Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior UX Designer
🇨🇿 Prague, Hlavní město Praha, Czech Republic
Msd 🇨🇿 Prague, Hlavní město Praha, Czech Republic
The Senior UX Designer will plan and execute user research, design and prototype digital products, and collaborate extensively with cross-functional teams including developers, product owners, and process intelligence specialists. Key duties also involve presenting deliverables to stakeholders and mentoring junior UX professionals while evolving UX practices for the age of AI.
Product Designer - Senior UX/UI Designer
🇪🇸 Los Barrios, Andalusia, Spain
Moffatt & Nichol 🇪🇸 Los Barrios, Andalusia, Spain
The Senior Product Designer is responsible for shaping and owning product experiences across the platform, translating complex operational workflows and data-heavy use cases into clear, usable, and scalable solutions. Key duties involve leading end-to-end UX/UI for core modules, driving product discovery, and ensuring AI-supported features communicate confidence and usability.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Planet 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The core mission of this role is to design, prototype, and launch groundbreaking AI-powered features and products, focusing on creating tools that lower the barrier to entry for geospatial analysis. This involves leading the end-to-end design process for Geospatial AI assistant features, specifically designing intuitive Large Language Model (LLM) interfaces.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America)
Fabric Remote (🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America)
The Senior Product Designer will lead the design for the kids investment account product, owning the end-to-end user experience from research and prototyping through final design hand-off. This involves collaborating with Product Management and Engineering to enhance product engagement and retention while advocating for the customer through testing and interviews.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America)
Kiavi Remote (🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America)
The Senior Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design process for major product workstreams, ensuring solutions drive core business metrics like conversion and operational efficiency. This role involves proactively identifying friction points and architecting cohesive experiences that leverage AI and machine learning.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America)
Kiavi Remote (🇺🇸 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America)
The Senior Product Designer will lead complex, high-stakes product initiatives from initial ambiguity through to polished execution, architecting cohesive experiences that leverage AI and machine learning to reduce decision latency. Key duties include end-to-end ownership of major workstreams, partnering with Product and Engineering to drive business metrics, and actively contributing to and refining the Kiavi Design System.
Senior/Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
New Era Technology 🇺🇸 United States of America
The Principal Product Designer will set and elevate design standards for enterprise digital products, contributing hands-on design leadership across web experiences managed by the Enterprise Web Initiative (EWI). This role involves translating product strategy and user needs into intuitive, accessible, and high-fidelity design solutions while ensuring consistency with the enterprise design system.
Sr. UX Designer, Finance Automation (FinAuto)
🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
Amazon 🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
The Senior UX Designer will drive cross-product design direction, influence roadmap decisions, and elevate design excellence across teams by defining long-term experience strategy while delivering tactical solutions for immediate product needs. This role involves partnering autonomously with Product, Engineering, UX Research, and business stakeholders to deliver solutions for complex, end-to-end enterprise workflows.
Senior Product Designer (UX/UI)
🇦🇺 Lithgow NSW 2790, Australia
Mycareer - Nsw Government 🇦🇺 Lithgow NSW 2790, Australia
The Senior Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design process for digital products, collaborating with cross-functional teams to create intuitive, customer-focused solutions aligned with business objectives. This role also involves providing expert advice on design best practices and guiding development teams on design system compliance.
Senior Principal Product Designer – Multi-Brand Design Systems
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Gen 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
This role is responsible for defining the multi-year strategy and driving the adoption of a unified design system across all Gen brands, focusing on enabling AI-driven experiences and product development workflows. Key duties include leading cross-functional integration of intelligent components, establishing governance, and championing the system's value to senior leadership.
Senior Product Designer - Birmingham, United Kingdom
Remote (🇬🇧 Birmingham, England, United Kingdom)
Speechify Remote (🇬🇧 Birmingham, England, United Kingdom)
The role involves pitching, prototyping, testing, building, shipping, and refining new features while refining UX/UI patterns across iOS and Android applications. Responsibilities also include influencing the product roadmap and shaping the design organization's process.
Senior Product Designer - Cambridge, United Kingdom
Remote (🇬🇧 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom)
Speechify Remote (🇬🇧 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom)
The role involves pitching, prototyping, testing, building, shipping, and refining new features while refining UX/UI patterns across iOS and Android applications. Responsibilities also include rethinking onboarding, influencing the product roadmap, and shaping the design organization's process.
Senior Product Designer - Kharkiv, Ukraine
Remote (🇺🇦 Kharkiv, Kharkiv Raion, Ukraine)
Speechify Remote (🇺🇦 Kharkiv, Kharkiv Raion, Ukraine)
The role involves pitching, prototyping, testing, building, shipping, and refining new features while refining UX/UI patterns across iOS and Android applications. Responsibilities also include rethinking onboarding, core user flows, influencing the product roadmap, and shaping the design organization.
Senior Product Designer - Odesa, Ukraine
Remote (🇺🇦 Odesa, Odesa Raion, Ukraine)
Speechify Remote (🇺🇦 Odesa, Odesa Raion, Ukraine)
The role involves pitching, prototyping, testing, building, shipping, and refining new features while refining UX/UI patterns across iOS and Android applications. Responsibilities also include influencing the product roadmap and shaping the design organization's processes.
Senior Product Designer - Bilbao, Spain
Remote (🇪🇸 Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain)
Speechify Remote (🇪🇸 Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain)
The role involves pitching, prototyping, testing, building, shipping, and refining new features while refining UX/UI patterns across iOS and Android applications. Responsibilities also include influencing the product roadmap and shaping the design organization's processes.
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.