Design Leadership Jobs

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Product Designer

🇵🇱 Poland

Design end-to-end features for RTB House panels, from problem discovery and user flows to implementation support and design QA. Collaborate with stakeholders and engineering teams to expand the Design System and optimize user interactions using AI tools.

Full-timeMid-level
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Product Designer

🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

You will own the end-to-end design process, from customer discovery to production-ready UI, to solve complex user problems. You will also collaborate with product, engineering, and research teams to evolve the design system and ensure features align with business goals.

HybridFull-time
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Senior Product Designer

🇪🇸 Pozuelo de Alarcón, Community of Madrid, Spain

Lead the end-to-end design of user-centric digital products, transforming business needs into intuitive experiences. Contribute to the evolution of the design system and collaborate with Product and Technology teams to ensure technical viability.

HybridFull-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer

🇪🇸 Spain

Lead design strategy across product squads and establish high craft standards using AI-native workflows and design systems. Mentor junior and mid-level designers while partnering with Product and Engineering teams to align experience strategy with business outcomes.

Full-timeSenior
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Staff Product Designer - Singapore

🇸🇬 Singapore, Singapore

The role involves owning end-to-end product surfaces and features, from framing ambiguous challenges to delivering high-quality user experiences. The designer will create reusable components for the design system and collaborate with cross-functional partners to ensure implementation quality.

Full-time
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UI UX Designer Intern

🇮🇩 Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia

The intern will design user interfaces and experiences for websites and internal/external systems using Figma. They will collaborate with developers to ensure implementation and contribute to the creation of design systems and product discussions.

ContractEntry Level
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[REMOTE] Web Designer

🌍 Remote

Create impactful web and landing page mockups in Figma while maintaining brand consistency and design systems. Develop a wide range of digital marketing assets, including social banners, infographics, and long-form collateral like eBooks.

RemoteFull-time
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Product Designer / UX Designer

🇱🇹 Vilnius, Vilnius County, Lithuania

You will shape the end-to-end Telia Play experience by working in cross-functional teams to turn insights into clear, high-fidelity design solutions. This involves owning the design process from discovery and research through to prototyping and implementation while contributing to design systems.

$3,600 - $5,400Full-time
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Senior Product Designer

🇪🇸 Spain

The Senior Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design process for the marketplace experience across web, iOS, and Android platforms. They will collaborate with product managers and engineers to define roadmaps, run workshops, and refine the design system based on user research and data.

$62,722 - $76,027Full-timeSenior
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Principal Product Designer, Design Systems

🇺🇸 United States

Define and maintain the architectural direction of the Pando design system to ensure consistency and scalability across the organization. Partner with engineering to build tooling, governance, and accessibility standards while articulating a data-backed roadmap for the system.

$148,000 - $195,000Full-timePrincipal
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Head of Design / Principal Designer

🇯🇵 Tokyo, Japan

You will lead the user research practice and define the company's design philosophy to drive product direction through rapid, prototype-driven testing. Additionally, you will build and scale a design system while coaching a team of product designers to adopt research-led, iterative workflows.

Full-timeManager
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Senior Product Designer

🇧🇬 Sofia, Sredec, Bulgaria

The Senior Product Designer will create intuitive, visually appealing interfaces and user journeys for complex financial products. They will collaborate with product and engineering teams to evolve the design system and use research to drive continuous user-centered enhancements.

Full-timeSenior
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Product Designer - Mobile UI UX

🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

The Mobile UI/UX Designer will own end-to-end app surfaces, including creating flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity mockups while maintaining the design system. They will also conduct user research and usability audits to diagnose and fix existing experiences to improve retention and product clarity.

$80,000 - $120,000Full-timeMid-level
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Lead Product Designer, Growth

🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

You will own the end-to-end growth surfaces including onboarding, rewards, and lifecycle messaging to drive player retention and behavior. You will also mentor designers, elevate the design system, and partner with cross-functional teams to influence product strategy.

Full-timeLead
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Product Designer

🇮🇳 Gurgaon, Haryana, India

The role involves designing intuitive UI/UX workflows for RentOk's tenants and owners while maintaining and expanding the design system. The designer will perform usability testing and collaborate with developers to ensure pixel-perfect product releases.

$1,000,000 - $1,500,000Full-time
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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.