Design Leadership Jobs
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UX Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Guidewire Software 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
You will design responsive user interfaces and end-to-end UX flows for complex enterprise insurance applications while collaborating with cross-functional teams. Additionally, you will contribute to the evolution of design systems and integrate AI-powered capabilities to enhance workflow productivity.
Product Designer (m/f/x)
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Up42 Gmbh 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
You will partner with product managers and engineers to design complex, data-rich interfaces from early concepts through to final delivery. You will also contribute to the maintenance and evolution of the company's design system while advocating for user-centered solutions.
Lead Product Designer (Dubai)
🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Talent Seed 🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
The Lead Product Designer will own the end-to-end transformation of the consumer app experience and define the design vision for the platform. They will also lead and develop the existing design team while establishing design systems and standards across the organization.
Product Designer, Design Systems
🇪🇸 Spain
Stripe 🇪🇸 Spain
You will design and refine user interface components, patterns, and foundations for Stripe products while partnering with front-end engineers to implement them. Additionally, you will contribute to Figma libraries, documentation, and prototypes to ensure coherent and high-quality user experiences.
Lead UI/UX Designer
🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Masan Group 🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
The Lead UI/UX Designer will own and drive the end-to-end design system across Masan's technology transformation projects. This role involves defining design principles, maintaining a scalable component library, and ensuring consistent user experiences across consumer apps and internal platforms.
Product Designer
🇻🇳 Hà Nội, Vietnam
Minz.ai 🇻🇳 Hà Nội, Vietnam
You will design workflows and interfaces for MinzOS, Command Tower, and mobile applications while conducting user research. Additionally, you will maintain and evolve the design system and collaborate closely with engineers to ensure feature implementation matches the design.
Design Engineer, Design Systems
🇺🇸 Sanger, CA 93657, United States of America
Netflix 🇺🇸 Sanger, CA 93657, United States of America
You will contribute to, maintain, and expand critical design component libraries and capabilities while implementing AI solutions to accelerate product design workflows. Additionally, you will execute projects from ideation to rollout and participate in user research to inform feature prioritization.
Senior Associate, Senior Creative Technologist - Frontend UI Engineer - Design Systems
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
New York Life 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Build and maintain a scalable, production-ready React component library that is tightly aligned with the Figma design system. Optimize end-to-end design-to-code workflows and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure consistency across enterprise digital platforms.
Contract Product UX Designer
🇺🇸 Bellevue, Washington, United States of America
Clean Power Research 🇺🇸 Bellevue, Washington, United States of America
Collaborate with product managers and engineers to design intuitive, data-driven experiences for complex cloud-based energy software. Develop and maintain design system components while transforming complex concepts into engaging user interfaces across the product lifecycle.
Design Systems Lead (Remote, Pereira)
Remote (🇨🇴 Colombia)
Blacksmith Agency Remote (🇨🇴 Colombia)
You will own the architecture of client design systems by building token structures, variables, and core component libraries in Figma. You are responsible for documenting these systems to ensure they can be executed by automated pipelines without further questions.
Builder - Senior Product Designer, Design Systems
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Reevo 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
You will own the end-to-end design system, including components, documentation, and governance to ensure consistent product experiences. Additionally, you will collaborate with engineers and designers to build scalable patterns that support both human users and AI agents.
Senior Design Manager - Design Systems
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Datadog 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead the design systems team to define the direction, roadmap, and quality standards for the company's design system. Manage and coach designers and design engineers while collaborating with product teams to ensure the system's effective adoption and evolution.
Senior Design Technologist, Design Systems, CNN
🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Warner Bros. Discovery 🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
The Senior Design Technologist will bridge design, engineering, and AI to build scalable UI components and integrate AI into design system workflows. They are responsible for maintaining design system artifacts, ensuring accessibility, and optimizing design-to-code processes through automation.
Senior Design Technologist, Design Systems, CNN
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Warner Bros. Discovery 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The role involves bridging design, engineering, and AI to create scalable UI while identifying opportunities to automate design system workflows. You will build and maintain reusable UI components and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure consistent, accessible, and high-quality digital experiences.
Product Designer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Priceline 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Design end-to-end user experiences across web and mobile platforms while integrating AI-powered workflows into the design process. Collaborate with product managers and engineers to solve complex user problems and maintain high standards within the design system.
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.