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Lead UX Designer App H/F
🇫🇷 Paris, France
Nexton 🇫🇷 Paris, France
Lead user research and ideation for employee-facing products, then create high-fidelity interfaces that follow the existing design system. Own the user experience vision, maintain consistency across user journeys and interfaces, and collaborate with product, design, and development teams throughout project phases.
Lead, Design Systems & Design Operations
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Cibc 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
You will lead the strategy, roadmap, and governance of the Wealth design system to ensure consistent digital experiences across web and mobile platforms. Additionally, you will partner with technology and product teams to implement scalable design operations and modern design-to-code workflows.
UI/UX Designer - STUDIOS (all genders)
🇩🇪 Hamburg, Germany
About You Se & Co. Kg 🇩🇪 Hamburg, Germany
You will shape digital products from a user perspective by turning complex requirements into intuitive user flows and thoughtful UI. You will also work iteratively on concepts and interfaces while contributing to the evolution of the design system.
User Experience (UX) Designer
🇺🇸 Radnor Township, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Robert Half 🇺🇸 Radnor Township, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Design clear, usable digital experiences for websites, applications, portals, and marketing programs, creating wireframes, user flows, prototypes, and polished interfaces in Figma. Collaborate with creative, strategy, development, account, and client teams to maintain design systems, apply brand and regulatory requirements, evaluate usability, and support accurate implementation.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Prolific 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Discover, define, and design customer-focused product experiences, including user journeys, service maps, wireframes, and prototypes, and validate them through research and experimentation. Collaborate with product, engineering, data, and operational teams to improve outcomes, evolve design systems and processes, and communicate design decisions across the organization.
Sr Product Designer (Enterprise)
🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Onecredit 🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Lead end-to-end design for complex enterprise products, including research, prototyping, usability testing, and the evolution of a scalable design system. Partner with product, engineering, and business teams to shape product direction, maintain design-to-code parity, and improve user and business outcomes.
UX Designer
🇨🇭 Greifensee, Bezirk Uster, Switzerland
Mettler-toledo International Inc. 🇨🇭 Greifensee, Bezirk Uster, Switzerland
Design and validate user interfaces and interaction concepts for measuring instruments and desktop applications, collaborating with stakeholders and international cross-functional teams. Maintain design systems and UI guidelines, create visual assets, iterate on design solutions, and support software teams during implementation.
Accessibility Engineer, Design Systems
🇪🇸 Spain
Rmg Digital 🇪🇸 Spain
Remediate accessibility findings in a web component library, assess unswept components using automated and manual testing, and document issues and guidance. Contribute accessibility expertise to agentic AI workflows and help teams build accessibly with the design system.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇮 Gibraltar
B2spin 🇬🇮 Gibraltar
You will build and maintain a scalable gamification design system and integrate AI-driven workflows to optimize design production. Additionally, you will lead end-to-end product design projects while ensuring high-quality motion craft across a multi-brand portfolio.
Staff UX Designer, Google Ads
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Google 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Design AI-forward solutions for advertiser needs, creating user journeys, mockups, prototypes, storyboards, and presentations to communicate design concepts. Collaborate with users, stakeholders, designers, product managers, and engineers to refine designs and design systems, iterate on feedback, and ensure products are implemented to specification.
Digitālais produktu dizainers/-e (UX/UI) | Digital Product Designer (UX/UI)
🇱🇻 Riga, Latvia
Citadele Banka 🇱🇻 Riga, Latvia
Design screens and user flows for the mobile app and online banking platform, contributing to product decisions from early stages and simplifying complex banking processes. Collaborate with product managers and engineers, maintain and develop the design system, and review existing products to help define their future direction.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇲🇾 Malaysia
Bank Islam Malaysia Berhad 🇲🇾 Malaysia
The Senior UI/UX Designer will lead end-to-end product design for digital channels while maintaining design systems and ensuring consistency. They will also mentor junior designers and collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business needs into intuitive user experiences.
Content Design, Vice President- Design Systems
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Jpmorganchase 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Develop and govern scalable content strategies, models, standards, and reusable patterns for design systems, ensuring product teams can create clear, inclusive, accessible, and compliant customer experiences. Lead discovery and alignment with design, product, engineering, and risk partners, and translate editorial guidance into structured rules that support templates, platforms, and AI-assisted workflows.
UX/UI Design Manager - Digital Solutions
🇦🇺 Mulbring NSW 2323, Australia
Orica 🇦🇺 Mulbring NSW 2323, Australia
The UX/UI Design Manager leads and mentors a team of designers while overseeing the evolution of the Orica Digital Solutions design system. This role collaborates with product and engineering teams to align design priorities with strategic business objectives and ensure a consistent user experience.
Stage - UI/UX Designer (H/F/X) - Mode - Janvier 2026
🇫🇷 Paris, France
Chanel 🇫🇷 Paris, France
You will design mobile, app, and desktop mockups while ensuring visual consistency across all touchpoints. Additionally, you will contribute to the development of the Design System and collaborate with the project management team to deliver high-quality digital assets.
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.