Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior Product Designer (Contract)
Remote (🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom)
Foundry Works Design Remote (🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom)
The Senior Product Designer will lead the design of accessible, user-friendly interfaces for a major global client, focusing on developing and maintaining scalable design systems and dynamic, stateful designs. Key duties include mentoring the design team, conducting user research, leading collaborative sessions, and traveling internationally to align design initiatives with business objectives.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇧🇷 Caxias, Região Geográfica Intermediária de Caxias, Brazil)
Foundry Works Design Remote (🇧🇷 Caxias, Região Geográfica Intermediária de Caxias, Brazil)
The Senior Product Designer will lead the design of accessible, user-friendly interfaces for a major global client, focusing on developing and maintaining scalable design systems and dynamic, stateful designs. This role also involves mentoring the design team, conducting user research, and leading collaborative sessions with cross-functional teams.
Senior Product Designer (Contract/Freelance)
Remote (🇧🇷 Caxias, Região Geográfica Intermediária de Caxias, Brazil)
Foundry Works Design Remote (🇧🇷 Caxias, Região Geográfica Intermediária de Caxias, Brazil)
The Senior Product Designer will lead the design of accessible, user-friendly interfaces for a global sports and fashion brand, focusing on creating and maintaining scalable design systems and dynamic, stateful designs. Key duties include mentoring the design team, conducting user research, leading collaborative sessions, and traveling internationally to engage with clients.
Senior Product Designer
🇳🇴 Oslo, Norway
Nordic Semiconductor 🇳🇴 Oslo, Norway
The Senior Product Designer will collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to conceptualize, prototype, and refine features for cloud services, owning the design process end-to-end. Key duties include conducting user research, creating design artifacts, and contributing to the maintenance of the design system.
Product Designer
🇫🇷 Paris, France
Sonepar 🇫🇷 Paris, France
The Senior Product Designer will drive the full design lifecycle for product features, ensuring seamless, omnichannel experiences and absolute consistency across the product suite. This role involves contributing to the evolution of the Brand System and strategically planning new components in collaboration with the Design System team.
Senior UX Designer (remote, UTC-3 to UTC+3)
Remote (🇵🇱 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland)
Checkly Remote (🇵🇱 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland)
The Senior UX Designer will lead the design vision and execution for the Checkly platform, acting as the primary design decision-maker and collaborating closely with Product Managers and Engineers. Responsibilities include shaping new features from exploration to implementation, maintaining the design system, and championing high UI/UX and developer experience standards.
Member of Design Staff - Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Tessl 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The role involves designing clear, usable interfaces for core product surfaces and developer workflows, translating complex system concepts into intuitive experiences grounded in user research. Responsibilities also include running user research, collaborating daily with product and engineering teams, contributing to the design system, and developing an AI-native design process.
Product Designer
Remote (🇬🇷 Athens, Central Athens, Greece)
Infiterra S.a Remote (🇬🇷 Athens, Central Athens, Greece)
The Product Designer will translate user needs and product requirements into user flows, wireframes, and prototypes, while iterating on designs based on stakeholder and user feedback. They will also actively support user research activities and contribute to maintaining the shared design system in Figma.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 Greenwood Village, Colorado, United States of America
Transunion 🇺🇸 Greenwood Village, Colorado, United States of America
The Product Designer will lead end-to-end design for high-impact initiatives, partnering with product, engineering, and research to solve complex problems and deliver clear, thoughtful solutions across web and mobile experiences. This includes owning design from discovery to delivery, contributing to the design system, and presenting informed design opinions to shape direction.
Senior Product Designer
🇦🇷 Buenos Aires, Comuna 1, Argentina
Spyrosoft 🇦🇷 Buenos Aires, Comuna 1, Argentina
The Senior Product Designer will lead the entire design process from discovery and research through to delivery and ongoing optimization, creating end-to-end flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity visuals for web and mobile platforms. Key duties include defining and scaling the Design System, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and mentoring junior designers.
Product Designer Apprentice
🇫🇷 Paris, France
Swan.io 🇫🇷 Paris, France
The apprentice will design banking features end-to-end by collaborating with Product Managers and Engineers across multiple squads from discovery to delivery. Key tasks include improving user experiences across the API and interfaces, contributing to the design system, and supporting cross-functional teams.
Product Designer
Remote (🇮🇳 India)
Motion Remote (🇮🇳 India)
The Product Designer will be responsible for designing end-to-end experiences, including crafting wireframes, prototypes, and mockups for various platform components like dashboards and maps. They will also build and maintain a design system to ensure consistency across the application.
1577 UI/UX DESIGNER
Remote (🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico)
Softgic S.a.s. Remote (🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico)
Responsibilities include designing UI screens, dashboards, and components while prioritizing usability, and developing basic UX artifacts like wireframes and user flows. The role also involves maintaining and evolving the Design System and creating various vector assets for web and marketing.
Senior Graphic Designer (Sports & Digital Content)
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Brave Bison 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
The Senior Graphic Designer will own projects from concept to final delivery, creating high-quality, original visuals across social, digital, and campaign work, including developing storytelling-led creatives. Responsibilities also involve building scalable design systems, integrating sponsor messaging, and adapting content for global audiences.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Nordic Semiconductor 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to conceptualize, prototype, and refine features for cloud services, owning the design process end-to-end. Key duties include conducting user research, creating design artifacts, and contributing to the maintenance of 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.