Design Leadership Jobs
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Principal Project Manager / Design Manager - Aviation
🇳🇿 Hamilton City, Waikato, New Zealand
Aecom 🇳🇿 Hamilton City, Waikato, New Zealand
Lead the delivery of complex airport and aviation infrastructure projects while managing multidisciplinary design teams. Ensure project programmes and budgets are met, maintaining strong client engagement and technical oversight.
Principal Project Manager / Design Manager - Aviation
🇳🇿 Wellington, New Zealand
Aecom 🇳🇿 Wellington, New Zealand
Lead the delivery of complex airport and aviation infrastructure projects while managing multidisciplinary design teams. Ensure technical excellence from concept to completion and maintain strong client engagement throughout the project lifecycle.
Principal Project Manager / Design Manager - Aviation
🇳🇿 Christchurch, Christchurch City, New Zealand
Aecom 🇳🇿 Christchurch, Christchurch City, New Zealand
Lead the delivery of complex airport and aviation infrastructure projects while managing multidisciplinary design teams. Ensure technical excellence from concept to completion and maintain strong client engagement.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Guild.ai 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design of AI infrastructure products for both enterprise buyers and technical developers. Collaborate with founders and engineers to shape product direction, roadmaps, and the overall design system.
Principal Associate, Product Designer
🇺🇸 Plano, Texas, United States of America
Capital One 🇺🇸 Plano, Texas, United States of America
The Product Designer will co-create innovative solutions to complex problems by combining craft expertise with customer and business insights. Responsibilities include creating high-fidelity designs, prototypes, and journey maps while collaborating with cross-functional partners.
Principal Product Designer, Payer
Remote (🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America)
Headway Remote (🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America)
Lead the design vision and execution for the Payer group to ensure clinical excellence and coding accuracy. Partner with product and engineering leaders to define payer strategy and translate regulatory requirements into intuitive user experiences.
Graphic Designer Principal
🇺🇸 Glendale, California, United States of America
The Walt Disney Company 🇺🇸 Glendale, California, United States of America
Lead the development and execution of environmental graphic and signage solutions for complex themed entertainment projects. Manage large teams of designers and consultants while ensuring alignment with project goals from concept through construction.
Principal UX Researcher
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Ocean Infinity 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Define and lead the UX research strategy across Ocean Infinity’s software and operational platforms. Conduct and oversee qualitative and quantitative research activities to inform product design and strategy.
Principal Product Designer
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Nice 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Own the design quality and coherence of the product ecosystem, establishing standards and governing the internal design system. Lead the experience design for complex enterprise AI workflows and ensure consistency across a distributed product organization.
Principal UX Researcher
🇧🇷 Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Ocean Infinity 🇧🇷 Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Lead and shape the user research strategy across technology platforms, products, and operational systems. Define problems to solve and translate complex technical workflows into actionable insights to inform product strategy.
Principal UX Researcher
🇵🇹 Porto, Portugal
Ocean Infinity 🇵🇹 Porto, Portugal
Define and lead the UX research strategy across Ocean Infinity’s software and operational platforms. Conduct qualitative and quantitative research to inform product design and improve user experiences.
Principal Product Designer
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Nice 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
You will own the overall design quality and coherence of NiCE-Cognigy’s product ecosystem, defining and driving the design vision and experience standards. You will lead the completion and governance of the internal design system while ensuring consistency across multiple product areas.
Principal Product Designer, Business Intelligence for QuickBooks and Mid-Market
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Intuit 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Define and drive the design vision for Business Intelligence initiatives while guiding strategic direction across partner teams. Lead design for complex efforts from concept to launch, utilizing AI tools and innovative solutions.
Principal Associate, Product Designer
🇺🇸 Plano, Texas, United States of America
Capital One 🇺🇸 Plano, Texas, United States of America
The Product Designer will co-create innovative solutions to complex problems by combining craft expertise with customer and business insights. Responsibilities include creating high-fidelity designs, prototypes, and journey maps while collaborating with cross-functional partners to elevate the design practice.
Product Designer, Principal Associate Level
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Capital One 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
The Product Designer will co-create innovative solutions to complex problems by combining craft expertise with customer and business insights. Responsibilities include creating high-fidelity designs, prototypes, and journey maps while collaborating with cross-functional partners.
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.