Design Leadership Jobs
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Product Designer - Design Systems (Contract)
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Zello 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
The role involves taking architectural ownership of design system work across iOS, Android, and React, while also contributing to product design projects. The contractor will manage their own backlog and ensure cross-platform consistency.
Lead UX Product Designer – Design Systems
🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
Target 🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
As a Lead UX Designer, you will drive the evolution of Target's Design System, ensuring high-quality, usable design components that enhance user experiences. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to create reusable and accessible design components while mentoring other designers.
Design Systems Engineer, HMI
🇺🇸 United States of America
Revel 🇺🇸 United States of America
The role involves researching HMI and accessibility standards to build and document a foundational design system for safety-critical hardware interfaces. You will audit existing interfaces and define visual guidelines for state, alarms, and interaction conventions.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Revel 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design process from discovery to delivery, creating wireframes, high-fidelity UI, and prototypes. Collaborate with engineers and product managers to build scalable design systems and intuitive interfaces for hardware control software.
Senior UX Designer: Product & Systems
🇺🇸 United States of America
Extra Duty Solutions 🇺🇸 United States of America
The role involves owning the full design spectrum, including research, interaction, and visual design for officer and customer portals. The designer will build a token-based design system from the ground up and create end-to-end flows for complex operational workflows.
Product Designer: Design Systems (12 month FTC)
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Financial Times 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
The Product Designer will design and evolve reusable components and patterns within the FT's design system, Origami, to improve consistency across teams. They will collaborate with product designers, engineers, and product managers to ensure high-quality product delivery across web and mobile platforms.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Fal 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Own the end-to-end product design process for features across web and dedicated mobile experiences. Build and maintain the design system while partnering with engineering and product management to iterate based on user feedback.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Gc Ai 🇺🇸 United States of America
Own the end-to-end design of an AI-native legal platform, focusing on multi-agent workflows and autonomous legal team interfaces. Collaborate with founders and engineers to build design systems and translate complex legal workflows into intuitive user experiences.
Marketing Web Designer
🇺🇸 California, United States of America
Gc Ai 🇺🇸 California, United States of America
Lead the visual identity and design across all marketing and sales channels, including the website, social media, and sales collateral. Own and evolve the company's design system while managing the website transition to Sanity.
UX Lead / Senior Product Designer, Model & Simulation
🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Code Metal 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end UX design for a complex geospatial and simulation platform, translating technical requirements into intuitive workflows. Own the design system and collaborate closely with product managers and frontend engineers to ensure high-fidelity implementation.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Ibotta 🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design of new B2B features and products from conception through launch. Expand and maintain the design system while collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to shape product strategy.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Town.com, Inc. 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Own core product surfaces end-to-end, from problem definition and high-fidelity design to shipping front-end code. Define new interaction paradigms for AI-native capabilities and evolve the company's shared design system.
Graphic Designer (internal communications)
🇺🇸 Bellevue, Washington, United States of America
Prowess Consulting 🇺🇸 Bellevue, Washington, United States of America
Design visual assets such as slides, email headers, and infographics for internal communications. Create scalable design systems and maintain brand consistency while collaborating with writers and project managers.
Sr. UX Designer, Database UX
🇺🇸 Santa Clara County, California, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Santa Clara County, California, United States of America
Own the end-to-end customer experience across the AWS database portfolio, from initial research to functional prototyping. Collaborate with product and engineering leaders to define design strategies and implement high-visibility features using the AWS Design System.
Staff Product Designer - Design Systems - 100% Remote - EMEA
Remote (🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
Hostaway Remote (🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
You will lead the strategy and development of the design system while collaborating with design and engineering teams. Additionally, you will contribute to product features and advocate for the integration of AI into design workflows.
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.