Design Leadership Jobs

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UI/UX Designer

🇨🇦 Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada

Design end-to-end user experiences for airport self-service solutions, including kiosks and biometric controls, from research to handoff. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to maintain design systems and ensure accessibility and brand consistency across digital touchpoints.

Hybrid$75,000 - $90,000Full-timeSenior
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Graphic Designer - Journeyman

🇺🇸 McLean, VA 22101, United States of America

Develop high-quality graphics, digital media, and cartographic products for various written and digital platforms. Coordinate with UI/UX designers to ensure engaging user experiences and maintain production standards and accessibility compliance.

Onsite$65,650 - $118,675Full-timeMid-level
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Senior UX Designer

Remote (🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada)

Drive user-centered design improvements for enterprise product experiences, focusing on accessibility and alignment with business needs. Create a variety of design artifacts including prototypes, customer journeys, and interface designs while collaborating in multidisciplinary teams.

Remote$103,000 - $120,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer

🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Drive end-to-end design for high-impact identity protection, fraud, and credit experiences. Translate product requirements into user-centered solutions while managing executive stakeholders and ensuring ADA accessibility compliance.

Hybrid$82,700 - $120,000Full-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 communicate government and defense-sector priorities through impactful brand identity.

Onsite$69,400 - $158,000Full-timeSenior
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Web Designer

🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico

Design and develop responsive web interfaces, landing pages, and digital experiences focusing on usability and visual aesthetics. Collaborate with marketing and development teams to implement UX/UI principles and ensure web accessibility standards are met.

HybridFull-timeMid-level
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Product Designer

🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain

Conceptualize and develop high-impact digital products from scratch or evolve existing ones while ensuring visual consistency and accessibility. Guide clients in product definition by balancing business vision, user experience, and technical feasibility.

HybridFull-timeSenior
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Product Designer

🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Conceptualize and define digital products from scratch or evolve existing ones while ensuring visual consistency and accessibility. Guide clients in product definition by balancing business vision, user experience, and empathy.

HybridFull-timeSenior
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Web Designer

🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

The Web Designer will create and execute production-ready assets for the company's websites, apps, and games while ensuring brand continuity. They are responsible for updating WordPress layouts and adhering to accessibility and design best practices to meet business goals.

Full-timeMid-level
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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 compliance with Section 508 accessibility standards. Collaborate with stakeholders and senior designers to conceptualize and deliver solutions that communicate government and defense-sector priorities.

Onsite$69,400 - $158,000Full-timeSenior
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Graphic Designer, Mid

🇺🇸 Tampa, Florida, 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 develop impactful visual materials that support government and defense-sector priorities.

Hybrid$69,300 - $158,000Full-timeSenior
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Graphic Designer, Senior

🇺🇸 Tampa, Florida, 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 translate complex government and defense-sector priorities into impactful visual materials.

Hybrid$99,000 - $225,000Full-timeSenior
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Graphic Designer, Mid

🇺🇸 Tampa, Florida, United States of America

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

Hybrid$69,300 - $158,000Full-timeMid-level
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Graphic Designer, Mid

🇺🇸 Tampa, Florida, United States of America

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

Hybrid$69,300 - $158,000Full-timeMid-level
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Sr Product Designer, Foundations

🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America

Lead the creation and maintenance of a scalable design system for Document Cloud, defining foundational primitives and reusable UI components. Collaborate with engineering and product teams to ensure consistency, accessibility, and long-term governance across products.

$124,600 - $234,250Full-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.