Design Leadership Jobs
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Lead Designer, Design Systems & Structures
🇺🇸 Culver City, CA 90232, United States of America
Apple 🇺🇸 Culver City, CA 90232, United States of America
Lead the design, development, and evolution of content design systems across Apple Services to ensure a cohesive user experience. Partner with cross-functional teams to operationalize content structures and leverage emerging technologies to improve design efficiency at scale.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Jenny Bird 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Evolve and protect JENNY BIRD’s visual identity across digital, print, retail, wholesale, and physical brand experiences, while creating campaign assets that support brand storytelling and performance goals. Manage and mentor the digital production designer, maintain scalable design systems and workflows, and oversee creative quality and production readiness across projects.
Senior Interaction Designer
🇬🇧 Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom
Version 1 🇬🇧 Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom
Design and document detailed interaction patterns, interface states, micro-interactions, and high-fidelity prototypes, 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 consistent shared components.
Product Designer | Time de Tecnologia | Matriz
🇧🇷 Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
V4 Company 🇧🇷 Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
Understand user needs, motivations, and behaviors, and translate them into product outcomes. Collaborate with developers, product owners, and other squad members throughout discovery and delivery to create and validate mobile prototypes, design system standards, navigation flows, sitemaps, wireframes, layouts, and digital projects.
Senior Graphic Designer, Email Marketing Agency
🇧🇷 Brazil
Bedford 🇧🇷 Brazil
Design email campaigns for 4–6 client accounts, creating reusable design systems and compelling visuals that support campaign messaging and performance goals. Collaborate with copywriters and project managers, manage shifting priorities and timelines, and deliver high-quality work quickly.
Digital Product Designer (m/f/x)
🇩🇪 Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Scalable Gmbh 🇩🇪 Munich, Bavaria, Germany
You will own the design process from problem framing to delivery, collaborating closely with product and engineering teams. You will also evolve the design system and use qualitative and quantitative insights to improve customer outcomes.
UI Designer for Healthcare/MedTech products (m/f/d)
🇸🇰 Bratislava, Slovakia
Siemens Healthineers 🇸🇰 Bratislava, Slovakia
Create high-quality visual concepts and polished screen designs for healthcare products, applying and evolving the design system across complex workflows and user groups. Collaborate with UX, interaction, industrial design, and development teams, and observe clinical environments to understand users and shape the product visual language.
Senior Product UI/UX Designer | Remote
Remote (🇮🇳 Noida, Dadri, India)
Neo Media Group Ltd Remote (🇮🇳 Noida, Dadri, India)
Lead end-to-end design for complex web and mobile products, translating business and user needs into research-informed journeys, flows, prototypes, and polished interfaces. Maintain design systems, document specifications, collaborate with developers, review implementation quality, and recommend improvements to product workflows and AI-enabled experiences.
Senior Product Designer, Verifications
🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Checkr, Inc. 🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Own end-to-end design for Checkr’s verification experiences, including drug and occupational health testing, simplifying complex workflows for candidates, employers, and operations teams. Partner with product, engineering, and cross-functional stakeholders to research, prototype, deliver, and iterate on accessible, trustworthy solutions while contributing to design systems and team alignment.
Senior Product Designer, Verifications
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Checkr, Inc. 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Own end-to-end design for Checkr Verifications products, including drug and occupational health testing, simplifying complex workflows across candidate, employer, and operational experiences. Partner with product, engineering, and cross-functional teams to research, prototype, validate, and deliver accessible, trustworthy solutions while contributing to design systems and team alignment.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Chromatic 🇺🇸 United States of America
Design product experiences from concept through implementation, using customer research and business priorities to guide what gets built. Verify product quality, create durable design systems and agent workflows, and collaborate with Marketing on visuals and content for shipped features.
Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America)
Stable Remote (🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America)
Own product design from discovery through delivery, using customer research, business data, and collaboration with stakeholders and engineering to make product decisions and deliver solutions. Design intuitive experiences that connect software with physical mail operations, evolve reusable design systems, and use AI-assisted tools and workflows to improve product quality.
Product Designer - Sênior
🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brazil
Fcamara 🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brazil
Lead complex product design projects and create effective user experiences across the organization’s public-facing digital properties, aligning solutions with business strategy, technical constraints, and the design system. Mentor less experienced designers, contribute to design system improvements, and use prototypes, usability testing, data, and stakeholder collaboration to improve user experiences.
Product Designer (UI/UX)
🇵🇱 Warszawa, 83-433 Nowe Polaszki, Poland
Viabill 🇵🇱 Warszawa, 83-433 Nowe Polaszki, Poland
Own design for defined product areas across the merchant platform and consumer experience, from problem framing and user flows through final UI, implementation, and QA. Explore and present design options, contribute to the design system, run lightweight usability tests, and use product data to improve flows while supporting other business design needs.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Toast 🇺🇸 United States of America
Own the end-to-end design of reservations and booking, from defining ambiguous problems through prototyping, testing, and shipping polished experiences across mobile and responsive web. Use guest and behavioral insights to improve consumer experiences, collaborate with product, engineering, research, and marketing, and contribute to design systems while supporting other designers through critique and pairing.
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.