Design Leadership Jobs
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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.
Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Universal Music Group 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the end-to-end design of complex internal digital products from discovery to delivery. Own and evolve the cross-platform design system to ensure visual consistency and scalability across the organization.
Principal Product Designer, Real Estate
Remote (🇳🇱 Netherlands)
Olx Remote (🇳🇱 Netherlands)
Lead the craft and quality of the Real Estate vertical by defining interaction patterns and scalable design systems. Drive the evolution of AI-ready design foundations to enable machine-readable patterns and AI-assisted creation.
Principal Product Designer, Real Estate
Remote (🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
Olx Remote (🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
Lead the craft and quality of the Real Estate vertical by defining interaction patterns and maintaining a high bar for UX and visual design. Drive the evolution of design systems into AI-ready, machine-readable foundations to enable scalable and consistent customer experiences.
Principal Product Designer, Real Estate
Remote (🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands)
Olx Remote (🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands)
Lead the craft and quality of the Real Estate vertical by defining interaction patterns and scalable design systems. Drive the evolution of AI-ready design foundations to enable machine-readable patterns and automated workflows.
Principal Product Designer, Real Estate
Remote (🇵🇹 Portugal)
Olx Remote (🇵🇹 Portugal)
Lead the craft and quality of the Real Estate vertical by defining interaction patterns and scalable design systems. Drive the evolution of AI-ready design foundations to enable machine-readable patterns and AI-assisted creation.
Principal Product Designer, Real Estate
Remote (🇪🇸 Spain)
Olx Remote (🇪🇸 Spain)
Lead the craft and quality of the Real Estate vertical by defining interaction patterns and scalable design systems. Drive the integration of AI-ready design foundations to create intelligent, machine-readable customer experiences.
Principal Product Designer, Real Estate
Remote (🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal)
Olx Remote (🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal)
Lead the craft and quality of the Real Estate vertical by defining interaction patterns and scalable design systems. Drive the evolution of AI-ready design foundations to create intelligent, consistent, and machine-readable customer experiences.
Senior Product Designer (Design QA & Design System)
Remote (🇩🇪 Germany)
Revizto Remote (🇩🇪 Germany)
Own the Design QA process and evolve the design system to ensure consistency and quality across all shipped products. Lead design initiatives end-to-end while mentoring other designers on craft and system thinking.
Product Designer
The Product Designer will create scalable visual standards for user engagement and design intuitive interfaces for internal newsroom platforms. They will collaborate with senior designers to evolve product features and maintain a consistent design system across the digital ecosystem.
AVP - Product Designer
🇮🇳 Mumbai, Mumbai Suburban District, India
Weekday Ai 🇮🇳 Mumbai, Mumbai Suburban District, India
Lead and scale the design function by driving end-to-end UX/UI strategy for a high-impact fintech product across web and mobile platforms. Responsible for building a high-performing design team and establishing scalable design systems to ensure visual excellence and usability.
Senior Product Designer - F / H
🇫🇷 Paris, France
Epsor 🇫🇷 Paris, France
Lead the design craft for the Tuttim app, managing the entire process from discovery and user research to high-fidelity delivery. You will also contribute to the Design System and experiment with AI to optimize design workflows and productivity.
Senior Officer, UX Designer, Group Transaction Banking
🇸🇬 Singapore
Uob 🇸🇬 Singapore
The role involves translating user needs into clear goals and creating customer journeys, wireframes, and interactive prototypes using Figma. The designer will maintain the design system and collaborate with product and engineering teams to ensure design integrity through DQA.
Digital Product Designer F/H
🇫🇷 35400 Saint-Malo, France
Groupe Roullier 🇫🇷 35400 Saint-Malo, France
The role involves designing and optimizing digital experiences and intuitive interfaces to improve performance across five business sectors. Key tasks include UX/UI conception, managing design systems, and promoting a product culture within the organization.
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.