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Manager, Design - Systems & Infrastructure
🇺🇸 United States of America
Figma 🇺🇸 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 coherence across the product suite.
Product Designer, Design Systems
🇺🇸 United States of America
Figma 🇺🇸 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. Responsibilities include defining the vision for shared patterns and collaborating with engineering and product management to implement scalable design components.
Founding Product Designer, Hazel AI
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Altruist 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design of Hazel AI, focusing on agentic workflows for wealth management and administrative tasks. You will develop new interaction patterns for AI-assisted work and maintain the company's design system, Ethos.
Product Designer, ICHRA
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Oscar Health 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Product Designer will shape the ICHRA experience and the Lucie Marketplace, creating tools for employers to manage health plan contributions. They will collaborate cross-functionally to take features from discovery to delivery while maintaining a consistent and scalable design system.
Product Designer, ICHRA
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Oscar Health 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
The Product Designer will shape the ICHRA experience and tools for the Lucie Marketplace to help employers manage health plan contributions. This involves collaborating cross-functionally to take features from discovery to delivery while maintaining a consistent and scalable design system.
Design Systems, Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Gusto, Inc. 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
You will design and maintain Workbench components and patterns while evolving semantic token architecture to support the brand refresh. Additionally, you will collaborate with engineering to ensure consistent coded implementations and contribute to AI tooling that improves design system legibility for LLMs.
Product Designer, Design Systems
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Figma 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Contribute to the strategy and vision of cross-product design systems while collaborating with engineering and product teams. Create, iterate, and refine design components to ensure a consistent and scalable user experience across the platform.
Sr. UX Designer - Atlanta-based Candidates Only
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
We Are Rosie 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
You will design user experiences for consumer-facing mobile and web products while collaborating with cross-functional teams to define product direction. The role involves creating wireframes, user flows, and prototypes while contributing to the design system and maintaining product consistency.
Product Designer - UX/UI & Design Systems (Remote)
Remote (🇭🇳 Honduras)
Pavago Remote (🇭🇳 Honduras)
The Product Designer will own the end-to-end design experience for web and mobile applications, conducting user research and creating intuitive interfaces. They will collaborate closely with product managers and engineers to maintain design systems and iterate based on analytics and user feedback.
Sr. Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Analytic Partners 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer is responsible for the visual interface design and user experience of the company's product suite. This includes translating business concepts into high-fidelity wireframes and maintaining the overall design system.
Sr. Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Analytic Partners 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will translate business requirements into high-fidelity designs and maintain the company's design system. They will collaborate cross-functionally to ensure a consistent and intuitive user experience across the entire product suite.
Manager, Design - Systems & Infrastructure
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Figma 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead and grow a team of designers focused on internal design systems, infrastructure, and tooling to ensure product coherence and quality. Partner with cross-functional leaders to set strategy, drive adoption, and evolve the operating model for design systems at scale.
Sr. Design Technologist, Websites, Amazon Ads Marketing
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
You will own the UX web flow strategy and architect a universal design system to streamline the development of Amazon Ads web properties. This role involves building production-grade front-end code and eliminating handoff bottlenecks between design and engineering teams.
AI Product Designer (FORMA)
🇺🇦 Kyiv, Ukraine
Universe 🇺🇦 Kyiv, Ukraine
You will partner with product managers to design effective user flows and experiments focused on activation and retention. You will also maintain and evolve the multi-brand design system while utilizing AI tools to optimize product metrics.
UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 Chantilly, VA 20153, United States of America
Dcca 🇺🇸 Chantilly, VA 20153, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design process using Human-Centered Design principles to create wireframes, prototypes, and design systems. Collaborate with developers to ensure technical feasibility and strict adherence to federal accessibility standards.
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.