Design Leadership Jobs
Find your next Design Leadership role at companies that value creative talent
Showing 1964 jobs
Design Manager – Senior
🇺🇸 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Gensler 🇺🇸 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
The Senior Design Manager is responsible for overseeing all project phases, ensuring client satisfaction, and managing financial performance and budgets. They act as the primary liaison between the team and clients while integrating sustainability targets and ESG goals into every project.
Product Designer, Senior Associate
🇺🇸 Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
Capital One 🇺🇸 Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
The Product Designer will co-create innovative solutions to complex problems by combining craft expertise with customer and business insights. Responsibilities include creating artifacts like journey maps and high-fidelity prototypes while collaborating with cross-functional partners to elevate the design practice.
Senior Product Designer (Growth)
🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Whoop 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design of digital experiences focused on acquisition, conversion, and retention within ecommerce journeys. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement experimentation-driven improvements and scalable platform architecture.
Senior UX Designer / Scrum Master - CHEC
🇺🇸 Portland, Oregon, United States of America
Daimler Truck North America 🇺🇸 Portland, Oregon, United States of America
Own the end-to-end UX strategy and design for the CHEC web application, creating intuitive workflows and safety-oriented standards. Additionally, serve as the Scrum Master to facilitate Agile ceremonies and promote continuous improvement for the Dev/Ops team.
Senior Product Design Manager
🇺🇸 Oakland, California, United States of America
Fivetran 🇺🇸 Oakland, California, United States of America
Lead and coach the dbt product design team while defining the UX strategy for technical data products. Drive the integration of Fivetran and dbt Labs design cultures and operationalize AI across the design lifecycle.
Senior Product Designer - Sportsbook
🇵🇱 Katowice, Metropolis GZM, Poland
Comeon Group 🇵🇱 Katowice, Metropolis GZM, Poland
Lead the end-to-end design process for sportsbook web and mobile applications, from discovery and wireframing to high-fidelity UI. Collaborate with product managers and engineers to optimize conversion funnels and maintain scalable design systems.
Product Designer | NordVPN Apps | Mid-Senior
🇱🇹 Kaunas, Kauno miesto savivaldybė, Lithuania
Nord Security 🇱🇹 Kaunas, Kauno miesto savivaldybė, Lithuania
Own the end-to-end design process for the NordVPN apps squad across multiple platforms including mobile, desktop, and browser extensions. Collaborate with product owners and engineers to challenge briefs, apply design systems, and ensure high-quality implementation through Design QA.
Product Designer | NordVPN Apps | Mid-Senior
🇱🇹 Vilnius, Vilnius city municipality, Lithuania
Nord Security 🇱🇹 Vilnius, Vilnius city municipality, Lithuania
Own the end-to-end design process for NordVPN apps across multiple platforms, including iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, and browser extensions. Collaborate with product owners and engineers to challenge briefs, apply and grow the design system, and ensure high-quality implementation through Design QA.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Fresha 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
The role involves designing and shipping features across the product ecosystem by collaborating with product managers, engineering, and senior leadership. The designer will conduct user research and create high-fidelity prototypes to simplify complex user problems into elegant solutions.
Senior Store Design Manager
🇵🇱 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Dick's Sporting Goods 🇵🇱 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
The Senior Store Design Manager leads the design and delivery of new and remodeled stores by blending brand and merchandising into high-performing retail environments. This role involves driving design strategy, mentoring a team of designers, and collaborating with cross-functional partners to ensure projects are on time and budget.
Design Manager - Senior
🇺🇸 Oakland, California, United States of America
Gensler 🇺🇸 Oakland, California, United States of America
Lead and manage design teams through conceptual development and technical execution for commercial and institutional projects. Coordinate directly with clients, consultants, and contractors to ensure project approvals and successful delivery.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Midjourney 🇺🇸 United States of America
The role involves owning major product surfaces end-to-end, from concept and interaction to visual polish and shipping. The designer will invent new interaction paradigms and collaborate closely with engineers and researchers to iterate on core web and mobile experiences.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Fashionpass 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer will create end-to-end visual content for emails, social media, and paid media campaigns. They will also manage event branding and lead the visual direction and production of product shoots.
Senior / Lead UI/UX Designer – Shopify Ecommerce
🇺🇸 Buena Park, California, United States of America
Gurunanda Llc 🇺🇸 Buena Park, California, United States of America
Own the end-to-end UX/UI strategy and design system for the Shopify storefront to drive business growth and conversion. Lead UX research and experimentation while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high-performing digital experiences.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 Edina, Minnesota, United States of America
Bi Worldwide 🇺🇸 Edina, Minnesota, United States of America
The Senior UX Designer will define and design features within a Figma design system, partnering with product owners and engineers to optimize usability. They will co-lead the UX practice, conduct user testing, and champion accessibility and internationalization across products.
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.