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Sr. Product Designer – Design Systems
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Ultisource 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Build, govern, and maintain shared UI components, interaction patterns, and design tokens for client platforms. Ensure design-to-code parity and maintain comprehensive usage documentation for the design system.
Senior Product Designer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Cella 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead the creation and maintenance of reusable UI components and design systems in Figma for a native mobile investing platform. Design intuitive, accessible end-to-end user experiences for iOS and Android while collaborating with cross-functional agile teams.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lyst 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the UX and UI design for AI-driven features within the Member Experience team, collaborating with researchers and engineers. Maintain and scale the design system while mentoring junior designers to foster a culture of continuous improvement.
Senior Product Designer (UI/UX) – Engineering Simulation
🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Maya Htt 🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Define the UI/UX strategy, wireframes, and interaction patterns for a modern thermal simulation engineering application. Collaborate with Product Owners and developers to create a scalable design system and improve complex engineering workflows.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lyst 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
You will partner with the product team to shape the UX and UI of AI-driven features while mentoring junior designers and maintaining a scalable design system. Additionally, you will collaborate with researchers and engineers to translate data-driven insights into high-fidelity prototypes and user-centered product experiences.
Product Designer, MarianaOS
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Mariana Minerals 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
You will design intuitive, data-dense workflows for MarianaOS and own the company's design system to ensure seamless integration with engineering. You will also partner closely with product managers and engineers to prototype solutions and conduct user research to ground product development in real needs.
UI/UX & Visual Designer (Mid-Level)
🇫🇷 France
Jobgether 🇫🇷 France
Design mobile-first, responsive user experiences for content-heavy websites and landing pages to drive conversion. Create and maintain design systems, brand assets, and visual content while collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders.
UX Principal, Design Systems - TCGplayer
Remote (🇺🇸 Texas, United States of America)
Tcgplayer (an Ebay Company) Remote (🇺🇸 Texas, 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
Remote (🇺🇸 Georgia, United States of America)
Tcgplayer (an Ebay Company) Remote (🇺🇸 Georgia, 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 scalable component libraries and advance AI-assisted design workflows.
UX Principal, Design Systems - TCGplayer
Remote (🇺🇸 Virginia, United States of America)
Tcgplayer (an Ebay Company) Remote (🇺🇸 Virginia, United States of America)
You will own and evolve the design system across the commerce ecosystem, establishing visual language, interaction patterns, and reusable components. You will also partner with engineering and product teams to ensure consistent implementation and advance AI-assisted design workflows.
UX Principal, Design Systems - TCGplayer
Remote (🇺🇸 Illinois, United States of America)
Tcgplayer (an Ebay Company) Remote (🇺🇸 Illinois, 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 scalable component libraries and advance AI-assisted design workflows.
UX Principal, Design Systems - TCGplayer
Remote (🇺🇸 Colorado, United States of America)
Tcgplayer (an Ebay Company) Remote (🇺🇸 Colorado, 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 scalable component libraries and advance AI-assisted design workflows.
UX Principal, Design Systems - TCGplayer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Tcgplayer (an Ebay Company) Remote (🇺🇸 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 scalable component libraries and advance AI-assisted design workflows.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Nmi Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The Senior Product Designer will lead end-to-end design efforts for complex B2B payment products, creating intuitive workflows and high-impact experiences. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to conduct user research, maintain design systems, and integrate AI tools into the design process.
Head of Design (m/w/d)
🇩🇪 Hamburg, Germany
Pammys 🇩🇪 Hamburg, Germany
Lead the visual evolution of the Pammys brand identity and manage the design team to ensure creative excellence. Develop art direction and design systems for international markets across social media, product launches, and digital touchpoints.
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.