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Staff Visual Designer - Design Systems
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Mercury 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Redefine and ship foundational improvements to Mercury's design language and visual systems across all product surfaces. Set the craft bar for the design organization by establishing guidelines and coaching other designers to improve quality.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Norm Ai 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Design matter management and task-tracking workflows for an AI-native law firm to improve legal work visibility and automation. Partner with engineering and product teams to evolve design systems and prototype quickly using AI-assisted tools.
Product Designer Pl
🇧🇷 Brazil
Vivo (telefônica Brasil) 🇧🇷 Brazil
The Product Designer will implement experiences for apps and digital channels, focusing on interface detailing and documentation based on the Design System. They are responsible for creating high and low-fidelity prototypes and developing interaction solutions that meet customer needs.
Lead Graphic Designer
🇮🇳 Indore, Juni Indore Tahsil, India
Revolut 🇮🇳 Indore, Juni Indore Tahsil, India
Lead the development of brand guidelines and design systems to ensure visual consistency across all channels. Direct the creation of high-quality visual assets and provide creative mentorship to other designers to elevate the brand's visual benchmark.
Lead Graphic Designer
🇮🇳 India
Revolut 🇮🇳 India
The Lead Graphic Designer will drive brand processes and set the creative benchmark by developing design systems and high-quality visual assets. They will partner with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure brand consistency and provide mentorship to other designers.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 Irvine, California, United States of America
Turion Space 🇺🇸 Irvine, California, United States of America
The Senior UI/UX Designer will lead the design of intuitive and scalable interfaces for the Mission Control software suite. This role involves partnering with cross-functional teams to translate complex aerospace workflows into effective user experiences through research, prototyping, and design system management.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Archy- Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The role involves owning the end-to-end UX/UI for a comprehensive dental platform and architecting scalable design systems. The designer will integrate AI tools into workflows and collaborate with product managers and engineers to translate user research into functional design solutions.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Assemblyai 🇺🇸 United States of America
Own the end-to-end visual and interaction design of core product surfaces and build them using React and TypeScript. Shape the company's design system and partner with engineering and marketing to turn rough ideas into polished, high-fidelity experiences.
Builder - Senior Product Designer, Design Systems
🇺🇸 Santa Clara County, California, United States of America
Reevo 🇺🇸 Santa Clara County, California, United States of America
You will own the end-to-end design system, including components, documentation, governance, and the roadmap to ensure consistent product experiences. Additionally, you will collaborate with designers and engineers to build scalable patterns and integrate the system with AI-driven product surfaces.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Diego, California, United States of America
Perlman Clinic 🇺🇸 San Diego, California, United States of America
The Product Designer will own features from brief to shipment, creating high-fidelity designs and polished flows within a design system. They will collaborate with cross-functional partners and use qualitative and quantitative data to refine healthcare workflows.
Technical Product Designer, TD Securities
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Td 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The role involves leading end-to-end product design for complex financial workflows, from initial discovery and user research to high-fidelity prototyping in Figma. You will collaborate closely with Front-Office users and engineers to simplify sophisticated business processes and contribute to a shared design system.
UI Designer (AU Citizen with NV1 Security Clearance)
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Accenture Australia 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Design intuitive, user-centered interfaces and translate business requirements into high-fidelity wireframes and prototypes. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to maintain design systems and ensure accessibility and responsive design standards.
Graphic Designer
🇨🇴 Colombia
Rockin. 🇨🇴 Colombia
The role involves designing static interfaces and layouts for websites, landing pages, and mobile apps, as well as creating digital content for social media. The designer will maintain design systems in Figma and collaborate with copywriters and developers to ensure visual consistency across various brands.
UI/UX Designer (m/w/d)
🇩🇪 Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Gini Gmbh 🇩🇪 Munich, Bavaria, Germany
You will design intuitive user experiences for products by translating complex requirements into user-friendly workflows. You will manage the entire design process from discovery and research to final UI design while actively contributing to the design system.
Lead Product Designer
🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico
Koltin 🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico
Lead the design of digital product experiences by translating complex problems into user-centered, scalable solutions. Collaborate closely with product, technology, and design teams to evolve the design system and establish best practices.
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.