Design Leadership Jobs
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UX-UI DESIGNER
🇺🇸 Milano, Milam County, TX 76556, United States of America
Gruppo A2a 🇺🇸 Milano, Milam County, TX 76556, United States of America
The role involves supporting the definition of digital channel strategy through co-design workshops and defining information architecture, navigation flows, and interface design using the Design System. Responsibilities also include supporting user testing sessions to gather insights for interface improvement and collaborating with various internal teams to gather requirements.
Senior Product Designer
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Peec Ai 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
The role involves owning and building the design system, conducting user interviews to maintain a deep understanding of customers, and making independent product decisions on features and flows. The designer will collaborate closely with engineers from idea through to shipped product and be responsible for raising the overall design quality bar.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 El Segundo, CA 90245, United States of America
Picogrid 🇺🇸 El Segundo, CA 90245, United States of America
The Product Designer will lead end-to-end UX/UI design for system-level product initiatives, from workflow definition to high-fidelity components, while reinforcing and extending the company's visual identity through thoughtful application of design elements. They will also champion user experience quality standards and evolve the design system in collaboration with the design lead and software team.
UX Designer 2 - Store Operations (Hybrid - Seattle, WA)
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Nordstrom 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
The UX Designer 2 will independently design features and experiences within Store Operations, balancing user needs with business requirements while partnering with cross-functional teams to improve store inventory accuracy. Key duties include owning the end-to-end design process, conducting user research, creating design deliverables, and contributing to the design system evolution.
Jr Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Momofuku 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Graphic Designer will support the Marketing team by designing and producing materials that express the Momofuku brand across various platforms, including developing and maintaining branding, marketing, and promotional materials like menus, websites, and packaging. Responsibilities also involve auditing design systems, preparing materials for print production, enforcing brand standards, and managing a Design intern.
Staff UX Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Heartflow 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Staff UX Designer will be responsible for creating intuitive, scalable, and engaging user experiences for web-based and PDF products, serving both internal and external users. Key duties include producing detailed UX deliverables, conducting user research, collaborating across teams, and developing/maintaining the design system using Figma.
Senior Product Designer (Design System)
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Heliosx 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The Senior Product Designer will own and lead the end-to-end design process for complex product initiatives, translating intricate healthcare and regulatory needs into accessible user experiences across global contexts. This role involves championing the Design System, partnering with cross-functional teams to shape roadmaps, and mentoring other designers.
Senior Product Designer
🇫🇷 Paris, France
Modjo 🇫🇷 Paris, France
The role involves designing and building successful, delightful products by deeply understanding customer challenges through research and data analysis, aiming to amplify seller impact and eliminate busywork. You will also be responsible for evolving the Design System and raising the collective bar for Product Design craft within the team.
Staff Product Designer, Clio Manage
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Clio 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Staff Product Designer will partner with Design, Product, and Engineering leaders to define experience strategy, success metrics, and priorities, leading end-to-end design across complex product areas from discovery through execution. They will shape a long-term experience vision, raise the quality bar across the product ecosystem, and drive consistency through pattern strengthening and design system evolution.
Design Systems, Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Harness Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The role involves designing and evolving high-quality components, patterns, and foundations for the design system, including building scalable component libraries in Figma and working within a token-based environment. This designer will partner closely with engineers to ensure clean translation from design to React implementation and raise the overall quality bar for visual design and accessibility.
Senior Interaction / Product Designer
🇺🇸 Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
Captech Consulting 🇺🇸 Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
Responsibilities include creating personas, customer journeys, wireframes, prototypes, and responsive web/mobile interface designs following best practices, as well as designing new digital experiences and enhancing existing ones based on design systems. The role also involves presenting design rationale clearly to clients and teams, consulting on accessible design, and synthesizing user research to inform decisions.
Senior Interaction / Product Designer
🇺🇸 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America
Captech Consulting 🇺🇸 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America
Responsibilities include creating personas, customer journeys, wireframes, prototypes, and responsive web/mobile interface designs following best practices, as well as designing new digital experiences and enhancing existing ones based on design systems. The role also involves presenting design rationale clearly to clients and teams, consulting on accessible design, and synthesizing user research to inform decisions.
Senior Interaction / Product Designer
🇺🇸 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Captech Consulting 🇺🇸 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Responsibilities include creating personas, customer journeys, wireframes, prototypes, and responsive web/mobile interface designs following best practices, as well as designing new digital experiences and enhancing existing ones based on design systems. The role also involves presenting design rationale to clients and teams, consulting on accessible design, and synthesizing user research to inform decisions.
Senior Interaction / Product Designer
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Captech Consulting 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Responsibilities include creating personas, customer journeys, wireframes, prototypes, and responsive web/mobile interface designs following best practices, as well as designing new digital experiences and enhancing existing ones based on design systems. Designers will also present concepts clearly, consult on accessible design, provide constructive feedback, and conduct user research to inform decisions.
Senior Interaction / Product Designer
🇺🇸 Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
Captech Consulting 🇺🇸 Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
Responsibilities include creating personas, customer journeys, wireframes, prototypes, and responsive web/mobile interface designs following best practices, as well as designing new digital experiences and enhancing existing ones based on design systems. The role also involves presenting design rationale clearly to clients and teams, consulting on accessible design, and synthesizing user research to inform decisions.
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.