Design Leadership Jobs
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Mid-Level UX Designer
🇺🇸 Bellevue, Washington, United States of America
Blink Ux 🇺🇸 Bellevue, Washington, United States of America
The role involves producing design artifacts like sketches, wireframes, and prototypes, while collaborating across functional teams to understand requirements and maintain consistency across the digital ecosystem. Responsibilities also include leading usability studies, analyzing data, and contributing to the evolution of design principles and patterns.
Product Designer 2 (Mid-Level)
🇩🇪 Euskirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Togetherwork 🇩🇪 Euskirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
The role involves owning the UX for specific products, modernizing complex or legacy workflows, and improving clarity, usability, and accessibility by reviewing analytics and participating in user interviews. Designers will also collaborate closely with product managers and engineers from discovery through delivery while contributing to shared design system components.
Mid-level Graphic Designer
🇧🇦 71000 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Obsidian Group 🇧🇦 71000 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
The primary focus is supporting the Design as a Service (DaaS) model by executing a steady stream of diverse design tasks, including performance marketing creatives and branding assets, while maintaining high standards under rapid turnaround times. Responsibilities also involve translating briefs into functional designs, working within brand guidelines, building digital prototypes, and taking ownership of projects from concept to completion.
Mid-level Graphic Designer
🇧🇦 71000 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Banja Luka 🇧🇦 71000 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
The primary focus is supporting the Design as a Service (DaaS) model by executing a steady stream of diverse design tasks, including performance marketing creatives and branding assets, while maintaining high standards under rapid turnaround times. Responsibilities also involve translating briefs into functional designs, working within brand guidelines, building prototypes, and taking ownership from concept to completion.
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Mid-level Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Xelix 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The role involves taking ownership of design tasks from discovery through delivery, including creating wireframes, flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs while ensuring solutions are usable and consistent with the design system. Responsibilities also include contributing to user research, translating findings into actionable insights, and collaborating closely with product managers and engineers.
UX/UI Product Designer (Junior to Mid-Level)
🇦🇪 Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Sopra Steria 🇦🇪 Dubai, United Arab Emirates
The role involves designing new mobile-first banking features and creating polished UI within Figma using advanced features like tokens and auto-layout. Responsibilities also include collaborating with cross-functional teams and contributing to the global design system foundations.
[Job-27447] Mid-Level UI Designer, Brazil
🇧🇷 Brazil
Ci&t 🇧🇷 Brazil
The role involves crafting beautiful, functional, and user-centered interfaces across mobile and web platforms, playing a key part in shaping intuitive digital experiences. Responsibilities also include contributing to the design system and collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products.
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.