Design Leadership Jobs

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Staff UX Designer, Google Ads

🇺🇸 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.

$188,000 - $274,000Full-timeSenior
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Digitālais produktu dizainers/-e (UX/UI) | Digital Product Designer (UX/UI)

🇱🇻 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.

Hybrid$2,800 - $3,600Full-timeSenior
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Senior UI/UX Designer

🇲🇾 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.

Full-timeSenior
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Content Design, Vice President- Design Systems

🇺🇸 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.

$133,000 - $190,000Full-timeVp
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UX/UI Design Manager - Digital Solutions

🇦🇺 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.

Full-timeManager
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Stage - UI/UX Designer (H/F/X) - Mode - Janvier 2026

🇫🇷 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.

OnsiteFull-time
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UX/UI Design Manager - Digital Solutions

🇦🇺 Kurri Kurri, New South Wales, Australia

Lead and develop the UX/UI design team, establish design practices, and own the design system across Orica Digital Solutions. Partner with product, technology, and business teams to prioritize design work, apply user research, improve workflows, and deliver consistent, usable digital products.

Full-timeManager
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Product Designer, Amazon Pay India

🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India

Design innovative and frictionless payment experiences for various Amazon Pay use-cases while maintaining scalable design systems. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver best-in-class user experiences based on data-driven insights and user research.

Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer

🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Lead end-to-end design for complex B2B SaaS experiences, from discovery and research through prototyping and shipped detail, aligning decisions with user needs, product strategy, and business outcomes. Partner with product, engineering, and other teams to prioritize opportunities, improve the design system and design quality, influence product direction, and mentor less experienced designers.

Full-timeSenior
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Freelance Web Designer – Remote

Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)

Design high-fidelity, responsive web and product interfaces, and build and maintain scalable design systems and interactive prototypes. Prepare organized, developer-ready Figma files and collaborate with developers to ensure accurate implementation and consistent user experiences.

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Freelance Web Designer – Remote

Remote (🇸🇬 Singapore)

Design high-fidelity, responsive web and product interfaces, and build and maintain scalable design systems and component libraries. Create detailed interactive prototypes and organized developer-ready Figma files, collaborating with developers to ensure accurate implementation.

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Senior UX Product Designer

🇮🇳 Chennai, India

Own the end-to-end UX lifecycle, from discovery and research through design and handoff, translating complex enterprise workflows into intuitive experiences. Partner with product and engineering teams, evolve scalable design systems, integrate AI tools into design workflows, and champion research-backed, accessible design.

Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer

🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Lead end-to-end design for key product initiatives, from discovery and problem definition through delivery and optimisation, creating high-quality mobile and web experiences. Collaborate with product, engineering, research, and growth teams to use customer insights and data, evolve the design system, and improve measurable customer outcomes.

ContractSenior
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Product Designer - Especialista I (Vaga afirmativa para pessoas com deficiência)

🇧🇷 Brazil

Lead product experience strategy and research, translating user insights and business objectives into intuitive, accessible digital journeys, interfaces, and prototypes. Evolve the design system, analyze product metrics, facilitate collaboration across multidisciplinary teams, document engineering handoffs, and mentor other designers.

HybridFull-timeMid-level
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Senior Product Designer

🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America

Design precise, on-brand experiences across acquisition, conversion, engagement, and purchase journeys, using research and intuitive user flows to address new functionality, technology changes, and revenue opportunities. Collaborate with Product, Engineering, QA, and other stakeholders to maintain design continuity and consistency, evolve design systems, and use AI tools throughout ideation, prototyping, research, and production.

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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.