Design Leadership Jobs
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Sr Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America
The Freeman Company (tfc) Brands 🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America
Develop and execute graphic brand campaigns and two-dimensional design systems for live events, environments, exhibits, and presentations, ensuring brand consistency and production readiness. Collaborate with creative, environmental design, layout, and production teams; present concepts, manage revisions, review deliverables for quality, and support team development.
Sr Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Orlando, Florida, United States of America
The Freeman Company (tfc) Brands 🇺🇸 Orlando, Florida, United States of America
Develop and guide graphic brand campaigns and two-dimensional design systems for live events, environments, exhibits, and supporting presentations. Collaborate with creative, environmental design, layout, and production teams to present concepts, maintain brand and production quality, manage revisions, and deliver work on schedule.
Product Designer - Acquisition and Monetization
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Cella 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead end-to-end UX and visual design for acquisition and purchase experiences across connected TV, mobile, and web, with a focus on conversion. Partner with product and engineering leaders, use AI-assisted design workflows, and evolve design systems and market analysis to support consistency and revenue growth.
UI/UX Designer
🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea
Odixcity Consulting 🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea
Design intuitive interfaces and digital experiences for web and mobile applications, using research insights to create wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups. Collaborate with developers, product managers, and stakeholders, maintain design systems, and improve usability through testing and feedback.
UX/UI Product Designer – Junior | Pleno | SR
🇧🇷 Brazil
Accenture Brasil 🇧🇷 Brazil
Conduct user research and create user journeys, navigation flows, wireframes, prototypes, and intuitive digital interfaces using Figma. Collaborate with product, technology, and business teams to shape product strategy, maintain design systems, test usability, and support implementation while ensuring accessibility and a high-quality user experience.
Product Design Lead, Design Systems
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Rippling 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead AI-powered design system initiatives, define AI-first user experience patterns, and establish scalable UX standards across Rippling’s products. Build systems and prototypes that improve design quality and execution speed, while partnering with teams across the company to deliver platform-wide work.
Staff Product Designer, Enterprise
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Scale Ai 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead end-to-end design across new and established enterprise AI products, creating user flows, wireframes, mockups, and prototypes for desktop web applications. Partner with cross-functional teams, advocate for users, identify product gaps, and contribute to the company design system while delivering in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment.
Senior UX Product Designer
🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
Broadcom 🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
Lead the full UX lifecycle from discovery to handoff while collaborating with product managers and engineers to simplify complex enterprise workflows. Integrate AI tools into design processes and maintain scalable design systems to ensure high-quality, accessible user experiences.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Stepful 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Design intuitive product experiences for students, instructors, and coaches across mobile and web products, while identifying opportunities through research, data, and experimentation. Own and evolve the design system, and collaborate with product, engineering, growth, and operations teams to deliver solutions and new partner products.
Founding Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Govwell 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Define GovWell’s design vision and lead a hands-on redesign of its core platform, including cohesive AI experiences and a design system that supports consistent, high-quality implementation. Work closely with customers, product leadership, and engineers, then establish and grow the Design function as the company scales.
Staff UI Designer (R6055)
🇺🇸 San Diego, California, United States of America
Shield Ai 🇺🇸 San Diego, California, United States of America
Lead the Shield AI website’s UI design, visual standards, and scalable Figma design system across corporate, product, campaign, and editorial experiences. Collaborate with brand, content, and development teams to create accessible, responsive interfaces, translate complex technology into clear user journeys, and ensure quality through implementation.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇸🇪 Stockholm Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden
Omoi 🇸🇪 Stockholm Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden
Lead brand identity projects from initial concept through final design systems, and mentor other designers. Advise founders on brand development and create work across identities, pitch decks, websites, films, and other formats.
Lead Product Designer
🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico
Smartly 🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico
Lead product design from discovery through delivery, identifying high-impact opportunities and translating customer insights and complex workflows into intuitive product experiences. Collaborate with customers and cross-functional teams, contribute to AI-native experiences and the design system, and mentor other designers.
Product Design Lead, Design Systems
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Rippling 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead AI-powered design system initiatives, define AI-first user experience patterns, and establish design standards and reusable UX frameworks across Rippling’s products. Build prototypes and internal tools that improve design quality and delivery speed, while partnering with teams across the company to execute platform-wide work.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 Santa Monica, California, United States of America
Malbon 🇺🇸 Santa Monica, California, United States of America
The Senior UI/UX Designer will lead conversion rate optimization efforts and design elevated, brand-forward digital experiences across web and mobile platforms. They will collaborate with engineering teams to implement design systems and ensure high-quality, data-driven user interactions.
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.