Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior Product Designer - Design Systems
🇺🇸 Irving, Texas, United States of America
Peterson Technology Partners 🇺🇸 Irving, Texas, United States of America
Own significant design-system initiatives, turning recurring product experience problems into reusable standards, patterns, and structured specifications that support consistent implementation. Define and prototype complex agentic interactions, including delegation, oversight, accessibility, failure, and recovery, while partnering with design leadership and engineering on governance and platform architecture.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
The Judge Group 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Create production-ready design specifications, prototypes, user flows, and assets that align with and extend established design systems. Collaborate with design, research, content, product, engineering, marketing, and data teams to turn research, market trends, and performance metrics into scalable, user-centered solutions.
Design Technologist
Remote (🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America)
Imbue Remote (🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America)
You will own the end-to-end user experience, contributing to product strategy and design vision. You will collaborate with engineers to ship high-quality product improvements and build intuitive design systems.
Content Design, Vice President- Design Systems
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Jpmorgan Chase & Co. 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
You will lead content design initiatives for design systems, creating scalable strategies and reusable content patterns to ensure intuitive customer experiences. You will also collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate content guidance into agentic AI workflows and maintain high standards across digital products.
Senior UI Designer- Freelance
🇺🇸 Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Vml 🇺🇸 Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
The Senior UI Designer will lead visual design direction and execution across digital platforms while scaling design systems. They will partner with cross-functional teams to deliver cohesive experiences and integrate AI tools to improve design efficiency.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Securityscorecard 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Lead end-to-end design of complex AI-enabled cybersecurity workflows, grounding interactive prototypes in the existing codebase and design system. Use research, analytics, accessibility practices, and cross-functional collaboration to improve enterprise experiences and strengthen the design system and the team's AI prototyping capabilities.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Securityscorecard 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Lead end-to-end design for complex AI-enabled cybersecurity workflows, using research, product analytics, and rapid code-based prototyping grounded in the existing product and design system. Strengthen accessible, reusable design patterns, build the design team's AI prototyping capabilities, and partner with Product and Engineering to turn ambiguous problems into evidence-based solutions.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 Jersey City, New Jersey, United States of America
Securityscorecard 🇺🇸 Jersey City, New Jersey, United States of America
Own end-to-end design for complex AI-enabled cybersecurity workflows, using research, usability testing, and product analytics to guide iterations. Build codebase-grounded prototypes with AI, strengthen accessible and machine-readable design systems, and collaborate with Product and Engineering while helping raise the design team's AI fluency.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 Stamford, Connecticut, United States of America
Securityscorecard 🇺🇸 Stamford, Connecticut, United States of America
Lead end-to-end design for complex AI-enabled cybersecurity workflows, using research, analytics, and rapid code-based prototyping grounded in the existing product and design system. Improve enterprise design patterns and accessibility, strengthen the design system, build the team’s AI prototyping skills, and partner with Product and Engineering to deliver evidence-based solutions.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Securityscorecard 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Design and iterate on complex AI-enabled cybersecurity workflows, grounding prototypes in the existing codebase and design system while using research, analytics, and usability testing to validate decisions. Strengthen accessible design-system patterns, promote AI prototyping skills across the design team, and partner with Product and Engineering to deliver evidence-based enterprise solutions.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Securityscorecard 🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Design and iterate on complex AI-enabled cybersecurity workflows, grounding prototypes in the existing codebase and design system while using research, usability testing, and product analytics to validate decisions. Strengthen accessible, machine-readable design patterns, build the design team's AI prototyping capabilities, and partner with Product and Engineering to deliver evidence-based solutions.
Senior Staff Product Designer - Consumer Group, Credit Karma
🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Intuit 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Lead end-to-end design strategy and delivery for Credit Karma’s consumer engagement and personal finance experiences across web and mobile, translating complex financial concepts into accessible, scalable products. Mentor designers, extend design systems, and collaborate with product, engineering, research, and data partners to deliver impactful experiences informed by customer insights and business goals.
Senior Staff Product Designer - Consumer Group, Credit Karma
🇺🇸 Oakland, California, United States of America
Intuit 🇺🇸 Oakland, California, United States of America
Lead end-to-end design strategy and delivery for Credit Karma engagement features across web and mobile, translating complex financial concepts into accessible, scalable experiences. Use customer research and data to guide design, extend design systems, influence stakeholders, and mentor designers while advancing high-impact initiatives.
Head of Design, Product Design
🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America
Bitgo 🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America
Lead and mentor the design team while remaining hands-on, owning and shipping product design work, including the retail mobile experience and design system. Establish design as an early strategic partner across product and engineering, improve design processes and craft, and represent design internally and externally.
AI Product Designer — Interface & Experience
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Information Security Media Group (ismg) 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Own the end-to-end front-end and interaction design for AI products, including user research, prototyping, validation, and deployment. Establish the design system and accessible enterprise UX patterns, collaborate with technical and business teams, and use product analytics to inform the roadmap.
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.