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UI/UX Designer (m/w/d) Schwerpunkt Design System – fluege.de / Berlin
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Tc Flights Germany Gmbh 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
You will be responsible for the conception, development, and maintenance of a scalable multi-brand design system for various flight portals. Additionally, you will collaborate with designers, developers, and product owners to establish design standards and create user-centric web and app experiences.
(Senior) Product Designer (m/f/d)
🇩🇪 Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Dataguard 🇩🇪 Munich, Bavaria, Germany
You will lead the unification of separate security and compliance products into a single, cohesive platform experience while embedding AI into customer workflows. This involves defining information architecture, evolving the design system, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful, business-focused design solutions.
Interaction Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Constellation Dealer Group 🇺🇸 United States of America
The role involves transforming complex problems into elegant user experiences across Windows, Web, and Mobile platforms. Key duties include maintaining a design system, conducting user research, and collaborating with development teams to optimize UI and navigation.
Senior Product Designer
🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Taltek | Talent In Technology 🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
The Senior Product Designer will lead the design of complex digital products by conducting user research and creating intuitive web and mobile experiences. They will also evolve the organization's design system and leverage data to optimize user outcomes.
UX/UI Product Designer
🇺🇾 Uruguay
Koin Limited 🇺🇾 Uruguay
The designer will transform existing UX foundations into high-converting digital experiences and build scalable design systems in Figma. They will collaborate closely with Shopify developers to implement premium interfaces and optimize customer journeys for commercial performance.
Senior Product Designer, BFF
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Bumble Inc. 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Own the end-to-end design for BFF initiatives, translating user insights and product goals into high-quality mobile experiences. Collaborate with product managers and engineers to deliver scalable solutions while contributing to the evolution of the broader design system.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 Bellevue, Washington, United States of America
Coreweave 🇺🇸 Bellevue, Washington, United States of America
Design clear and scalable internal tools, dashboards, and AI-assisted workflows to improve employee efficiency and operational speed. Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to translate complex business processes into intuitive user experiences and maintain the internal design system.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 Livingston, NJ 07039, United States of America
Coreweave 🇺🇸 Livingston, NJ 07039, United States of America
Design clear and scalable internal tools, dashboards, and AI-assisted workflows to improve employee efficiency and operational speed. Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to translate complex business processes into intuitive user experiences and maintain the internal design system.
Senior Manager, UX Design Systems
🇺🇸 Leon County, Florida, United States of America
Trulieve 🇺🇸 Leon County, Florida, United States of America
The Senior Manager, UX Design Systems is responsible for defining, governing, and scaling the enterprise design system across all digital products and platforms. This role leads cross-functional collaboration to ensure consistent, accessible, and high-performing customer experiences through scalable design frameworks.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Opensea 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead design initiatives from concept through launch while collaborating with engineers to deliver high-quality user experiences. Evolve design systems and AI-powered workflows to improve team effectiveness and product consistency.
Senior UX Designer, Design Systems, People Engagement Experience (PEX)
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
The Senior UX Designer will lead the strategy and creation of scalable design system components, patterns, and templates for employee-facing products. They will collaborate closely with engineers and designers to integrate AI-powered tools and ensure a unified, high-quality user experience across platforms.
(Senior) Product Designer (m/f/d)
🇩🇪 München, 04938 München, Germany
Dataguard 🇩🇪 München, 04938 München, Germany
The role focuses on unifying separate security and compliance products into a single platform experience and embedding AI into customer workflows. You will lead the design process from discovery to high-fidelity handoff while evolving the design system.
UX / UI Designer
🇨🇴 Colombia
Stefanini Group 🇨🇴 Colombia
The role involves creating and evolving components within the company's design system and developing landing pages. It also requires drafting effective microcopy, designing graphic resources, and applying brand identity to digital flows.
Senior Manager, Design Systems Engineer - Verity Solutions, Remote
Remote (🇺🇸 Tennessee, United States of America)
The Cigna Group Remote (🇺🇸 Tennessee, United States of America)
Lead the development of Verity Canvas, a code-canonical design system for healthcare software, ensuring alignment between Figma and production code. Manage the component library, token pipelines, and AI-ready system surfaces while overseeing release discipline and governance.
Senior Manager, Design Systems Engineer - Verity Solutions, Remote
Remote (🇺🇸 Tennessee, United States of America)
Verity Solutions Remote (🇺🇸 Tennessee, United States of America)
Lead the development of Verity Canvas, a code-canonical design system, by aligning Figma libraries with production React code. Responsibilities include managing the component library, building design token pipelines, and defining AI-ready system surfaces.
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.