Design Leadership Jobs
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Product Designer
🇳🇱 Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
Deeploy 🇳🇱 Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
As a Product Designer, you will own the end-to-end user experience and simplify complex AI governance concepts into intuitive designs. You will lead user research initiatives and evolve the design system to ensure quality and consistency.
Product Designer| Design System Software & Applications
🇫🇷 Grenoble, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Schneider Electric 🇫🇷 Grenoble, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
As a Product Designer, you will design and document complex application-specific UX and UI patterns that align with Schneider Electric’s Core Design System. You will collaborate with various teams to ensure seamless integration and usability across applications.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Sprx 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Design and iterate on the web application while collaborating closely with engineers to simplify complex tax workflows. Build and maintain a cohesive design system applied across various platforms and contribute to product strategy.
Senior/Staff Product Designer (ACF)
🌍 Remote
Skylight 🌍 Remote
As a product designer, you will advocate for users and collaborate across disciplines to research user needs and design accessible interfaces. You will also contribute to design systems and ensure that design decisions are evidence-based.
UX Designer - Ops & Regs
🇬🇧 Salford, England, United Kingdom
Aj Bell 🇬🇧 Salford, England, United Kingdom
Lead design projects from discovery to implementation while collaborating closely with internal teams. Create wireframes and prototypes, manage iterative design processes, and contribute to the design system.
Senior Product Designer (Design Systems)
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Civica 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
The Senior Product Designer will create and maintain reusable, accessible design components while collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive the adoption of the Firefly design system. They will also provide education and advocacy to support product teams and ensure high standards of quality and usability.
Senior Product Designer (Design Systems)
🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Civica 🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
The Senior Product Designer will create and maintain reusable, accessible design components while collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to drive the adoption of the design system. They will also provide training and support to product teams and ensure high standards of quality and usability.
Senior Product Designer (Design Systems)
🇬🇧 Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Civica 🇬🇧 Leeds, England, United Kingdom
The Senior Product Designer will create and maintain reusable, accessible design components while collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive the adoption of the Firefly design system. They will also provide training and support to product teams, ensuring high standards of quality and usability.
Senior Product Designer (Design Systems)
🇬🇧 Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Civica 🇬🇧 Bristol, England, United Kingdom
The Senior Product Designer will create and maintain reusable, accessible design components in Figma and work closely with cross-functional teams to drive the adoption of the Firefly design system. They will also provide training and support to product teams while ensuring high standards of quality and usability.
Senior Product Designer (Design Systems)
🇬🇧 Dudley, England, United Kingdom
Civica 🇬🇧 Dudley, England, United Kingdom
The Senior Product Designer will create and maintain reusable, accessible design components in Figma and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive the adoption of the Firefly design system. They will also provide training and support to product teams while ensuring high standards of quality and usability.
Senior Product Designer
🇦🇺 Docklands, Victoria, Australia
Medibank Private Limited 🇦🇺 Docklands, Victoria, Australia
The Senior Product Designer is responsible for executing high-quality design system components and contributing to the maintenance and evolution of the Design System. This role also involves collaborating with product teams to ensure customer-centric design solutions.
Product Designer UX/UI - Design System
🇮🇱 Tel Aviv, Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Wix 🇮🇱 Tel Aviv, Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Manage the entire design cycle from research to crafting pixel-perfect UI and handoff to development. Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to deliver cohesive experiences.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Stellar Creative Lab 🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
The Senior UI/UX Designer will advocate for artists by conducting user research and translating their needs into functional interface requirements. They will also create wireframes and prototypes, lead usability testing, and maintain a unified design system.
Web & UI Designer (Figma + Framer Specialist)
🌍 Remote
What A Story 🌍 Remote
You will design and ship landing pages for What a Story and select SaaS clients while maintaining and evolving the internal Design System. Collaboration with the video team is essential to ensure visual consistency across video and web assets.
Founding Product Designer @ Dash Labs (Full-Time)
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Academy 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
You will research user behaviors and synthesize them into actionable insights while contributing to Dash Labs’ product vision and strategy. Additionally, you will define and own the design system and visual language, focusing on creating a seamless combination of form and function.
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.