Design Leadership Jobs
Find your next Design Leadership role at companies that value creative talent
Showing 1409 jobs
Senior Product Designer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Mycroft 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
You will own the design of complex, expert-facing workflows for an AI-native security and compliance platform. This includes maintaining high design-to-build fidelity, managing the design system, and mentoring junior team members.
UX Principal, Design Systems - TCGplayer
🇺🇸 Oregon, United States of America
Ebay 🇺🇸 Oregon, United States of America
Own and evolve the TCGplayer design system by establishing visual languages, interaction patterns, and reusable components across the commerce ecosystem. Partner with engineering to ensure consistent implementation between Figma and code while advancing AI-assisted design workflows.
UX Principal, Design Systems - TCGplayer
🇺🇸 Illinois, United States of America
Ebay 🇺🇸 Illinois, United States of America
Own and evolve the TCGplayer design system to establish a consistent visual language and interaction patterns across the commerce ecosystem. Partner with engineering to implement shared components and design tokens while advancing AI-assisted design workflows.
UX Principal, Design Systems - TCGplayer
🇺🇸 Georgia, United States of America
Ebay 🇺🇸 Georgia, United States of America
Own and evolve the TCGplayer design system to ensure a consistent visual language and interaction patterns across the commerce ecosystem. Partner with engineering to implement design tokens and components that improve development efficiency and product quality.
UX Principal, Design Systems - TCGplayer
🇺🇸 Colorado, United States of America
Ebay 🇺🇸 Colorado, United States of America
You will own and evolve the design system across the commerce ecosystem, establishing visual language and interaction patterns to ensure high-quality product experiences. You will also partner with engineering and product teams to define standards, governance, and AI-assisted workflows that improve development efficiency and scalability.
UX Principal, Design Systems - TCGplayer
🇺🇸 Virginia, United States of America
Ebay 🇺🇸 Virginia, United States of America
Own and evolve the TCGplayer design system to ensure visual and interaction consistency across the commerce ecosystem. Partner with engineering to implement shared components and advance AI-assisted design-to-code workflows.
UX Principal, Design Systems - TCGplayer
🇺🇸 Texas, United States of America
Ebay 🇺🇸 Texas, United States of America
Own and evolve the TCGplayer design system by establishing visual languages, interaction patterns, and reusable components across the commerce ecosystem. Partner with engineering to ensure consistent implementation in code and advance AI-assisted design workflows.
Senior Product Designer, AI SaaS
🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Autogenai 🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design of an AI-powered proposal platform, from problem discovery to polished UI. This includes crafting AI-assisted workflows, evolving the design system, and collaborating with engineering to ensure high-quality implementation.
Senior Designer, Design Systems
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Netspend 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Lead the design strategy and architecture for the Netspend White Label platform and multi-brand design system across Web, iOS, and Android. Manage component libraries and design tokens while ensuring seamless handoffs to engineering and high brand integrity for enterprise partners.
Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Hga 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Graphic Designer will create and maintain branded templates and design systems to support a firmwide brand refresh. They will also redesign existing marketing collateral and ensure visual identity consistency across various digital and print materials.
Sr. UI/UX Designer (m/f/d)
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Holy 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
The Senior UI/UX Designer will own the design quality and customer journey for the HOLY Shop, building and governing the design system while collaborating with cross-functional teams. They are responsible for translating brand narrative into high-converting experiences and ensuring technical accuracy through design handoffs and QA.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Regal 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Product Designer will lead the redesign of the platform for an AI-first era, focusing on simplifying complex Voice AI agent workflows. They will collaborate within a triad of product, engineering, and design to conduct user research and maintain a scalable design system.
Senior Designer, Design Systems
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Netspend 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
You will serve as the primary designer for the Netspend White Label platform, leading cross-platform design system strategy and multi-brand scaling logic. You will also partner with engineering and product teams to ensure component parity and deliver tailored thematic experiences for enterprise partners.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Regal 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
You will shape the vision for AI-first product design and rethink information architecture to simplify complex Voice AI agent interactions. You will also partner with product and engineering teams to conduct user research and maintain a scalable design system.
Design Systems Application Engineer [14380]
🇨🇦 Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Meda Engineering & Technical Services 🇨🇦 Windsor, Ontario, Canada
The role serves as the primary interface between the Chief Engineering team and the Product Release Center to manage Driveline System interactions. Key duties include leading hardware design reviews, managing DFMEA/DRBFM processes, and overseeing technical cost reductions and validation status.
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.