Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior Product Designer- (6 month max term contract)
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Ticketek Entertainment Group 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Lead end-to-end UX and product design for Event Management, Core Ticketing, and Commerce portfolios. Collaborate with cross-functional squads and external agencies to build and govern a scalable design system that balances commercial goals with fan satisfaction.
Senior Product Designer (m/f/d) - freelance contract
🇩🇪 Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Talpasolutions 🇩🇪 Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Design user flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity visuals while iterating through prototypes and user validation cycles. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality design implementation and maintain a robust design system.
Product Designer, UX/UI (Part-Time)
Remote (🇺🇸 Miami, Florida, United States of America)
Rocketminds Remote (🇺🇸 Miami, Florida, United States of America)
Design end-to-end AI-native workflows that transform complex business context into clear, usable product experiences. This includes mapping user journeys, building design systems, and collaborating with engineering to ensure high-quality implementation.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America
Staffing Spot, Inc. 🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America
The Senior UI/UX Designer will create intuitive web and mobile experiences by conducting user research and developing high-fidelity designs. They will maintain scalable design systems and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure accurate implementation of user-centered solutions.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
Aligned Remote (🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
The Senior Product Designer will lead end-to-end design processes from discovery to delivery while acting as the primary design voice for their Squad. They will partner with clients and internal teams to build intuitive product experiences, maintain design systems, and ensure high-fidelity execution.
Member of Technical Staff, Design Systems
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Perplexity 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Develop and maintain a cross-platform design system and component library for web, iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows. Collaborate with designers to translate Figma systems into accessible, typed, and documented UI primitives.
Member of Technical Staff (Design Systems)
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Perplexity 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
You will design and build core UI primitives and component APIs that ensure consistency across web, mobile, and desktop platforms. Additionally, you will partner with design teams to translate Figma systems into documented, accessible, and testable code.
Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Cabi Clothing 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
The Graphic Designer creates high-quality digital, social, and print assets based on creative briefs and brand guidelines. This role involves collaborating with the Art Director and marketing teams to execute seasonal campaigns and maintain design system consistency.
Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Eliseai 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Create high-impact marketing assets, sales presentations, and digital content to bring the EliseAI brand to life across all customer touchpoints. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build scalable design systems and incorporate AI-powered workflows to improve creative efficiency.
Product Designer, MarianaOS
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Mariana Minerals 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The role focuses on simplifying complex, data-heavy workflows within MarianaOS to create intuitive information architecture and user flows. The designer will own the design system and partner closely with PMs and engineers to prototype and ship human-centered interfaces.
Staff Product Designer, Design System
🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Zscaler 🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
The Staff Product Designer will evolve the organization's design ecosystem by creating scalable components and patterns to ensure consistency across products. They will collaborate with engineering and cross-functional teams to integrate AI-powered tools into the design-to-code workflow.
Product Designer
🇦🇷 Argentina
Swiftly 🇦🇷 Argentina
The Product Designer will create intuitive user experiences and interfaces, including wireframes, high-fidelity UI, and interactive prototypes. They are responsible for maintaining a scalable Figma design system and collaborating closely with engineering to ensure high-quality, developer-ready handoffs.
Senior Product Designer | US
🇺🇸 United States of America
Degreed 🇺🇸 United States of America
Own end-to-end design for features across the learning and skills platform, from discovery and problem framing to launch and QA. Determine the balance between visible UI and invisible AI automation to optimize user workflows and maintain the design system.
Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Huntington Beach, California, United States of America
Cabi Clothing 🇺🇸 Huntington Beach, California, United States of America
The Graphic Designer creates high-quality digital, social, and print assets based on creative briefs and brand guidelines. They collaborate with the Art Director and marketing teams to execute seasonal campaigns and maintain design system consistency.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Long Beach, California, United States of America
Cabi Clothing 🇺🇸 Long Beach, California, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer translates brand and campaign strategies into polished design systems and assets across digital, social, and print channels. They own the Figma design systems and maintain brand guidelines to ensure consistency across all creative output.
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.