Design Leadership Jobs
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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.
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 high-quality designs quickly and iterating based on user feedback.
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.
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 simple and delightful experiences in a complex Web3 ecosystem.
Sr Graphic Designer | Remote | LATAM Only | 85139
🌍 Remote
Remote Talent Latam 🌍 Remote
The Senior Graphic Designer will translate strategy and concepts into compelling visual systems and assets while developing brand identities across various formats. This role involves collaborating closely with other creatives to create cohesive stories and maintaining internal design systems.
Associate Lead Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States
Navex 🇺🇸 United States
The Associate Lead Product Designer will conduct comprehensive mixed-method user research and design intuitive user interfaces for SaaS enterprise software. Collaboration with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality product experiences and contribute to the design system is also expected.
Associate Lead Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States
Navex 🇺🇸 United States
Conduct comprehensive mixed-method user research and design intuitive user interfaces for SaaS enterprise software. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality product experiences and contribute to the design system.
Senior Employer Graphic Designer
🌍 Remote
Upstars 🌍 Remote
The Senior Employer Graphic Designer will be responsible for developing, supporting, and managing design projects, as well as creating design systems and art guides. They will also create promotional creatives for social media and participate in design solutions for existing and new products.
Senior UI Designer
🇮🇳 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Havas Group 🇮🇳 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
The Senior UI Designer will build, scale, and sustain a world-class design system while balancing detailed UI craftsmanship with broader system-level strategy. They will collaborate with business stakeholders to define new features and deliver designs through various formats such as wireframes and prototypes.
UI Designer
🇮🇳 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Havas Group 🇮🇳 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
The UI Designer will build, scale, and sustain a design system while balancing detailed UI craftsmanship with broader system-level strategy. They will design polished UI and interaction patterns specifically for the healthcare industry.
Senior UI Designer
🇮🇳 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Havas Group 🇮🇳 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
The Senior UI Designer will build, scale, and sustain a world-class design system while balancing detailed UI craftsmanship with broader system-level strategy. They will collaborate with business stakeholders to understand key requirements and deliver design through various formats such as sketches, wireframes, and prototypes.
UI Designer
🇮🇳 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Havas Group 🇮🇳 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
The UI Designer will build, scale, and sustain a world-class design system while balancing detailed UI craftsmanship with broader system-level strategy. They will design polished UI and interaction patterns tailored to the healthcare industry and solve complex systems-architecture challenges.
Sr. UX Designer
🌍 Remote
Procurement Sciences 🌍 Remote
The Sr. UX Designer will own and evolve the design system for the Awarded.AI platform, ensuring consistency across user touchpoints. They will lead user research efforts and collaborate with product and engineering teams to create intuitive AI-native user experiences.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States
Origami Risk Llc 🇺🇸 United States
As a Product Designer, you will be responsible for the overall user experience of the Origami Risk platform, collaborating with engineering and product teams on design systems and conducting client research. You will create modular UI patterns and work with product managers to design mockups and prototypes.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Plain 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
The Senior Product Designer will own problems end to end, from customer interactions to design implementation. They will define the design system and work closely with the team to measure the impact of their designs.
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.