Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior Product Designer-2
🇺🇸 New City, New York, United States
Dxc Technology 🇺🇸 New City, New York, United States
Own end-to-end design for major surfaces of the OASIS platform, from problem framing through launch. Partner closely with Product Management and Engineering to prototype early and refine the design system.
Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Autonomic Mind 🌍 Remote
The Product Designer will create intuitive, user-centered digital experiences for web and mobile applications. Responsibilities include conducting user research, designing high-fidelity interfaces, and maintaining the design system in collaboration with product and development teams.
Product Designer | Presencial | Blumenau/SC
🇧🇷 Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brazil
Premiersoft 🇧🇷 Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brazil
Lead the end-to-end digital product design process from discovery to delivery, translating business needs into intuitive and scalable interfaces. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to evolve products based on user research, data, and the maintenance of Design Systems.
Product Designer (UX/UI) (Remote Full Time - Peru)
🌍 Remote
Class2class 🌍 Remote
The Product Designer will analyze user flows and conduct research to identify friction points for teachers and students. They will collaborate with the Tech Lead to create wireframes, prototypes, and a consistent design system for new features.
Design Technologist
🇺🇸 United States
Elation Health 🇺🇸 United States
Own the architecture, strategy, and evolution of Elation's design system, specifically leading an AI-agent-first rearchitecting. Collaborate with designers, engineers, and clinicians to define AI-native interaction patterns and visual language.
UI Product Designer
🇬🇧 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Proton.ai 🇬🇧 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
The UI Product Designer will own the visual language and design system across four AI-native products for wholesale distribution. They will prototype interactions using AI tools and collaborate closely with customers and engineering squads to iterate on complex B2B workflows.
Head of Design
🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States
Allocate.co 🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States
The Head of Design will build and lead the design function, overseeing product design, brand expression, and the design system for the private markets platform. They are responsible for hiring and coaching the team while remaining hands-on in shaping complex user flows and prototypes.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Nextdoor 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
You will own the end-to-end production design for your product area across mobile and web platforms. This includes collaborating with product managers and engineers to ship high-quality experiences while maintaining design system standards.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Nextdoor 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
You will own the end-to-end production design for your product area across mobile and web platforms. This includes collaborating with engineers and product managers to ship high-quality experiences while maintaining design system standards.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States
Nextdoor 🇺🇸 United States
You will own the end-to-end production design for your product area across multiple platforms, including iOS, Android, and web. You will also collaborate with product managers and engineers to drive design vision while applying the company's design system.
UI/UX Product Designer - VAZA (Consumer Platform)
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Vaza 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The designer will create user flows, wireframes, and polished UI in Figma to improve VAZA's web and mobile experiences. They will collaborate with founders and engineers to implement new features and build a consistent design system.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 Sunnyvale, California, United States
Creative People 🇺🇸 Sunnyvale, California, United States
Own the end-to-end design process for the Defense portfolio, ranging from real-time operator interfaces at the edge to enterprise engineering tools. Develop trust models for agentic autonomy and scale a design system capable of supporting both high-stakes decisions and dense workflows.
Seaborne Platform Systems - Design Systems Engineer
🇺🇸 United States
General Dynamics Mission Systems, Inc 🇺🇸 United States
You will be a member of a cross-functional team responsible for concept development and systems engineering for USN submarine mechanical systems. The role focuses on new and emerging capabilities and technologies for the platform and warfighter.
Senior Product Designer-2
🇺🇸 New York, United States
Dxc Technology 🇺🇸 New York, United States
You will own end-to-end design for major surfaces of the OASIS platform, from initial problem framing through to final product launch. You will also partner closely with product management and engineering to prototype ideas and shape the platform's design system.
UX Designer
🇲🇽 Guadalajara, Sonora, Mexico
Nexaminds 🇲🇽 Guadalajara, Sonora, Mexico
The UX Designer will create intuitive, user-centered digital experiences by conducting user research and designing wireframes and high-fidelity prototypes. They will collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to translate business requirements into accessible UX solutions and maintain design systems.
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.