Design Leadership Jobs

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Supply Chain Network Design Manager

🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom

The role is responsible for owning the end-to-end supply chain network design for packed products, focusing on cost-to-serve modelling and stock positioning. It involves managing inter-site product flows and creating network performance dashboards to inform strategic leadership decisions.

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Head of Design

🇫🇷 Reims, Marne, France

Lead the company's visual identity by unifying brand art direction with product design across all touchpoints. Manage a multidisciplinary design team and drive the integration of Generative AI tools to scale creative output.

Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer (contract)

🇺🇸 Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

The Senior Product Designer will lead the creation of high-quality, human-centered user experiences for web and native mobile applications. Responsibilities include conducting generative research, creating design systems, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to solve complex business challenges.

$60 - $70ContractSenior
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UX Researcher

🇺🇸 Arlington County, Virginia, United States of America

Lead generative and evaluative research studies to improve a large enterprise data platform. Synthesize qualitative and quantitative data into insights that shape design, content, and customer-facing strategies.

$91,300 - $184,900Full-time
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Graphic Designer & Social Media Coordinator

🇲🇾 Malaysia

You will create compelling visual content from existing assets and distribute it across social media platforms to drive qualified leads. This role involves transforming CAD drawings, photography, and 3D renders into engaging marketing materials.

$2,000 - $2,500Full-time
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Graphic Designer & Social Media Coordinator

🇲🇾 Malaysia

You will create compelling visual content from existing assets and distribute it across social media platforms to drive qualified leads. This role involves transforming CAD drawings, photography, and 3D renders into engaging marketing materials.

$2,000 - $2,500Full-time
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UX Researcher, AI e-Commerce (m/f/n)

🇵🇱 Warszawa, 83-433 Nowe Polaszki, Poland

You will lead end-to-end research and analytical projects, from defining the problem to presenting recommendations. Your insights will influence product and business development while monitoring market trends.

Full-timeMid-level
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Freelance Senior SaaS Web Designer, Fully Remote

Remote (🇺🇸 Clearwater, Florida, United States of America)

Lead the visual redesign of PaceMate.com by creating high-fidelity homepage and interior page concepts. Develop a comprehensive design system and reusable components to ensure a sophisticated, enterprise-ready B2B healthcare experience.

RemoteContractSenior
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Product Designer

🇩🇰 1357 København K, Denmark

Lead the design of communication features to deepen parent engagement within the Famly platform. Collaborate with autonomous product teams to translate user research and data into high-fidelity designs and durable design systems.

$40,000 - $55,000Full-time
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UX Designer

🇭🇷 City of Zagreb, Croatia

Lead end-to-end design initiatives from discovery to execution to rebuild services for travelers and partners. Collaborate with product managers and analysts to translate data and user needs into implementable designs.

Full-time
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Graphic Designer & Social Media Coordinator

🇮🇩 Indonesia

You will create compelling visual content from existing assets and distribute it across social media platforms to drive qualified leads. You will work directly with the leadership team to transform CAD drawings, photography, and 3D renders into engaging marketing materials.

$2,000 - $2,500Full-time
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Graphic Designer & Social Media Coordinator

🇻🇳 Vietnam

You will create compelling visual content from existing assets and distribute it across social media platforms to drive qualified leads. This role involves transforming CAD drawings, photography, and 3D renders into engaging marketing materials.

$2,000 - $2,500Full-time
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Graphic Designer & Social Media Coordinator

🇻🇳 Vietnam

You will create compelling visual content from existing assets and distribute it across social media platforms to drive qualified leads. This role involves transforming CAD drawings, photography, and 3D renders into engaging marketing materials for various social media channels.

$2,000 - $2,500Full-time
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Lead Product Designer

🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Lead the strategic direction of product design by creating end-to-end customer journeys and scalable design systems. Influence cross-functional teams and foster a culture of experimentation and AI adoption to improve product outcomes.

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Senior Product Designer

🇮🇳 India

Lead the end-to-end design process for complex enterprise features, from discovery and workflow definition to high-fidelity prototyping. Collaborate with product and engineering teams to integrate AI-native workflows and maintain a scalable design system.

Full-timeSenior
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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.