Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior Product Designer, Direct to Consumer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Zynga 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead the design of high-impact mobile commerce and user experiences for Direct to Consumer tools from discovery to launch. Own and evolve the scalable Design System in Figma while mentoring junior UI/UX staff to ensure craft excellence.
Senior Product Designer, Direct to Consumer
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Zynga 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Lead the design of high-impact mobile commerce experiences and tools for direct-to-consumer users. Develop and maintain a scalable design system in Figma while mentoring junior staff to ensure UX excellence.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Mateo, California, United States of America
Fireworks 🇺🇸 San Mateo, California, United States of America
You will own the end-to-end design process for AI infrastructure, translating complex technical workflows into intuitive developer experiences. You will also partner with engineering and product teams to build a scalable design system and establish a cohesive visual language.
Interaction Designer
🇨🇦 Canada
Perseus Group, Constellation Software 🇨🇦 Canada
The interaction designer will transform complex problems into elegant user experiences across desktop, web, and mobile platforms. They are responsible for owning the design system, conducting user research, and collaborating with development teams to ensure high-quality design implementation.
Software Product Designer
🇺🇸 Somerville, Massachusetts, United States of America
Formlabs 🇺🇸 Somerville, Massachusetts, United States of America
You will collaborate with engineering and product teams to design and develop user experiences for embedded, desktop, and web products. This includes conducting user research, creating high-fidelity prototypes, and maintaining scalable design systems to ensure consistent product quality.
Senior Visual Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Abelcine 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Senior Visual Designer will define and maintain the visual identity for broadcast studio programming across multiple shows. They will translate complex data and strategic information into compelling on-screen graphics and scalable design systems.
Interaction Designer
🇨🇦 Canada
Constellation Dealer Group 🇨🇦 Canada
The role involves transforming complex problems into elegant user experiences across Windows, Web, and Mobile platforms. Key duties include maintaining a design system, conducting usability testing, and collaborating with development teams to advocate for the user.
Senior Product Designer, Direct to Consumer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Zynga 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead the design of high-impact mobile commerce experiences, from initial discovery and prototyping to post-launch iteration. Collaborate with product and engineering teams to build scalable design systems and champion UX excellence across the organization.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Opensea 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead design initiatives from concept through launch while collaborating with engineers to deliver high-quality user experiences. Evolve design systems and AI-powered workflows to improve team effectiveness and product consistency.
Senior UX Designer, Design Systems, People Engagement Experience (PEX)
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
The Senior UX Designer will lead the strategy and creation of scalable design system components, patterns, and templates for employee-facing products. They will collaborate closely with engineers and designers to integrate AI-powered tools and ensure a unified, high-quality user experience across platforms.
Senior Visual Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Abelcine 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Senior Visual Designer will define and evolve the visual identity for studio programming by creating scalable design systems and motion graphics. They will collaborate with production teams to translate complex data and strategic information into compelling on-screen visual stories.
Product UX Designer
🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
Moon Active 🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
You will design intuitive user experiences and features by translating complex business goals and monetization strategies into engaging player journeys. Additionally, you will scale the company's Design System and integrate advanced AI tools to optimize the UX design workflow.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Avantos.ai 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will own the end-to-end design of the Avantos mobile app and the Journey Builder tool. They will collaborate with engineering to create native platform patterns and contribute to the overall design system.
Senior UI Designer
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Publicis Groupe Holdings B.v 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
The Senior UI Designer will own the evolution of the CORE UI design system, managing token architecture, component quality, and interaction standards. They will also build future-facing prototypes and collaborate with engineering to bridge the gap between design intent and production code.
UX/UI Designer Senior o Product Designer Senior (Incorporación Inmediata)
🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain
Tecdata Engineering 🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain
The role involves managing client relationships, conducting UX research, and facilitating workshops to define information architecture and user flows. Additionally, the designer will create visual UI proposals and maintain design systems across multiple devices.
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.