Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior UX Designer - Design System
🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Donorperfect 🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Define, evolve, and govern the design system to create consistent and scalable user experiences across the nonprofit CRM platform. Partner with cross-functional teams to establish reusable UI components, modernize legacy interfaces, and ensure accessibility standards are met.
Senior UX Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Alstom 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Lead end-to-end UX design for the DIALOGS application, focusing on diagnostic log exploration and troubleshooting workflows. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement scalable design systems and ensure accessibility standards are met.
Senior UX Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Alstom 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Lead end-to-end UX design for the DIALOGS application, focusing on diagnostic log exploration and troubleshooting workflows. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create scalable design systems and ensure accessibility standards are met.
Senior UX Designer - Design System
🇺🇸 Fort Washington, Upper Dublin Township, PA 19034, United States of America
Donorperfect 🇺🇸 Fort Washington, Upper Dublin Township, PA 19034, United States of America
Define, evolve, and govern the design system to create consistent and scalable user experiences across the DonorPerfect platform. Partner with cross-functional teams to establish reusable UI components, modernize legacy interfaces, and ensure accessibility compliance.
Senior Product Designer - UX & Design Systems
🇺🇸 Lindon, Utah County, UT 84042, United States of America
Trucordia 🇺🇸 Lindon, Utah County, UT 84042, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will own and scale the company's design system, including component libraries, design tokens, and accessibility patterns. They will also design end-to-end AI-powered user experiences and collaborate closely with engineering to ensure design consistency in code.
UI/UX Designer
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Version 1 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Develop user-centered design solutions, including wireframes and prototypes, for web and mobile applications. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to maintain design systems and ensure accessibility and usability standards are met.
Principal Software Engineer, Frontend - Design Systems
🇺🇸 United States of America
Hubspot 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead the frontend technical direction for the Trellis design system to modernize HubSpot's UI and customer experience. Develop internal tooling, migration pipelines, and accessibility models while mentoring senior engineers and aligning with product roadmaps.
Graphic Designer, Mid
🇺🇸 Tampa, Florida, United States of America
Booz Allen Hamilton 🇺🇸 Tampa, Florida, United States of America
Create a wide range of visual deliverables including logos, publications, and multimedia products while ensuring Section 508 accessibility compliance. Collaborate with stakeholders and senior designers to communicate government and defense-sector priorities through impactful brand identity.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Aqua Finance, Inc. 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead the design of user-centered web and mobile applications while collaborating with various teams to translate complex business requirements into user-friendly solutions. Advocate for usability and accessibility throughout the design process and stay current on design trends to enhance customer satisfaction.
Senior Product Designer, (Senior Consultant, Experience & Design)
🇺🇸 Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
Fearless 🇺🇸 Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
Lead the evolution and governance of the organization's design system, ensuring consistency, scalability, accessibility, and usability across products. Collaborate across product workstreams to define shared interaction models and design cohesive experiences that span multiple applications.
Senior Product Designer, (Senior Consultant, Experience & Design)
🇺🇸 Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
Fearless 🇺🇸 Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
Lead the evolution and governance of a scalable design system to ensure consistency and accessibility across digital products. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design cohesive user experiences and shared interaction patterns for enterprise applications.
Senior UX Designer
🇨🇦 Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Sonova Ag 🇨🇦 Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
The Senior UX Designer creates intuitive design concepts and user experiences across the hearing care ecosystem from ideation to developer handover. They collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure accessibility and usability while mentoring junior designers.
Freelance Web Designer – Remote Junior Contract
Remote (🇨🇭 Switzerland)
Twine Remote (🇨🇭 Switzerland)
The role involves redesigning a Squarespace website to enhance the marketing agency's online presence. This includes improving visual identity, user experience, and ensuring content accessibility in both English and Latvian.
Freelance Web Designer – Remote Junior Contract
Remote (🇳🇿 New Zealand)
Twine Remote (🇳🇿 New Zealand)
The role involves redesigning a Squarespace website to enhance the marketing agency's online presence. This includes improving visual identity, user experience, and ensuring content accessibility in both English and Latvian.
Freelance Web Designer – Remote Junior Contract
Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
Twine Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
The role involves redesigning a Squarespace website to enhance the marketing agency's online presence. This includes improving visual identity, user experience, and ensuring content accessibility in both English and Latvian.
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.