Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior Graphic Designer - Beauty & Skincare
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Cocreativ 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Lead and execute design projects across various mediums while translating the brand’s identity into cohesive visuals. Collaborate with a creative team to maintain brand consistency and contribute to evolving visual storytelling.
Product Designer
🇹🇼 Taipei, Taiwan
Xrex 🇹🇼 Taipei, Taiwan
Lead end-to-end design processes for product features, ensuring high-quality user experiences. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive design implementation and optimize the design system.
Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Hyperexponential 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Lead the design of AI-native experiences across the hx platform and shape workflows that enhance decision-making. Collaborate with product, engineering, and AI teams to develop scalable design patterns and support the team's craft excellence.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Equifax 🇺🇸 St. Louis, Missouri, United States
The Senior UI/UX Designer will craft intuitive software experiences and optimize user journeys through innovative design solutions. They will collaborate with research teams, lead user testing, and ensure accessibility standards are met.
Sr. UX Designer
🇨🇿 Capital City of Prague, Prague, Czechia
Gen 🇨🇿 Capital City of Prague, Prague, Czechia
Design high-impact campaigns across various channels and optimize experiences for acquisition, engagement, upsell, and retention. Lead creative projects from concept to execution while partnering with multiple teams.
Senior UX Designer
🌍 Remote
Gambyt 🌍 Remote
As a Senior UX Designer, you will create and maintain user journey maps, wireframes, and prototypes while collaborating with product and engineering teams. You will also lead user research initiatives to ensure design decisions are user-centered and business-driven.
Lead Product Designer - Credit Compass
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Iwoca 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
The Lead Product Designer will set the design and product direction for Credit Compass, focusing on how small businesses understand and improve their financial health. They will lead end-to-end design processes, ensuring solutions deliver measurable impact and drive user engagement.
UX Designer - Híbrido/SP - 129714 UX Designer - Híbrido/SP - 129714
The UX Designer will focus on app design, ensuring consistency and scalability while creating and maintaining a complete Design System. They will also ensure accessibility for various conditions and contribute strategically, potentially taking on a leadership role.
UX Designer (d/f/m)
🇩🇪 Hamburg, Germany
Dept® 🇩🇪 Hamburg, Germany
As a UX Designer, you will create end-to-end user experiences and translate complex challenges into digital products. You will lead discovery sessions, develop user journeys, and collaborate with UI designers to enhance the user experience.
UX Designer
🇨🇭 Zurich, Switzerland
Dept® 🇨🇭 Zurich, Switzerland
As a UX Designer, you will create engaging digital experiences by translating complex challenges into user-friendly products. You will lead discovery sessions, develop user journeys, and collaborate closely with UI designers.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Redmond, Washington, United States
Microsoft 🇺🇸 Redmond, Washington, United States
Drive design system foundations and components that power gaming experiences while collaborating with partners to define goals and deliver high-quality design artifacts. Lead brainstorming sessions and create prototypes to demonstrate design concepts and strategies.
Senior Product Designer, AI Agents
🌍 Remote
Workato 🌍 Remote
The Senior Product Designer will lead projects defining the future of AI-powered automation at Workato, focusing on designing AI-assisted workflow creation tools. This role involves collaborating with product managers, engineers, and researchers to shape the user experience and drive impactful product development.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Triple Whale 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
The Senior Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design process for a core product stream, including user research, UX/UI design, and prototyping. They will collaborate with various teams to ensure the product meets user needs and is implemented effectively.
Senior UX Designer - B2B (Contract)
🇬🇧 Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Everquote 🇬🇧 Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Lead discovery for a B2B Enterprise initiative, delivering high-quality solutions for self-service users and internal teams. Conduct user research and usability testing to inform design decisions and create intuitive user experiences.
Lead Product Designer
🇪🇸 Spain
Booksy 🇪🇸 Spain
The Lead Product Designer will lead discovery work to understand user and business problems, and own end-to-end design for significant features and experiences. They will collaborate with product managers and engineers to ship experiences that balance user needs with business strategy.
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.