Design Leadership Jobs
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Product Designer
Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
Aru Labs Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
Design and ship new web and mobile products from initial concepts through to final polished versions. Collaborate closely with engineers and product teams to build intuitive user experiences and maintain design systems.
Product Designer
Remote (🇪🇸 Spain)
Aru Labs Remote (🇪🇸 Spain)
You will design web and mobile products from initial concepts through to final shipped versions. This involves collaborating closely with engineers, building design systems, and iterating based on user feedback.
Product Designer
Remote (🇳🇱 Netherlands)
Aru Labs Remote (🇳🇱 Netherlands)
You will design web and mobile products from initial concepts through to final shipped versions. This involves collaborating closely with engineers, building design systems, and iterating based on user feedback.
Product Designer
Remote (🇧🇷 Brazil)
Aru Labs Remote (🇧🇷 Brazil)
You will design web and mobile products from initial concepts through to final shipped versions. This involves collaborating closely with engineers to create intuitive user experiences and maintaining design systems.
Head of Design
Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
Aru Labs Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
The Head of Design will lead the overall design direction, visual identity, and design systems across all brand touchpoints. They will manage the design function, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and oversee the quality of creative output for campaigns and product launches.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Tennr 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Own end-to-end design for Validate and Workspace management, later expanding to Patient Hub, from customer discovery and problem framing through prototyping, launch, and iteration. Create scalable patterns for complex operational workflows, extend and document the Lasso design system, and collaborate closely with product, engineering, customers, and other stakeholders.
Head of Design
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Aru Labs Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The Head of Design will lead the overall design direction, visual identity, and design systems across all brand touchpoints. They will manage the design function, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and oversee the quality of creative output for marketing, product, and campaigns.
PL Product Designer
Remote (🇧🇷 Brazil)
Ília Remote (🇧🇷 Brazil)
The Product Designer will manage the end-to-end design process, from problem discovery and user research to prototyping and final delivery. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to evolve digital products while ensuring consistent user experiences through design systems and data-backed decisions.
Retirement & Wealth - Sr. Product Designer (Remote)
Remote (🇺🇸 Oak Brook, DuPage County, IL 60523, United States of America)
Inspira Financial Remote (🇺🇸 Oak Brook, DuPage County, IL 60523, United States of America)
Lead product design from discovery through delivery, using research, data, and user-centered methods to create intuitive experiences for Retirement & Wealth products. Collaborate with product, engineering, content, and QA teams; maintain scalable design systems; and use AI tools responsibly to improve design workflows and influence product direction.
Senior Product Designer (Mid-Senior)
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Revel 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Lead end-to-end product design, from user research and discovery through interaction flows, high-fidelity interfaces, and prototypes. Collaborate with product and engineering teams to validate solutions, deliver the intended experience, evolve design systems, and advocate for user needs.
Lead Product Designer, Design Systems
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Salesforce 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead the creation and maintenance of a next-gen AI-first design system that scales across Salesforce products. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define design standards, mentor junior designers, and integrate system components into development workflows.
ServiceNow UI/UX Designer (On-site, Washington, DC)
🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Tecknomic 🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Design and enhance end-to-end user experiences for ServiceNow modules, portals, and Workspaces, including user flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs. Collaborate with stakeholders and developers, conduct research and usability testing, maintain reusable design systems, and ensure accessibility compliance.
UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Cloud And Things 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead user-centered design for complex mobile experiences that improve bus and subway rider experiences, and develop and maintain design systems and style guides across digital platforms. Partner with research, product, engineering, creative teams, and stakeholders to apply user insights, present design findings, document UX practices, and improve quality through testing.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 California, United States of America
Serko 🇺🇸 California, United States of America
Own the end-to-end traveller experience and product design strategy, taking the product from discovery through delivery across web and mobile. Build and govern design systems, shape AI-powered workflows, partner with product, engineering, and data teams, and raise the team's design quality through critique and mentorship.
Senior Product Designer, Growth and Conversion
🇺🇸 United States of America
Npr 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead end-to-end product and campaign design, translating business requirements into audience-focused experiences and contributing to scalable design systems and Figma libraries. Collaborate with researchers, product managers, developers, and other partners to conduct research, prototype and refine products, and facilitate design-thinking sessions that support audience engagement, retention, and contributions.
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.