincham, England, United Kingdom
Mott Macdonald 🇬🇧 Altrincham, England, United Kingdom
Lead and oversee the technical delivery of multi-disciplinary rail civil engineering projects across the UK. Collaborate with stakeholders and project managers to ensure high-quality, safe, and sustainable engineering solutions while mentoring early career professionals.
Principal, Hardware Design Engineering (TPL)
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States
Celestica International Lp 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States
Lead the ideation, architecture, and implementation of next-generation hardware solutions for AI data centers. Act as the primary technical lead for customer-specific designs while driving strategic technology roadmaps and mentoring engineering teams.
Chercheur(e) principal(e) et concepteur(trice) UX (Senior UX Researcher & Designer)/UX Researcher & Designer
🇨🇦 Kirkland, Quebec, Canada
Iqvia 🇨🇦 Kirkland, Quebec, Canada
Lead end-to-end UX research and design initiatives for AI-enabled clinical technology solutions within the Applied Data Science Center. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to translate complex clinical and AI-assisted workflows into intuitive, scalable digital experiences.
Principal Product Designer
🇸🇬 Singapore, Singapore
Electronic Arts (ea) 🇸🇬 Singapore, Singapore
The Principal Product Designer will establish the vision for player and creator tools while setting the quality benchmark for design across the project. They will lead high-impact prototyping, integrate AI tools into the design process, and align cross-functional teams to deliver human-centric experiences.
Freelance Principal Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Red Badger 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
The Principal Product Designer will lead design strategy and implementation across multi-team programmes while providing high-value consulting to shape client product initiatives. They are responsible for coaching design teams, ensuring high-quality delivery, and fostering trusted relationships with clients and stakeholders.
Principal Product Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Servicenow 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Lead large, cross-product strategic initiatives to transform global work processes through beautiful and productive design. Provide strategic vision and leadership while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to define design standards and influence industry practices.
Principal, Design Engineering - Technical Program Lead (TPL)
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States
Celestica 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States
Lead the design and implementation of next-generation hardware architectures for high-performance AI data center solutions. Act as the primary technical contact for strategic customers to drive innovation and recommend industry best practices.
Principal UX designer
🇮🇳 Pune, Maharashtra, India
Hg Insights 🇮🇳 Pune, Maharashtra, India
The Principal UX Designer will own the end-to-end design process, from research and ideation to implementation, while acting as the primary voice for UX within the organization. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to define product strategy and maintain design standards as a team of one.
Principal UX Designer
🇺🇸 Santa Clara, California, United States
Palo Alto Networks 🇺🇸 Santa Clara, California, United States
Lead end-to-end product design for complex cybersecurity workflows and platform integrations for Strata Cloud Manager. Drive UX strategy and champion consistency across the product ecosystem while mentoring other designers.
Principal Product Designer - Remote work | REF#303527
🌍 Remote
Bairesdev 🌍 Remote
Lead the end-to-end design process from discovery to delivery, ensuring visual and functional consistency through design systems. Collaborate with engineering and product stakeholders to deliver user-centric solutions that meet business goals.
Principal Product Designer, Core Experience
🇺🇸 United States
Fetch 🇺🇸 United States
Lead the long-term experience direction for discovery and earning across Home, Search, Navigation, and Earnings surfaces. Establish design principles, architecture, and frameworks to ensure a consistent and rewarding user journey while partnering with Product and Engineering leaders.
Principal Product Designer, Core Experience
🇺🇸 United States
Fetch 🇺🇸 United States
You will lead the long-term experience direction for discovery and earning surfaces, ensuring they function as a cohesive and rewarding system. You will partner with product and engineering leaders to define strategy, establish design frameworks, and drive measurable improvements in user engagement and retention.
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.