Design Leadership Jobs
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Founding Product Designer / Design Engineer
Remote (🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America)
Red Frog Solutions Remote (🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America)
The role involves leading product design across the platform, including user flows and interfaces, while partnering closely with engineering and leadership to translate technical capabilities into intuitive product experiences. Responsibilities also include designing and prototyping new features and establishing a scalable design system, alongside owning brand design for marketing materials.
Product Designer
🇭🇺 Budapest, Hungary
Ux Studio 🇭🇺 Budapest, Hungary
The Product Designer will be responsible for generating innovative ideas and solutions to real-life problems in close collaboration with the team, bringing concepts to life through sketching, wireframing, and prototyping. Key tasks also involve turning requirements into pixel-perfect UI, style guides, and design systems, while maintaining clear communication with clients and managing project handovers.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Side 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will own design projects end-to-end, from discovery through final implementation, partnering closely with product managers and engineers to define problems and deliver solutions. They will use data, analytics, and customer insights to inform design decisions, plan user research, and contribute to evolving the design system.
Sr Product Designer, Document Cloud Mobile
Remote (🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America)
Adobe Remote (🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America)
The Senior Designer will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver exceptional user experiences, defining design strategy and crafting product visions to share with senior executives. Responsibilities also include exploring design ideas through various artifacts and evolving scalable design systems to ensure consistency.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Outset 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The role involves partnering with Design, Product, and Engineering to define problems, map user journeys, and craft experiences that drive business impact. Responsibilities include creating wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity visuals, alongside conducting user research and contributing to the design system.
Product Designer
🇨🇦 Canada
Fitt Talent Partners 🇨🇦 Canada
The Product Designer will own the end-to-end product design lifecycle for mobile applications, operating as a design lead to shape product direction and prioritization. This includes building a scalable design system, conducting user research, and translating complex health data into intuitive user experiences.
Senior UX Designer, Weather
Remote (🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America)
Dtn Remote (🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America)
The Senior UX Designer will lead the end-to-end design process for the DTN Weather platform, focusing on modernizing and evolving complex features like dashboards, alerting systems, and geospatial mapping workflows. This involves designing high-density interfaces and ensuring designs align with the long-term platform vision while contributing to the design system.
Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Fairtiq Ag Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The Product Designer will collaborate with product managers to evolve web and mobile applications, leading user experience and visual design efforts. Responsibilities include conducting user research, collaborating with development for feasible solutions, and maintaining the design system.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America)
Liveramp Remote (🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America)
The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to understand requirements, rapidly ideate, and deliver user-centered solutions by distilling insights from research and metrics. Responsibilities include leading the end-to-end design process, leveraging generative AI tools for ideation, and contributing to the evolution of the design system.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Resident Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The Senior Product Designer will lead the design direction for Resident’s e-commerce experiences, delivering customer-centered solutions while balancing quality, speed, and business impact. Responsibilities include owning the design process from concepting through final UI, contributing to design systems, and mentoring junior designers.
Senior Product Designer
🇵🇱 Wrocław, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Spyrosoft 🇵🇱 Wrocław, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
The role involves driving the entire design process, from initial discovery through design hand-off, maintenance, and product optimization. Responsibilities include designing digital products for web and mobile, building prototypes, contributing to Design Systems, and validating ideas with users.
UX Designer, Payments
🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Google 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Design end-to-end user flows, contribute to the design system by defining and building scalable patterns, and collaborate with cross-functional teams from early concepts through to successful launch. Create design artifacts like mockups and prototypes to communicate interaction ideas and maintain high design quality standards.
Principal UI Designer
🇺🇸 Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Clinisys 🇺🇸 Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
The Principal UI Designer will be responsible for shaping software products by owning the Design System, ensuring UI consistency, and leading the design direction and creative strategy for product design work. This role involves collaborating across departments to translate functional requirements into intuitive, enjoyable user interfaces that align with company branding and strategic goals.
UI/UX Designer
🇬🇧 Bristol, City of Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Basekit 🇬🇧 Bristol, City of Bristol, England, United Kingdom
The role involves designing end-to-end user flows, providing necessary assets for development handoff, and collaborating with the product team to validate design proposals through UX testing. Responsibilities also include adapting the design system, supporting marketing with UI assets, and participating in design critiques.
Senior Product Designer ( w/m)
🇫🇷 92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
Edenred 🇫🇷 92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
The Senior Product Designer will shape the interaction foundations for Edenred’s Identity and Payment platforms, transforming strategic platform objectives into reusable standards and scalable interaction models across geographies. This involves designing end-to-end experiences, defining reusable flows, anchoring decisions in research and data, and contributing to platform standards via 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.