Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior Product Designer, Design Systems
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Flex 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
As a Senior Product Designer, you will lead initiatives from discovery through delivery, defining the design system’s long-term vision and creating scalable solutions. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance product quality and team efficiency.
Product Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Instead 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Design user-friendly interfaces for the Instead platform and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure designs meet user needs. Evolve the design system and maintain design quality across the product.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Merge Api 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Lead design for Merge’s core platform from concept through launch, ensuring high design standards. Collaborate with founders, product, and engineering teams to create user-centered solutions and maintain a design system.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Pawlicy Advisor 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Own the end-to-end product design process and implementation for new product features. Collaborate closely with key stakeholders and improve the current design system.
Product Designer - AI Driven
🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brazil
Cloudwalk 🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brazil
The Product Designer will design new user flows and prototypes, improve usability, and propose product improvements focused on client-driven solutions. They will also manage the design system and collaborate with diverse professionals.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States
Lead Bank 🇺🇸 United States
You will own the end-to-end user experience for one or more product verticals, driving the design vision and contributing to the evolution of Lead’s design system. This role involves collaborating with various teams to deliver user-focused designs and managing the entire product design lifecycle.
Product Designer Consultant (Design Systems) at Well-funded healthtech SaaS
🇹🇹 Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Jack & Jill/external Ats 🇹🇹 Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
You will lead the transformation of the product’s foundational design architecture for a growing healthtech platform. This includes conducting a comprehensive audit of the existing design system and collaborating with product and engineering teams.
Marketing Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 San Mateo, California, United States
Gc Ai 🇺🇸 San Mateo, California, United States
Lead design across all marketing and sales channels, ensuring brand consistency and managing the design system. Create visual assets for various campaigns and collaborate with cross-functional teams to support revenue goals.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Clasp 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Lead the end-to-end design process for core workflows and product experiences, ensuring a cohesive user experience. Collaborate with Product and Engineering to define the look and feel of the platform while maintaining a design system.
Lead Product Designer
Lead end-to-end design for high-impact product areas, ensuring user journeys are elegant and measurable. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality work and evolve the design system.
UX designer
🇮🇳 Pune City, Maharashtra, India
Nielseniq 🇮🇳 Pune City, Maharashtra, India
The UX Designer will maintain and evolve the design system while ensuring consistency and usability across the product. They will also collaborate with stakeholders to design new features and iterate based on user feedback.
Senior Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Fanvue 🌍 Remote
Design end-to-end product experiences and partner with the Head of Design and Engineering to create a scalable design system. Elevate UI quality and refine high-impact UX flows tied to core KPIs.
Senior UI/UX Designer - Toronto, Canada
🌍 Remote
Human Agency 🌍 Remote
The Senior UI/UX Designer will lead end-to-end product and web experience design, collaborating with product, engineering, and marketing teams. Responsibilities include designing user flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity interfaces, as well as maintaining the design system.
Senior UI/UX Designer - Montreal, Canada
🌍 Remote
Human Agency 🌍 Remote
The Senior UI/UX Designer will lead end-to-end product and web experience design, collaborating with product, engineering, and marketing teams to solve complex problems and elevate usability. Responsibilities include designing user flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity interfaces, as well as maintaining the design system.
Senior UI/UX Designer -Chicago, IL
🌍 Remote
Human Agency 🌍 Remote
The Senior UI/UX Designer will lead product and web experience design, collaborating with various teams to solve complex problems and elevate usability. Responsibilities include designing user flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity interfaces, as well as maintaining the 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.