Design Leadership Jobs

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Senior UX Designer

🇺🇸 Bentonville, Arkansas, United States of America

You will lead the development of scalable design systems and foundational components to ensure consistency across global product experiences. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to integrate AI-native workflows and drive innovation throughout the product design lifecycle.

$90,000 - $180,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior Interaction Designer

🇺🇸 Sunnyvale, California, United States of America

Design world-class physical and digital interfaces for robotic-assisted surgical systems, focusing on human-computer interaction. Define the behavior of intelligent systems and create detailed UI specifications while collaborating with Human Factors engineers to mitigate safety risks.

$156,800 - $265,500Full-timeSenior
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Product Designer - UX Strategist (Senior/Lead)

🇯🇵 Japan

Lead the design of simple, scalable, and easy-to-navigate features focusing on UX journeys and strategy. Collaborate with a multinational design team to deliver high-quality fintech products from concept to final execution.

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Product Designer - UX Strategist (Senior/Lead)

South Korea, Seoul

Lead the design of simple, scalable, and easy-to-navigate features focusing on UX journeys and strategy. Collaborate with a multinational design team to deliver high-quality, data-driven fintech products from concept to final execution.

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Senior Product Designer

🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Own and evolve the visual identity and design language of the Fundiin app as it scales into a multi-product financial platform. Review and elevate AI-generated UI outputs while defining new interaction patterns for complex financial journeys.

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Product Designer - UX Strategist (Senior/Lead)

🇭🇰 R.C. Lee Hall, 6A Sassoon Road, Hong Kong

The role focuses on designing simple, scalable features and UX journeys for fintech products. The designer will collaborate with a multinational team to deliver high-quality, data-driven design solutions from concept to final execution.

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Senior Engineer, Systems Design – Systems Integration & Test, Flow Cytometry

🇸🇬 Singapore

Lead system-level integration and hands-on engineering testing for the Flow Cytometry platform to ensure complex subsystems work together effectively. Drive root-cause investigations for integration issues and perform technical risk assessments for sustaining changes.

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Senior Engineer, Systems Design – Systems Integration & Test

🇸🇬 Singapore

Lead and execute system integration activities by bringing together multidisciplinary subsystems into stable, reproducible configurations. Perform hands-on engineering testing and root-cause investigations to identify and resolve interface and performance issues.

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Sr Product Designer- A New Day Sweaters

🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

The Senior Product Designer leads the design and development process for sweaters, ensuring brand cohesion and alignment with merchant strategies. They are responsible for trend forecasting, fabric selection, and collaborating with sourcing and technical teams to execute high-quality product lines.

$95,000 - $171,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer

🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Lead end-to-end product discovery and design, translating customer insights into scalable, accessible digital solutions. Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product managers and engineers to drive business value and maintain design system consistency.

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Product Designer - UX Strategist (Senior/Lead)

🇹🇭 Bangkok, Thailand

The Product Designer will develop simple, scalable, and aesthetic features while focusing on UX strategy and user journeys. They will collaborate within a multinational team to deliver high-quality, data-driven design solutions for fintech products.

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Product Designer - UX Strategist (Senior/Lead)

🇨🇳 Shanghai, China

You will design scalable, user-friendly features while developing UX strategies for a multinational fintech product. The role involves collaborating with a diverse design team to make data-driven decisions and deliver high-quality, detail-oriented product experiences.

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Product Designer - UX Strategist (Senior/Lead)

🇭🇰 R.C. Lee Hall, 6A Sassoon Road, Hong Kong

You will be responsible for designing scalable, user-centric features and defining UX strategies within a multinational design team. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality, data-driven product designs from concept to final execution.

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Product Designer - UX Strategist (Senior/Lead)

🇯🇵 Tōkyō, 1, Marunouchi 1, Chiyoda, Tokyo 100-0005, Japan

The Product Designer will develop scalable UX journeys and strategies while collaborating with a multinational team to deliver high-quality digital products. You will be responsible for designing features that are simple and easy to navigate while applying critical thinking to the broader product ecosystem.

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Product Designer - UX Strategist (Senior/Lead)

South Korea, Seoul

You will design scalable, user-friendly features while focusing on the broader UX strategy and product journey. You will collaborate with a multinational design team to deliver high-quality, data-driven product solutions.

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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.