Design Leadership Jobs
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UX Designer
🇺🇸 Herndon, Virginia, United States of America
Peraton 🇺🇸 Herndon, Virginia, United States of America
The UX Designer will be responsible for a wide range of design activities, including user research, discovery, ideation, digital product concept design, and prototype development using a user-centered approach. Key tasks involve conducting user research, facilitating product vision through concepting and prototyping, and ensuring designs comply with 508/Accessibility standards and the USWDS design system.
Senior Product Designer - Core Product (Remote)
🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Finom 🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
The Senior Product Designer will own design delivery across the full product lifecycle, from discovery to implementation, translating complex business and user problems into intuitive, user-centered design solutions. This includes creating essential design artifacts, contributing to the design system, and participating in testing for high-priority initiatives like AI Copilot features.
Senior Product Designer, Creator Foundation
🇺🇸 San Mateo, California, United States of America
Roblox 🇺🇸 San Mateo, California, United States of America
This role involves identifying and creating reusable patterns, templates, and documentation to accelerate product workflows and ensure seamless design system adoption across design and engineering teams. The designer will execute high-fidelity designs and define standardized interaction models to solve complex user pain points within the creator ecosystem.
Senior Product Designer, Safety
🇺🇸 San Mateo, California, United States of America
Roblox 🇺🇸 San Mateo, California, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will create clear, compelling, and empathetic experiences to help users understand safety policies and design for diverse audiences, ensuring critical safety journeys are effective and age-appropriate. This role involves collaborating with design systems and cross-functional teams to define the UX strategy and roadmap for flagship safety experiences.
Senior UI/UX Designer - Telco Enterprise Order Management
Remote (🇮🇩 Special Capital Region of Jakarta, Java, Indonesia)
Csg Remote (🇮🇩 Special Capital Region of Jakarta, Java, Indonesia)
The Senior UI/UX Designer will own and deliver high-quality UI/UX designs for complex B2B workflows across the Quote & Order platform while contributing to and evolving a scalable design system. This role involves cross-functional partnership with Product Managers and Engineers, driving discovery workshops, and providing clear design rationale during implementation.
UX Designer
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Codemettle 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
The UX Designer will be responsible for planning and conducting user research, creating design artifacts like wireframes and prototypes, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive design decisions forward. Key duties also involve leading alignment sessions, contributing to the design system, and thoughtfully leveraging AI tools in the design process.
Product Designer (HR Platform)
🇺🇦 Ukraine
Limited Liability Company «silpo-food» 🇺🇦 Ukraine
The role involves designing and improving dashboards, charts, tables, and data visualization tools, alongside creating UI/UX for analytical web applications for both desktop and mobile platforms. Responsibilities also include prototyping in Figma, collaborating with development and business stakeholders, conducting user tests, and managing the design system.
Senior Product Designer - B2C
🇮🇹 Milan, Italy
The Fork 🇮🇹 Milan, Italy
The Senior Product Designer will be responsible for envisioning product experiences and transforming opportunities into intuitive, accessible, and easy-to-use solutions, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to define product strategy. This role involves exploring problems, developing user-centric solutions based on insights, and helping to shape the design system and best practices.
Senior Product Designer (Advanced English)
Remote (🇪🇨 San José de Alluriquín, Santo Domingo, Ecuador)
Thoughtworks Remote (🇪🇨 San José de Alluriquín, Santo Domingo, Ecuador)
Designers will play an active role in technology project delivery and design across discovery and delivery phases, collaborating with cross-functional agile trios to create experience design deliverables like journey maps, prototypes, and design systems. They will also use research methods to validate products and translate findings into clear design direction for stakeholders.
Senior Product Designer (Advanced English)
Remote (🇪🇨 San José de Alluriquín, Santo Domingo, Ecuador)
Referrals Only Remote (🇪🇨 San José de Alluriquín, Santo Domingo, Ecuador)
Designers will play an active role in technology project delivery and design across discovery and delivery phases, collaborating with cross-functional agile trios to create experience design deliverables like journey maps, prototypes, and design systems. They will also use research methods to validate products and translate findings into clear design direction for stakeholders.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇫🇷 Paris, France)
Photoroom Remote (🇫🇷 Paris, France)
The Senior Product Designer will elevate the user experience across mobile, web, and API products, handling design end-to-end from research and UX to UI and design systems. This role involves close collaboration with engineers and cross-functional teams to bring designs into production while balancing platform standards and brand expression.
Lead UX Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Couchbase, Inc. 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
The Lead Product Designer will lead the design of end-to-end product experiences for Couchbase's Capella platform, transforming complex requirements into user-centered designs from concept through execution. This includes owning design quality, developing prototypes, maintaining the design system, and mentoring junior designers.
Senior/Lead Product Designer - Design System
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Monday.com 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The role involves co-owning the design system by building and governing foundations, styles, components, and documentation, while also evolving internal workflows and tools for product builders. A key focus is rethinking the design system to support the next generation of AI-powered products and interaction models.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Roo 🇺🇸 United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will drive product growth by designing and delivering new features across the website, responsive web app, and mobile app, acting as a strategic design lead within a squad. Responsibilities also include creating and governing design systems, defining design challenges, measuring impact through data, and coaching junior designers.
Senior Marketing Web Designer (B2B SaaS)
🌍 Remote
Spothopper 🌍 Remote
The role focuses on designing and evolving the SpotHopper marketing website, including landing pages optimized for demo requests and revenue growth, while also contributing to the evolution of the brand design system. Responsibilities also include designing visual assets for social media, blog content, and various marketing campaigns.
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.