Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Torrance, California, United States of America
24 Seven Talent 🇺🇸 Torrance, California, United States of America
Lead design projects from concept through production across digital and print, creating integrated campaigns, brand assets, design systems, templates, and guidelines. Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders, present creative concepts, mentor junior designers, and contribute to a collaborative creative culture.
Senior Software Engineer, Design Systems
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Thumbtack 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Build AI-assisted workflows connecting Figma, prototypes, and Thumbtack’s production React code, and evolve the Thumbprint design system to support agentic tooling. Partner with design, Developer Experience, and Frontend Infrastructure teams, gather user feedback, and evaluate emerging AI development tools.
Senior Software Engineer, Design Systems
🇨🇦 Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Thumbtack 🇨🇦 Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Build AI-assisted workflows connecting Figma, prototypes, and Thumbtack’s production React code, and evolve the Thumbprint design system to work effectively with agentic tooling. Partner with Product Design, Developer Experience, and Frontend Infrastructure, while gathering user feedback and evaluating emerging AI development tools.
Senior Software Engineer, Design Systems
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Thumbtack 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Build AI-assisted workflows connecting Figma, prototypes, and Thumbtack’s production frontend, and evolve the Thumbprint design system to work effectively with agentic tooling. Partner with Product Design, Developer Experience, and Frontend Infrastructure, while gathering user feedback and evaluating emerging AI development tools.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Chromatic 🇺🇸 United States of America
Design comprehensive product experiences from initial concept through to pixel-perfect implementation and user flows. Collaborate with engineering and marketing teams to build durable design systems and ensure high-quality feature delivery.
Senior Product Designer - Híbrida no Itaim Bibi, SP
🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brazil
Fcamara 🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brazil
Develop high-quality product and user experience designs for the group’s public-facing digital properties, ensuring consistency, scalability, and alignment with business strategy, technical constraints, and the design system. Lead complex cross-functional projects, mentor less experienced designers, use prototypes and data to improve user experiences, and communicate design decisions to stakeholders.
Product Designer Pleno
🇧🇷 Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
Ademicon 🇧🇷 Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
Conduct user research, analyze product and business data, and contribute to product roadmaps in collaboration with product managers and technical leads. Design and validate web and mobile experiences, apply and improve the design system, and maintain usability and quality while accounting for technical and business requirements.
Product Designer
🇮🇳 Pune, Pune City Subdistrict, India
Anchanto 🇮🇳 Pune, Pune City Subdistrict, India
You will design intuitive user flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity interfaces for enterprise SaaS products while collaborating with cross-functional teams. Additionally, you will contribute to the design system and conduct user research to validate design solutions.
Senior Software Engineer, Design Systems
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Thumbtack 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
You will design and implement AI-assisted workflows to bridge the gap between Figma designs and production React code. Additionally, you will evolve the Thumbprint design system and collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve developer productivity.
Senior Software Engineer, Design Systems
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Thumbtack 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
You will design and implement AI-assisted workflows that bridge the gap between Figma designs and production React code. Additionally, you will evolve the Thumbprint design system to integrate seamlessly with agentic tooling and collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve developer productivity.
Design Systems Designer (Remote, Toluca)
Remote (🇲🇽 Mexico)
Blacksmith Agency Remote (🇲🇽 Mexico)
Build precise, scalable design systems for multiple client brands, including token architecture, variables, modes, and reusable component libraries. Document systems so developers and automated build pipelines can implement them predictably.
Senior Web Designer, Design Systems (Remote, Queretaro)
Remote (🇲🇽 Mexico)
Blacksmith Agency Remote (🇲🇽 Mexico)
Build precise, reusable design systems for multiple client brands, including token architecture, variables, modes, and core component libraries. Document systems so developers and automated build pipelines can implement them reliably.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America
Companycam 🇺🇸 Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America
Own graphic design projects from brief through final delivery, creating consistent visual assets for campaigns, product launches, web, social, email, print, and events. Collaborate with marketing and product teams, maintain design systems and brand standards, mentor teammates, and lead adoption of AI-enabled creative workflows.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America
Companycam 🇺🇸 Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America
Create and deliver high-quality visual assets for campaigns, product launches, web, social, email, events, and print while maintaining brand consistency. Build and evolve scalable design systems and asset libraries, collaborate across teams, mentor designers, and lead adoption of AI-enabled creative workflows.
Sr. Visual Designer (Production) [83961]
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Onward Search 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Lead the creation of high-quality visual presentations and marketing campaign assets, translating brand design systems into scalable frameworks that support speed, consistency, and quality. Produce design work, mentor the production team, collaborate across communications, brand, and marketing, and improve workflows and tools.
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.