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Staff AI Product Designer
🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brazil
Nova 🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brazil
Lead the end-to-end design of payment experiences for consumers and merchants across mobile and desktop platforms. Shape the product vision and evolve scalable design systems while mentoring other designers to raise the overall UI quality.
Staff AI Product Designer
🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brazil
Nova 🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brazil
Lead the design of payment experiences for consumers and merchants across mobile and desktop platforms. Partner with founders to shape product vision and evolve scalable design systems while mentoring the team to raise the UI quality bar.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 Irvine, California, United States of America
Turion Space 🇺🇸 Irvine, California, United States of America
Lead the UI/UX design for the Mission Control software suite, translating complex aerospace workflows into intuitive and scalable interfaces. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to conduct user research, maintain design systems, and oversee the process from concept to engineering handoff.
Staff Visual Designer - Design Systems
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Mercury 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Redefine and ship foundational improvements to Mercury's design language and visual systems across all product surfaces. Set the craft bar for the design organization by establishing guidelines and coaching other designers to improve quality.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Norm Ai 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Design matter management and task-tracking workflows for an AI-native law firm to improve legal work visibility and automation. Partner with engineering and product teams to evolve design systems and prototype quickly using AI-assisted tools.
Product Designer Pl
🇧🇷 Brazil
Vivo (telefônica Brasil) 🇧🇷 Brazil
The Product Designer will implement experiences for apps and digital channels, focusing on interface detailing and documentation based on the Design System. They are responsible for creating high and low-fidelity prototypes and developing interaction solutions that meet customer needs.
Lead Graphic Designer
🇮🇳 Indore, Juni Indore Tahsil, India
Revolut 🇮🇳 Indore, Juni Indore Tahsil, India
Lead the development of brand guidelines and design systems to ensure visual consistency across all channels. Direct the creation of high-quality visual assets and provide creative mentorship to other designers to elevate the brand's visual benchmark.
Lead Graphic Designer
🇮🇳 Chennai, India
Revolut 🇮🇳 Chennai, India
The Lead Graphic Designer will drive brand processes, set the creative bar, and ensure visual consistency across all channels. They will lead the evolution of design systems and provide mentorship to other designers while partnering with cross-functional stakeholders.
Lead Graphic Designer
🇮🇳 India
Revolut 🇮🇳 India
The Lead Graphic Designer will drive brand processes and set the creative benchmark by developing design systems and high-quality visual assets. They will partner with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure brand consistency and provide mentorship to other designers.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 Irvine, California, United States of America
Turion Space 🇺🇸 Irvine, California, United States of America
The Senior UI/UX Designer will lead the design of intuitive and scalable interfaces for the Mission Control software suite. This role involves partnering with cross-functional teams to translate complex aerospace workflows into effective user experiences through research, prototyping, and design system management.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Archy- Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The role involves owning the end-to-end UX/UI for a comprehensive dental platform and architecting scalable design systems. The designer will integrate AI tools into workflows and collaborate with product managers and engineers to translate user research into functional design solutions.
Lead Product Designer
🇲🇽 Mexico
Koltin 🇲🇽 Mexico
Lead the design of digital product experiences from problem definition to final solution, focusing on user-centric flows and information architecture. Collaborate with product and technology teams to evolve the Design System and ensure high-impact, scalable solutions.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Assemblyai 🇺🇸 United States of America
Own the end-to-end visual and interaction design of core product surfaces and build them using React and TypeScript. Shape the company's design system and partner with engineering and marketing to turn rough ideas into polished, high-fidelity experiences.
Builder - Senior Product Designer, Design Systems
🇺🇸 Santa Clara County, California, United States of America
Reevo 🇺🇸 Santa Clara County, California, United States of America
You will own the end-to-end design system, including components, documentation, governance, and the roadmap to ensure consistent product experiences. Additionally, you will collaborate with designers and engineers to build scalable patterns and integrate the system with AI-driven product surfaces.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Diego, California, United States of America
Perlman Clinic 🇺🇸 San Diego, California, United States of America
The Product Designer will own features from brief to shipment, creating high-fidelity designs and polished flows within a design system. They will collaborate with cross-functional partners and use qualitative and quantitative data to refine healthcare 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.