Design Leadership Jobs
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UI/UX & Visual Designer (Mid-Level)
🇨🇦 Canada
Jobgether 🇨🇦 Canada
Design mobile-first, responsive user experiences for content-heavy websites and landing pages while translating business requirements into performance-oriented solutions. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to maintain design systems and utilize AI tools to accelerate research, ideation, and production workflows.
UI/UX & Visual Designer (Mid-Level)
🇧🇷 Brazil
Jobgether 🇧🇷 Brazil
Design mobile-first, responsive user experiences for content-heavy websites and landing pages while translating business requirements into performance-oriented solutions. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to maintain design systems and utilize AI tools to accelerate research, ideation, and production workflows.
UI/UX & Visual Designer (Mid-Level)
🇮🇳 India
Jobgether 🇮🇳 India
You will design mobile-first, responsive user experiences and translate business requirements into performance-oriented design solutions. Additionally, you will maintain design systems, create visual assets, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize digital products.
Design Systems Specialist / Product Designer (Automotive) - all genders
🇸🇪 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Edenspiekermann 🇸🇪 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
You will drive the evolution, structure, and governance of a complex design system while managing scalable building blocks in Figma. Additionally, you will serve as a key point of contact for cross-functional teams to align design vision with engineering execution.
UI/UX Designer
🇵🇰 Pakistan
Tethr 🇵🇰 Pakistan
The designer will create modern, polished user interfaces, wireframes, and high-fidelity prototypes for web platforms and digital experiences. They are responsible for maintaining design systems and collaborating with developers to ensure production-ready, responsive designs.
Product Designer
🇨🇿 Capital Apartments, Wenceslas Square 36, 110 00 Prague, Czechia
Invity 🇨🇿 Capital Apartments, Wenceslas Square 36, 110 00 Prague, Czechia
Own the end-to-end product design process, transforming complex financial and regulatory requirements into simple mobile experiences. Collaborate with product, engineering, and compliance teams to build and maintain a scalable design system.
Product Designer
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Elmo Software 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
The Product Designer will own the end-to-end user experience, focusing on experience architecture and directing AI tools to generate high-quality interfaces. Key duties include usability validation, creating design artifacts, and ensuring compliance with the ELMO design system.
Head of Design
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Elmo Software 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
The Head of Design is accountable for the design discipline, the ELMO design system, and overall design quality across the product organization. This role involves managing a team of product designers and directing high-leverage strategic initiatives, particularly regarding AI-native design.
Product Designer (AI RnD)
You will define the visual language, design system, and UX flows for an AI-powered product from the ground up. You will also collaborate with engineering teams to implement high-quality motion design and optimize the product for growth and conversion.
Product Designer, Design Systems
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Assembled 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
You will lead the development of the next generation of Assembled's design system by defining visual language, interaction foundations, and reusable patterns. Additionally, you will partner with engineering to pioneer AI-assisted design workflows and ensure the system scales effectively across the product.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Hays 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
The role focuses on bridging the gap between Engineering and Design by building and maintaining reusable UI components and design system foundations. The designer will ensure coherence, scalability, and accessibility while providing support documentation and governance.
Senior Manager, Design Systems Engineer - Verity Solutions, Remote
Remote (🇺🇸 Tennessee, United States of America)
Cigna Healthcare Remote (🇺🇸 Tennessee, United States of America)
The Senior Manager will lead the development of the Verity Canvas design system, ensuring alignment between Figma libraries and production React code. They will manage component library releases, implement design token pipelines, and establish quality gates for accessibility and visual consistency.
Senior Product Designer- (6 month contract)
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Ticketek Entertainment Group 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
You will lead end-to-end UX and product design, from discovery to high-fidelity prototypes, while collaborating with cross-functional squads to deliver intuitive fan experiences. Additionally, you will govern the design system and balance commercial goals with user satisfaction to drive engagement.
Product Designer / UI·UX Designer
🇰🇷 South Korea
주식회사 다솜엑스 🇰🇷 South Korea
The designer will create UI/UX for the LEIA platform and OKCHAT.AI, focusing on agentic service workflows and collaborative content creation. They will also build a component-based design system in Figma and support marketing visual assets.
Senior Graphic Designer | Junior Art Director
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Patricks 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
The role involves designing and art directing marketing communications across email, social, and digital channels for a luxury brand. Responsibilities include developing creative concepts, maintaining design systems, and ensuring brand consistency across global markets.
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.