Product Design Lead Salary in the United States

How much does a Product Design Lead make in the United States?

As of January 01, 2026, the average salary for a Product Design Lead in the United States is $146,849 per year, which breaks down to an hourly rate of $71.

However, a Product Design Lead's salary can vary significantly. Here’s a look at the typical salary range:

  • Top Earners (90th percentile): $170,315
  • Majority Range (25th-75th percentile): $132,918 to $159,132
  • Entry-Level (10th percentile): $120,235
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Product Design Lead Salaries by Percentile

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Salary
Monthly
Pay
Weekly
Pay
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Wage
75th Percentile $159,132 $13,261 $3,060 $77
Average $146,849 $12,237 $2,824 $71
25th Percentile $132,918 $11,077 $2,556 $64
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Key Factors That Influence Product Design Lead Salaries

A Product Design Lead's salary isn't a fixed number. It's shaped by several important factors. Below, we'll explore how your years of experience, geographic location and company size can directly affect your earning potential.

How Experience Level Affects Product Design Lead Salaries?

Experience is a primary driver of a Product Design Lead's salary. As you build your skills and take on more complex tasks, your compensation generally increases. Here's how the average salary grows at different career stages:

  • Entry-Level (less than 1 year): $142,980
  • Early Career (1-2 years): $143,560
  • Mid-Level (2-4 years): $144,914
  • Senior-Level (5-8 years): $146,462
  • Expert (over 8 years): $149,182
Levels Salary
Entry Level Product Design Lead$142,980
Intermediate Level Product Design Lead$143,560
Senior Level Product Design Lead$144,914
Specialist Level Product Design Lead$146,462
Expert Level Product Design Lead$149,182
$142,980 0 yr
$143,560 < 2 yrs
$144,914 2-4 yrs
$146,462 5-8 yrs
$149,182 > 8 yrs
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Top Paying Cities for Product Design Leads

Salaries can also vary between different cities. Major metropolitan areas or cities with a high demand for technicians often offer more competitive pay. Here are a few examples of average annual salaries in different U.S. cities:

  • San Jose: $185,221
  • San Francisco: $183,400
  • Oakland: $179,332

What Skills Can Increase a Product Design Lead's Salary?

Demanded Skills for the Role:

  • Leadership (Mentioned in 5.4% Job Postings): Knowledge of and ability to employ effective strategies that motivate and guide other members within our business to achieve optimum results.
  • Product Management (Mentioned in 2.21% Job Postings): Product management is an organisational lifecycle function within a company dealing with the planning, forecasting, and production, or marketing of a product or products at all stages of the product lifecycle. Similarly, product lifecycle management (PLM) integrates people, data, processes and business systems. It provides product information for companies and their extended supply chain enterprise. The role may consist of product development and product marketing, which are different (yet complementary) efforts, with the objective of maximizing sales revenues, market share, and profit margins. Product management also involves elimination decisions. Product elimination begins with the identification of elimination candidates, proceeds with the consideration of remedial actions, continues with a projection of the impact on the business as a whole if a candidate product is eventually eliminated, and concludes with the implementation stage, where management determines the elimination strategy for an item. The product manager is often responsible for analyzing market conditions and defining features or functions of a product and for overseeing the production of the product. The role of product management spans many activities from strategic to tactical and varies based on the organizational structure of the company. To maximize the impact and benefits to an organization, Product management must be an independent function separate on its own.
  • B2B (Mentioned in 1.52% Job Postings): B2B (business-to-business), a type of electronic commerce (e-commerce), is the exchange of products, services or information between businesses, rather than between businesses and consumers (B2C).
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Skills Demand Percentage
Leadership 5.4%
Product Management 2.21%
B2B 1.52%
What skills can make your compensation higher?
Mastering certain specialized skills can lead to a significant increase in pay. Here are examples of skills and the potential impact they can have on a Product Design Lead's salary.
  • Empathy: Can increase your salary by up to 11%.
  • Product Strategy: Can increase your salary by up to 10%.
  • Product Engineering: Can increase your salary by up to 10%.
Skill Salary Salary % Increase
Empathy
$163,002
11%
Product Strategy
$161,534
10%
Product Engineering
$161,534
10%
Collaborating
$160,065
9%
Alignment
$158,597
8%
Product Management
$158,597
8%
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Product Design Lead Salary: Hourly Rate, Weekly Pay, and Monthly Pay

Understanding how a Product Design Lead's annual salary breaks down can help with budgeting. Below, you can see the average hourly rate, weekly pay, and monthly pay for this role. Use the buttons to switch between different pay periods.

Last Updated on January 01, 2026

Salary Trends for Product Design Lead

Salaries for a Product Design Lead can change over time, reflecting shifts in market demand and the overall economy. The median salary decreased from $152,426 in 2023 to around $151,545 in 2025, reflecting changes in demand, location, experience, and the wider economy. For a detailed analysis of Product Design Lead salary trends, .

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