Design Leadership Jobs
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Principal Product Designer
🇳🇿 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Halter 🇳🇿 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Lead the design vision and strategy for a significant area of the farmer-facing product experience. Partner with product and engineering teams to define, prototype, and launch intuitive solutions for complex agricultural challenges.
Principal Product Designer - Design Systems
🇳🇿 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Halter 🇳🇿 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
You will lead the design of a significant product area by setting and advancing design foundations across mobile and web platforms. Additionally, you will collaborate with engineers to shape technical architecture and mentor designers to raise the overall quality of the product experience.
Principal Product Designer, Core
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Betterup 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Architect the design vision for core product experiences and drive high standards of design quality across the organization. Partner with executive leadership to shape the company's AI strategy and lead complex design challenges from concept to execution.
Director, Design Systems
🇺🇸 Portland, Oregon, United States
Ebay 🇺🇸 Portland, Oregon, United States
Lead the team responsible for building and evolving eBay's design system while focusing on talent development and team growth. Partner with the Principal of Design Systems to translate strategic vision into clear priorities, ownership, and high-quality execution.
Principal Data Center Design Manager
🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Oracle 🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Lead the end-to-end design lifecycle of large-scale Oracle Cloud data center critical infrastructure from concept through commissioning. Coordinate with cross-disciplinary engineering teams and stakeholders to ensure designs are scalable, reliable, and aligned with business outcomes.
Principal Data Center Design Manager
🇺🇸 United States
Oracle 🇺🇸 United States
Lead the end-to-end design lifecycle of large-scale Oracle Cloud data center critical infrastructure from concept through commissioning. Coordinate with cross-disciplinary engineering teams and external partners to ensure designs are scalable, reliable, and aligned with business outcomes.
Principal Data Center Design Manager
🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Oracle 🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States
The Principal Design Manager leads the end-to-end design lifecycle for large-scale Oracle Cloud data center projects. They partner with cross-disciplinary teams to ensure infrastructure designs are delivered safely and reliably while resolving complex technical challenges.
Director, Design Systems
🇺🇸 Portland, Oregon, United States
Ebay 🇺🇸 Portland, Oregon, United States
You will lead and build a high-performing Design Systems team while coaching designers to strengthen their craft and career growth. Additionally, you will partner with the Principal to translate vision into clear priorities and ensure effective collaboration across Design, Product, and Engineering.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States
Hubspot 🇺🇸 United States
Lead the design of a cohesive, AI-powered prospecting experience across HubSpot's marketing, sales, and service product suites. Partner with cross-functional leadership to define product vision, influence direction, and drive alignment across multiple teams.
Principal Product Designer
🇲🇽 Mexico
Deel 🇲🇽 Mexico
Collaborate with the Chief Design Officer to lead frontier design initiatives, focusing on orchestration and intent-to-resolution experiences. Rapidly prototype novel interaction paradigms and AI-powered workflows to inform the broader design system.
Principal Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Deel 🌍 Remote
Collaborate with the Chief Design Officer to lead frontier design initiatives, focusing on orchestration and intent-to-resolution experiences. Rapidly prototype novel interaction paradigms and AI-powered workflows while ensuring coherence across Deel's vertical product teams.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States
Deel 🇺🇸 United States
Lead frontier design initiatives focused on orchestration and intent-to-resolution experiences. Collaborate with the Chief Design Officer and cross-functional leads to prototype and ship novel AI-powered interaction paradigms.
Principal, UX Designer
🇺🇸 Bentonville, Arkansas, United States
Walmart 🇺🇸 Bentonville, Arkansas, United States
The Principal UX Designer leads user experience strategy by conducting research, journey mapping, and usability testing to enhance product interaction. They collaborate with cross-functional teams to align design solutions with business goals while mentoring team members on best practices.
Principal Product Designer, Energy
🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Dow Jones 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Set and lead design strategy across multiple product areas and platforms, working directly with C-suite executives to shape company direction. Establish industry-benchmark design practices and mentor senior design talent to drive long-term business value.
Principal Product Designer - Market Data
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Dow Jones 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Own the design strategy for the Market Data platform across multiple financial brands, including The Wall Street Journal and Barron's. Establish shared design patterns for quotes, charts, and visualizations within the Index Design System to ensure consistency and quality.
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.