Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior Product Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Microsoft 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
The Senior Product Designer will define product needs based on user insights to create design concepts that optimize the emotional and functional experience, focusing on end-to-end user journeys while balancing business and technical tradeoffs. Responsibilities include integrating AI tools into the design workflow, delivering design excellence, providing design leadership, and collaborating cross-functionally to implement new features.
Senior Product Designer
🇨🇿 Czechia
Microsoft 🇨🇿 Czechia
The Senior Product Designer will lead the design for a major area within the Teams experience, driving the creation of AI-assisted, collaborative, and multimodal experiences from exploration through launch and iteration. This role involves translating deep user insights into clear interaction models and elegant UI patterns while collaborating closely with cross-functional partners to ensure high-quality execution.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Wheely 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The Senior Product Designer will drive design decisions as a self-directed member of a cross-functional team, leading the entire design process from ideation through launch across mobile and web platforms. They will collaborate with engineers, identify product improvements, evolve the design system, and write contextually appropriate UX copy.
Senior Product Designer
🇨🇾 Nicosia, Nicosia Muncipality, Cyprus
Wheely 🇨🇾 Nicosia, Nicosia Muncipality, Cyprus
The Senior Product Designer will drive design decisions as a self-directed member of a cross-functional team, leading the end-to-end design process from ideation through launch across mobile and web platforms. They will collaborate closely with engineers, identify opportunities for product improvements, and write clear UX copy tailored to context and audience.
Senior Product Designer II, Digital Ordering Systems & Platform
🇺🇸 Plano, Texas, United States of America
Kfc Europe 🇺🇸 Plano, Texas, United States of America
This senior individual contributor role focuses on leading systems and platform-level design for Digital Ordering experiences across various channels, defining the experience architecture, workflows, and interaction models for customer-facing commerce journeys. The work spans browse, customization, offers, checkout, and post-order experiences used by millions of guests across iconic brands.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lindy 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will be responsible for crafting and refining the core Lindy Assistant experience by leading user research and usability testing sessions. This role involves defining, prototyping, designing, and iterating on the product, from micro-interactions to the end-to-end visual language, while collaborating closely with engineering and product teams.
Senior Product Designer
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Commonwealth Bank 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
The role involves owning and driving end-to-end product design, from initial discovery through to final delivery, using an iterative mindset. Key tasks include leading discovery work to define focus areas, planning and synthesizing user research, and collaborating closely with the product trio to deliver solutions.
Sr Product Designer, Firefly Enterprise
🇮🇳 Noida, Gautam Buddha Nagar, India
Adobe 🇮🇳 Noida, Gautam Buddha Nagar, India
The Senior Product Designer will develop core elements of the Firefly and GenStudio plug-in experience, focusing on discovery, installation, configuration, and lifecycle management across Adobe and third-party platforms. This involves collaborating with product, engineering, and partner teams to build end-to-end experiences and ensure uniformity across applications.
Senior Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Myedspace 🌍 Remote
The Senior Product Designer will redefine digital learning experiences by crafting fun, engaging, and highly intuitive designs for the innovative platform, shaping captivating user journeys that blend B2C design with advanced AI-driven interactivity. This role involves creating delightful experiences specifically tailored to younger users, setting new standards for enjoyment and engagement within edtech.
Senior UX Designer
🇵🇭 Philippines
Voltex Electrical 🇵🇭 Philippines
This role involves leading UX strategy and design across key digital platforms, including eCommerce and mobile applications, while championing user-centered thinking throughout the product lifecycle. Key duties include conducting user research, creating service designs like journey maps, and producing high-quality design artifacts like wireframes and prototypes.
Product Designer Senior Ecom App H/F
🇫🇷 Paris, France
Nexton 🇫🇷 Paris, France
The Senior Product Designer will translate business challenges and user needs into concrete design opportunities to feed the strategy, ensuring every pixel serves growth while formalizing design elements that carry the long-term vision for the e-commerce platform. Responsibilities also include framing subjects with Product Owners and Tech to align ambitions, conducting research to validate hypotheses, and designing innovative solutions through collaborative workshops.
Design Engineering Architect
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Cadence Design Systems 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
This senior technical leadership role involves defining the long-term verification architecture and methodology strategy for next-generation Tensilica CPU cores, ensuring functional integrity across multiple processor variants. Key duties include architecting simulation testbenches, leading UVM environment development, and championing advanced verification techniques like formal verification.
Senior Director, IO Analog Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Chandler, Arizona, United States of America
Intel Corporation 🇺🇸 Chandler, Arizona, United States of America
This senior engineering leader will be responsible for setting and refining the multi-generational roadmap for HSIO and D2D IP development, driving alignment across various teams and engaging directly with senior executives. The role involves driving IP development across architecture, logic, validation, and design teams while managing competing requirements and ensuring high-quality, on-time delivery.
Senior Manager Industrial Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Village of Greene, Chenango County, NY 13778, United States of America
Toyota Material Handling 🇺🇸 Village of Greene, Chenango County, NY 13778, United States of America
This leader will define and execute the product design vision, aligning cross-functional initiatives with corporate strategic objectives while overseeing styling, ergonomics, human machine interaction, and concept development. Key duties include leading and managing a team of designers and engineers, driving industrial design strategy, and serving as the technical lead for major new product development programs.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Windsor, Connecticut, United States of America
Ss&c Technologies 🇺🇸 Windsor, Connecticut, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer will lead the design and development of diverse marketing materials, including digital ads, social media graphics, and collateral, while translating complex financial and technological concepts into engaging visual designs. This role requires ensuring all outputs adhere strictly to brand guidelines and collaborating with various internal teams to meet project objectives.
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.