Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior UX Designer
Remote (🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia)
Mx51 Remote (🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia)
The Senior UX Designer will lead UX design across key product areas, balancing user needs with business objectives, and will be responsible for planning and conducting research and discovery initiatives to inform design recommendations. They will collaborate closely with Product Managers and engineers across the full product lifecycle while actively contributing to and maintaining the design system.
Product Designer, Framework
🇫🇮 Helsinki, Kaivokatu 1, 00100 Helsinki, Finland
Veikkaus Oy 🇫🇮 Helsinki, Kaivokatu 1, 00100 Helsinki, Finland
The role involves designing user flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity UI for core platform experiences and shared user journeys, while also supporting user testing and contributing to the design system.
Senior Product Designer
🇿🇦 Cape Town, City of Cape Town, South Africa
Collinson 🇿🇦 Cape Town, City of Cape Town, South Africa
The Senior Product Designer will lead customer-centric product design across web and mobile platforms, driving end-to-end feature design from research through high-fidelity execution. Key duties include contributing to the design system, mentoring junior designers, and influencing product direction by collaborating with executive-level stakeholders.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Maple Plain, Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States of America
Protolabs 🇺🇸 Maple Plain, Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will lead the design of customer-focused digital experiences across web, mobile, and emerging platforms, translating insights into polished prototypes and cohesive end-to-end journeys. This involves leading research, synthesizing insights, designing complex workflows, and actively contributing to and evolving the design system.
Staff Product Designer - Finance Solutions
🇧🇷 Brazil
Blip Global 🇧🇷 Brazil
The role involves leading Discovery processes through research to understand user financial barriers and designing complex financial journeys, focusing on reducing friction and increasing conversion. Responsibilities also include facilitating workshops, creating hybrid visual/conversational flows, developing clear data visualizations, and evolving the Design System.
Sr. Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Dialpad 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The Senior Product Designer will lead complex, high-impact product initiatives from discovery through release, focusing on shipping regularly and prioritizing real-world impact over pixel-perfect mockups. Responsibilities include designing intuitive, trustworthy, and valuable AI-powered features, collaborating with engineering on implementation, and strengthening the scalable design system, Dialtone.
Lead Product Designer (Enterprise Web)
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
New Era Technology 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The Lead Product Designer will guide the day-to-day design execution for Out of US (OUS) and EMEA enterprise web initiatives, ensuring digital experiences are high-quality, compliant, and brand-aligned with the Lilly Direct ecosystem. This role involves translating enterprise brand strategy into scalable design solutions, upholding design systems, and mentoring designers while acting as a quality gate for delivery.
Senior Product Designer II - Design Systems
Remote (🇨🇦 Wasaga Beach, Ontario, Canada)
Instacart Remote (🇨🇦 Wasaga Beach, Ontario, Canada)
The role involves owning the design system as a product, driving its roadmap based on product needs and system health, and defining the UX for components and patterns, including interaction states and accessibility defaults. Responsibilities also include leading the token strategy, establishing system governance, and partnering with engineering to ensure clean code implementation and design-to-code fidelity.
UX Designer LATAM
Remote (🇫🇮 Jyväskylä, Central Finland, Finland)
Alphalion Remote (🇫🇮 Jyväskylä, Central Finland, Finland)
The UX Designer will be responsible for designing high-converting e-commerce experiences, including landing pages, PDPs, funnels, and lifecycle experiences, while building and maintaining a scalable e-commerce design system.
Senior Product Designer II - Design Systems
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Instacart Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The role involves owning the design system as a product, driving its roadmap based on product needs and system health, and defining the UX for components and patterns, including interaction states and accessibility defaults. Responsibilities also include leading token strategy, establishing system governance, and partnering with engineering to ensure clean code implementation and design-to-code fidelity.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America)
Forward Financing Remote (🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America)
The role involves partnering closely with Product Managers to understand user needs and crafting every detail of new product features from ideation through production across all screen sizes. This includes evolving design systems, conducting user research, and sharing designs in regular reviews to gather stakeholder feedback.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America
Constant Contact 🇺🇸 Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America
The Principal Product Designer defines the long-term UX vision and design strategy for a major product pillar, owning the end-to-end design lifecycle for the most ambiguous and technically challenging product areas. This role acts as the highest-level design authority, influencing stakeholders across Product, Engineering, and Executive Leadership, and serving as a core leader for the Design System.
Product Designer
🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Scrm 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
The Product Designer will be responsible for designing, documenting, maintaining, scaling, and releasing design system libraries while also conducting research and auditing component adoption. They will collaborate closely with the development team to ensure design requirements are met across all phases and help build consistent, accessible, and scalable multi-platform experiences.
Product UI/UX Designer
🌍 Remote
Autods 🌍 Remote
The Product Designer will be responsible for developing UI/UX designs based on user research and creating design concepts focused on conversion optimization and user engagement. They will also contribute to the product style guidelines and design system while working closely with product and R&D teams.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Brahma 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
The Senior Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design for AI-powered creative tools, owning specifications in Figma and defining the user experience for complex generative AI features like digital humans and voice synthesis. This role requires prototyping and shipping functional React components quickly using AI-assisted coding tools while building and maintaining the React-based design system.
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.