Design Leadership Jobs

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Senior UX Designer, Marketing Experience

🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Design and architect scalable, templatized marketing web experiences and reusable components while maintaining brand alignment. Leverage AI-native tools and user research to optimize workflows and iterate on designs based on performance metrics.

$102,200 - $189,800Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer

🇺🇸 Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

Own the end-to-end design process for high-impact product areas, from early concept to polished execution. Define new interaction patterns for AI-powered experiences and contribute to the scalability of the design system.

$155,000 - $170,000Full-timeSenior
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Director of Product Designer

🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America

Own the end-to-end product design craft, including the creation of design systems and AI interactions for mobile and web surfaces. Partner with senior leadership to frame problems, influence the product roadmap, and represent the voice of the customer.

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Staff Product Designer

🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America

Own the end-to-end product craft, including the creation of design systems, patterns, and AI interactions for mobile and web surfaces. Partner with senior leadership to frame problems, influence the product roadmap, and conduct in-person user research.

OnsiteFull-timeSenior
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Senior UX Designer, Marketing Experience

🇺🇸 Eagan, Minnesota, United States of America

Design and architect scalable, templatized marketing web experiences and reusable components while maintaining brand alignment. Leverage AI-native tools and user research to optimize workflows and iterate on designs based on performance metrics.

Onsite$102,200 - $189,800Full-timeSenior
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Senior UX Designer, Marketing Experience

🇺🇸 Frisco, Texas, United States of America

Design and architect scalable, templatized marketing web experiences and reusable components while maintaining brand alignment. Leverage AI-native tools and user research to optimize workflows and iterate on designs based on performance metrics.

Onsite$102,200 - $189,800Full-timeSenior
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Senior UI/UX Designer

🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Translate business requirements into tangible UI solutions for web and mobile applications using current interaction and visual design trends. Lead project design from inception to completion while collaborating with cross-functional teams and maintaining UI guidelines.

Onsite$60,000 - $148,500Full-timeSenior
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Senior Engineer, Mechanical Design Engineering (Onsite)

🇺🇸 West Des Moines, Iowa, United States of America

The engineer will design and review mechanical components using SolidWorks and perform thermal and structural analyses with ANSYS Workbench. They will also collaborate within Integrated Project Teams to ensure designs meet performance, cost, and manufacturability requirements throughout the product lifecycle.

Onsite$86,800 - $165,200Full-timeSenior
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Senior UX Designer, Marketing Experience

🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Design core templatized experiences and reusable components to ensure consistency and scalability across marketing web deliverables. Collaborate with engineering and product teams to conduct user research, validate designs, and integrate AI-native tools into the design workflow.

$102,200 - $189,800Full-timeSenior
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Senior Mechanical Design Manager

🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom

Act as the senior mechanical technical authority for EMEA, defining and governing mechanical engineering standards and cooling strategies for data centre platforms. Provide technical oversight and review of consultant designs to ensure scalability, energy efficiency, and compliance with reference designs.

OnsiteFull-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer, Design Systems (Remote, Chiclayo)

Remote (🇵🇪 Peru)

The role involves building and owning scalable design systems, including token architecture and core component libraries for multiple client brands. You will document these systems to ensure seamless execution by developers and automated pipelines.

RemoteFull-timeSenior
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Senior UX Designer

🇨🇦 Alberta, Canada

Define and drive the UX strategy at the product level while ensuring design decisions are grounded in user needs and business objectives. Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Product Managers, Developers, and CX stakeholders to deliver coherent, evidence-based product experiences.

Full-timeSenior
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Graphic Designer, Senior

🇺🇸 Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Create a wide range of visual deliverables including logos, publications, and multimedia products while ensuring Section 508 accessibility compliance. Collaborate with stakeholders and senior designers to conceptualize and deliver solutions that communicate government and defense-sector priorities.

Onsite$104,000 - $113,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior Graphic Designer

🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America

The Senior Graphic Designer will own creative projects from concept to production across digital, social, print, and web touchpoints. They will serve as a brand steward for CityVet and Arista Advanced Pet Care, developing scalable design systems and multimedia assets.

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Senior Graphic Designer

🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America

The Senior Graphic Designer will own creative projects from concept to production across digital, print, and social media channels. They will also serve as a brand steward, ensuring consistency while collaborating with cross-functional teams to support clinic openings and marketing initiatives.

Full-timeSenior
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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.