Design Leadership Jobs
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(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.
Senior Visual Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Abelcine 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Senior Visual Designer will define and evolve the visual identity for studio programming by creating scalable design systems and motion graphics. They will collaborate with production teams to translate complex data and strategic information into compelling on-screen visual stories.
Product Designer
🇬🇧 Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, United Kingdom
Axa Uk 🇬🇧 Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, United Kingdom
Lead the design and optimization of seamless user journeys across websites and digital portals. Develop and manage a comprehensive UI kit and design system to ensure visual consistency and accessibility.
Product Designer
🇵🇹 Portugal
Bighub 🇵🇹 Portugal
Lead end-to-end product design from discovery to post-launch, focusing on simplifying a complex digital commerce ecosystem. Establish design foundations, create and evolve the Design System, and define interaction standards for sellers and internal operators.
Product UX Designer
🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
Moon Active 🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
You will design intuitive user experiences and features by translating complex business goals and monetization strategies into engaging player journeys. Additionally, you will scale the company's Design System and integrate advanced AI tools to optimize the UX design workflow.
Senior Manager, UX Design Systems
🇺🇸 Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America
Trulieve 🇺🇸 Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America
Define and govern the enterprise UX design system across digital products, eCommerce experiences, and mobile applications. Lead the intersection of UX, UI, brand, and accessibility to ensure consistent and scalable customer experiences.
Lead UX Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
A1 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
The role involves creating intuitive and polished user interfaces and maintaining comprehensive design systems. You will collaborate with product designers and engineers to deliver pixel-perfect experiences for an AI-native smart assistant.
Product Designer
🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Vml 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
The Product Designer will translate complex business requirements into intuitive digital products and UX-optimized email campaigns. They will also collaborate with cross-functional teams to manage design systems and facilitate workshops to drive strategic solutions.
UX/UI Product Designer
🇨🇱 Chile
Koin Limited 🇨🇱 Chile
The designer will transform existing UX foundations into high-converting digital experiences and build scalable design systems in Figma. They will collaborate with Shopify developers to implement premium interfaces and optimize customer journeys for commercial performance.
Senior Freelance Product Designer
🇬🇧 Leeds, LS7 1SN, United Kingdom
Beyond Sports 🇬🇧 Leeds, LS7 1SN, United Kingdom
The Senior Product Designer will take full ownership of end-to-end UI and UX execution for major client initiatives across web and native mobile platforms. They will architect complex user journeys, maintain design system standards in Figma, and lead design rationales for executive stakeholders.
UX/UI Product Designer
🇲🇽 Mexico
Koin Limited 🇲🇽 Mexico
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
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Avantos.ai 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will own the end-to-end design of the Avantos mobile app and the Journey Builder tool. They will collaborate with engineering to create native platform patterns and contribute to the overall design system.
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.