Design Leadership Jobs
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Contract Product UX Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 Bellevue, Washington, United States of America)
Clean Power Research Remote (🇺🇸 Bellevue, Washington, United States of America)
The designer will collaborate with product managers and engineers to understand user problems and requirements, proposing appropriate design solutions for new features and refining existing experiences across the full product lifecycle. This includes delivering high-quality designs, contributing to a shared design system, and transforming complex concepts into intuitive user interfaces.
Senior Product Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Razorpay Software Private Limited 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
The Senior Product Designer will drive user research, create detailed user journeys, and define design strategies by analyzing data models, while collaborating closely with cross-disciplinary teams to deliver customer experiences. Responsibilities also include strategizing, developing, and extending visual design systems and pattern libraries, and effectively mentoring the design team.
UI Designer (full-time / contract / part-time)
Remote (🇸🇬 one-north, Singapore)
Nodeworthy Remote (🇸🇬 one-north, Singapore)
The UI Designer will be responsible for designing and refining production-ready interfaces across core trading surfaces and improving usability across complex, data-dense views. Key tasks include developing a scalable design system and collaborating with product and engineering teams from concept to launch.
UI/UX Designer
🇵🇭 Taguig, Southern Manila District, Philippines
Sun Life 🇵🇭 Taguig, Southern Manila District, Philippines
The role involves leveraging user research and testing to develop UX journeys, wireflows, prototypes, and sitemaps, while also designing aesthetically pleasing and functional web and mobile interfaces adhering to the established design system. Practitioners must collaborate with stakeholders, evangelize Design Thinking, and present design proposals articulating tangible business value.
Lead Product Designer & UXR
🇮🇩 Special Capital Region of Jakarta, Java, Indonesia
Bukuwarung 🇮🇩 Special Capital Region of Jakarta, Java, Indonesia
This role involves leading the Design & Research function as a player-coach, setting the design vision, building a scalable design system, and establishing robust user research practices across all products.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Deliveroo 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The role involves leading the end-to-end design process for complex features, from discovery through execution, while shaping the design vision for key product areas. Responsibilities also include collaborating with cross-functional teams, evolving design systems, and mentoring junior designers.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Delphi 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The role involves designing end-to-end user experiences for interacting with digital minds, covering flows from conversation to configuration, and building scalable design systems and interaction patterns for web and mobile. Responsibilities also include rapid prototyping in code (Figma + React) to validate ideas and shipping designs to production.
Product Designer Specialist
Remote (🇧🇷 São Paulo, Região Metropolitana de São Paulo, Brazil)
Digibee Inc. Remote (🇧🇷 São Paulo, Região Metropolitana de São Paulo, Brazil)
The role involves leading end-to-end design from problem framing to high-fidelity UI, while championing the evolution of the Design System to ensure platform consistency. Designers will partner with product, engineering, and research to ship high-quality experiences and define how agentic AI workflows feel trustworthy and useful.
Product Designer 3 (Senior)
🇩🇪 Euskirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Togetherwork 🇩🇪 Euskirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
The role involves owning and evolving the shared design system across the portfolio by defining standards and driving cross-product consistency, while also leading UX for high-impact products and modernizing complex workflows with a systems-oriented lens. This person will act as a player/coach, modeling strong UX problem-solving and providing critique to other designers.
UI/UX Designer
🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Aqary Investement And Development 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
The role involves leading the full design process from research to developer handoff, including conducting user research, creating artifacts like journey maps and wireframes, and designing high-fidelity, responsive interfaces. Responsibilities also include developing design systems and collaborating with developers for implementation.
Product Designer 2 (Mid-Level)
🇩🇪 Euskirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Togetherwork 🇩🇪 Euskirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
The role involves owning the UX for specific products, modernizing complex or legacy workflows, and improving clarity, usability, and accessibility by reviewing analytics and participating in user interviews. Designers will also collaborate closely with product managers and engineers from discovery through delivery while contributing to shared design system components.
UX / UI Designer
🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Quartermaster 🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
The role involves owning the creation and cohesion of visual styles and components for the design system, measuring usability with experts and customers, and drafting wireframes and prototypes for web and mobile applications. Responsibilities also include partnering with product managers and engineers to deliver intuitive user experiences and maintaining design system libraries in Figma.
Internship : UX / UI Designer
🇨🇭 Geneva, Switzerland
Elca Switzerland And Europe 🇨🇭 Geneva, Switzerland
The intern will actively contribute to client projects by designing information architectures, user flows, creating wireframes and interactive prototypes using Figma, and designing interfaces and design systems. They will also participate in client workshops and support pre-sales activities under the guidance of Senior UX Designers.
UI/UX Designer
🇮🇳 Ahmedabad, India
Exsilio Solutions 🇮🇳 Ahmedabad, India
The designer will create user-centric interfaces for web and mobile applications, focusing on enhancing usability and engagement through research, testing, and prototyping. Key duties include collaborating with product teams to define requirements and developing/maintaining design systems and UI standards for consistency.
Senior Product Designer
🇳🇱 Enschede, Overijssel, Netherlands
Booking Experts 🇳🇱 Enschede, Overijssel, Netherlands
The Senior Product Designer will focus on creating designs for recreation companies, deeply understanding user workflows (park managers, receptionists, marketers) to develop simple, creative, and intuitive solutions for complex automation challenges. They will work within the Design System, designing interfaces, expanding the system, and ensuring optimal UX while collaborating closely with the frontend team.
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.