Design Leadership Jobs
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Junior Graphic Designer (B2B)
🇲🇽 Mexico
Redial Bpo 🇲🇽 Mexico
The role involves designing B2B-focused digital and print assets, collaborating with Sales and Marketing to support lead generation, and designing/updating the corporate website. Responsibilities also include creating assets for social media, events, and internal communications, alongside capturing and editing photos and videos.
Junior Graphic Designer (B2B)
🇲🇽 Mexico
Redial Bpo 🇲🇽 Mexico
The role involves designing B2B-focused digital and print assets, collaborating with Sales and Marketing to support lead generation, and designing/maintaining corporate websites. Responsibilities also include creating assets for social media, events, internal communications, and capturing/editing photos and videos.
Lead UI Designer - AI & IA
🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Global Relay 🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
The Lead UI Designer will own the visual and interaction design for key product areas across information archiving and artificial intelligence platforms, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams in an agile environment. Responsibilities include leading design execution from discovery to delivery, setting craft direction, mentoring designers, and ensuring design system adoption and quality sign-off.
UI Designer
🇳🇿 Auckland, New Zealand
Eroad 🇳🇿 Auckland, New Zealand
The UI Designer will be responsible for setting and maintaining consistent visual and interaction design standards while leading the expansion and maturity of the design system, including components, patterns, and documentation. This role involves translating conceptual UX designs into scalable UI solutions and actively producing hands-on UI designs implemented across digital products.
Senior Specialist: Motion Graphic Designer
🇿🇦 Sandton, 1617, South Africa
Absa Group 🇿🇦 Sandton, 1617, South Africa
The Senior Motion Graphic Designer will be responsible for bringing the brand to life through compelling animation, motion graphics, and visual storytelling, while simplifying complex financial concepts for various marketing initiatives. This role also involves overseeing end-to-end content production, leading the Creative Governance Forum, and continuously innovating with emerging creative technologies.
Senior Associate, Senior Product Designer, Field Experience
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
New York Life 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The role involves designing end-to-end experiences for agent/advisor-facing products within the Field Productivity value stream, simplifying complex, regulated workflows from prospecting to client engagement. Responsibilities include leading early-stage design concepting, translating validated concepts into production-ready specifications, and partnering closely with engineering for high-quality implementation.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Fox Corporation 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
The Staff Product Designer will own the end-to-end design strategy and execution for the next-generation DTC streaming experience, translating ambiguous problems into clear design plans that influence long-range product strategy. Responsibilities include leading complex feature design from concept to launch and championing the evolution of the Fox Design System for consistency and scalability.
Staff Product Designer
🇳🇴 Bergen, Vestland, Norway
Laurel 🇳🇴 Bergen, Vestland, Norway
The Staff Product Designer will be responsible for leading the end-to-end design process, translating complex professional services workflows into simple, intuitive, and scalable enterprise software experiences. This includes grounding design decisions in user research, collaborating with the AI team on smart interactions, and communicating design rationale clearly to stakeholders.
Senior Product Designer, Save & Return
Remote (🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico)
Zillow Remote (🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico)
The Senior Product Designer will lead the design for notifications and ongoing engagement across the Save & Return experience, focusing on email, push, and in-app messages to guide users and re-engage dormant shoppers. This involves partnering with cross-functional teams to design high-quality, scalable communication experiences, often incorporating AI-powered adaptive patterns.
Staff Product Designer
🇨🇴 Bogota, Colombia
Addi 🇨🇴 Bogota, Colombia
The Staff Product Designer will lead the design integration of financing services, spearhead user research for new credit verticals, and establish high craft UI standards to drive business growth. Key tasks include designing and launching interfaces for key credit products to reduce support tickets and establishing advanced interaction libraries.
Senior Product Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Microsoft 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
The Senior Product Designer will define product needs based on user insights to create design concepts that optimize the emotional and functional experience, focusing on end-to-end user journeys while balancing business and technical tradeoffs. Responsibilities include integrating AI tools into the design workflow, delivering design excellence, providing design leadership, and collaborating cross-functionally to implement new features.
Senior Product Designer
🇨🇿 Czechia
Microsoft 🇨🇿 Czechia
The Senior Product Designer will lead the design for a major area within the Teams experience, driving the creation of AI-assisted, collaborative, and multimodal experiences from exploration through launch and iteration. This role involves translating deep user insights into clear interaction models and elegant UI patterns while collaborating closely with cross-functional partners to ensure high-quality execution.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Wheely 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The Senior Product Designer will drive design decisions as a self-directed member of a cross-functional team, leading the entire design process from ideation through launch across mobile and web platforms. They will collaborate with engineers, identify product improvements, evolve the design system, and write contextually appropriate UX copy.
Senior Product Designer
🇨🇾 Nicosia, Nicosia Muncipality, Cyprus
Wheely 🇨🇾 Nicosia, Nicosia Muncipality, Cyprus
The Senior Product Designer will drive design decisions as a self-directed member of a cross-functional team, leading the end-to-end design process from ideation through launch across mobile and web platforms. They will collaborate closely with engineers, identify opportunities for product improvements, and write clear UX copy tailored to context and audience.
Product Designer II, Defi
🇺🇸 United States of America
Coinbase Careers Page 🇺🇸 United States of America
The role involves leading the end-to-end design for core earning products, ensuring a seamless user journey from discovery to portfolio management, and simplifying complex onchain mechanics into intuitive user interfaces for decentralized finance. Responsibilities also include scaling existing products and partnering closely with Product Management and Engineering peers to execute the roadmap.
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.