Design Leadership Jobs
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UX Designer — Design experiences that help people choose smarter, every day
🇸🇪 Malmö, Skåne County, Sweden
Prisjakt 🇸🇪 Malmö, Skåne County, Sweden
The UX Designer will contribute to UX design across product initiatives from discovery through delivery, translating user needs and business goals into thoughtful design solutions. Responsibilities include supporting research, using data to inform design decisions, creating flows and high-fidelity UI, and contributing to the design system.
UX Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
A.p. Moller - Maersk 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
The UX Designer will translate complex user and business needs into intuitive, scalable, and high-quality experiences across Maersk’s digital ecosystem, spanning internal tools, engineering platforms, and customer-facing products. Responsibilities include conducting user research, creating end-to-end workflows and high-fidelity interfaces aligned with the Design System, and evangelizing a user-centered design culture.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 California, United States of America
Fluidstack 🇺🇸 California, United States of America
The Product Designer will own the end-to-end design process for internal and external products, focusing on deeply technical interfaces used by GPU cluster operators and AI platform engineers. Responsibilities include designing developer-facing products, writing production-quality CSS/markup, building a design system, and conducting lightweight user research with technical audiences.
Senior Product Designer
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Commonwealth Bank 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Lead discovery work to uncover customer problems and translate insights into concepts and prototypes, while creating engaging wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity UX/UI designs consistent with the design system. Collaborate closely with stakeholders throughout the agile lifecycle to champion customer-centricity and contribute to product strategy and roadmap discussions.
Digital Product Designer
🇷🇸 Belgrade, City of Belgrade, Serbia
Schneider Electric 🇷🇸 Belgrade, City of Belgrade, Serbia
The role involves overseeing international digital design, infusing design culture, and deploying the design system to create consistent and enjoyable user experiences for B2B and B2C energy management products. Responsibilities include applying user-centered design methodologies, conducting research, creating mock-ups, leading workshops, and championing accessible and sustainable design practices.
Senior UX Designer
Remote (🇭🇷 City of Zagreb, Croatia)
Newfire Global Partners Remote (🇭🇷 City of Zagreb, Croatia)
The Senior UX Designer will lead design for complex enterprise healthcare applications, partnering with the UX Research team to conduct studies and translate findings into design direction. Responsibilities also include prototyping, contributing to design systems, navigating healthcare compliance, and building strong relationships with product, engineering, and client stakeholders.
Sr. Product Designer
Remote (🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom)
Cint Remote (🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom)
This role involves championing exceptional user experience solutions across the product suite by conducting user research, ideating strategic designs, and creating high-quality design artifacts like wireframes and prototypes. The designer will also collaborate closely with engineering and product teams to bring user-centered solutions to market and contribute to the shared design system.
Senior UI-UX-Designer (f/m/x)
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Bonial International Gmbh 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
The Senior UI/UX Designer will lead end-to-end design projects for the kaufDA app, driving product discovery and translating insights into high-quality, scalable design solutions. This role involves actively contributing to the design system and advocating for design excellence across all touchpoints.
UX Designer
🇺🇸 Manhattan Beach, CA 90266, United States of America
Skechers 🇺🇸 Manhattan Beach, CA 90266, United States of America
The UX Designer will own the UX design for assigned features from concept through release, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver new features across consumer-facing digital experiences like web and native apps. Responsibilities include translating concepts into user flows, wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, and interactive prototypes, while contributing to design systems and leveraging testing to improve customer experiences.
Vice President, Product Designer, AI Hub
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Bny 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Vice President, Product Designer will be responsible for making complex, multi-step, and data-heavy enterprise systems clear through exceptional design, driving concept development from research to prototyped form quickly. This role involves owning end-to-end experience design across platforms and contributing to a machine-readable design system structure.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Mangomint Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The Senior Product Designer will contribute to product strategy and act as a senior design partner in product decisions, balancing user needs, business goals, and technical constraints. Responsibilities include identifying and validating problems, designing high-quality UI, refining UX copy, and owning/evolving the design system.
Vice President, Product Designer, AI Hub
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Bny Mellon 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Vice President, Product Designer will be responsible for making complex, multi-step, and data-intensive enterprise systems clear through exceptional design, driving concept development from research to prototyped form quickly using AI-assisted tools. This role also involves owning end-to-end experience design, contributing to a machine-readable design system, and mentoring others by setting a high standard of work.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Yrefy Llc 🇺🇸 Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
The specialist will collaborate with Product Management and Engineering to design intuitive, scalable, and user-centered digital products throughout the entire product lifecycle, from discovery to delivery and iteration. Key duties include conducting user research, creating prototypes, maintaining the design system, and ensuring designs meet accessibility and compliance standards.
Senior Product Designer, Bee
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The role involves designing end-to-end experiences across a wearable hardware product, mobile app, and third-party integrations, focusing on defining interaction models for ambient, always-listening AI. Responsibilities include owning the design process from concept to launch, establishing scalable design systems, and collaborating cross-functionally to balance user needs and business goals.
Product Designer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Moneris 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The role involves auditing existing systems, conducting deep competitive research, and developing a roadmap for successful adoption across payment platforms, while collaborating with Product, Marketing, and Technology teams. Key duties include contributing to the design system, advocating for accessibility, and participating in QA/UAT to ensure design quality before final development.
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.