Design Leadership Jobs
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Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Traba 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The role involves rapidly prototyping and refining user experiences for mobile and web applications to transform the industrial staffing industry. The designer will also drive the development and governance of the company's design system while conducting user research to validate concepts.
Stage - Product Designer H/F/X
🇫🇷 Paris, France
Bridge 🇫🇷 Paris, France
The Product Designer intern will create UI interfaces and design solutions from ideation to high-fidelity prototypes. Responsibilities include maintaining the design system, collaborating on delivery handoffs, and ensuring visual consistency and accessibility.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Traba 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The role involves rapidly prototyping and refining user experiences for mobile and web applications to transform the staffing industry. The designer will also drive the development and governance of the company's design system while conducting user research to validate concepts.
Principal Product Designer, AI Experiences
🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Expedia Group 🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Lead the visual and UI design strategy for AI-powered travel experiences, creating intuitive interfaces for conversational and agentic systems. Translate strategic visions into high-fidelity prototypes and evolve the design system to support AI-native patterns.
UX Designer
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Buildxact 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
The UX Designer will own the end-to-end design process, creating intuitive user flows, wireframes, and prototypes to simplify complex construction workflows. They will conduct user research and collaborate with product and engineering teams to evolve the design system and drive customer impact.
Product Designer – 4-month Internship/Co-op (Fall 2026)
🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Intact Fc 🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
The role involves creating engaging mobile application designs, developing functional mockups, and running ideation workshops. The designer will also leverage design system libraries and collaborate with developers to implement UI specifications.
Marketing Graphic Designer
🇿🇦 Cape Town, City of Cape Town, South Africa
Offerzen 🇿🇦 Cape Town, City of Cape Town, South Africa
Design and deliver high-quality visual assets for marketing campaigns, social media, and internal materials. Manage the end-to-end production and inventory of company swag and develop scalable design systems and templates.
Middle Product Designer
Remote (🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom)
Sumsub Remote (🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom)
Collaborate with product managers and engineers to translate business requirements into intuitive user experiences and high-fidelity handoffs. Deliver and refine wireframes, prototypes, and user flows while contributing to the growth of the established design system.
UI/UX Designer – Digital Products & Services (f/m/div.)
🇵🇹 Ovar, Aveiro, Portugal
Bosch Group 🇵🇹 Ovar, Aveiro, Portugal
Responsible for designing intuitive and engaging user interfaces for digital products and services across web and mobile platforms. Collaborates with product owners and engineers to transform user insights into scalable designs aligned with the Bosch Digital Design System.
UI Designer / Frontend Developer – Design Systems (m/f/d)
🇩🇪 Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Nuwacom Gmbh 🇩🇪 Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Build and scale a consistent design system by transforming UX concepts and Figma designs into production-ready, reusable components. Integrate AI tools like Cursor and Claude into the design process to optimize development workflows and ensure UI quality.
Senior Product Designer - Design System
🇭🇷 Croatia
Super Technologies 🇭🇷 Croatia
Design, build, and maintain scalable components, patterns, and tokens to ensure consistency across multiple platforms and brands. Partner with engineers to bridge the gap between Figma designs and production code while documenting the system in Notion.
Senior Product Designer
🇫🇷 Paris, France
Diabolocom 🇫🇷 Paris, France
Design end-to-end features and strategic projects for a B2B SaaS contact center platform, from discovery to production. Collaborate with Product Owners and Engineering teams to evolve the Design System and ensure high usability and accessibility standards.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇸🇪 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden)
Scrive Remote (🇸🇪 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden)
Lead the design of agreement management workflows and translate complex AI capabilities into intuitive user experiences. Collaborate within a product trio to balance user needs, business goals, and technical constraints while contributing to the design system.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America
Harell Data 🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America
The role involves owning the end-to-end product experience, from information architecture to visual craft, for complex infrastructure tools. The designer will create a scalable design system and collaborate directly with customers and engineering to refine product direction.
Product Designer
🇪🇪 Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia
Coolbet 🇪🇪 Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia
Drive the end-to-end design process from research and wireframing to prototyping and testing. Collaborate with Product Managers and Engineers to evolve the Design System and ensure seamless user experiences.
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.