Design Leadership Jobs
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UI/UX Designer
Translate user needs and business requirements into intuitive, visually appealing, and user-friendly product designs. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to maintain design systems and iterate on designs based on user feedback and data insights.
Lead UX Designer
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Imc Trading 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
The Lead UX Designer will collaborate with traders and engineers to design high-reliability, information-dense interfaces for a trading platform. They will lead the evolution of shared design systems and advocate for user-centered design throughout the product lifecycle.
Product Designer
🇰🇿 Almaty, Kazakhstan
Higgsfield Ai 🇰🇿 Almaty, Kazakhstan
Design end-to-end user experiences and intuitive UI/UX for web and mobile AI-powered video creation tools. Collaborate with engineering and product teams to evolve the design system and scale features through rapid prototyping and A/B testing.
Lead Product Designer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Venn 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead the end-to-end design process from concept to execution while refining the company's design system. Collaborate with product managers and engineers to translate user insights into elegant visual solutions and measurable product improvements.
Design Systems, Product Designer
🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Gusto 🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Design and maintain the Workbench design system, focusing on component architecture and token systems during a brand refresh. Develop AI-assisted workflows and tooling to improve how designers and engineers interact with the system.
Design Systems, Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Gusto 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Design and maintain the Workbench design system, focusing on complex components, token architecture, and brand refresh execution. Develop AI tooling and documentation to improve how designers and engineers interact with the system using LLMs.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Ashby 🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
The role involves taking ownership of large product features and designing complex software solutions from first principles. Responsibilities include building a design system, writing specification documents, and consulting with engineers to improve overall product quality.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Ashby 🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
The role involves taking ownership of large product features and building a best-in-class design system from the ground up. You will consult for engineers, write detailed specification documents, and use heuristics to improve the overall user experience.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Ashby 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
The role involves taking ownership of large product features and building a best-in-class design system from the ground up. You will consult for engineers, write specification documents, and use heuristics to improve the overall user experience.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Ashby 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
The role involves taking ownership of large product features and building a best-in-class design system from the ground up. You will consult for engineers, write detailed specification documents, and use heuristics to improve information architecture and UI patterns.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America
Ashby 🇺🇸 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America
The role involves taking ownership of large product features and creating high-quality design standards and principles across the product organization. You will consult for engineers, write detailed specification documents, and build a best-in-class design system from the ground up.
AI Product Designer (FORMA)
🇺🇦 Kyiv, Ukraine
Universe 🇺🇦 Kyiv, Ukraine
Create effective design solutions for user flows focusing on activation and retention, specifically for web funnels and A/B tests. Collaborate with product managers and analysts to implement data-driven improvements and maintain a multi-brand design system.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Ashby 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The role involves taking ownership of large product features and building a best-in-class design system from the ground up. You will consult for engineers, write detailed specification documents, and use heuristics to improve the product's information architecture and UI patterns.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Ashby 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
The role involves taking ownership of large product features and building a best-in-class design system from the ground up. You will consult for engineers, write detailed specification documents, and use heuristics to improve the overall user experience.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Portland, Oregon, United States of America
Ashby 🇺🇸 Portland, Oregon, United States of America
The role involves taking ownership of large product features and building a best-in-class design system from the ground up. You will consult for engineers, write detailed specification documents, and use heuristics to improve the product's information architecture and UI patterns.
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.