Design Leadership Jobs
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Graphic Designer - 58135844366
Remote (🇵🇭 Philippines)
Activate Talent Remote (🇵🇭 Philippines)
The Graphic Designer will be responsible for creating high-quality, conversion-driven visuals across various digital channels such as social media, paid ads, and landing pages. This role also involves maintaining design systems and collaborating with marketing and product teams to translate concepts into compelling visuals.
Motion & Graphic Designer (Remote Canada)
Remote (🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Directive Remote (🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
The role involves building and maintaining the company's visual identity through a scalable design system, translating brand positioning into sophisticated visual language for executive audiences. Additionally, the designer will produce high-performing ad creative across various paid social platforms and design complex sales enablement and pitch materials for enterprise prospects.
Motion & Graphic Designer (Remote Mexico)
Remote (🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico)
Directive Remote (🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico)
The role involves building and maintaining the company's visual identity through a scalable design system, and producing high-performing ad creative across various paid social and programmatic channels. Additionally, the designer will create compelling sales enablement and pitch materials tailored for enterprise prospects.
Senior/Staff Product Designer
🇩🇰 1357 København K, Denmark
Pleo 🇩🇰 1357 København K, Denmark
The role involves owning end-to-end design for meaningful parts of the experience, focusing on moments that build customer confidence in managing company money, such as understanding balances or setting up effective policies. Designers will shape design strategy, partner with data and research to define success, drive feature adoption, and contribute to the design system.
Senior Product Designer
🇲🇾 Petaling Jaya, Petaling, Malaysia
Grab 🇲🇾 Petaling Jaya, Petaling, Malaysia
The role involves owning end-to-end Product Design outcomes, ensuring high quality and consistency across the transport experience, while collaborating closely with cross-functional partners to define problems and shape solutions. Designers will apply user research, data, and AI insights to inform design decisions and contribute to evolving the design system for scalability.
Product Designer - UI/UX - IL
🇺🇸 Illinois, United States of America
Photon 🇺🇸 Illinois, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will lead end-to-end product design for digital platforms and connected in-store experiences, focusing on creating intuitive user flows for key journeys like purchasing and service interactions. Responsibilities also include translating complex requirements, creating design specifications, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and evolving design systems.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America
Jerry.ai 🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America
The Staff Product Designer will lead design initiatives from inception to launch across core offerings like insurance, safety, and repairs, focusing on modernizing car care for everyday drivers. This role involves partnering with research, product, and data teams to translate insights into impactful designs and evolving the company's design system for consistency and scalability.
Product Designer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Financeit 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The role involves actively contributing across the entire project lifecycle, collaborating on concepts, developing solutions, and designing user flows while owning and evolving the Centah design system components. Responsibilities also include championing visual quality, leveraging user research to inform decisions, and collaborating with developers to ensure technical feasibility.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Arlington County, Virginia, United States of America
Rune Technologies 🇺🇸 Arlington County, Virginia, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will lead the design of critical workflows and interfaces for TyrOS, Rune’s logistics command platform, by conducting user research and translating field needs into clean, usable UI patterns. This involves developing detailed specifications, partnering with engineering for high-fidelity implementation, and helping to establish and evolve the product's design system.
Product Designer (Contractor)
🌍 Remote
Hauler Hero Inc. 🌍 Remote
The Product Designer will be responsible for designing end-to-end product experiences across CRM, Customer Portal, and Mobile applications, while utilizing AI tools daily to accelerate design and prototyping efforts. This role also involves owning and evolving the design system and engaging directly with customers for research and feedback.
UI/ UX Designer
🇺🇸 Canada, Pike County, KY 41519, United States of America
Weekday Ai 🇺🇸 Canada, Pike County, KY 41519, United States of America
The role involves designing intuitive and visually engaging user interfaces for AI-powered digital products by applying UX principles and research insights. Responsibilities include collaborating with product managers and engineers, translating complex AI workflows, building design systems, and conducting usability testing.
Product Designer (Intern-to-Hire – Jan.'26)
🇺🇸 California, Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Sleeper 🇺🇸 California, Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States of America
The intern will design user experiences across all platforms (iOS, Android, Web, Tablet), frequently collaborating with designers and receiving mentorship. Responsibilities include participating in design critiques, taking ownership of design execution, creating high-fidelity mockups and prototypes, and contributing to the design system.
Senior UX Product Designer (App & Web)
Remote (🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America)
Bouncie Remote (🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America)
The Senior UX Product Designer will drive UI quality and visual craft across mobile and web platforms, translating complex requirements into intuitive, elegant interfaces. This role involves owning workstreams end-to-end, conducting user research, and building/contributing to the company's design system.
UX Designer
🇮🇳 Gurgaon, Haryana, India
United Airlines 🇮🇳 Gurgaon, Haryana, India
The UX Designer will be responsible for maturing the Design System, architecting and maintaining design tokens and variables for consistency across United's digital ecosystem. This role also involves leading AI-powered prototyping workflows and ensuring all system components meet WCAG accessibility standards.
Lead UX Designer
🇺🇸 City of Albany, New York, United States of America
Lennar 🇺🇸 City of Albany, New York, United States of America
The Lead UX Designer will design and develop end-to-end user flows, wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, and interactive prototypes for Lennar’s Land Acquisition platform, translating complex land evaluation stages into approachable user interfaces. This role involves partnering with business stakeholders and data teams, conducting user research, and contributing to the evolution of Lennar’s enterprise design system.
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.