Design Leadership Jobs
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Product Designer - Chinese Speaking
🇺🇸 Buena Park, California, United States of America
Cofreight Inc 🇺🇸 Buena Park, California, United States of America
Lead design for new web and mobile features, including user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and final UI, while improving existing product areas based on customer feedback, usability testing, and analytics. Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Research, use AI tools to accelerate design work, maintain design systems and documentation, and support implementation through build reviews and design presentations.
Product Designer - Web
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Heygen 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Own HeyGen’s marketing website from concept through production, including landing pages, pricing, campaign pages, and the transition into signup and onboarding. Partner with Growth, Marketing, and Web Engineering to run experiments, improve conversion and activation, build responsive experiences using AI-assisted coding tools, and maintain the site’s design system.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Nexhealth 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead end-to-end UX design across NexHealth’s platform, from research and user flows through prototypes and final UI, while building scalable design systems. Partner with product managers and engineers to shape product scope, influence technical architecture, and simplify user experiences.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 Los Angeles County, CA 91608, United States of America
Nbcuniversal 🇺🇸 Los Angeles County, CA 91608, United States of America
The Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design process for web and mobile platforms, creating intuitive user experiences from discovery to final implementation. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams including Product Managers and Engineers to define requirements and maintain design systems.
UX Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Solomon Page 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Own web design from concepts and wireframes through polished, production-ready experiences for B2B customers, with a focus on merchandising, acquisition, and marketing. Evolve the Figma design system, help develop a dark-mode direction, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and use testing and analytics to improve experiences.
Staff UX Designer, Google Ads
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Google 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Design AI-forward solutions for advertisers, creating user journeys, mockups, prototypes, storyboards, and presentations to communicate design concepts. Collaborate with users, stakeholders, designers, product teams, and engineers to refine designs, evolve design systems, and ensure products are implemented to specification.
Staff UX Designer, Google Ads
🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Google 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Design AI-forward solutions for advertisers by creating user journeys, mockups, prototypes, storyboards, and presentations. Collaborate with users, stakeholders, designers, product teams, and engineers to refine designs, evolve design systems, and ensure products are implemented to specification.
Associate Product Designer
🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Srs Acquiom 🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Design user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and polished interface designs for product features, collaborating with designers, product managers, engineers, and business stakeholders. Apply and improve design system patterns, participate in research and design reviews, iterate on feedback, and prepare clear design files and handoff materials.
Associate Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Srs Acquiom 🇺🇸 United States of America
Design user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and polished interfaces for client-facing and internal products, applying design system standards and exploring improvements to components and patterns. Collaborate with designers, product managers, engineers, and stakeholders; participate in research and design reviews; iterate on feedback; and prepare clear design files and handoff materials.
Design Lead, Design Systems - Freelance
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Akqa 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead and mentor designers while providing hands-on creative direction for a flagship digital product experience. Guide the creation and evolution of scalable design systems, align creative work with client and user needs, and collaborate with UX, strategy, and development teams to deliver and present high-quality solutions.
Associate Product Designer
🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Srs Acquiom 🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Design user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and polished interfaces for client-facing and internal products, collaborating with designers, product managers, engineers, and business stakeholders. Participate in research and design reviews, iterate on feedback, apply and refine design system patterns, and prepare clear design files and handoff materials.
Design Leadership - Future Opportunities
🇨🇦 Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Neo Financial 🇨🇦 Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Define and drive the design vision and product strategy for a product pillar, while producing high-quality design work and evolving the design system and processes. Build and mentor a small design team, and influence product, engineering, and data partners to make design a strategic driver.
Web Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Vega 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Own Vega’s website end to end, designing, building, deploying, and iterating on pages, interactive experiences, and the component library. Co-own the BrandOS design system, manage CMS content, and collaborate with design, marketing, and content teams to maintain a fast, accessible, consistent web presence.
Web Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Vega 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Own Vega’s website end to end, designing, building, deploying, and iterating on pages, interactive experiences, and the component library. Co-own the BrandOS design system, manage CMS content, and collaborate with design, marketing, and content teams to maintain a fast, accessible, and consistent web presence.
Senior Web Designer
🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico
Amply 🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico
Own web design projects from kickoff through launch, including creative direction, design systems, production-ready execution, developer handoff, and design quality assurance. Present and explain design decisions to clients, collaborate with developers, manage scope and timelines, use AI throughout the design process, and contribute to team standards and knowledge sharing.
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.