Design Leadership Jobs
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Product Designer
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
The Flex 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Own product design from problem definition and user research through prototyping, polished interfaces, and implementation reviews. Design and improve workflows across property operations, AI interactions, onboarding, booking journeys, the design system, and marketing assets in collaboration with users, founders, and engineers.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 Miami, Florida, United States of America
The Flex 🇺🇸 Miami, Florida, United States of America
Own product design from problem definition and user research through prototypes, polished interfaces, and implementation reviews. Design and improve workflows across property operations, AI interactions, onboarding, booking journeys, the design system, and marketing assets in collaboration with founders, engineers, and users.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Flex 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Own product design from problem definition and user research through prototyping, polished interfaces, and implementation reviews. Design and improve workflows across property operations, AI interactions, onboarding, booking and guest journeys, the design system, and marketing assets.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
The Flex 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Own product design from problem definition and user research through prototyping, polished interfaces, and implementation reviews. Design and improve workflows across property operations, AI interactions, onboarding, booking journeys, the design system, and marketing assets in collaboration with users, founders, and engineers.
Senior Software Engineer, Design Systems
🇨🇦 Ontario, Canada
Javelin Venture Partners 🇨🇦 Ontario, Canada
Build AI-assisted workflows connecting Figma, prototypes, and Thumbtack’s production frontend, and evolve the Thumbprint design system to work effectively with agentic tooling. Partner with design, Developer Experience, and Frontend Infrastructure teams, gather user feedback, and evaluate emerging AI development tools.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Oscar Health 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Lead end-to-end design for complex internal products, from discovery and workflow analysis through prototyping, implementation, and iteration, partnering with product, engineering, research, and operational teams. Use AI tools responsibly to explore and test realistic solutions, refine validated concepts in Figma, and contribute to scalable design systems and team practices.
UI/UX Designer
🇪🇷 Eritrea
Odixcity Consulting 🇪🇷 Eritrea
Design intuitive interfaces and digital experiences for web and mobile applications, using research insights to create wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups. Collaborate with developers, product managers, and stakeholders, maintain design systems, and improve usability through testing and feedback.
Product Designer:in (m/w/d) - Tegtmeier Internet Solutions GmbH
🇩🇪 Hamburg, Germany
Sinnkontor 🇩🇪 Hamburg, Germany
Develop the product roadmap and turn the broader product vision into concrete product ideas. Design intuitive interfaces across platforms, maintain the design system and consistent brand quality, and conduct user research and usability testing to improve the user experience.
Senior UX/UI Product Designer
🇭🇺 Budapest, Hungary
Formlabs 🇭🇺 Budapest, Hungary
You will own product experiences from exploration to launch, collaborating with cross-functional teams to solve complex technical problems. Additionally, you will conduct user research and maintain scalable design systems to ensure consistency across the software ecosystem.
Lead Product Designer
🇩🇰 1357 København K, Denmark
Opacity 🇩🇰 1357 København K, Denmark
Design new product features from initial sketches and user flows through final interfaces, and improve existing product areas. Work closely with developers, make product and UX decisions, develop the design system, maintain a high quality bar, and speak directly with customers to understand their problems.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Tekmetric 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead experience strategy and own end-to-end design for key workflows, from problem framing and discovery through launch and iteration. Collaborate with product, engineering, and business partners to build customer-focused products, maintain design system consistency, and guide design team alignment and onboarding.
Senior Interaction Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Version 1 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Design and document detailed interaction patterns, interface states, micro-interactions, and high-fidelity prototypes for digital products, applying and extending the GOV.UK Design System. Collaborate with researchers, UX designers, and engineers to validate interactions, ensure accessible and responsive implementation, and maintain shared design system components.
Product Designer - Brief Management & Creative Workflows
Own the end-to-end Brief mode experience, from brief upload and AI analysis through collaborative editing, review, approval, and finished creative. Design AI-assisted workflows, conduct research and usability testing, use analytics to identify friction, and collaborate with Product, Engineering, and AI teams while evolving the design system.
UI/UX Designer
🇮🇳 Gurgaon, Haryana, India
30 Sundays 🇮🇳 Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Own end-to-end design across the mobile app, website, and internal tools, from research and prototyping through launch and iteration. Establish and maintain the design system, use AI tools to accelerate prototyping, and collaborate with product and engineering to deliver and improve user experiences.
Product Designer
🇪🇸 Spain
Dkb Code Factory Gmbh 🇪🇸 Spain
Lead end-to-end design of business account opening and product application journeys, from discovery and research through prototyping, validation, and production-ready handoff. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, contribute to design systems and best practices, advocate for customer needs, and use post-release metrics to improve product outcomes.
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.