Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior Product Designer
🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal
Catawiki 🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal
The Senior Product Designer will drive research efforts to identify user needs and transform ideas for innovation into viable solutions, working hands-on to create design deliverables like user journeys, prototypes, and design system elements. They will align with multiple stakeholders, incorporating feedback early and often to ensure a consistent, user-centered platform.
Senior Product Designer (UI) - contract
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Collinson 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The Senior Product Designer will lead the design of elegant, mobile-first interfaces across various platforms, defining animations and micro-interactions to ensure natural and meaningful movement. They will also contribute to evolving the design system and championing accessibility best practices across all designs.
Senior Product Designer
🇮🇱 The New North, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
Rubrik Job Board 🇮🇱 The New North, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
The Senior Product Designer will champion the design process, exploring big ideas before focusing on feasible solutions while producing deliverables across all design stages, including storyboards, wireframes, and prototypes. They will partner with designers, product managers, and engineers throughout the process and cultivate customer relationships to ensure designs meet user needs.
Senior Product Designer
🇮🇱 The New North, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
Zesty 🇮🇱 The New North, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
The Senior Product Designer will own the entire design process, from research and ideation through visual design and validation, collaborating closely with Product, Engineering, and DevOps teams. Responsibilities include translating complex technical concepts into simple, clear interfaces and contributing to the evolution of the design system.
Senior Lead Product Designer, Operations
Remote (🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom)
Monzo Remote (🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom)
The Senior Lead Product Designer will embed the long-term design vision for support experiences, leading large, end-to-end design initiatives across ambiguous problem spaces involving AI, internal tooling, and operational workflows. They will also coach other designers, raise the bar for design craft, and partner with leaders to define and execute product strategies.
Senior UX Researcher Kiro, Kiro
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
The Senior UX Researcher will own the complete research lifecycle for web products, applying expertise across methodologies to solve complex problems in developer tools, from AI-assisted coding interactions to cloud-native workflow optimization. They will transform complex datasets into actionable insights and communicate research impact to shape product roadmaps and developer experiences.
Sr UX Researcher, Frame.io
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Adobe 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Senior UX Researcher will develop a comprehensive understanding of customers by crafting and leading mixed methods research, promoting the voice of the customer across the organization. They will collaborate with product teams to plan roadmaps and simplify complex findings into actionable insights that influence immediate actions and long-term product vision.
Senior UX Researcher
🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
Microsoft 🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
The role involves defining and leading strategic research roadmaps aligned with product vision, and conducting mixed-methods research to deliver actionable insights that shape both near-term design and long-term strategy. Responsibilities also include partnering cross-functionally with PM, Design, and Engineering to influence decisions and supporting rapid iteration through concept testing.
Senior UX Researcher
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Netapp, Inc. 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
The role involves planning and executing mixed-methods research, including qualitative studies like user interviews and usability testing, to inform product design and strategy. Responsibilities also include leveraging AI tools in workflows and synthesizing insights into actionable recommendations for product teams.
Senior UX Researcher
🇵🇹 Portugal
Catawiki 🇵🇹 Portugal
The Senior UX Researcher will set the research strategy and roadmap, designing and executing activities to deeply understand customers and influence product decisions. This role involves empowering cross-functional teams by democratizing research through tools and best practices.
Senior Graphic Designer - Sports & Corporate Marketing
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Senior Designer will drive captivating design and creative solutions for Sports & Corporate Marketing campaigns, focusing on concepting, logo creation, style guides, social media graphics, and design templates across various mediums. This role involves collaborating cross-functionally to craft compelling visual solutions that leave a lasting impact on fans and target audiences.
Graphic Designer
🇮🇳 Mumbai, Mumbai Suburban District, India
Dentsu 🇮🇳 Mumbai, Mumbai Suburban District, India
This role supports the design and animation of motion graphics primarily for client deliverables, working alongside senior team members. Key tasks include creating 3D stage renderings, graphics, animations, and storyboards that align with client requirements and brand identity.
Jr. Graphic Designer
🇵🇭 Manila, Capital District, Philippines
Remitly 🇵🇭 Manila, Capital District, Philippines
This role supports the creation and delivery of high-quality visual materials across digital and print channels to reinforce brand identity, collaborating with senior designers and marketing teams across APAC. Responsibilities include executing creative concepts, ensuring brand guideline consistency, and designing various marketing deliverables like brochures, banners, and event materials.
Senior UI Designer - B2C Mobile (f/m/x)
🇩🇪 Hamburg, Germany
Exmox Gmbh 🇩🇪 Hamburg, Germany
The Senior UI Designer will own and design new features for the B2C mobile product from concept through final handoff, creating visually engaging and highly polished interfaces, illustrations, and icons. Responsibilities also include delivering production-ready assets, maintaining the design system, and collaborating with UX research and data teams for iteration.
Designer sénior d'expérience utilisateur/Senior UX Designer
Remote (🇨🇦 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)
Goto Remote (🇨🇦 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)
The Senior UX Designer will collaborate closely with product and engineering partners to drive end-to-end user experiences by creating various design deliverables, including wireframes and journey maps. They will also leverage user feedback and cutting-edge AI tools to inform design decisions and shape the strategic direction of the product.
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.