Design Leadership Jobs
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UI/UX Designer (or Product Designer)
🌍 Remote
Stay Group 🌍 Remote
Design intuitive UX flows and modern UI designs for products while ensuring a high-quality user experience through research and collaboration with the product team. Create and maintain design systems and UI components across multiple brands.
Mid level Product Designer - Hybrid
🇪🇬 Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
Koinz 🇪🇬 Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
The Product Designer will collaborate with stakeholders to create user-centered designs that align with business objectives. Responsibilities include conducting competitive analysis, creating wireframes and prototypes, and maintaining a design system.
Lead Product Designer
🇫🇷 Grenoble, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Schneider Electric 🇫🇷 Grenoble, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
As a Lead Product Designer, you will be responsible for implementing user-centered design processes and facilitating co-creation workshops. You will also represent the design team and promote the design system within the company.
Senior Product Designer (Temporal)
🇪🇸 San Sebastian, Basque Country, Spain
Optibus 🇪🇸 San Sebastian, Basque Country, Spain
Lead end-to-end design projects and collaborate cross-functionally with product managers and engineers. Conduct user research and testing while maintaining and evolving design systems.
Senior Product Designer (Temporal)
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Optibus 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Lead end-to-end design projects and collaborate cross-functionally with product managers and engineers. Conduct user research and testing to inform design decisions and maintain design systems.
SanS, Senior Product Designer (Temporal)
🇪🇸 San Sebastian, Basque Country, Spain
Optibus 🇪🇸 San Sebastian, Basque Country, Spain
Lead end-to-end design projects and collaborate cross-functionally with product managers and engineers. Conduct user research and testing while maintaining and evolving design systems.
Berlin, Senior Product Designer (Temporal)
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Optibus 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Lead end-to-end design projects and collaborate cross-functionally with product managers and engineers. Conduct user research and testing to inform design decisions and maintain design systems.
Product Designer
🇨🇴 Bogota, Capital District, RAP (Especial) Central, Colombia
Zoe Financial 🇨🇴 Bogota, Capital District, RAP (Especial) Central, Colombia
The Product Designer will create design concepts, wireframes, and high-fidelity designs to enhance the product experience. They will collaborate with various teams to deliver robust solutions and maintain the design system.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Kaizen Labs 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
The Senior Product Designer will lead design work end-to-end, including driving research sessions, writing product requirement documents, and collaborating with engineers. They will also partner with the implementation team and contribute to the internal design system.
Principal Product Designer (Math)
🇺🇸 United States
Savvas Learning Company 🇺🇸 United States
The Principal Product Designer will lead the creation and maintenance of the Savvas Product Design Systems, ensuring consistency and efficiency across product development. This role involves developing design guidelines, conducting audits, and driving the adoption of the design system across teams.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Envoy 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
The Product Designer will own the end-to-end design process, collaborating with cross-functional teams to define product direction and create thoughtful design solutions. They will also contribute to maintaining Envoy’s design system and advocate for user experience within teams.
Staff Product Designer
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Easygo 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Lead the end-to-end design process for a multi-user platform, ensuring high-quality interfaces and a complete design system. Collaborate with Product and Engineering to align design with business goals and product strategy.
UI/UX Designer @MarshTech
🇷🇴 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Marsh Mclennan 🇷🇴 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
The UI/UX Designer will lead the design of user experiences for AI-enabled applications, collaborating with product managers and engineers. They will conduct user research and usability testing to inform design decisions and contribute to design systems.
UX Designer - Ops & Regs
🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Aj Bell 🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
The UX Designer will lead design projects from discovery to implementation, collaborating closely with internal teams to understand their workflows and challenges. They will also contribute to the design system and advocate for user experience across the business.
UX / UI Product Designer
🇬🇧 Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom
Serve First Cx Limited 🇬🇧 Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom
You will shape the end-to-end UX and optimize critical B2B workflows while owning the design system and collaborating with engineering for implementation. Additionally, you will drive user research and iterate on designs based on data and feedback.
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.