Design Leadership Jobs
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Principal Product Designer, Design Systems
🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States
Zscaler 🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States
Drive the evolution of the design ecosystem, ensuring consistency and scalability across all products. Refine core components and patterns to elevate the design system and empower teams.
Senior Product Designer (Dublin)
🌍 Remote
Horizon Quantum Computing 🌍 Remote
The Senior Product Designer will conduct user research and usability testing to inform design decisions while collaborating with various teams. They will also design high-quality interfaces and maintain the design system for scalability and consistency.
Senior Product Designer (Singapore)
🌍 Remote
Horizon Quantum Computing 🌍 Remote
The Senior Product Designer will conduct user research and usability testing to inform design decisions while collaborating with various teams to ensure strategic alignment. They will also maintain and enhance the design system and mentor future designers.
Graphic Designer (m/f/d)
🇫🇷 Aix-en-Provence, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France
Voyage Privé 🇫🇷 Aix-en-Provence, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France
The Graphic Designer will translate the brand vision into impactful digital experiences, focusing on art direction, brand design, and user experience. Responsibilities include managing design consistency, producing web pages, and developing a design system.
Senior UX Designer
🇬🇧 Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Adp 🇬🇧 Bristol, England, United Kingdom
As a Senior UX Designer, you will lead the design process for features from discovery through delivery, creating intuitive experiences for client self-service and related workflows. You will champion user insights, facilitate alignment among stakeholders, and apply design system principles to ensure consistency and quality.
Graphic Designer (Marketing Studio - Figma Experience Required) - Onsite in Noida (Open to India-based candidates only)
🇮🇳 Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
Infopro Learning 🇮🇳 Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
The Graphic Designer will design various marketing collateral and create, maintain, and apply design systems in Figma. They will collaborate with stakeholders to ensure consistent visual storytelling and manage multiple projects while meeting tight deadlines.
Sr. Product Designer - AI Design Systems, Amazon Devices
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States
Amazon 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States
The Senior Product Designer will lead the creation of an AI-ready design system and agentic experiences for Amazon Devices. Responsibilities include designing scalable components, setting product requirements, and driving cross-functional alignment.
Sr. Principal Product Designer, Yahoo Sports
🇫🇷 Uz, Occitania, France
Yahoo 🇫🇷 Uz, Occitania, France
The Sr. Principal Product Designer will lead design initiatives that align with Yahoo Sports' strategy, creating impactful user experiences and collaborating across teams. They will also mentor teammates and contribute to a scalable design system.
Senior Product Designer, Design Systems
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Zip 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
The designer will lead the design systems, working closely with the frontend platform team to evolve design systems and patterns. They will also design best-in-class experiences for platform features and ensure high-quality user interfaces.
UI/UX Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Ontheclock Llc 🌍 Remote
The UI/UX Product Designer will own end-to-end design across UX, UI, research, workflows, and design systems. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to create user-centered experiences for web and mobile products.
Product Designer (for our partners group company)
The Product Designer will design and evolve a component library that scales with the company's ambition and ensure components are beautiful, functional, and production-ready. They will work closely with engineering to create a design system that enables faster shipping without compromising quality.
Senior Platform Product Designer
🇺🇸 Long Beach, California, United States
Chorus Innovations 🇺🇸 Long Beach, California, United States
Lead the end-to-end product design process, collaborating with cross-functional teams to define design objectives. Create and maintain design systems while mentoring junior designers and ensuring design quality.
Senior Product Designer - Core Products
🇺🇸 Herndon, Virginia, United States
Franconnect, Llc 🇺🇸 Herndon, Virginia, United States
The Senior Product Designer will design features and workflows for complex, data-rich B2B SaaS products and partner with Product Managers to create intuitive UX solutions. They will also contribute to the design system and collaborate with engineering teams to deliver high-quality designs.
UI/UX Designer
🇮🇳 Surat, Gujarat, India
Prometteur Solutions Pvt. Ltd. 🇮🇳 Surat, Gujarat, India
The UI/UX Designer will collaborate with product managers, developers, and stakeholders to design user-friendly interfaces and improve web and mobile applications. They will conduct user research and usability testing, ensuring design consistency and adherence to design systems.
Senior Product Designer (Product Shaping and 0-to-1, AI-Powered Products)
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Doodle 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Lead design from problem framing to shipped solution, focusing on AI-driven and data-powered experiences. Create prototypes to test ideas and align teams while contributing to Doodle’s design system.
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.