Design Leadership Jobs
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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.
Lead UX Designer
🇨🇭 Switzerland
Ef Education First / Hult 🇨🇭 Switzerland
Lead the UX strategy and governance of the design system for EF's global businesses. Ensure exceptional, accessible, and consistent user experiences through Figma libraries and Site Builder tool.
Senior UX Designer – Insurance Platforms
🇺🇸 Boston, MA
Hiscox 🇺🇸 Boston, MA
Corix, a Hiscox Company, is seeking a Senior UX Designer to lead the design of user experiences for insurance technology workflows. The role involves creating intuitive, scalable, and component-driven design systems.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Signal 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
The Senior Product Designer will simplify complex user flows and unify the experience across the platform while collaborating with various teams. They will also leverage AI to enhance the design process and ensure consistency in the design system.
Lead Product Designer – Workspace Design System
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Lseg 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
The Lead Product Designer will contribute to the design, documentation, and maintenance of reusable UI elements for LSEG Workspace. This role involves cross-functional collaboration to ensure the design system supports diverse workflows and drives adoption across the organization.
Senior UX Designer
🇬🇧 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Jagex Limited 🇬🇧 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Design and deliver end-to-end player experiences across Jagex’s digital ecosystem, collaborating with various teams to create seamless user journeys. Champion accessibility and performance while evolving design systems and leveraging data for continuous improvement.
Product Designer, LTX (FTC, Maternity cover)
🇮🇱 Jerusalem, Jerusalem District, Israel
Lightricks 🇮🇱 Jerusalem, Jerusalem District, Israel
You will collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, Research, and fellow Designers to bring ideas from concept to polished implementation. Your role includes designing intuitive end-to-end product experiences and contributing to the design system.
Product Designer
🇫🇮 Finland
Veikkaus Oy 🇫🇮 Finland
The Product Designer will design user flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity UI for digital sports betting products while supporting user testing and maintaining the design system. Collaboration with product designers, product owners, and developers is essential to deliver intuitive solutions.
Product Designer - HabitOne
🇺🇦 Kyiv, Ukraine
Skelar 🇺🇦 Kyiv, Ukraine
The Product Designer will be responsible for designing user interfaces and experiences for digital products, developing UI concepts based on product vision, and maintaining design systems. Additionally, they will conduct user and market research to enhance UX and business metrics.
Visual Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Pylon 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
The Visual Product Designer will be responsible for handing off designs to engineering within the first week and collaborating with product and engineering teams throughout projects. They will also navigate user flows for new features and build up the design system.
Senior Product Designer (Remote)
🌍 Remote
Policyme 🌍 Remote
The Senior Product Designer will own the end-to-end design process, from research to high-fidelity designs, while collaborating with cross-functional teams. They will also support major product initiatives and contribute to the design system.
Senior Product Designer, iCasino/Core
🌍 Remote
Penn Interactive 🌍 Remote
The Senior Product Designer will work closely with product designers, product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to solve user problems from ideation to execution. They will create user flows, journey maps, wireframes, and high-fidelity designs while evolving the design system across platforms.
Staff Product Designer - Consumer Experience
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Stubhub 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Lead the design of end-to-end user experiences and partner with product, engineering, and data teams to shape strategy and align on roadmap priorities. Uphold design excellence and contribute to the evolution of StubHub’s design system while coaching junior designers.
Staff Product Designer - Consumer Experience
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States
Stubhub 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States
Lead the design of end-to-end user experiences and partner with product, engineering, and data teams to shape strategy and align on priorities. Uphold design excellence and contribute to the evolution of StubHub’s design system while coaching junior designers.
Staff Product Designer - Consumer Experience
🇺🇸 Aliso Viejo, California, United States
Stubhub 🇺🇸 Aliso Viejo, California, United States
Lead the design of end-to-end user experiences and partner with product, engineering, and data teams to shape strategy and align on priorities. Uphold design excellence and contribute to the evolution of the design system while coaching junior designers.
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.