Design Leadership Jobs
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Sr. UI/UX Designer (DES-2-082026)
🇮🇳 India
Koru Ux Design Llp 🇮🇳 India
Lead end-to-end UI/UX design processes for web and mobile applications while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver user-centered solutions. Mentor junior designers and oversee the development and maintenance of design systems to ensure consistency and quality.
Confirmed Product Designer
🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Spendesk 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Own end-to-end design for AI-powered and automation-driven workflows within a cross-functional squad. Evolve and scale the company's design system, including components, documentation, and governance processes.
Confirmed Product Designer
🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Spendesk 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Own end-to-end design work within your product area, from problem definition through delivery and iteration. Collaborate with product managers and engineers to design intuitive, accessible workflows while evolving the company's design system.
Product Designer, Design Systems
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Assembled 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
You will lead the development of the next generation of Assembled's design system by defining visual language, interaction foundations, and reusable patterns. Additionally, you will partner with engineering to pioneer AI-assisted design workflows and ensure the system scales effectively across the product.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Yendo 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead end-to-end design for the Growth Team, creating everything from low-fidelity flows to high-fidelity prototypes for the application process and consumer app. Collaborate with cross-functional partners to evolve the design system and implement AI-supported product development workflows.
Product Designer — Mobile UX & Design Systems
Remote (🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom)
Wistkey Remote (🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom)
The Product Designer will create intuitive mobile and web experiences, including user journeys and interaction flows. They will also build and maintain a scalable design system while collaborating with product and engineering teams.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Factory 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Define and design interfaces for autonomous software agents across CLI, desktop, web, and IDE integrations. Own the end-to-end design process from concept to shipment while evolving the company's design system.
Staff Product Designer, Design System
🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Zscaler 🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
The role involves evolving Zscaler's design ecosystem by creating scalable components, patterns, and documentation to ensure product consistency. The designer will leverage AI-powered tools to accelerate the design-to-code handoff and launch live prototypes.
Product Designer - Mobile UI UX
🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Liftoff 🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Own mobile app surfaces end-to-end, including new flows, redesigns, and the growth of the design system. Conduct user research and audits to diagnose and fix existing UX issues to improve product metrics.
Product Designer, UX/UI (Part-Time)
Remote (🇺🇸 Miami, Florida, United States of America)
Rocketminds Remote (🇺🇸 Miami, Florida, United States of America)
Design end-to-end AI-native workflows that transform complex business context into clear, usable product experiences. This includes mapping user journeys, building design systems, and collaborating with engineering to ensure high-quality implementation.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
Aligned Remote (🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
The Senior Product Designer will lead end-to-end design processes from discovery to delivery while acting as the primary design voice for their Squad. They will partner with clients and internal teams to build intuitive product experiences, maintain design systems, and ensure high-fidelity execution.
Member of Technical Staff (Design Systems)
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Perplexity 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
You will design and build core UI primitives and component APIs that ensure consistency across web, mobile, and desktop platforms. Additionally, you will partner with design teams to translate Figma systems into documented, accessible, and testable code.
Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Eliseai 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Create high-impact marketing assets, sales presentations, and digital content to bring the EliseAI brand to life across all customer touchpoints. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build scalable design systems and incorporate AI-powered workflows to improve creative efficiency.
Staff Product Designer, Design System
🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Zscaler 🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
The Staff Product Designer will evolve the organization's design ecosystem by creating scalable components and patterns to ensure consistency across products. They will collaborate with engineering and cross-functional teams to integrate AI-powered tools into the design-to-code workflow.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Long Beach, California, United States of America
Cabi Clothing 🇺🇸 Long Beach, California, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer translates brand and campaign strategies into polished design systems and assets across digital, social, and print channels. They own the Figma design systems and maintain brand guidelines to ensure consistency across all creative output.
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.