Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior UI/UX Designer_01
🇵🇰 Punjab, Pakistan
Fiverivers Technologies 🇵🇰 Punjab, Pakistan
The Senior UI/UX Designer will create user flows, wireframes, and prototypes while guiding the design team to improve delivery speed and quality. They will translate business requirements into intuitive product experiences and maintain scalable design systems across various platforms.
UI/UX Designer
🇻🇳 Hà Nội, Vietnam
Thu Do Multimedia 🇻🇳 Hà Nội, Vietnam
The designer will lead the end-to-end UX/UI process for OTT applications across Smart TV, Mobile, and Web platforms. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop design systems and improve user engagement through data-driven insights.
Product Designer (UX)
🇸🇬 Singapore
Doerscircle 🇸🇬 Singapore
The Product Designer will own the end-to-end UX for talent and workforce experiences, translating business problems into high-fidelity designs and intuitive interfaces. They will collaborate with engineering and product teams to maintain the design system and ensure high-quality implementation of digital products.
Senior Visual Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Scapia 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Design high-quality digital assets across performance marketing and social media channels to support brand storytelling and business growth. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to iterate on creative content based on performance data and maintain a consistent digital design system.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Annapurna 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Own end-to-end product design for assigned areas, creating user flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity prototypes in Figma. Collaborate with Product Managers and engineers to deliver intuitive experiences across coach and athlete platforms while maintaining the design system.
Senior Design Systems Specialist / Product Designer (m/f/d)
🇩🇪 Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
Appsfactory 🇩🇪 Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
The role involves driving the creation, evolution, and governance of complex design systems and scalable component architectures within automotive ecosystems. It also focuses on integrating AI-supported agentic workflows and DesignOps practices to improve efficiency and scalability.
Design Systems Designer (Remote LATAM)
Remote (🇨🇴 Colombia)
Blacksmith Agency Remote (🇨🇴 Colombia)
The role involves building and owning client design systems, focusing on token architecture, variables, and core component libraries. You will document these systems to ensure seamless execution by developers and automated pipelines across multiple client brands.
Senior Web Designer, Design Systems (Remote LATAM)
Remote (🇨🇴 Colombia)
Blacksmith Agency Remote (🇨🇴 Colombia)
The role involves building and owning client design systems, focusing on token architecture, variables, and core component libraries in Figma. You will document these systems to ensure seamless execution by developers and automated pipelines across multiple client brands.
Senior UX Designer
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Tata Consultancy Services 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Lead end-to-end UX activities for banking applications, customer portals, and digital channels, including the design of conversational AI interfaces. Maintain enterprise design systems and conduct usability research to optimize user interactions and accessibility.
Design Systems Designer (Remote LATAM)
Remote (🇲🇽 Mexico)
Blacksmith Agency Remote (🇲🇽 Mexico)
The role involves building and owning client design systems by extracting patterns into working systems with tokens, variables, and core components. You will document these systems to ensure seamless execution by developers or automated pipelines across multiple client brands.
Design Systems Designer (Remote LATAM)
Remote (🇲🇽 Mexico)
Blacksmith Agency Remote (🇲🇽 Mexico)
The role involves building and owning client design systems, focusing on token architecture, variables, and core component libraries. The designer must document these systems to ensure seamless execution by developers or automated pipelines across multiple brands.
Senior Web Designer, Design Systems (Remote LATAM)
Remote (🇲🇽 Mexico)
Blacksmith Agency Remote (🇲🇽 Mexico)
The role involves building and owning client design systems, focusing on token architecture, variables, and core component libraries in Figma. The designer must document these systems to ensure seamless execution by developers or automated pipelines across multiple client brands.
Senior Web Designer, Design Systems (Remote LATAM)
Remote (🇲🇽 Mexico)
Blacksmith Agency Remote (🇲🇽 Mexico)
The role involves building and owning client design systems by extracting brand patterns into working systems of tokens, variables, and core components. You will document these systems to ensure seamless execution by developers and automated pipelines across multiple client brands.
Design Systems Designer (Remote LATAM)
Remote (🇧🇷 Brazil)
Blacksmith Agency Remote (🇧🇷 Brazil)
The role involves building and owning client design systems by extracting patterns into working systems with tokens, variables, and core components. You will document these systems to ensure developers and automated pipelines can execute them without further guidance.
Design Systems Designer (Remote LATAM)
Remote (🇨🇱 Chile)
Blacksmith Agency Remote (🇨🇱 Chile)
The role involves building scalable design system architectures using tokens, variables, and core components in Figma. You will document these systems to ensure seamless execution by developers and automated pipelines across multiple client brands.
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.