Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior Product Designer (UI/UX)
🇷🇴 Bucharest, Romania
Expleo 🇷🇴 Bucharest, Romania
Own and drive UX/UI design from discovery to delivery for web, mobile, and tablet experiences. Mentor junior designers and raise design quality through reviews, coaching, and best practices.
CBS - BMC - Creative Services - Supervising Associate-Senior Graphic Designer
🇮🇳 Kanayannur, Kerala, India
Ey 🇮🇳 Kanayannur, Kerala, India
The Senior Associate - Senior Graphic Designer will conceptualize and design branding materials, ensuring alignment with EY's brand and business objectives. They will also mentor junior team members and manage multiple creative projects simultaneously.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States
Servicetitan 🇺🇸 United States
The Staff Product Designer will build collaborative relationships across multiple disciplines to explore, build, and ship design solutions. They will also mentor junior designers and represent user needs in product strategy discussions.
Principal UX Designer
🇨🇦 Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Upshop 🇨🇦 Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
As a Principal UX Designer, you will lead the evolution of the Design Platform and System while mentoring junior designers. You will create high-fidelity prototypes and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure design consistency and quality across products.
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Junior UI/UX Designer (Product Designer)
🇷🇴 Bucharest, Romania
Segula Technologies 🇷🇴 Bucharest, Romania
The Junior UI/UX Designer will design and optimize digital user journeys across various platforms, contributing to a customer-centric strategy. Responsibilities include creating user interfaces, wireframes, and prototypes while ensuring consistency across multi-brand design systems.
Sr. Graphic Designer
🌍 Remote
Entreprenista 🌍 Remote
The Sr. Graphic Designer will lead the development and execution of all brand creative, manage the visual identity, and oversee junior designers. They will collaborate across departments to support various campaigns and ensure a cohesive brand experience.
UI/UX Designer - US
🇺🇸 United States
Photon 🇺🇸 United States
The Senior UI/UX Designer will lead the entire design process from discovery and research through visual design and delivery, while collaborating with product managers and engineering teams to define product direction. Key duties include conducting advanced user research, establishing design standards, and providing mentorship to junior designers.
Senior Vice President, Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Bny Mellon 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
The role involves providing guidance and technical expertise for complex user experience activities, including user research, interactive design, and visual design. The candidate will also mentor junior designers and advocate for user experience across the firm.
Junior Product Designer — Philips Avent (Part-time 0.8 FTE)
🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Philips 🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
As a Junior Product Designer, you will design consumer hardware products, collaborating with engineers and user researchers throughout the design process. You will take ownership of product and CMF design, contributing to innovation explorations and refining designs into manufacturable solutions.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States
Spoton: Product 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States
The Senior Product Designer will collaborate with designers, researchers, product managers, and engineers to execute design solutions across platforms, creating user flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity UI for web and mobile interfaces. They will apply systems thinking to ensure design consistency, leverage user research to inform decisions, and mentor junior team members.
Senior Graphic Designer
Create high-quality digital and print assets across multiple brands and work with various teams to turn ideas into compelling visuals. Support and guide junior designers while ensuring brand consistency and delivering work to tight deadlines.
UX / UI Designer – Tutoraggio & Lezioni pratiche
🇮🇹 Italy
Letuelezioni 🇮🇹 Italy
You will conduct practical sessions on UX fundamentals and UI design, helping students and junior designers improve their portfolios. The role involves providing support and feedback in a flexible, one-on-one tutoring format.
Lead Product Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Weekday 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Lead end-to-end design of web and product experiences, ensuring usability and delightful user experiences. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align on feature design and provide mentorship to junior designers.
Junior Fashion Product Designer
🇯🇵 Shibuya, Japan
H&m Group 🇯🇵 Shibuya, Japan
As a Junior Fashion Product Designer, you will support the design process and help create trend-driven products for the Northeast and Southeast Asia markets. Your role includes assisting in developing components, preparing product specifications, reviewing prototypes, and monitoring selling performance.
Junior Product Designer - Engine by Starling
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Starling 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
The role involves contributing to the entire product development lifecycle, from discovery through delivery, by designing the visual and functional experience of mobile SDKs and web portals across various product domains like payments and lending. Responsibilities also include maintaining the multi-brand design system and ensuring products are designed for rapid adoption and configuration by clients.
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.