Design Leadership Jobs
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Product Designer Pleno Curitiba - PR
🇧🇷 Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
Ademicon Barra Olímpica 🇧🇷 Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
Conduct user research, usability and validation testing, and analyze product and business metrics to identify user needs and inform prioritization. Collaborate on product roadmaps and create web and mobile flows, journeys, wireframes, and interfaces while maintaining and improving the design system and product usability.
Sr. Staff Product & Visual Designer, Technology Workflows
🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Servicenow 🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Create high-fidelity, code-based prototypes and define motion patterns and visual standards for next-generation AI experiences and enterprise workflows. Partner with design systems, product design, and engineering teams to scale components, preserve design intent in production, and elevate team craft through hands-on collaboration.
UX/UI & Design Systems Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Creative Circle 🇺🇸 United States of America
Build, audit, and evolve a scalable design system, including reusable components, tokens, patterns, and documentation, while keeping Figma libraries aligned with coded components in Storybook. Partner with developers and cross-functional teams to research, design, document, test, and implement accessible user experiences from concept through design QA.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Toast 🇺🇸 United States of America
You will own the end-to-end design of reservation and booking experiences, translating ambiguous problems into high-quality prototypes and final products. You will collaborate closely with product, engineering, and research teams to deliver frictionless dining experiences while contributing to design systems.
UX-Designer
🇳🇱 Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands
Gemeente Leiden 🇳🇱 Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands
Design and improve user flows and experiences for municipal websites and online forms, using Figma and the NL Design System to create accessible, consistent solutions. Represent end users, advise stakeholders on digital service improvements, and collaborate with webmasters, analysts, editors, and suppliers to implement and evolve designs and components.
Product Designer (UI/UX)
🇵🇱 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Viabill 🇵🇱 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
You will own the end-to-end design process for specific product areas, including merchant-facing platforms and consumer experiences. You will collaborate closely with product, commercial, and engineering teams to deliver high-quality UI while maintaining design system standards.
Senior Product Designer I
🇺🇸 United States of America
Inductive Automation 🇺🇸 United States of America
Own the design lifecycle for a defined product area, from research and validation through iteration and production, delivering high-quality solutions in collaboration with product and engineering. Lead design reviews, contribute to design systems and cross-team features, resolve or escalate blockers, improve shared processes, and mentor junior designers.
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.
UI/UX Designer
🇵🇭 Philippines
Legalsight 🇵🇭 Philippines
Create and maintain design systems and style guides, and translate requirements into user flows, wireframes, mockups, prototypes, and design specifications. Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to develop, explain, and refine solutions for complex legal and business software.
UX Designer
🇺🇸 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America
Tata Consultancy Services 🇺🇸 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America
Design user-centered web and mobile experiences, creating user flows, journey maps, wireframes, mockups, and interactive prototypes. Conduct research and usability testing, maintain scalable design systems, collaborate with product and development teams, and support accessible design and effective handoffs.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Trimble Inc. 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Lead product design from concept through launch across the AI-powered platform, creating intuitive experiences for complex construction workflows. Collaborate with product, engineering, and stakeholders on discovery and validation, and improve the design system and practices.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Trimble Inc. 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Lead product design from concept through launch across the AI-powered platform, creating intuitive experiences for complex construction workflows. Partner with product, engineering, and stakeholders to conduct discovery and validation, improve the design system, and apply emerging AI interaction patterns to real-world industry problems.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Fanatics 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Design intuitive web and mobile experiences for Topps, Fanatics Live, and Fanatics Collect, from early concepts and user flows through polished interfaces and implementation. Collaborate with product, engineering, research, and creative partners, apply design systems, and use feedback and product insights to improve the experience.
Lead UX Designer
🇺🇸 Baltimore, Windsor County, Vermont, United States of America
Dmi 🇺🇸 Baltimore, Windsor County, Vermont, United States of America
The Lead UX Designer will define UX strategy and design activities for the eMMA modernization project while ensuring solutions meet user needs and accessibility standards. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to create wireframes, prototypes, and design systems while maintaining documentation and usability standards.
Senior Product Designer
Whitetech
The Senior Product Designer will design and develop complex multi-step user flows, interfaces, and features for desktop and mobile platforms. They are responsible for maintaining large-scale design systems and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality product implementation.
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.