Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior Antenna Design Systems Engineer – Satellite Communications
🇺🇸 Milpitas, California, United States of America
Globalstar 🇺🇸 Milpitas, California, United States of America
The Senior Antenna Design Systems Engineer will lead the development and qualification of multi-band antenna systems for satellite communication. This includes reviewing vendor designs, developing verification plans, and coordinating testing activities.
Senior Product Designer
🇵🇪 Lima, Lima Metropolitan Area, Peru
Compartamos Banco Perú 🇵🇪 Lima, Lima Metropolitan Area, Peru
Lead qualitative and quantitative research processes to inform business and design decisions. Collaborate with various stakeholders to design and evolve end-to-end experiences across digital and physical channels.
Senior AI Product Designer - Remote
Remote (🇧🇷 Brazil)
Kake Remote (🇧🇷 Brazil)
The designer will take ownership of client projects, defining navigation, layout logic, and interaction behavior from concept to release. They will leverage AI coding tools to create functional products and represent their work to clients and internal teams.
Senior UI/UX Designer - London
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Photon 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
The role involves researching and designing end-to-end user experiences for digital products, from initial concepts to detailed handovers. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to create wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs based on user feedback.
Senior Graphic Designer - AI Trainer
Remote (🇺🇸 North Carolina, United States of America)
Dataannotation Remote (🇺🇸 North Carolina, United States of America)
Review and critique AI-generated UI/UX designs, mockups, and visuals. Evaluate the quality produced by AI models for correctness and performance.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Healthie 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Champion design vision and execution for the areas owned, from early problem framing through interactive prototyping to engineering handoff. Partner with Product and Engineering across the full lifecycle to translate complexity into intuitive experiences.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America
Spotnana 🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will lead the design of complex travel experiences and internal tools, shaping product strategy and elevating design quality across the team. They will also explore AI-powered experiences that redefine travel management.
Senior Product Designer, AI
Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)
Gitlab Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)
You will own the design process end-to-end for GitLab's AI suite, creating intuitive interfaces and seamless experiences for developers. This includes driving design from early exploration to polished execution while collaborating closely with product management and engineering teams.
Senior AI Product Designer - Remote
Remote (🇦🇷 Argentina)
Kake Remote (🇦🇷 Argentina)
Take design ownership on client projects, defining navigation, layout logic, and interaction behavior from the first brief to the final release. Leverage AI coding tools to turn design decisions into functional, testable products.
Senior / Staff Product Designer
🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Suger.io 🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Lead the design of AI-powered revenue operations workflows, focusing on pricing, contracting, billing, and compliance. Partner with engineering and GTM teams to transform complex operational realities into intuitive, scalable enterprise product experiences.
Senior Product Designer - AI Trainer
Remote (🇺🇸 Manchester Township, Indiana, United States of America)
Dataannotation Remote (🇺🇸 Manchester Township, Indiana, United States of America)
Review and critique AI-generated UI/UX designs, mockups, and visuals. Evaluate the quality produced by AI models for correctness and performance.
Senior Product Designer - AI Trainer
Remote (🇺🇸 Louisiana, United States of America)
Dataannotation Remote (🇺🇸 Louisiana, United States of America)
Review and critique AI-generated UI/UX designs and evaluate the quality produced by AI models. Help train models to better understand aesthetic quality and user-centered design.
Senior Graphic Designer - AI Trainer
Remote (🇺🇸 Idaho Falls, Idaho, United States of America)
Dataannotation Remote (🇺🇸 Idaho Falls, Idaho, United States of America)
Review and critique AI-generated UI/UX designs and evaluate the quality produced by AI models. Help train models to better understand aesthetic quality and user-centered design.
Senior Graphic Designer - AI Trainer
Remote (🇺🇸 New Hampshire, United States of America)
Dataannotation Remote (🇺🇸 New Hampshire, United States of America)
Review and critique AI-generated UI/UX designs and evaluate the quality produced by AI models. Help train models to better understand aesthetic quality and user-centered design.
Senior Product Designer - AI Trainer
Remote (🇺🇸 New Hampshire, United States of America)
Dataannotation Remote (🇺🇸 New Hampshire, United States of America)
Review and critique AI-generated UI/UX designs, mockups, and visuals. Evaluate the quality produced by AI models for correctness and performance.
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.