Design Leadership Jobs
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Staff Product Designer, Design Systems
🇫🇮 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
Alphasense 🇫🇮 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
The Staff Product Designer will lead the definition and design of the design system, ensuring alignment with business objectives and user requirements. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to create high-quality user experiences at scale.
Senior UX Designer
🇿🇦 Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Stonex Group 🇿🇦 Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
The Senior UX Designer will lead the strategy, research, and execution of UX across websites and digital marketing journeys. This role involves collaborating with various teams to create user-centered designs and optimize marketing experiences.
Lead Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Durham, NC
Cpa.com 🇺🇸 Durham, NC
CPA.com is seeking a Lead Graphic Designer to join their Marketing and Communications team. The ideal candidate is both a hands-on designer and a design leader, capable of managing freelance contributors, refining brand identity, and influencing strategic creative initiatives.
Product Designer
🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Artlist 🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Lead end-to-end product design for Artlist’s web and product ecosystem, creating visually compelling interfaces. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure cohesive experiences and refine designs using data and research.
Senior Product Designer
🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Minute Media 🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Lead end-to-end product design for complex initiatives, translating business goals and user insights into elegant UX/UI solutions. Collaborate across teams to define problems and deliver solutions while championing design quality and user advocacy.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Jobs For Humanity 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
The successful candidate will lead and inspire a design team while delivering innovative, brand-aligned creative solutions across a diverse client portfolio. They will manage multiple projects, ensuring high standards and effective collaboration within the team.
2026 Wealth Management, Summer UX Designer Intern (4-8 months)
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Rbc 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Assist and potentially lead the ideation and user experience design of complex web and mobile solutions. Create design assets and consult with stakeholders to ensure user needs and expectations are met.
2026 Wealth Management, Summer UX Designer Intern (4-8 months)
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Rbc 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Assist and potentially lead the ideation and user experience design of complex web and mobile solutions. Create design assets and consult with stakeholders to ensure user needs and expectations are met.
2026 Wealth Management, Summer UX Designer Intern (4-8 months)
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Royal Bank Of Canada 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Assist and potentially lead the ideation and user experience design of complex web and mobile solutions. Create design assets including user journey maps, wireframes, process flows, interaction designs, and interactive prototypes.
Senior UI/UX Designer (E-commerce) - A204
🌍 Remote
Pearl 🌍 Remote
The Senior UI/UX Designer will lead design initiatives to enhance user experience and conversion performance for Shopify storefronts. This includes creating conversion-focused experiences and maintaining design systems across multiple client projects.
Senior UI/UX Designer (E-commerce) - A204
🌍 Remote
Pearl 🌍 Remote
The Senior UI/UX Designer will lead design initiatives to improve user experience and conversion performance across Shopify storefronts. Responsibilities include creating conversion-focused experiences, maintaining design systems, conducting research, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Senior UI/UX Designer (E-commerce) - A204
🌍 Remote
Pearl 🌍 Remote
The Senior UI/UX Designer will lead design initiatives to improve user experience and conversion performance across Shopify storefronts. Responsibilities include creating conversion-focused experiences, maintaining design systems, conducting research, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Senior UI/UX Designer (E-commerce) - A204
🌍 Remote
Pearl 🌍 Remote
The Senior UI/UX Designer will lead design initiatives to enhance user experience and conversion performance for Shopify storefronts. This includes creating visually compelling designs and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment with brand goals.
Lead UX Product Designer - Guest UX
🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Target 🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
As a Lead UX Designer, you will define experience strategy and drive complex initiatives, ensuring solutions deliver value for both guests and the business. You will create UX patterns, lead end-to-end UX for ad-tech features, and mentor junior designers.
Lead Product Designer
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Revolut 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Revolut is looking for a Lead Product Designer to drive the evolution of their Design Systems and Core Platform teams, focusing on creating great products and redefining success. The ideal candidate will have a technical edge and experience in designing and leading design systems or platform teams.
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.