Design Leadership Jobs
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UX Designer
🇦🇺 River Of Life City Church, Slacks Creek, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Singapore Post 🇦🇺 River Of Life City Church, Slacks Creek, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Collaborate with product managers and tech leads to design and prototype features for web and mobile SaaS applications. Ensure design consistency by following the design system and advocating for users through research and usability testing.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Singapore Post 🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Own and evolve the design system and component library while defining UX guidelines and governance frameworks. Lead user research initiatives and partner with product and engineering teams to deliver cohesive, high-quality product features.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Extra Duty Solutions 🇺🇸 San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Own the full design spectrum including research, interaction, and visual design to build a comprehensive design system. Create end-to-end flows for officer and customer portals, focusing on complex operational workflows and payment systems.
Senior UX Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 Huntersville, North Carolina, United States of America)
Extra Duty Solutions Remote (🇺🇸 Huntersville, North Carolina, United States of America)
The Senior UX Designer will own the full design spectrum, including research, interaction, and visual design for officer and customer portals. They will be responsible for building a token-based design system from the ground up to streamline product development.
Product Designer
Remote (🇿🇦 South Africa)
Pavago Remote (🇿🇦 South Africa)
The Product Designer will create intuitive digital experiences across web and mobile platforms by combining UX research, UI design, and product problem-solving. They will collaborate with product and engineering teams to maintain scalable design systems and ensure accessibility standards are met.
Product Designer
Remote (🇰🇪 Kenya)
Pavago Remote (🇰🇪 Kenya)
The Product Designer will create intuitive digital experiences across web and mobile platforms by combining UX research, UI design, and product problem-solving. They will collaborate with product and engineering teams to maintain scalable design systems and ensure accessibility standards are met.
Founding Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Listen Labs 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead end-to-end design for all customer-facing experiences and evolve the company's design system and visual language. Collaborate with product and engineering teams to translate complex research workflows into intuitive AI-powered user experiences.
Senior Product Designer, School Organization Dashboard
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Clever 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead the design and information architecture for the School Organization Dashboard, ensuring a cohesive user experience across the platform. Manage the evolution of the Dewey design system and implement AI-driven troubleshooting workflows for administrators.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Daxko 🇺🇸 United States of America
The Senior UX Designer will transform complex workflows into intuitive user experiences across the product ecosystem. This includes conducting user research, creating high-fidelity prototypes in Figma, and contributing to the company's design system.
Product Designer, Arena (Remote)
🇺🇸 United States of America
Gray Swan Ai 🇺🇸 United States of America
Design and improve the Gray Swan AI Arena UI across web and mobile platforms, translating complex technical workflows into intuitive user experiences. Own the design process from early concept sketches to production-ready specifications while maintaining the design system.
Senior Product Designer, CoreUX - Weights & Biases
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Weights & Biases 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design of CoreUX, focusing on cross-platform experiences, onboarding, and foundational in-product patterns. Shape and maintain the Weights & Biases design system while collaborating with Product and Engineering teams to solve complex MLOps workflows.
Product Designer - 100% Remote - Latin America Based
Remote (🇦🇷 Buenos Aires, Comuna 1, Argentina)
Glacier Remote (🇦🇷 Buenos Aires, Comuna 1, Argentina)
Design and iterate on features for an analytics platform using a Figma-based design system. Collaborate with Product Managers and Engineers to translate requirements into functional, dev-ready UX designs.
Product Designer II
🇨🇷 Heredia Province, Costa Rica
Experian 🇨🇷 Heredia Province, Costa Rica
The role focuses on creating high-quality visual experiences and polished UI within established design systems to deliver scalable product features. It involves collaborating cross-functionally with engineering and product teams to translate roadmap priorities into production-ready designs.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 Costa Mesa, California, United States of America
Anduril Industries 🇺🇸 Costa Mesa, California, United States of America
Design end-to-end user experiences for Forge applications to accelerate hardware production and delivery. This includes owning the full design lifecycle from discovery to implementation and developing a scalable design system.
UI/UX Designer
🇬🇪 Tbilisi, Georgia
Ai Digital 🇬🇪 Tbilisi, Georgia
The role involves developing and maintaining a unified design system to ensure consistency across product and marketing ecosystems. Responsibilities include creating wireframes, high-fidelity designs, and prototypes while collaborating with cross-functional teams.
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.