Design Leadership Jobs
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UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
The Agora Companies 🇺🇸 Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
The role involves designing intuitive, scalable, and user-centered experiences for marketing technology platforms, which includes creating wireframes, mockups, and prototypes for web-based platforms. Responsibilities also cover supporting user research, collaborating cross-functionally, and maintaining design systems and standards.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 Tampa, Florida, United States of America
Shift4 🇺🇸 Tampa, Florida, United States of America
This role bridges design and engineering by translating design specifications and components into high-quality, reusable front-end code and maintaining the coded design system in partnership with design system owners. Responsibilities also include building interactive prototypes using AI-assisted tools and establishing foundational tools and workflows for design-to-code processes.
Product Designer Senior H/F
🇫🇷 Paris, France
Nexton 🇫🇷 Paris, France
The Senior Product Designer will be responsible for designing future multi-screen TV interfaces, leveraging a robust Design System, and creating TV user journeys by developing mockups. They will also collaborate with Product Managers and UX Strategists on product vision, document assets, and ensure quality assurance with developers.
UI Designer
🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Inetum 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
The UI Designer will be responsible for designing modern, coherent, and user-oriented visual interfaces for web and/or mobile applications. Key tasks include creating mockups, evolving the Design System, managing Design Tokens in Figma, and ensuring visual consistency across products.
Senior UI Designer - Design Systems (f/m/x)
🇩🇪 Hamburg, Germany
Exmox Gmbh 🇩🇪 Hamburg, Germany
The role involves leading the creation, evolution, and governance of the company's mobile Design System, ensuring visual consistency and scalability across B2C mobile apps and B2B products. This includes owning the component library, defining token-first architecture for theming, driving adoption, and collaborating closely with engineers for integration.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Valence 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The role involves designing features to evolve the coaching platform into a multiplayer collaboration tool, including manager tooling and context-sharing, while establishing and evolving the design system for consistency at scale. Designers will work embedded with product and engineering to ship high-quality experiences weekly, balancing strategic thinking with hands-on execution.
Senior product Designer
Remote (🇵🇭 Manila, Capital District, Philippines)
Hellofresh Remote (🇵🇭 Manila, Capital District, Philippines)
The role involves designing and maintaining Design System libraries, creating detailed documentation and guidelines to ensure consistency across the platform, and acting as the standard-bearer for UI excellence aligned with the brand. Key tasks include refining existing designs, translating designs into technical specifications, expanding the design system, mapping user journeys, creating interactive prototypes, and performing design QA.
Product Designer 2
🇲🇽 Mexico
Stori 🇲🇽 Mexico
The Product Designer will own the end-to-end design of multi-product onboarding experiences for new customers, focusing on driving activation, conversion, and completion metrics. This involves close collaboration with cross-functional teams and championing design consistency by expanding upon the existing design system.
Senior Product Designer, Design Foundations
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The New York Times 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The role involves co-owning the platform-focused design systems roadmap, contributing to and maintaining Figma libraries and engineering documentation, and auditing existing experiences to find opportunities for consolidation and systemization. Responsibilities also include championing system-first design practices, providing guidance to other designers, and producing production-ready design deliverables.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇦🇺 Australia)
Long Angle Remote (🇦🇺 Australia)
The role involves implementing a new brand system across product and marketing, leading the design of a new marketing website, and designing polished, production-ready UI for web and mobile applications. Responsibilities also include shaping end-to-end product experiences, gathering member feedback, and evolving the design system.
Lead Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Rec Technologies 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Lead Product Designer will own end-to-end design across staff administration tools, consumer booking experiences, and the scaling design system, while leading the design of new AI-powered product features.
Senior Product Designer, Design Systems
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Hinge Health 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
The Senior Product Designer will shape enterprise tooling for the Design System team, focusing on building the engine that powers product development to ensure consistent, accessible, and meaningful member interactions. Key accomplishments include auditing the component library, shipping refined components, leading the rollout of new patterns, refining governance processes, and evolving design tokens to support new platforms.
UX Designer (contract)
🇺🇸 Tustin, California, United States of America
Zymo Research Corporation 🇺🇸 Tustin, California, United States of America
The UX Designer will architect intuitive, goal-driven user experiences by translating business objectives into clear user journeys and design concepts, while proactively identifying and proposing scalable UX/UI improvements across digital platforms. Key duties involve designing responsive pages, creating high-fidelity mockups in Figma, maintaining the design system, and collaborating cross-functionally with marketing and development teams.
Staff Product Designer - Design Systems
🇺🇸 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Jewelers Mutual Group 🇺🇸 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
The Staff Product Designer will lead the build-out and maintenance of the design system based on HeroUI, establishing foundations, gaining adoption, and creating necessary documentation and governance. Concurrently, the role involves creating and maintaining comprehensive journey maps for priority product areas to inform product strategy and identify customer experience opportunities.
Graphic Designer I - Signage & Wayfinding - 2026 Graduate
🇺🇸 Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Populous 🇺🇸 Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
The role involves creating impactful signage and wayfinding design systems for high-profile national and international clients across various markets, conceptualizing designs that utilize typography, brand, and 3D form to ensure clear communication and easy navigation. Responsibilities also include managing construction documents from concept through fabrication and installation, and researching user-centered wayfinding systems for complex places.
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.