Design Leadership Jobs
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UX Designer
🇸🇪 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Alstom 🇸🇪 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to research user needs and design intuitive digital experiences for internal web-based applications. Your daily tasks include creating wireframes, prototypes, and UI components while ensuring accessibility and design consistency.
Principal Product Designer - Design Systems
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Twinkl Educational Publishing 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Set the design system’s direction, scope, governance, and measures of success, while designing and delivering components, tokens, modules, and templates across web and mobile products. Drive adoption and accessibility, collaborate with engineering and research teams, lead high-stakes product design work, and mentor colleagues through influence rather than direct management.
UI/UX Designer
🇵🇱 Poland
Outokumpu 🇵🇱 Poland
Collaborate with business stakeholders, development teams, product owners, and vendors to understand user needs and create UX solutions, user journeys, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity UI concepts. Promote usability, accessibility, and consistent brand-aligned experiences while maintaining design systems, Figma libraries, and reusable assets, and using AI tools to support ideation and validation.
Senior UX Designer
🇸🇪 Gothenburg, Västra Götaland County, Sweden
Justera Group 🇸🇪 Gothenburg, Västra Götaland County, Sweden
You will conduct accessibility audits and manual assessments of digital products to ensure compliance with WCAG 2.2 AA standards. Additionally, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate accessibility into the design process and provide actionable guidance for remediation.
Senior Interaction Designer
🇬🇧 Salford, England, United Kingdom
Uk Home Office 🇬🇧 Salford, England, United Kingdom
Lead interaction design for complex services, using user evidence, prototypes, journey maps, and accessibility standards to create simple and effective experiences. Manage, mentor, and support interaction designers while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders to guide design decisions.
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Staff Product Designer
Remote (🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom)
Moniepoint Group Remote (🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom)
Lead end-to-end design for financial products, from research and discovery through prototyping and final UI, while partnering with product managers and engineers to deliver effective experiences. Develop scalable design systems, advocate for accessibility, use research and data to improve products, and mentor junior designers.
UX Designer - Everyday Banking Platform (12-Month Secondment)
🇬🇧 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Lloyds Banking Group 🇬🇧 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Design cohesive end-to-end customer journeys for business banking, using the central design system and prototyping tools to create effective user experiences. Present and refine designs based on stakeholder feedback, user research, usability testing, technical constraints, and accessibility needs, and collaborate with developers through delivery.
Senior Product Designer (H/F)
🇫🇷 92110 Clichy, France
Iziwork 🇫🇷 92110 Clichy, France
Research user needs and friction points, contribute to product discovery, and shape product vision for the company’s SaaS platforms. Collaborate with product, business, data, and engineering teams to prototype and test solutions, maintain the design system, ensure accessibility, and support high-quality product launches.
Digital Product Designer
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Hcf Australia 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Design and improve digital member journeys, translating member needs and business objectives into intuitive experiences through wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, conduct research and usability testing, contribute to the design system, champion accessibility, and use insights and analytics to improve outcomes.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Tampa, Florida, United States of America
Machine Learning Technologies Llc 🇺🇸 Tampa, Florida, United States of America
Collaborate with product managers, developers, and stakeholders to research user needs and create wireframes, prototypes, and final designs for web and mobile products. Maintain scalable design systems, support Agile delivery and implementation, ensure accessibility, and improve designs using user feedback and product metrics.
UX Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Acadaca 🇺🇸 United States of America
Own UX/UI design delivery for ecommerce projects and retainer clients, from wireframes through production-ready assets, while building reusable design systems and components. Present design concepts to clients, provide clear implementation specifications, review design fidelity with engineers, and ensure deliverables meet accessibility and brand standards.
UX Designer
🇺🇸 Hanover, Howard County, MD 21076, United States of America
Allegis Group 🇺🇸 Hanover, Howard County, MD 21076, United States of America
The UX Designer will own the user experience design for features, creating experiences that emphasize usability, accessibility, and efficiency. They will collaborate with cross-functional partners to identify user pain points and iterate on designs based on research and business requirements.
UI UX Designer – Digital Commerce (35456)
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Myticas Consulting 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Design intuitive, responsive B2B digital commerce and self-service experiences, including interfaces and interactive prototypes. Collaborate with stakeholders and product and development teams, conduct research and usability testing, and improve user flows, navigation, accessibility, and product configuration experiences.
Technical Graphic Designer & Motion Designer
🇺🇸 Reston, Virginia, United States of America
Securiport 🇺🇸 Reston, Virginia, United States of America
Produce accurate, brand-compliant graphic and motion assets for print, digital, signage, and public-space environments, following approved concepts, templates, and specifications. Prepare and manage production-ready files, coordinate technical requirements with vendors and integrators, and maintain quality, accessibility, and schedule standards across multiple projects.
Lead, Design Systems & Design Operations
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Cibc 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead the strategy, governance, roadmap, and ongoing evolution of the Wealth design system, including reusable components, patterns, tokens, theming, and cross-platform standards. Establish scalable design operations and partner with Product and Technology teams to improve implementation, accessibility, quality, reuse, and AI-assisted and design-to-code workflows.
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.