Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Ashby 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
You will own product features from conception to execution, acting as a designer, product manager, and consultant to solve complex user problems. You will also contribute to the design system and help equip the broader product team to make informed design decisions.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Ashby 🇺🇸 New York, New York, 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.
Staff 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 creating standards to improve design quality across the organization. You will consult for engineers, write specification documents, and build a best-in-class design system from the ground up.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Ashby 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, 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 navigation and UI patterns.
Staff Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America)
Ashby Remote (🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America)
The role involves taking ownership of large product features and designing complex SaaS workflows from first principles. You will also build and refine the design system while consulting for engineers to improve overall product quality.
Staff Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America)
Ashby Remote (🇺🇸 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 detailed specification documents, and use heuristics to improve information architecture and UI patterns.
Staff Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Ashby Remote (🇺🇸 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.
Product Designer (Design Systems, Internal Tools)
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Solomon Page 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The role involves auditing and evolving a design system for a complex back-end tool to improve consistency, scalability, and usability. A key focus is structuring documentation to support AI-enabled workflows and augmented models for faster prototyping.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Ashby 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, 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.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Ashby 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, 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
🇺🇸 United States of America
Ashby 🇺🇸 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 with engineers, write detailed specification documents, and use heuristics to improve the overall user experience.
Staff Product Designer
You will own the end-to-end product experience for Walrus, leading discovery and design processes to create intuitive developer tools. You will partner with engineering and product teams to define complex technical workflows, establish design systems, and ensure high-quality implementation.
Product Designer, Design Systems
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Figma 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Develop and evolve shared design patterns and components across Figma's suite of products to ensure a consistent user experience. Collaborate with product management and engineering to drive the adoption and continuous improvement of the design system.
Product Designer, Design Systems
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Figma 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The role focuses on building and evolving shared patterns and components for Figma's Design Systems team to ensure a consistent experience across multiple products. Key duties include defining the vision for shared patterns and collaborating with engineering and product management to drive system adoption.
Manager, Design - Systems & Infrastructure
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Figma 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead and grow the team responsible for Figma's internal design systems, foundations, and infrastructure. Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to evolve the operating model and ensure quality and coherence across the product suite.
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.