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Lead UX Designer
🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America
At&t 🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America
Design and optimize user experiences across all platforms, ensuring intuitive and seamless interactions. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver effective design solutions and manage multiple projects.
Product Designer (UI / Visual Craft)
🇮🇳 Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Lyearn 🇮🇳 Gurgaon, Haryana, India
You will own the visual craft of the product, turning workflows and intents into pixel-precise UI. You will report directly to leadership and work within a small team.
Senior UI Engineer - Design Systems Team Lead
🇨🇿 Capital Apartments, Wenceslas Square 36, 110 00 Prague, Czechia
Barclays 🇨🇿 Capital Apartments, Wenceslas Square 36, 110 00 Prague, Czechia
Lead a team of UI engineers to develop a comprehensive React-based component library and design system. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure components are accessible, performant, and well-documented.
Senior UX Researcher
🇵🇹 Portugal
Promptly Health 🇵🇹 Portugal
Lead discovery research to inform product strategy and roadmap, including interviews and usability testing. Build and maintain the research practice while enabling the team to conduct their own research.
Senior UX Researcher
🇵🇹 Portugal
Promptly Health 🇵🇹 Portugal
Lead discovery research to inform product strategy and roadmap, and run validation studies on prototypes and live features. Build and maintain the research practice while enabling the team to conduct their own research.
Senior Product Designer - (Enterprise Design Systems & Fintech)
🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Gsstech Group 🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai Emirate, United Arab Emirates
The role involves defining end-to-end digital banking experiences and maintaining an enterprise-level design system for web, desktop, and mobile platforms. The designer will collaborate with Agile squads and lead workshops to translate complex business requirements into actionable designs.
Senior Digital Design Manager – Paid Media (All Genders)
🇪🇸 National Library of Spain, Paseo de Recoletos, 20-22, 28071 Madrid, Spain
Zooplus Se 🇪🇸 National Library of Spain, Paseo de Recoletos, 20-22, 28071 Madrid, Spain
Lead the conceptual development and execution of high-performance creative assets for paid media channels including Meta and Google Ads. Manage creative automation workflows via Smartly.io and optimize assets based on performance data and A/B testing.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 Emeryville, CA 94608, United States of America
Zuma ⚡ 🇺🇸 Emeryville, CA 94608, United States of America
As a Principal Product Designer, you will lead product excellence and user experience across the platform, collaborating with the executive team to define product strategy. You will design for multiple user personas and drive user-centric thinking while scaling the design function.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 Emeryville, CA 94608, United States of America
Revel 🇺🇸 Emeryville, CA 94608, United States of America
As a Product Designer, you will lead the design of user experiences from discovery through delivery, collaborating with various stakeholders. You will advocate for user needs and contribute to evolving design systems and standards.
Experienced UX Designer (m/f/n)
🇸🇰 Bratislava, Bratislava II, Slovakia
Eset 🇸🇰 Bratislava, Bratislava II, Slovakia
As a senior member of the User Experience team, you will lead and own the design of user experiences across multiple products or complex touchpoints. You will collaborate with various stakeholders to define the best possible experience for users.
Experienced Product Designer - Design System (m/f/n)
🇸🇰 Bratislava, Bratislava II, Slovakia
Eset 🇸🇰 Bratislava, Bratislava II, Slovakia
As an Experienced Product Designer, you will lead areas of the Design System and advocate for best practices across the organization. You will design and evolve the Design System, ensuring it scales effectively and remains consistent with product and business needs.
Experienced Product Designer - Design System (m/f/n)
🇸🇰 Bratislava, Bratislava II, Slovakia
Eset 🇸🇰 Bratislava, Bratislava II, Slovakia
As an Experienced Product Designer, you will lead specific areas of the Design System and advocate for best practices across the organization. You will also validate design decisions through usability testing and collaborate with various stakeholders.
Visual Designer Lead
🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Epos 🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
As a Visual Designer Lead, you will manage the creative lifecycle from conceptualization to production, ensuring brand consistency across all outputs. You will design high-impact social media assets and oversee technical production aspects for offline marketing materials.
Senior E-commerce Design Manager
🇬🇧 Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Goliath 🇬🇧 Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Lead the creation of high-quality product imagery and digital assets for e-commerce platforms, ensuring compliance and strong visual presence. Collaborate with various teams to align creative output with brand and sales objectives while managing projects from concept to delivery.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Wigan, England, United Kingdom
We Are Footprint 🇬🇧 Wigan, England, United Kingdom
The Design Manager will lead and oversee design delivery across multiple projects while managing and mentoring design teams. Collaboration with stakeholders to align design outcomes with business objectives is also a key responsibility.
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.