Design Leadership Jobs
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UX Designer- Growth/Monetization
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Xai 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The role involves leading end-to-end Growth UX for subscription products and monetization features across various surfaces, conducting targeted user research, and creating subscription-specific deliverables like journey maps and pricing architecture. The designer will also design and prototype high-conversion flows and collaborate daily with growth, product, and engineering teams.
Senior Product Designer II - POS Designer
🇺🇸 Plano, Texas, United States of America
Yum! 🇺🇸 Plano, Texas, United States of America
This role involves providing experience leadership for the Point of Sale (POS) platform, shaping design direction across multiple initiatives, and identifying systemic UX challenges to ensure a cohesive and scalable experience. As a senior individual contributor, the designer will act as the design lead for POS, influencing strategy and driving convergence across teams.
Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Binance.us Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The Product Designer will lead the design of user experiences across key product areas for web and mobile, taking ownership from concept through execution, including crafting flows, prototypes, and pixel-perfect UI components. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional partners like Product Managers and Engineers to define product direction and advocating for the user throughout the development process.
Product Designer, Deployed
🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Brain Co. 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
The role involves leading end-to-end design efforts, including UX research, interaction design, visual design, prototyping, and testing for complex, AI-driven software products. This includes collaborating with cross-functional teams and helping to establish and evolve the design system and guidelines.
UX Designer
🇲🇾 George Town, Penang, Malaysia
Informa Group Plc. 🇲🇾 George Town, Penang, Malaysia
The UX Designer will lead the design and customer experience efforts by executing end-to-end user journeys and creating intuitive interfaces for web and mobile platforms. This involves conducting user research, translating complex problems into simple solutions, and establishing metrics and experimentation to validate improvements.
Staff Product Designer — AI
🇵🇹 Porto, Portugal
Talkdesk 🇵🇹 Porto, Portugal
This role involves leading end-to-end design for complex, AI-driven product initiatives across multiple teams, translating strategic problems into clear frameworks, user journeys, and scalable systems. Responsibilities also include driving the evolution of the Design System for AI surfaces and mentoring other designers, while spending 80% of time on hands-on design work.
Sr Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Fremont, California, United States of America
Hyve Solutions 🇺🇸 Fremont, California, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer will deliver high-quality, polished design across brand, marketing, communications, and product experiences while creating and evolving comprehensive design systems that scale across various platforms. This role involves leading ideation and concept development, translating complex technical ideas into simple, impactful creative solutions for key channels.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Native Shoes 🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
The Senior Graphic Designer will lead design conception and execution across DTC channels (web, email, social, paid media) and co-lead art direction for seasonal initiatives, translating strategy into effective design solutions. This role also involves developing motion assets, mentoring an Intermediate Designer, and contributing creative ideas in a fast-paced studio environment.
UI Designer
🇸🇬 one-north, Singapore
Seatrium 🇸🇬 one-north, Singapore
The role involves gathering business needs and user requirements to inform UI design decisions, ensuring specifications align with business goals, and leading the design of consistent UI components. Responsibilities also include developing UI prototypes, overseeing usability testing, monitoring implementation, and analyzing UI performance for continuous improvement.
Product Designer
🇮🇳 Bangalore North, India
Growthx 🇮🇳 Bangalore North, India
The role involves leading product discovery through user interviews and translating insights into clear strategy and beautiful product direction, while owning the entire design craft from low-fi wireframes to polished UI, including micro-copy and motion details. Responsibilities also include maintaining the design system, building interactive prototypes, conducting user tests, and ensuring high-quality execution across mobile and desktop.
Product Designer
Remote (🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico)
Platzi Remote (🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico)
The Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design cycle, from problem definition through high-fidelity delivery and post-launch follow-up, focusing on creating impactful online learning experiences. This role requires iterative refinement based on evidence and strategic collaboration with cross-functional teams to align user vision with business objectives.
Product Designer
Remote (🇨🇴 Bogota, Colombia)
Platzi Remote (🇨🇴 Bogota, Colombia)
The Product Designer will lead the complete design cycle from discovery to high-fidelity delivery, focusing on crafting immersive experiences that transition learners from passive to active online learning. This involves iterative testing and refinement based on evidence, alongside strategic collaboration with cross-functional teams to align user vision with business objectives.
Senior UI/UX Designer | 100% Remote | LATAM
Remote (🇨🇴 Buenos Aires, Norte, Colombia)
Prometeo Talent Remote (🇨🇴 Buenos Aires, Norte, Colombia)
The role involves leading the end-to-end UX and UI design process for digital products, translating user insights into visually engaging interfaces and scalable solutions. This includes collaborating with cross-functional teams and maintaining scalable design systems.
Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America
Mid-states Distributing Llc 🇺🇸 Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America
The designer will lead and execute multi-channel marketing initiatives across print, web, email, social media, and in-store environments, translating strategic direction into compelling visual solutions for branding, packaging, and campaigns. Key duties include designing packaging systems, contributing to brand identity evolution, and preparing production-ready files for both print and digital execution.
Junior Graphic Designer (B2B)
🇿🇦 Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa
Redial Bpo 🇿🇦 Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa
The role involves designing B2B-focused digital and print assets, collaborating with Sales and Marketing to create visuals for lead generation, and supporting corporate website design and updates. Responsibilities also include creating assets for social media, events, internal communications, and capturing/editing photos and videos.
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.