Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior Design Technologist
🇨🇦 Golden, British Columbia, Canada
Canadian Timberframes Ltd. 🇨🇦 Golden, British Columbia, Canada
The Senior Designer is responsible for designing and drafting timber frame structures to meet customer requirements while ensuring quality control throughout the production process. They also coach and mentor designers and maintain effective relationships with clients and internal teams.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇪🇪 Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia
Evolution 🇪🇪 Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia
The Senior UI/UX Designer will create user flows, wireframes, and prototypes while collaborating with various stakeholders to define user experience strategies. They will also contribute to design reviews and maintain scalable design systems.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Rullion 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Own the design of customer-facing digital journeys from discovery to polished UI. Simplify complex service challenges into intuitive, accessible experiences.
Senior UX Designer, MUIS (CCYC)
🇸🇬 Singapore
Govtech Singapore 🇸🇬 Singapore
The Senior UX Designer will own the end-to-end design of the Muslim.SG platform, conducting research, shaping product direction, and ensuring design quality across web and mobile. They will also maintain the design system and manage stakeholder communications.
Senior Graphic Designer (Packaging)
🇺🇸 Edison, New Jersey, United States of America
Spalife Beauty 🇺🇸 Edison, New Jersey, United States of America
Design a high volume of creative assets including packaging design and marketing materials. Collaborate with the design team and ensure brand consistency across all channels.
Senior UX Researcher, Hardware
🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Google 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Conduct independent research using various methodologies to understand user behaviors and motivations for hardware products. Collaborate with cross-functional partners to prioritize research opportunities and advocate findings through reports and presentations.
Senior Product Designer
🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Workwize 🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
As a Senior Product Designer, you will shape user experiences and collaborate with product managers to define product solutions. You will lead design processes from concept to implementation, ensuring user-first solutions that enhance IT management efficiency.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Resolutiion ® 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
You will drive hands-on execution and provide strategic oversight while collaborating closely with Engineering and cross-functional partners. Your main focus will be UX design, owning the end-to-end process from early concepts to polished delivery.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom
Bovis 🇬🇧 Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom
The Design Manager will deliver design management on projects, integrating with senior project teams and managing complex projects across various sectors. They will also represent the business with clients and manage the design review and approval process.
Senior Product Designer
🇦🇹 Vienna, Austria
Squer 🇦🇹 Vienna, Austria
The Senior Product Designer will lead design from problem identification to functional prototypes, directly collaborating with clients. Responsibilities include conducting user-centered research, building interactive prototypes, and ensuring design quality throughout the product lifecycle.
Senior Product Designer (AI Solutions for Legal)
🇯🇵 Japan
Pt Talenta Eksekutif Asia 🇯🇵 Japan
The Senior Product Designer will lead end-to-end UI/UX design initiatives for complex AI-powered B2B SaaS platforms. This includes designing user experiences, conducting UX research, and collaborating with product managers and engineers to deliver scalable solutions.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Westwood, Massachusetts, United States of America
Heydude 🇺🇸 Westwood, Massachusetts, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer will develop and deliver creative assets based on briefs for both internal and external marketing needs. This role involves collaborating cross-functionally to ensure cohesive and high-quality creative solutions that align with brand standards.
Senior UX Writer and Content Designer, Chrome
🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Google 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create polished content for Chrome's AI features and trust and safety tools. Lead the content design discipline by establishing guidelines and aligning product narratives across platforms.
Senior Engineer, Digital Design Engineering
🇮🇳 Kolkata, India
Analog Devices 🇮🇳 Kolkata, India
Collaborate with the design team to ensure efficient and effective testability of complex integrated circuits. Design and implement DFT features to enhance testability and conduct DFT DRC checks.
Senior Product Designer at $20M Series A AI-native workforce infrastructure startup
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Jack & Jill 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead a core product area from initial conception through to launch, ensuring alignment with the broader business vision. Define the product's visual language and interaction model, creating a cohesive aesthetic across various design elements.
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.