Design Leadership Jobs
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Lead Product Designer
🇬🇧 Northampton, England, United Kingdom
Staysure Group 🇬🇧 Northampton, England, United Kingdom
Lead end-to-end design for a defined product area, transforming complex problems into user-centered solutions. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure design decisions align with business goals and customer needs.
Principal Product Designer
Lead end-to-end design processes and partner with various teams to understand user and business needs. Facilitate workshops and design prototypes while mentoring other designers.
Associate Lead Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States
Navex 🇺🇸 United States
Conduct comprehensive mixed-method user research and design intuitive user interfaces for SaaS enterprise software. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality product experiences and contribute to the design system.
Lead Product Designer
🇳🇴 Norway
Xeneta 🇳🇴 Norway
As a Lead Product Designer, you will own the design vision and strategy for your product area, ensuring coherence across the ecosystem. You will lead user research initiatives and drive the end-to-end design process from exploration to delivery.
Senior Graphic Designer - Luxury Homewear
🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Chalhoub Group 🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
As a Senior Graphic Designer, you will lead the design and execution of visual assets across various channels, ensuring brand consistency and high-quality outputs. You will also manage junior designers and collaborate with multiple teams to support brand initiatives.
Graphic Designer
🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Createfuture 🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
As a Graphic Designer, you will craft high-quality, on-brand assets and lead the development of a robust template foundation. You will also manage the production of physical assets and drive innovation through the integration of generative AI tools.
Principal Product Designer, Ecosystems and Experiences
🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States
At&t 🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States
The Principal Product Designer will create experience strategies for end-to-end customer journeys and build design artifacts that enhance service flows across digital and physical environments. They will lead workshops with cross-functional teams to align on new customer experiences and synthesize research to define opportunities for digital adoption.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States
Jerry.ai 🇺🇸 United States
As a Staff Product Designer, you will lead design for key products across Jerry’s core offerings and ship features that modernize car care for everyday drivers. Your work will directly shape the experience for millions of users and set the standard for years to come.
Principal UX Designer I
🇺🇸 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Reed Technology 🇺🇸 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
As the Principal UX Designer I, you will lead the design strategy and creative toolkit for multiple businesses or product lines. You will also mentor and train the design community while addressing complex creative problems.
Principal UX Designer I
🇺🇸 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Remitly 🇺🇸 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
As the Principal UX Designer I, you will lead the design strategy and creative toolkit for multiple businesses or product lines, tackling complex creative problems. You will also mentor and train the design community while driving the user-centered design vision for the organization.
Sr. UX Designer
🌍 Remote
Procurement Sciences 🌍 Remote
The Sr. UX Designer will own and evolve the design system for the Awarded.AI platform, ensuring consistency across user touchpoints. They will lead user research efforts and collaborate with product and engineering teams to create intuitive AI-native user experiences.
Lead Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Experian 🌍 Remote
Lead end-to-end product design for new digital financial tools across mobile and web. Collaborate with various teams to define product strategy and ensure quality execution across all touchpoints.
UX Designer - Marketing & Web Design Department, Golf Business
🇯🇵 Tokyo, Japan
Rakuten 🇯🇵 Tokyo, Japan
The UX Designer will formulate UX strategies, lead UX/UI design processes, and manage the production of websites and apps related to the golf business. They will also oversee design quality management and collaborate with various teams to enhance user experience.
Lead Product Designer - Dressly
🇺🇦 Ukraine
Skelar 🇺🇦 Ukraine
The Lead Product Designer will create design strategies, build design processes, and develop a culture of design research. They will also be responsible for hiring and mentoring the design team.
Lead Product Designer - AI Coach
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Culture Amp 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Lead the design for AI-driven coaching features and user journeys, ensuring high standards in design craft and user experience. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to shape product vision and drive meaningful growth.
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.