Design Leadership Jobs
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Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Traba 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Staff Product Designer will rapidly prototype designs and refine user experiences for mobile and web applications. They will also lead the development and governance of the design system while conducting user research to validate concepts.
Expert UX Designer
🇺🇸 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Veradigm 🇺🇸 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Provide design leadership to product groups by solving complex challenges and applying user-centered design methods. Collaborate with engineering and product teams to standardize design systems while championing user needs across the organization.
UX Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 Virginia, United States of America)
Tallo Remote (🇺🇸 Virginia, United States of America)
The UX Designer will collaborate with cross-functional teams to create intuitive and effective design solutions for mobile and web platforms. Responsibilities include conducting user research, maintaining design systems, and managing tasks within an agile workflow to improve user satisfaction.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Draper, UT 84020, United States of America
Bill 🇺🇸 Draper, UT 84020, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer is responsible for expanding the BILL brand design system and delivering high-quality marketing assets across various channels. They will lead projects from concept to production while acting as a creative consultant to stakeholders and mentoring junior team members.
Senior Product Designer, Creator Foundation
🇺🇸 San Mateo, California, United States of America
Roblox 🇺🇸 San Mateo, California, United States of America
You will define and execute a unified AI design system pattern while collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure consistent implementation across the creator platform. Additionally, you will create reusable patterns, templates, and documentation to streamline workflows and improve product quality.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Traba 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
You will rapidly prototype designs and refine user experiences for mobile and web applications while driving the evolution of the company's design system. Additionally, you will conduct user research and collaborate with operational teams to document and visualize business and worker needs.
Senior / Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Coast 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
You will collaborate closely with engineering and product teams to design, prototype, and ship roadmap projects from start to finish. Additionally, you will refine key user flows, maintain design system components, and contribute to team growth through hiring and design critiques.
UX Designer II, Core Shopping, Amazon Devices
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and design end-to-end shopping experiences for Amazon Devices across mobile and desktop platforms. Utilize data, research, and emerging technologies to create scalable design solutions and contribute to AI-ready design systems.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America
Jerry.ai 🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America
You will lead design initiatives for core products and modernize the car ownership experience through elegant, frictionless interfaces. You will also collaborate with cross-functional teams to evolve the design system and apply AI to create more personal user experiences.
Product Designer III - Design Systems (Hybrid, CAN)
🇨🇦 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Crowdstrike 🇨🇦 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
The role involves serving as a consistency champion for the evolving design system, partnering with leadership, designers, and engineers to scale components, patterns, and guidelines from Figma. Responsibilities include driving discovery, evangelizing the design system, communicating design rationale, and partnering with engineers to ensure adherence to coding standards like accessibility.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America
Nuuds 🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer will execute and maintain the brand's visual identity across all digital channels, including email, web, paid media, and campaigns, while building and maintaining comprehensive design systems in Figma. Key duties involve designing marketing emails, website modules, and high-performing ad creative, actively contributing concepts to support the Creative Director's vision.
Product Designer
🇨🇷 Heredia Province, Costa Rica
Tebra 🇨🇷 Heredia Province, Costa Rica
This role involves contributing to the vision and design strategy by connecting customer and business value, utilizing strong creative skills to evolve ideas that drive innovation for the Tebra platform. The designer will facilitate cross-functional ideation sessions, utilize design system guidelines, and partner closely with product and engineering counterparts.
Principal UX Designer, eero
🇺🇸 Pasadena, California, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Pasadena, California, United States of America
The Principal UX Designer will enhance product usability, scale team standards, and act as a design role model, delivering solutions across the entire product life cycle for both mobile apps and network management tools. Key duties involve evaluating customer challenges, collaborating on requirements, advocating for design principles, and establishing design systems.
Lead Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Cortex 🌍 Remote
The Lead Product Designer will drive the design vision and execution for major features, setting a new standard for user experience across critical product surfaces. Responsibilities include proactively resolving complex UX issues, owning the design system in Figma, and executing high-fidelity prototypes for validation.
UX Designer
🇬🇧 Belfast City District, Belfast, Antrim, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Aflac Northern Ireland 🇬🇧 Belfast City District, Belfast, Antrim, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
The role involves designing user-centered workflows and interfaces for internal users tackling complex service tasks, translating business rules into clear, usable experiences within low-code or configuration-driven systems. Responsibilities also include improving existing design systems and collaborating with product and engineering teams on AI-assisted flows.
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.