Design Leadership Jobs
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UI/UX Designer
🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Stiryum 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Design intuitive, user-centered interfaces for web and mobile products from research and wireframes to polished designs. Collaborate with engineering for implementation and maintain comprehensive design systems and component libraries.
Senior Product Designer, Transit Operations
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Via 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Lead the design of the Transit Operations platform, focusing on booking and dispatching modules for public sector transit agencies. The role involves creating intuitive user journeys for special needs populations and contributing to the company's scalable design system.
UX Designer - AI
🇺🇸 Richmond, Virginia, United States
Netimpact Strategies Inc. 🇺🇸 Richmond, Virginia, United States
The UX Designer will lead the end-to-end design process for the AI Forge platform, translating complex software lifecycle workflows into intuitive human-AI interfaces. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to create user flows, prototypes, and design system components while validating designs through user research.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Paraform 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Partner with product managers and engineers to design intuitive products from discovery through shipping. Build and maintain a design system while collaborating with founders to iterate rapidly on marketplace features.
UI/UX Designer (m/w/d)
🇩🇪 München, Brandenburg, Germany
Inverso Gmbh 🇩🇪 München, Brandenburg, Germany
The role involves designing customer-specific IT solutions and complex frontends using modern web technologies and UI/UX tools. Responsibilities include building design systems, moderating design thinking workshops, and collaborating with product owners and developers.
Senior UI/UX Designer (all genders)
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Quantum Stack Jobs 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Responsible for the end-to-end design process of complex professional applications, from strategic vision and design language to final UI. This includes managing design systems, advising clients on digital product development, and leading small UX/UI teams.
Senior Product Designer- Manage and Own / Home Buying
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Commonwealth Bank 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Lead end-to-end design for mission-critical initiatives while partnering with product and engineering teams to deliver measurable outcomes. Facilitate user research, design intuitive workflows, and evolve design systems to ensure scalable and accessible digital experiences.
Mechanical Design Systems Engineer - Robotics and Automation (E3)
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States
Applied Materials 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States
Design, build, test, and commission mechanical and electro-mechanical systems to support manufacturing automation. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate subsystems and ensure operational excellence.
Product Designer - Merchant Experience
🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Yolo Investments 🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Own the end-to-end merchant-facing product experience, including the CleverConnect dashboard, payment configurations, and loyalty rewards systems. Collaborate with engineering and product teams in Ho Chi Minh City to deliver high-fidelity designs and documented design system components.
Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Shakers 🌍 Remote
The Product Designer will create responsive user experiences for clients and freelancers using Figma and maintain the company's design system. They will collaborate within a Product Trio to run user tests, iterate based on feedback, and ensure precise developer handoffs.
UX Designer WCAG (f/m)
🇵🇱 Poland
Natek 🇵🇱 Poland
The role involves designing UX solutions for web and mobile applications and maintaining a Design System aligned with accessibility standards. The designer will promote digital accessibility best practices and collaborate with stakeholders to implement WCAG principles.
UI/UX Designer
🇵🇰 Pakistan
Bracket & Beam 🇵🇰 Pakistan
Lead the end-to-end product design for Nex Hire, focusing on AI-driven evaluation workflows and candidate discovery tools. Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to define the product vision and scale the design system across B2B SaaS platforms.
Senior Product Designer, UI - Virtual
🇺🇸 Hardin County, Tennessee, United States
Alight Solutions 🇺🇸 Hardin County, Tennessee, United States
Lead the end-to-end design process for AI-enabled product initiatives while ensuring alignment with user needs and business goals. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to evolve design systems and provide human oversight for AI-generated design outputs.
UI/UX Design Manager
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Puffy 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Lead the design function for a billion-dollar D2C brand, owning the design system, CRO experimentation, and AI-first workflows. Report directly to the CEO to convert design output into measurable conversion gains and scale the design engine.
UI/UX Design Manager
🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Puffy 🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Lead the design function for a billion-dollar D2C brand, owning the design system, CRO experimentation, and AI-first workflows. The role focuses on converting design output into measurable conversion gains while managing the design team and reporting directly to the CEO.
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.