Design Leadership Jobs
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Product Designer III
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Northwestern Mutual 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Own product design from problem framing and exploration through validation, delivery, and iteration, translating user, business, and technical needs into clear workflows and experiences. Collaborate with cross-functional partners, use research and data to guide decisions, apply design systems and accessibility standards, and contribute to design quality and team practices.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Verse Medical 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Own end-to-end design for high-priority product areas, from discovery and workflow mapping through prototyping, implementation, and launch. Improve the product’s visual and interaction quality, evolve its design system, and use direct user research to create effective experiences for clinicians, care coordinators, and patients.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Nexhealth 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead end-to-end design across NexHealth’s platform, from research and user flows through prototypes and final UI, while shaping product scope and technical implementation. Partner with product managers and engineers, evolve scalable design systems, and champion clear, accessible experiences that simplify users’ work.
UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Innovee Consulting Llc 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Develop and maintain design systems, style guides, and UX processes while improving the rider experience across buses and subways. Collaborate with researchers, product managers, engineers, the Creative team, and senior stakeholders to understand user needs, present design work, and continuously improve the experience through feedback and testing.
UX Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Corpay 🇺🇸 United States of America
The UX Designer will design end-to-end interfaces and workflows across the Payables product ecosystem while collaborating with product, research, and engineering teams. They will also utilize AI-enabled tools to accelerate design processes and contribute to the evolution of the company's UX design system.
Senior Product Designer, Design Systems (Remote, Sao Paulo)
Remote (🇧🇷 Brazil)
Blacksmith Agency Remote (🇧🇷 Brazil)
Build precise, scalable design systems for multiple client brands, including token architecture, variables, modes, and reusable core components. Document systems so developers and automated build pipelines can implement them reliably.
Product Design Systems Designer (Remote, Florianopolis)
Remote (🇧🇷 Brazil)
Blacksmith Agency Remote (🇧🇷 Brazil)
Build precise, scalable design systems for multiple client brands, including token architecture, variables, modes, and reusable core components. Document each system so developers and automated build pipelines can implement it reliably without additional clarification.
Senior Web Designer, Design Systems (Remote, Vitoria)
Remote (🇧🇷 Brazil)
Blacksmith Agency Remote (🇧🇷 Brazil)
Build token architectures in Figma and create robust core component libraries for multiple client brands. Document systems clearly so developers and automated build pipelines can implement them without clarification.
Interaction Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Zof Ai 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Design and test the review experience for engineers evaluating code changes proposed by autonomous agents, including how evidence, validation, uncertainty, and failure states are presented. Conduct research with engineers and QA leads, translate findings into buildable flows and interaction patterns, extend the design system, and collaborate with product and engineering through launch.
UX Designer (III)
🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Strong Tower Consulting 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Create production-ready design specifications, prototypes, user flows, and assets that align with and extend design systems. Collaborate with UX and cross-functional teams to turn research, market trends, and data insights into scalable, user-centered solutions.
Senior Product Designer, Growth and Conversion
The Senior Product Designer will lead end-to-end design experiences and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to define product vision and audience engagement strategies. They are responsible for creating and maintaining design systems, conducting user research, and working closely with developers to build and refine digital products.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 Los Angeles County, CA 91608, United States of America
Nbcuniversal 🇺🇸 Los Angeles County, CA 91608, United States of America
Lead end-to-end product design for consumer-facing web platforms and a B2B application, creating user flows, prototypes, and responsive interfaces. Collaborate with product, engineering, research, and other stakeholders to validate and refine designs, support implementation, and contribute to design systems.
Student Internship - UX Designer
🇦🇺 Banana Shire, Queensland, Australia
Abb 🇦🇺 Banana Shire, Queensland, Australia
Support UX work on corporate and international projects by creating and maintaining designs and prototypes in Figma, contributing to the corporate 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.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Zapp 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead end-to-end design for Zapp’s customer-facing mobile app and internal operations and commercial tools, partnering with Product, Engineering, Operations, and Commercial teams. Conduct research and testing, design workflows and interfaces for fulfillment systems, and evolve the design system, processes, and documentation.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 Irving, Texas, United States of America
The Intersect Group 🇺🇸 Irving, Texas, United States of America
Evolve design system standards, reusable components, interaction patterns, and governance to improve consistency, accessibility, and usability across products. Collaborate with product, engineering, research, and design teams to document and validate solutions, support implementation, and encourage adoption of scalable design practices.
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.