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Staff Product Designer, Design Systems
🌍 Remote
Headway 🌍 Remote
You will scale Headway's existing design system into a robust, well-documented system that serves patients, providers, and payers. This includes defining principles, patterns, and components for consistent experiences across platforms and collaborating with teams to ensure quality and performance.
Staff Product Designer, Design Systems
🌍 Remote
Docker 🌍 Remote
Co-lead the evolution of Docker’s design system, including component libraries and visual language modernization. Collaborate with engineering to ensure high-quality and efficient design system delivery.
Senior Product Designer
🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Contango 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
The Senior Product Designer will lead the discovery and design of new AI solutions, translating business problems into user-friendly experiences. Responsibilities include creating design systems, collaborating with engineering, and mentoring junior designers.
Senior UI Designer H/F
🇫🇷 Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Nexton 🇫🇷 Paris, Ile-de-France, France
The Senior UI Designer will design modern and functional user interfaces while ensuring visual consistency with the company's design guidelines. They will also create and evolve components of the Design System and develop interactive prototypes for testing concepts.
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.