Design Leadership Jobs
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Product Designer
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Propeller 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
The role involves leading end-to-end design for early-stage product features and mobile experiences, shaping user flows and systems in collaboration with engineering and product teams. Responsibilities also include conducting independent user research to drive product strategy and maintaining consistency within the design system.
UX Designer II
🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Elsevier 🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
The UX Designer II will partner closely with product, research, and engineering in cross-functional teams to deliver user-centered solutions to complex challenges, owning the design work end-to-end within their team. Key duties include defining roadmaps, supporting user research, ideating and prototyping solutions, and ensuring designs meet user needs while aligning with the design system.
UX Designer II
🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Remitly 🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
The UX Designer II will partner closely with product, research, and engineering in cross-functional teams to deliver user-centered solutions to complex challenges, identifying problems, developing concepts, and designing, prototyping, and testing solutions. Key duties include owning the end-to-end design work within the team, ensuring consistency via the design system, and collaborating on roadmap definition and backlog prioritization.
Senior UI Designer
🇭🇺 Budapest, Hungary
Hiflylabs 🇭🇺 Budapest, Hungary
The Senior UI Designer will be responsible for designing visually engaging and user-friendly interfaces for web and mobile applications, collaborating with UX designers to ensure cohesive user experiences. Key duties include developing design systems, creating high-fidelity mockups, conducting design reviews, and leading design presentations.
Mid-level Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Xelix 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The designer will take ownership of design tasks from discovery through delivery, creating wireframes, flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs while ensuring solutions are usable and consistent with the design system. Responsibilities also include contributing to user research, translating findings into actionable insights, and collaborating closely with product managers and engineers.
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Senior Product Designer (w/m/d)
Remote (🇩🇪 Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany)
Hero Software Gmbh Remote (🇩🇪 Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany)
The role involves discovering user needs and opportunities, integrating data into design decisions, and validating solutions through prototyping and user testing. The designer will also develop thoughtful solutions from sketch to final interface and drive the evolution of the design system.
Intern - Design Engineering
200070 China, Shanghai, Dayangqiao, Shanghai Railway Station South Square
Cadence Design Systems 200070 China, Shanghai, Dayangqiao, Shanghai Railway Station South Square
The intern will focus on high-speed digital DDR and HBM IP physical implementation, including developing necessary scripts or tools to enhance the current Physical Design (PD) flow. Responsibilities also involve completing project tasks, solving design issues, providing flow checks to avoid recurrence, and summarizing PPA optimization methodologies and results.
UI Designer - Mobile Apps
🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Tomtom 🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
The UI Designer will be responsible for crafting visually compelling, consistent, and user-friendly interfaces across Android and iOS mobile products. This includes designing visual interfaces, maintaining a consistent visual language, creating necessary design assets, and contributing to the design system.
Senior UI Designer
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
V2 Digital 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
The Senior UI Designer will be responsible for designing and delivering high-fidelity user interfaces for web and mobile applications, translating product requirements into clean, scalable designs, and maintaining design systems and component libraries. This role involves close collaboration with engineers to ensure pixel-perfect implementation and refining interactions to elevate the user experience.
Senior Product Designer (Digital)
Remote (🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America)
Rda Company Llc Remote (🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America)
The role involves designing high-quality, visually strong interfaces for modern web applications across various project stages, from wireframes to high-fidelity prototypes. Responsibilities also include building and maintaining design systems in Figma and utilizing AI tools to accelerate design workflows.
Product Designer
🇦🇺 Footscray VIC 3011, Australia
Vicgov People Careers 🇦🇺 Footscray VIC 3011, Australia
The Product Designer will shape intuitive, accessible, and user-centered digital experiences for government services, collaborating within cross-functional teams across the full end-to-end design lifecycle. Responsibilities include contributing to discovery, research, prototyping, testing, delivery, supporting design systems development, and ensuring solutions meet user needs and requirements.
Senior UI/UX Designer - Evinova
🇺🇸 Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America
Astrazeneca 🇺🇸 Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America
The Senior UI/UX Designer will lead the evolution of the Evinova Design System, defining its operation, governance, and collaboration structures between design and engineering, focusing on creating scalable, code-aligned components for AI-first workflows. Key duties include evolving Figma libraries, embedding WCAG 2.2 AA standards, creating documentation, conducting design QA, and driving continuous improvement based on feedback.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Mcdonald's Corporation 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
This hands-on role involves participating in the entire design lifecycle, from conducting user research and mapping user flows to creating wireframes and high-fidelity designs for crew-facing tools. The designer will also assist in maintaining the design system, including defining accessibility standards.
Senior Product Designer (Advanced English)
Remote (🇨🇱 Chile)
Thoughtworks Remote (🇨🇱 Chile)
Designers will play an active role in delivering and designing technology projects across discovery and delivery phases, collaborating with cross-functional agile trios to create experience design deliverables like journey maps, prototypes, and design systems. They will also use research methods to validate products and translate findings into clear design direction for stakeholders.
Senior Product Designer (Fintech)
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Housecall Pro Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The Senior Product Designer will lead complex product design initiatives across multiple teams, leveraging deep knowledge of design systems and customer behavior to solve real problems. Daily tasks involve conducting research, defining design strategy, creating detailed user flows and prototypes, and collaborating closely with product and engineering partners.
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.