Design Leadership Jobs
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UI/UX & Visual Designer (Mid-Level)
🇩🇪 Germany
Jobgether 🇩🇪 Germany
The designer will create mobile-first, responsive user experiences for content-rich websites and landing pages focused on conversion. They will also develop design systems, brand assets, and marketing materials while collaborating with cross-functional teams to optimize digital performance.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Rebuild 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The first designer will lead the end-to-end product design process, from field research with contractors to high-fidelity UI execution. They will establish and maintain the company's design system and set the quality bar for the entire user experience.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Rebuild.work 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
You will lead end-to-end product design, including field research with contractors and the development of the company's design system. You are responsible for defining the product's look and feel while ensuring high-quality standards across the platform.
UI/UX & Visual Designer (Mid-Level)
🇨🇭 Switzerland
Jobgether 🇨🇭 Switzerland
Design high-performing, mobile-first digital experiences for content-rich websites and landing pages focused on conversion. Create and maintain design systems and visual assets while collaborating with cross-functional teams to optimize digital performance.
Senior UI/UX Designer (Banking - must)
🇺🇦 Ukraine
Luxoft Ukraine 🇺🇦 Ukraine
The role involves delivering high-quality, human-centered design concepts including wireframes and prototypes for a Swiss online trading platform. The designer will maintain and support the design system while collaborating with stakeholders to ensure design consistency.
Senior Product Designer #26-19604
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Us Tech Solutions 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The role involves leading the development of a design system and creating reusable components in Figma for a digital wealth platform. The designer will collaborate with developers to ensure technical feasibility and perform Design QA for iOS and Android applications.
UI/UX & Visual Designer (Mid-Level)
🇳🇱 Netherlands
Jobgether 🇳🇱 Netherlands
The role involves designing mobile-first, responsive user experiences for content-rich websites and landing pages to optimize conversions. You will create and maintain design systems, visual assets, and prototypes while collaborating with cross-functional teams to improve digital performance.
UI/UX & Visual Designer (Mid-Level)
🇪🇸 Spain
Jobgether 🇪🇸 Spain
The role involves designing mobile-first, responsive user experiences for content-heavy websites and landing pages to optimize conversion and performance. You will create and maintain design systems, visual assets, and prototypes while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver cohesive digital products.
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, 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 (🇺🇸 Colorado, United States of America)
Tcgplayer Remote (🇺🇸 Colorado, United States of America)
You will own and evolve the design system across the TCGplayer commerce ecosystem, establishing visual language and interaction patterns. You will partner with engineering to ensure consistent implementation and advance design tooling through modern workflows and AI-assisted capabilities.
UI/UX & Visual Designer (Mid-Level)
🇮🇪 Ireland
Jobgether 🇮🇪 Ireland
The designer will create mobile-first, responsive user experiences for content-rich websites and landing pages to optimize conversion and performance. They will also develop design systems, brand assets, and marketing materials while collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders.
UI/UX & Visual Designer (Mid-Level)
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Jobgether 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
The designer will create mobile-first, responsive user experiences for content-rich websites and landing pages focused on conversion. They are responsible for maintaining design systems and producing visual assets like logos and infographics to support digital marketing initiatives.
UX Designer Pleno | Remota - 135300
Remote (🇧🇷 Barueri, São Paulo, Brazil)
Gft Technologies Se Remote (🇧🇷 Barueri, São Paulo, Brazil)
Create user flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity prototypes while maintaining the design system and documenting design decisions. Collaborate closely with product, engineering, and QA teams throughout the development cycle to translate strategic goals into tangible product deliverables.
Senior UI Designer – League of Legends (12 Month Contract)
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Riot Games 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
The Senior UI Designer will shape the visual direction for League of Legends features by creating intuitive, high-quality interfaces and design systems. They will collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams including art, game design, and engineering to implement assets and ensure a cohesive player experience.
Head of Design (m/w/d)
🇩🇪 Hamburg, Germany
Pammys™ (dieseo Gmbh) 🇩🇪 Hamburg, Germany
You will lead the visual evolution of the Pammys brand identity and manage the design team to ensure creative excellence across all international channels. This role involves developing art direction, design systems, and visual concepts while collaborating closely with marketing, content, 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.