Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior Graphic Designer
🇦🇷 Argentina
Brainlabs 🇦🇷 Argentina
Lead the design team in executing a high volume of assets for clients while ensuring adherence to brand guidelines. Act as the lead creative voice on client calls, presenting work and consulting on design strategy.
UI Designer II
🌍 Remote
Owlchemy Labs 🌍 Remote
The UI Designer II will design and implement new interactions and features for XR experiences, contributing to the entire design and development process. They will also advocate for user needs and improve existing features in collaboration with project leadership.
UI/UX Designer
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Tokio Marine Hcc 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Lead the UX design and analysis of user journeys, workflows, and user interfaces across digital platforms. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure user-centered design is embedded across all initiatives.
Senior UX Designer - Fixed Term Contract
🇸🇪 Stockholm Municipality, Sweden
Assa Abloy 🇸🇪 Stockholm Municipality, Sweden
As a Senior UX Designer, you will drive research, ideation, and interaction design across key initiatives, taking ownership of the full UX process. A central part of the role will be leading UX efforts for a major internal project aimed at elevating employee experience across the Group.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Primer 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
You will lead projects from research to execution, creating systems and interfaces that enhance the learning experience. Your role will involve collaborating across disciplines to ensure every detail of the design feels intentional and cohesive.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Primer 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
You will lead projects from research to execution, creating systems and interfaces that enhance the learning experience. As one of the first designers, you will help set design standards and influence all aspects of product development.
Lead UX Designer AI
🇺🇸 Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Exact Sciences 🇺🇸 Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Lead high-impact design initiatives across digital, product, and marketing platforms while guiding teams toward clarity and innovation. Shape the end-to-end design process and support junior designers in their professional growth.
Associate Lead Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States
Navex 🇺🇸 United States
The Associate Lead Product Designer will conduct comprehensive mixed-method user research and design intuitive user interfaces for SaaS enterprise software. Collaboration with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality product experiences and contribute to the design system is also expected.
UX Designer
🇨🇦 Longueuil, Quebec, Canada
Amexio 🇨🇦 Longueuil, Quebec, Canada
The UX Designer will conduct a thorough audit of the existing client portal and validate current user journeys. They will lead user research, define user needs, and produce low-fidelity models to guide UI mockups and development.
Senior Product Designer - Enterprise
🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Monday.com 🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Take full ownership of the design process for core enterprise features and partner closely with product and engineering leads to define strategic priorities. Lead design efforts that support long-term enterprise goals and guide other designers.
Product Designer Lead (m/f/x) - Digital Health
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Una Health 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Own end-to-end product design, from discovery and user research to polished delivery. Collaborate closely with various teams to turn complex problems into simple, human-centered solutions.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Wilmington, Delaware, United States
Reco 🇺🇸 Wilmington, Delaware, United States
The Senior Product Designer will own the end-to-end feature design process and lead strategic user research initiatives. They will also influence product strategy and enhance existing product areas while driving cross-functional alignment.
Product Designer
🇨🇦 Canada
Qventus, Inc 🇨🇦 Canada
Qventus is leading the transformation of healthcare and is looking for a Product Designer to craft impactful user experiences that make pre-surgical and post-surgical workflows more intuitive and efficient.
Senior Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Launchmetrics 🌍 Remote
The Senior Product Designer will own the design vision and execution for the squad, leading product discovery, design, testing, and delivery. They will design intuitive experiences that help users explore and act on complex benchmarking data.
Senior Product Designer (Menu Management) - Fixed term
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Delivery Hero 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
The Senior Product Designer will improve how restaurants manage and elevate their menu offerings across the global platform. This includes leading design conversations, collaborating with stakeholders, and applying advanced design skills to deliver solutions.
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.