Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior Web Designer, Design Systems (Remote, Recife)
Remote (🇧🇷 Brazil)
Blacksmith Agency Remote (🇧🇷 Brazil)
Build token architectures in Figma and create robust component libraries for multiple client brands. Document design systems so developers and automated build pipelines can implement them reliably.
Design Manager I Design Ops
🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brazil
Xp Inc. 🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brazil
Lead the strategy and evolution of the Design System to ensure scalability, consistency, and adoption across products. Manage Design Operations to promote efficiency, governance, and excellence while fostering a culture of collaboration and data-driven design.
Lead Product Designer
🇺🇸 Boca Raton, Florida, United States of America
Brightplan 🇺🇸 Boca Raton, Florida, United States of America
Lead hands-on product design for App 2.0 from concept through implementation, creating responsive, accessible experiences and establishing the supporting design system. Partner with customers and cross-functional teams to validate design decisions, and develop AI-enabled design practices and workflows that improve design capacity and consistency.
Product Designer - Web
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Heygen 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Own HeyGen’s marketing website from concept through production, including landing pages, pricing, campaigns, and the transition into signup and onboarding. Partner with Growth, Marketing, and Web Engineering to run experiments, improve conversion and activation, build responsive experiences with AI-assisted coding tools, and maintain the site’s design system.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Vetcove 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead end-to-end design for core product areas, from discovery and research through prototyping, polished visuals, and implementation. Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and company leadership on roadmaps, research, design sprints, workshops, implementation quality, and the evolution of the design system.
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, then transition to Patient Hub, improving operational workflows through customer discovery, systems-level design, and iterative delivery. Extend and document the Lasso design system, prototype in Figma and code, and communicate design decisions to internal and external stakeholders.
Senior Visual Designer - Audible UX Design
🇺🇸 New Jersey, United States of America
Audible 🇺🇸 New Jersey, United States of America
Define and evolve Audible’s visual language across iOS, Android, and web, creating polished, emotionally resonant product experiences through visual concepts, art direction, typography, color, composition, and motion. Lead and mentor designers, contribute craft principles to the design system, explore visual design for AI-enabled experiences, and collaborate with stakeholders and research teams on complex user flows and commerce projects.
Senior Visual Designer - Audible UX Design
🇺🇸 Culver City, CA 90232, United States of America
Audible 🇺🇸 Culver City, CA 90232, United States of America
Define and evolve Audible’s visual language across mobile and web products, creating polished, emotionally resonant experiences through visual concepts, typography, color, composition, and purposeful motion. Mentor designers, contribute craft-led improvements to the design system, explore visual directions for AI-enabled experiences, and collaborate with stakeholders and research teams.
Senior Product Designer (Mid-Senior)
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Revel 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
You will lead the end-to-end user experience design process, from initial discovery and research to high-fidelity UI and prototyping. Additionally, you will collaborate with engineering and product teams to ensure design intent is realized and to evolve the company's design systems.
Senior Product UX Designer
🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Appzen, Inc. 🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
You will own the end-to-end user experience for core products, collaborating with cross-functional teams to design AI-powered workflows. You will also contribute to the design system and mentor team members to help shape the long-term product vision.
Student Internship - UX Designer
🇵🇱 Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
Abb 🇵🇱 Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
Support UX work across corporate and international projects by creating and maintaining designs and prototypes in Figma, contributing to the design system, and preparing UX documentation. Assist with research, ideation, and visualization; explore AI tools; and collaborate with international colleagues in design reviews and knowledge-sharing sessions.
Mobile Product Designer - Tangerine
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Tangerine 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Design and improve accessible, intuitive mobile experiences by translating business requirements, research, customer insights, and data into effective product designs. Collaborate with stakeholders and cross-functional teams, evolve the Tangerine Design System, conduct usability studies, and support design planning, handoffs, and the design community of practice.
Senior Product Design Manager, Growth
🇨🇦 Canada
Koho 🇨🇦 Canada
Lead and develop product designers across a complex portfolio, focusing on zero-to-one initiatives, growth, and the evolution of the KOHO design system. Collaborate with cross-functional partners to shape product strategy, drive experimentation, and maintain high-quality design standards across mobile and web platforms.
Senior Product Designer - Ethena Pay
You will lead the design of the Ethena Pay mobile app, establishing a high-quality design system and brand identity across iOS and Android. Your role involves hands-on design work, collaborating with engineering to implement motion and interaction standards, and ensuring a cohesive user experience.
Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Mighty Media Studios 🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Lead the creation of fresh, on-brand social content, managing the design queue independently and maintaining accuracy and quality. During campaigns, produce high volumes of polished assets across digital and physical formats, following the Art Director’s design system and preparing files for motion collaboration.
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.