Design Leadership Jobs
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Lead UI/UX Designer
🇮🇳 Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Procreator - Digital Design Agency 🇮🇳 Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Lead and execute all design stages from initial concept through wireframing and visual design to final hand-off for development. Mentor junior designers and establish comprehensive design systems while addressing UX issues.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇧🇷 São Paulo, Southeast, Brazil
Thomson Reuters 🇧🇷 São Paulo, Southeast, Brazil
Lead the design of AI-powered features and translate complex model capabilities into user-centered solutions. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure that AI interactions are intuitive and trustworthy.
Senior Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Bitstack 🌍 Remote
The Senior Product Designer will lead end-to-end design initiatives, collaborating closely with engineering and other teams to deliver impactful projects. They will create mockups, prototypes, and high-quality visuals while communicating design decisions clearly.
UX Designer
🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Desjardins 🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
As a UX Designer, you will define and enhance the user experience for members and clients across various digital platforms. You will lead stakeholders in development projects and strategic initiatives to deliver user-focused solutions.
UI/UX Designer
🌍 Remote
Riva Solutions Inc. 🌍 Remote
The UI/UX Designer will lead user-centered design activities and develop wireframes, mockups, and prototypes for the NTIA Grants Portal. They will collaborate with various stakeholders to enhance usability and ensure accessibility across the platform.
Sr. Product Designer - 10728
🇺🇸 Fort Worth, Texas, United States
Icsi. 🇺🇸 Fort Worth, Texas, United States
The Sr. Product Designer will influence product and design decisions, collaborating with cross-functional teams to implement solutions. They will lead end-to-end UX design processes and mentor other designers.
Senior UX Designer
🇫🇮 Central Finland, Finland
Cvs Health 🇫🇮 Central Finland, Finland
The Senior Digital Experience Designer leads design work streams to solve complex business challenges while advocating for users. This role involves hands-on design responsibilities including journey mapping, design research, wireframing, and high-fidelity visual design.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 York, Pennsylvania, United States
Cvs Health 🇺🇸 York, Pennsylvania, United States
The Senior Digital Experience Designer leads design work streams to solve complex business challenges while advocating for users. This role involves hands-on design responsibilities including journey mapping, design research, wireframing, and high-fidelity visual design.
Senior UX Designer
🇦🇷 Municipio de San Salvador de Jujuy, Jujuy, Argentina
Cvs Health 🇦🇷 Municipio de San Salvador de Jujuy, Jujuy, Argentina
The Senior Digital Experience Designer leads design work streams to solve complex business challenges while advocating for users. This role involves hands-on design responsibilities including journey mapping, design research, wireframing, and high-fidelity visual design.
WWBPR UX Designer
🇺🇸 Sunnyvale, California, United States
Apple 🇺🇸 Sunnyvale, California, United States
The Senior UX Designer will lead the end-to-end design process for complex BI solutions, ensuring a consistent, high-quality user experience across all platforms. This includes understanding operational workflows, identifying pain points, and developing innovative UX solutions.
Senior UX Designer
🇳🇴 Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Oda 🇳🇴 Oslo, Oslo, Norway
The Senior UX Designer will lead significant projects from conception to implementation, ensuring that user needs and company goals are met. They will also conduct user research and collaborate across teams to enhance the customer experience.
Staff Product Designer, Clinical Experience
🌍 Remote
Hone Health 🌍 Remote
The Staff Product Designer will work strategically with product management, engineering, and design leadership to define and design the provider application. Responsibilities include creating high-fidelity mockups, conducting user research, and advocating for design across the organization.
Principal Product Designer (UX/NetSec)
🇺🇸 Santa Clara, California, United States
Palo Alto Networks 🇺🇸 Santa Clara, California, United States
As a Principal Product Designer, you will craft cohesive and intuitive experiences for Network Security within Strata Cloud Manager. You will lead the design process, mentor team members, and collaborate with senior leadership to deliver data-driven experiences.
Contract UX Designer (Evergreen)
🌍 Remote
Blue State 🌍 Remote
Lead the strategy, information architecture, and user experience design for websites, from kickoff to user research and through the development of sitemap, wireframes, and/or prototypes. Participate in collaborative workshops and co-design activities to iterate with clients and users, quickly arriving at design solutions.
Staff Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Veeam Software 🌍 Remote
Lead the design and delivery of high-impact projects in areas such as Design System and Growth UX. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement scalable patterns and user journeys.
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.