Design Leadership Jobs
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Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Mateo, California, United States of America
Fireworks Ai 🇺🇸 San Mateo, California, United States of America
The Product Designer will own the entire design process, from research and prototyping to high-fidelity design and iteration, focusing on making complex AI infrastructure workflows intuitive for developers. Key tasks include translating technical processes like model deployment and inference monitoring into usable interfaces and evolving the platform's design system.
Senior/Staff/Principal Product Designer (ACF)
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Skylight Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Product designers partner across disciplines to research user needs, define flows and interactions, and design accessible interfaces that scale across complex systems. They also contribute to design systems, prototype ideas to reduce risk, and ensure design decisions are evidence-based.
UI / Product Designer (Visual & Design Systems Focus)
🇪🇹 Ethiopia
Quickteam 🇪🇹 Ethiopia
The role involves transforming structured UX ideas and wireframes into polished, production-ready designs, focusing heavily on creating clean, modern interfaces and ensuring visual consistency across the product. A key duty is building and maintaining a scalable design system, including components, styles, and tokens, while preparing organized files for smooth developer handoff.
Senior Digital Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Rbc 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The Senior Digital Designer will lead the creative development of digital projects from concept to final delivery, taking full ownership of critical design systems and user journeys. Responsibilities include conceptualizing high-fidelity designs, maintaining cohesive design systems, prioritizing accessibility, and mentoring junior team members.
Graphic Designer
🇦🇷 Buenos Aires, Comuna 1, Argentina
Appdirect 🇦🇷 Buenos Aires, Comuna 1, Argentina
The role involves designing and updating various customer-facing materials such as sales presentations, one-pagers, and case studies, alongside creating marketing assets like email graphics, social media assets, and digital ads. The designer will also create and update landing pages and web page layouts using established design systems.
Product Designer
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Propeller 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
The role involves leading end-to-end design for early-stage product features and mobile experiences, shaping user flows and systems in collaboration with engineering and product teams. Responsibilities also include conducting independent user research to drive product strategy and maintaining consistency within the design system.
Senior UI Designer
🇭🇺 Budapest, Hungary
Hiflylabs 🇭🇺 Budapest, Hungary
The Senior UI Designer will be responsible for designing visually engaging and user-friendly interfaces for web and mobile applications, collaborating with UX designers to ensure cohesive user experiences. Key duties include developing design systems, creating high-fidelity mockups, conducting design reviews, and leading design presentations.
Senior Product Designer (w/m/d)
Remote (🇩🇪 Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany)
Hero Software Gmbh Remote (🇩🇪 Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany)
The role involves discovering user needs and opportunities, integrating data into design decisions, and validating solutions through prototyping and user testing. The designer will also develop thoughtful solutions from sketch to final interface and drive the evolution of the design system.
Intern - Design Engineering
200070 China, Shanghai, Dayangqiao, Shanghai Railway Station South Square
Cadence Design Systems 200070 China, Shanghai, Dayangqiao, Shanghai Railway Station South Square
The intern will focus on high-speed digital DDR and HBM IP physical implementation, including developing necessary scripts or tools to enhance the current Physical Design (PD) flow. Responsibilities also involve completing project tasks, solving design issues, providing flow checks to avoid recurrence, and summarizing PPA optimization methodologies and results.
Senior Product Designer (Digital)
Remote (🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America)
Rda Company Llc Remote (🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America)
The role involves designing high-quality, visually strong interfaces for modern web applications across various project stages, from wireframes to high-fidelity prototypes. Responsibilities also include building and maintaining design systems in Figma and utilizing AI tools to accelerate design workflows.
Senior UI/UX Designer - Evinova
🇺🇸 Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America
Astrazeneca 🇺🇸 Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America
The Senior UI/UX Designer will lead the evolution of the Evinova Design System, defining its operation, governance, and collaboration structures between design and engineering, focusing on creating scalable, code-aligned components for AI-first workflows. Key duties include evolving Figma libraries, embedding WCAG 2.2 AA standards, creating documentation, conducting design QA, and driving continuous improvement based on feedback.
Senior Product Designer (Fintech)
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Housecall Pro Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The Senior Product Designer will lead complex product design initiatives across multiple teams, leveraging deep knowledge of design systems and customer behavior to solve real problems. Daily tasks involve conducting research, defining design strategy, creating detailed user flows and prototypes, and collaborating closely with product and engineering partners.
Senior Product Designer - Core Product (Remote)
🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Finom 🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
The Senior Product Designer will own design delivery across the full product lifecycle, from discovery to implementation, translating complex business and user problems into intuitive, user-centered design solutions. This includes creating essential design artifacts, contributing to the design system, and participating in testing for high-priority initiatives like AI Copilot features.
Senior Product Designer, Safety
🇺🇸 San Mateo, California, United States of America
Roblox 🇺🇸 San Mateo, California, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will create clear, compelling, and empathetic experiences to help users understand safety policies and design for diverse audiences, ensuring critical safety journeys are effective and age-appropriate. This role involves collaborating with design systems and cross-functional teams to define the UX strategy and roadmap for flagship safety experiences.
Senior UI/UX Designer - Telco Enterprise Order Management
Remote (🇮🇩 Special Capital Region of Jakarta, Java, Indonesia)
Csg Remote (🇮🇩 Special Capital Region of Jakarta, Java, Indonesia)
The Senior UI/UX Designer will own and deliver high-quality UI/UX designs for complex B2B workflows across the Quote & Order platform while contributing to and evolving a scalable design system. This role involves cross-functional partnership with Product Managers and Engineers, driving discovery workshops, and providing clear design rationale during implementation.
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.