Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States
Eagle Eye Networks Inc 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States
The Senior UX Designer will lead and mentor a team of designers while collaborating with cross-functional teams to create user-centric designs. They will also conduct user research and maintain design systems to ensure consistency across products.
Lead Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Two Circles 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
The Lead Product Designer will define and elevate the user experience of the Audience Intelligence platform, ensuring intuitive and cohesive product experiences. This role involves leading design across multiple product squads and enhancing the design system for better interaction and visual consistency.
Sr UX UI Designer
🇦🇷 Argentina
Telecomarg 🇦🇷 Argentina
The role involves improving the efficiency, consistency, and quality of design work within the team. This includes maintaining the Design System and ensuring effective handoffs between UX and Technology.
UX Designer, Managed Agencies (Building and Construction Authority)
🇸🇬 Singapore
Public Service Division 🇸🇬 Singapore
The UX/UI Designer will own the end-to-end design process for the developer platform, including user research, wireframing, and high-fidelity designs. They will also build and maintain the Developer Platform Design System and collaborate with product and technical teams to ensure design feasibility and alignment with user needs.
Product Designer
🇮🇱 Ramat Gan, Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Elementor 🇮🇱 Ramat Gan, Tel-Aviv District, Israel
As a Senior Product Designer, you will craft vision types and design end-to-end user journeys while collaborating with various teams to deliver exceptional user experiences. You will also take ownership of the full design cycle and ensure consistency with Elementor’s design system.
Senior UX Designer
🇸🇪 Solna, Sweden
Saab 🇸🇪 Solna, Sweden
Lead design activities end-to-end for mission-critical systems while contributing to the design system. Collaborate with various stakeholders to ensure a consistent and high-quality user experience across digital products.
Product Designer
🇨🇿 Prague, Prague, Czechia
Nebius 🇨🇿 Prague, Prague, Czechia
The Product Designer will build convenient interfaces for the Nebius console and be accountable for console services and features. Responsibilities also include conducting research, presenting solutions, managing tasks, and developing the design system.
Digital Product Designer (Design Systems)
🌍 Remote
Yld 🌍 Remote
As a Digital Product Designer, you will be part of a client team shaping innovative, user-centric products. You will solve complex problems through thoughtful design and create intuitive and visually compelling experiences.
Senior Product Designer, Commerce Platform
🇺🇸 United States
Netflix 🇺🇸 United States
The Product Designer will create design patterns and styles for the Commerce Experience Design team, collaborating with other designers and stakeholders. They will drive a human-centered design process from concept to launch, ensuring compliance with the Netflix design system.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 Mesa, Arizona, United States
Versaterm 🇺🇸 Mesa, Arizona, United States
The Principal Product Designer will define the design vision and strategy for the product portfolio, lead design initiatives, and mentor design leadership. They will also oversee design systems and collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve user experience and operational efficiency.
Lead Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Adonis.io 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
The Lead Product Designer will own the design vision and execution across the Adonis platform, focusing on creating intuitive experiences for complex data and workflows. Responsibilities include partnering with cross-functional teams, maintaining a design system, and ensuring UX consistency across products.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States
Majority 🇺🇸 United States
As a Product Designer, you will take ownership of the design process from discovery to delivery, collaborating with Product Managers and Developers to solve customer and business problems. You will also contribute to the evolution of the Design System to ensure quality and consistency across products.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Formlabs 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
The Senior Product Designer will deeply understand customer needs and translate insights into innovative features while collaborating with engineering to refine designs. They will also conduct research and audits to inform strategic design decisions and maintain design systems.
Lead Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Mlabs 🌍 Remote
As the Lead Product Designer, you will own the user experience, brand identity, and design system for the platform. You will be responsible for delivering extraordinary designs and collaborating with engineering and product teams to create intuitive user flows.
Lead Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Mlabs 🌍 Remote
As the Lead Product Designer, you will own the user experience, brand identity, and design system for the protocol. You will be responsible for delivering extraordinary designs and collaborating with engineering and product teams.
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.