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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.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Long Beach, California, United States of America
Cabi, Llc 🇺🇸 Long Beach, California, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer will translate brand and campaign strategies into polished design systems across digital, social, print, and site platforms. They will also maintain brand guidelines and provide creative guidance to the team to ensure consistency and high-quality output.
Senior Product Designer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Mycroft 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
You will own the design of complex, expert-facing workflows for an AI-native security and compliance platform. This includes maintaining high design-to-build fidelity, managing the design system, and mentoring junior team members.
Sr. UI/UX Designer (m/f/d)
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Holy 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
The Senior UI/UX Designer will own the design quality and customer journey for the HOLY Shop, building and governing the design system while collaborating with cross-functional teams. They are responsible for translating brand narrative into high-converting experiences and ensuring technical accuracy through design handoffs and QA.
Senior Product Designer (UI/UX) – Engineering Simulation
🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Maya Htt 🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Define the UI/UX strategy, wireframes, and interaction patterns for a modern thermal simulation engineering application. Collaborate with Product Owners and developers to create a scalable design system and improve complex engineering workflows.
Product Designer, MarianaOS
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Mariana Minerals 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
You will design intuitive, data-dense workflows for MarianaOS and own the company's design system to ensure seamless integration with engineering. You will also partner closely with product managers and engineers to prototype solutions and conduct user research to ground product development in real needs.
Head of Design (m/w/d)
🇩🇪 Hamburg, Germany
Pammys 🇩🇪 Hamburg, Germany
Lead the visual evolution of the Pammys brand identity and manage the design team to ensure creative excellence. Develop art direction and design systems for international markets across social media, product launches, and digital touchpoints.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Rebuild 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The first designer will lead the end-to-end product design process, from field research with contractors to high-fidelity UI execution. They will establish and maintain the company's design system and set the quality bar for the entire user experience.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Rebuild.work 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
You will lead end-to-end product design, including field research with contractors and the development of the company's design system. You are responsible for defining the product's look and feel while ensuring high-quality standards across the platform.
Head of Design (m/w/d)
🇩🇪 Hamburg, Germany
Pammys™ (dieseo Gmbh) 🇩🇪 Hamburg, Germany
You will lead the visual evolution of the Pammys brand identity and manage the design team to ensure creative excellence across all international channels. This role involves developing art direction, design systems, and visual concepts while collaborating closely with marketing, content, and product teams.
Senior Product Designer (UI/UX) – Engineering Simulation
🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Maya Htt 🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
The consultant will define the UI/UX strategy, wireframes, and interaction patterns for a thermal simulation application in collaboration with the Product Owner and engineering team. They will also establish a scalable design system and conduct usability reviews to ensure the software is intuitive for expert users.
Brand Visual Designer - ERIS
🇻🇳 Phường Thủ Đức, Thủ Đức, Vietnam
Solarbk 🇻🇳 Phường Thủ Đức, Thủ Đức, Vietnam
Develop and manage a consistent visual identity and design system for the ERIS clean energy ecosystem across apps, web, and packaging. Create detailed UI designs from wireframes and develop motion graphics and illustrations to bridge hardware and software interfaces.
Head of Design
🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Ziina 🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai Emirate, United Arab Emirates
The Head of Design will lead the design team, set the product vision, and maintain a hands-on role in designing new features. They are responsible for scaling the design system, driving product strategy, and influencing leadership decisions through evidence-based insights.
Product Designer
🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Alan 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Lead the end-to-end design process from inception to completion, collaborating with product managers and engineers to create human-centric healthcare experiences. Develop product visions, maintain the design system, and mentor junior designers to improve collective quality.
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.