Design Leadership Jobs
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UX Designer II, RBS Brand Experience (BX)
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Amazon 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
This role involves leading comprehensive user research initiatives, planning discovery sessions, and synthesizing findings to drive product strategy and design direction for scalable solutions. Key duties include leading the end-to-end delivery of simplified solutions, handling complex problems, and presenting narratives to leadership to drive focus and outcomes.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Ryan Specialty 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
The Senior UX Designer will lead design efforts for product areas, identifying user needs and executing pixel-perfect, development-ready deliverables for responsive web touchpoints. This role involves collaborating closely with cross-discipline teams to deliver outstanding experiences that improve customer satisfaction and business outcomes.
Product Designer, Creators
🌍 Remote
Vrchat 🌍 Remote
The Product Designer will partner with leads, PMs, and engineers to design and improve content creation workflows for props, including upload, management, publishing, and potential monetization. This involves creating intuitive interfaces for creators of varying technical expertise and translating complex technical concepts into approachable user experiences.
Senior Product Designer
🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Trulioo 🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
The Senior Product Designer will lead complex product initiatives from discovery through final implementation, delivering clear user flows, interaction patterns, and high-fidelity UI across web and mobile surfaces. This role involves translating ambiguous requirements into intuitive user experiences, focusing on multi-step workflows, data-heavy interfaces, and ensuring visual consistency via the design system.
Staff UX Designer - Acton, Mass. or San Diego, CA (Hybrid)
🇺🇸 San Diego, California, United States of America
Insulet Corporation 🇺🇸 San Diego, California, United States of America
The Staff UX Designer will lead large-scale design initiatives for core product applications, driving best-in-class UX for the Omnipod Mobile App Suite by working closely with cross-functional development teams. This role involves leading tactical and innovation UX initiatives on mobile and web platforms, mentoring junior staff, and ensuring designs meet safety and effectiveness standards for medical devices.
Product Designer
Remote (🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
Palmstreet Remote (🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
The Product Designer will lead end-to-end design for core consumer live-stream experiences and seller workflows across mobile and web platforms. This involves close collaboration with Product Management and Engineering to execute roadmap priorities and shape problem-solving approaches.
UX Designer, Vice President
🇺🇸 Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
Jpmorgan Chase & Co. 🇺🇸 Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
Develop and execute design and research strategies for complex projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives and user needs across multiple product areas. Lead end-to-end design initiatives by diagramming service flows, designing wireframes, and prototyping interactions for key touchpoints.
Senior Product Designer, Financial Operations
🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Lightspeed Commerce 🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
The Senior Product Designer will lead project work from a design perspective with autonomy, transforming complex concepts into clear, user-friendly features by exploring and integrating AI and emerging technologies. They must also embed systems thinking by utilizing design systems and contributing to their improvement while designing holistic, elegant, and user-friendly flows.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 Bellingham, Washington, United States of America
Place Corporate Careers 🇺🇸 Bellingham, Washington, United States of America
The role involves understanding business goals and user needs to conduct research, translating findings into clear design opportunities, and designing thoughtful end-to-end product experiences. Responsibilities also include leading design initiatives, communicating concepts to partners, and iterating on solutions based on feedback and data.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Fanduel 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design process for product features, including discovery, ideation, prototyping, execution, and iteration, while collaborating closely with product management to define problem spaces and shape roadmaps. They must translate research and data insights into design decisions that balance user value and business outcomes, ensuring thoughtful UI and partnering with engineering for implementation.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Fanduel 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
The Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design process for product features, including discovery, ideation, prototyping, execution, and iteration, while collaborating closely with product management to define problem spaces and shape roadmaps. They must translate research and data insights into design decisions that balance user value and business outcomes, ensuring thoughtful, intuitive UI across devices.
Product Designer
🇵🇱 Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
Relativity 🇵🇱 Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
The Product Designer will partner with Product and Engineering to define the vision for a core area of the Relativity ecosystem, influencing workflows for hundreds of thousands of users. This involves owning Design Thinking techniques, leading iterative design exploration, and conducting research to transform insights into actionable design recommendations.
FBS - Sr UX Designer
🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico
Capgemini 🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico
This role drives strategic design by deeply understanding current user experiences, identifying opportunities, and envisioning future-state solutions across omni-channel experiences. Key duties include leading design creation, collaborating with stakeholders, contributing to design systems, and mentoring team members.
FBS - Sr UX Designer
🇲🇽 Aguascalientes City, Municipio de Aguascalientes, Mexico
Capgemini 🇲🇽 Aguascalientes City, Municipio de Aguascalientes, Mexico
This role drives strategic design by deeply understanding current user experiences, identifying opportunities, and envisioning future-state solutions across omni-channel experiences. Key duties include leading design creation, collaborating with stakeholders, contributing to design systems, and mentoring team members.
Product Designer Lead
Remote (🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany)
Freenow Remote (🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany)
The Product Designer Lead will manage the design team, ensuring quality and excellence in craft while assuming full stewardship of product design for Freenow B2B products. This involves close collaboration with Product Managers and Engineering Managers to translate requirements into cohesive, data-validated designs.
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.