Design Leadership Jobs
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Retirement & Wealth - Sr. Product Designer (Remote)
Remote (🇺🇸 Oak Brook, DuPage County, IL 60523, United States of America)
Inspira Financial Remote (🇺🇸 Oak Brook, DuPage County, IL 60523, United States of America)
The Senior Product Designer will lead design initiatives from discovery through delivery, creating intuitive experiences for Retirement & Wealth digital products. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams including Product, Engineering, and Content to ensure cohesive design-to-development handoffs.
Senior Product Designer, Design Systems (Remote, Sao Paulo)
Remote (🇧🇷 Brazil)
Blacksmith Agency Remote (🇧🇷 Brazil)
Build precise, scalable design systems for multiple client brands, including token architecture, variables, modes, and reusable core components. Document systems so developers and automated build pipelines can implement them reliably.
Senior Web Designer, Design Systems (Remote, Vitoria)
Remote (🇧🇷 Brazil)
Blacksmith Agency Remote (🇧🇷 Brazil)
Build token architectures in Figma and create robust core component libraries for multiple client brands. Document systems clearly so developers and automated build pipelines can implement them without clarification.
Senior Web Designer & Front-End Developer / Project Lead
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Webzylo Digital Solutions 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Design, build, and maintain responsive WordPress websites using Elementor, customizing themes and templates while ensuring brand consistency, performance, usability, and accessibility. Collaborate with marketing and content teams to implement designs and on-page SEO, troubleshoot technical issues, document work, improve processes, and deliver projects on schedule.
Senior UI/UX Designer II
🇺🇸 Arlington, Washington, United States of America
Cgs Federal (contact Government Services) 🇺🇸 Arlington, Washington, United States of America
Lead UX research, analysis, and design across multiple websites and applications, from evaluating existing systems and defining user needs through wireframes and final high-fidelity mockups. Collaborate with federal clients and engineering teams to deliver accessible, intuitive solutions, create reusable design resources, and mentor junior designers.
Senior Motion & Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Silverback Strategies 🇺🇸 United States of America
Translate creative strategy and briefs into polished static ads, short-form video, motion graphics, storyboards, and platform-specific assets for paid social. Maintain brand consistency and quality at scale while anticipating compliance requirements, editing supplied footage and imagery, and delivering work quickly with minimal revision rounds.
Senior UX Product Designer
🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America
Coforge 🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America
Lead user-centered design initiatives, facilitate discovery and problem-framing sessions, and shape UX vision and strategy across product portfolios. Create wireframes, user flows, mockups, and prototypes in Figma while collaborating with product, engineering, and business stakeholders throughout the product lifecycle.
Senior Director, Silicon Architecture and Design Engineering (Ethernet)
🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Altera 🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
The Senior Director will lead a global silicon engineering organization to define and execute the Ethernet roadmap for programmable devices. They are responsible for end-to-end silicon development, from microarchitecture and RTL to validation, while representing the company in industry standards bodies.
Senior UX / UI Designer
🇵🇱 Łódź, Łódź Voivodeship, Poland
Htd Health 🇵🇱 Łódź, Łódź Voivodeship, Poland
Lead the full design lifecycle, from discovery, research, and wireframing through high-fidelity UI and post-launch improvements, serving as the primary design contact. Collaborate with product owners and engineers to deliver intuitive medical solutions, use AI tools to improve workflows, and mentor designers while maintaining high design, regulatory, and usability standards.
Senior UX Designer REQ_97
🇷🇴 Romania
3pillar 🇷🇴 Romania
Lead UX design engagements for client-facing digital products, aligning design decisions with business objectives and user needs while partnering with product, engineering, and program teams. Guide and mentor UX designers, facilitate design and Agile activities, communicate recommendations and project status, and contribute to internal training and UX thought leadership.
Senior UX Designer (Helsinki, Tampere)
🇫🇮 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
Elisa 🇫🇮 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
Design customer-focused digital products and self-service experiences from research through testing and implementation, using customer insights and qualitative and quantitative data. Collaborate with product managers, developers, marketers, and other stakeholders to integrate designs, present and defend design decisions, and deliver high-quality work.
Senior Principal UX Designer (6 month FTC)
🇸🇪 Malmö, Skåne County, Sweden
King 🇸🇪 Malmö, Skåne County, Sweden
Lead research into existing CI workflows to identify pain points and unmet needs for developer teams. Design, prototype, and evaluate efficient CI workflows while facilitating workshops to align cross-functional teams.
Senior Product Designer, Growth and Conversion
The Senior Product Designer will lead end-to-end design experiences and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to define product vision and audience engagement strategies. They are responsible for creating and maintaining design systems, conducting user research, and working closely with developers to build and refine digital products.
Senior Product Designer (Growth & User Experience)
🇺🇸 Minnesota, United States of America
Straive 🇺🇸 Minnesota, United States of America
Lead end-to-end product design, from research and journey analysis through interaction design, prototyping, testing, and implementation collaboration. Improve activation, engagement, conversion, and long-term product value by using product analytics, instrumentation, experiments, and user insights to optimize the customer experience.
Visual Designer (Studio + Tech client)
🇨🇦 Canada
Creative Circle 🇨🇦 Canada
Create visual assets for digital channels and print collateral, prepare production-ready files, and ensure all work follows brand guidelines. Collaborate with copywriters, project managers, and senior creatives to develop campaign concepts, incorporate stakeholder feedback, and deliver designs on tight deadlines.
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.