Design Leadership Jobs
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UI/UX Product Designer
🇮🇳 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Https://drone-port.in/ 🇮🇳 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
The designer will own and maintain a comprehensive design system across five applications, including three consoles and two field apps. Responsibilities include creating rural-first interaction rules and verifying accessibility standards like contrast and touch targets through real-world testing.
UX Designer
🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Second Front 🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States
The UX Designer will create interfaces and workflows for classified defense operations, translating complex mission requirements into intuitive product experiences. They will conduct user research with operators and maintain a scalable design system to ensure consistency and accessibility.
UX Designer
🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Birchwell Digital 🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
The UX Designer will map user journeys and create wireframes and prototypes in Figma to build intuitive digital experiences. They will collaborate with product managers, researchers, and engineers to validate design decisions and promote accessibility standards.
Food Service Design Manager, Design, Sustainability & Engineering
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Amazon 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
The role focuses on designing and delivering food service and beverage amenity spaces across Amazon's global corporate portfolio. Key duties include developing design standards, producing construction-ready drawings, and ensuring compliance with health and accessibility codes.
Senior UI Designer – Stockholm
🇸🇪 Stockholm, Sweden
Sway Sourcing 🇸🇪 Stockholm, Sweden
The role involves designing scalable UI solutions and managing a robust design system to ensure consistency across platforms. You will collaborate closely with developers to implement design concepts and integrate accessibility standards throughout the development process.
UI/UX Designer - AI Products (Remote)
🌍 Remote
Hire Feed 🌍 Remote
The role involves designing intuitive user interfaces for web and mobile applications to improve usability and accessibility. The designer will collaborate with cross-functional teams to create wireframes and prototypes while iterating based on user data.
UX / UI Designer
🇺🇸 Arlington, Virginia, United States
General Dynamics Information Technology 🇺🇸 Arlington, Virginia, United States
The UX/UI Designer will own the user experience for a national cyber defense command center application, focusing on complex workflows and data-dense operational environments. Key tasks include maintaining a design system, ensuring accessibility compliance, and collaborating with engineers to validate design decisions through user research.
UX Designer WCAG (f/m)
🇵🇱 Poland
Natek 🇵🇱 Poland
The role involves designing UX solutions for web and mobile applications and maintaining a Design System aligned with accessibility standards. The designer will promote digital accessibility best practices and collaborate with stakeholders to implement WCAG principles.
Web Designer
🇺🇸 Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
University Of New Mexico 🇺🇸 Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
The Web Designer will develop, maintain, and enhance websites for various university departments while ensuring accessibility, mobile-friendliness, and visual consistency. They will collaborate with stakeholders to manage content, troubleshoot technical issues, and analyze website performance to improve user experience.
UX Designer (Secret or TS Clearance Required)
🇺🇸 Reston, Virginia, United States
Icf 🇺🇸 Reston, Virginia, United States
The UX Designer will contribute to the modernization of federal legacy systems by applying human-centered design principles across the full product lifecycle. They will collaborate with cross-functional Agile teams to create intuitive UX/UI solutions, conduct usability testing, and ensure alignment with federal accessibility standards.
UI/UX Designer || Contract || Hybrid- Columbus, OH
🇺🇸 Columbus, Ohio, United States
Info Origin Inc 🇺🇸 Columbus, Ohio, United States
Design intuitive, user-centered interfaces and multi-step workflows for complex enterprise and SaaS applications. Collaborate with development teams to ensure effective implementation of designs using HTML/CSS and adherence to accessibility standards.
Senior UX Designer
🇲🇽 Mexico
Ness Digital Engineering 🇲🇽 Mexico
The Senior UX Designer will lead the end-to-end design process, from discovery to delivery, while creating intuitive solutions that address complex user needs. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure design consistency, accessibility, and alignment with business goals.
Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
The Key Support Services 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
The Product Designer will collaborate with cross-functional squads to define user problems and deliver intuitive, user-centered experiences across the product suite. Responsibilities include conducting user research, creating wireframes and prototypes, and maintaining the design system to ensure accessibility and visual consistency.
UX Designer - Researcher - FR
🌍 Remote
Smals 🌍 Remote
The role involves designing user-friendly interfaces and improving user experience for web and mobile applications through research and prototyping. Key duties include managing Design System governance, implementing Service Design principles, and ensuring accessibility standards are met.
UI/UX Designer - AI Products (Remote)
🌍 Remote
Hire Feed 🌍 Remote
The role involves designing intuitive user interfaces for web and mobile applications to improve usability and accessibility. The designer will collaborate with cross-functional teams and iterate on designs based on user research and data.
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.