Design roles at Blizzard

* Associate
* Mid
* Senior
* Senior II
* Principal
* Principal II
* Associate Director
* Creative Director
* Game Director

There are designers who are "lead" but it is a word used to describe your function on the team, not a role that has a pay grade attached to it.

Lead can refer to being a lead of a specific discipline or it can refer to being lead designer of an entire project. Even in the cases where you are lead designer of a project, you still report to a game director with the ultimate creative say.

Creative Director, as Joe mentioned in his awesome thread, can have a couple meanings. We've had people in this role who were very design focused and people who were very art/narrative focused. Depends on the project.