Design Leadership Jobs
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Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Linkedin 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
This role focuses on building and accelerating Trust & Safety systems, requiring the designer to operate as a leader with strong engineering depth to support end-to-end experience strategy and drive high-fidelity, implementation-quality design and front-end code. Responsibilities include partnering with designers to co-create interaction models, building and maintaining frontend components for Trust & Safety experiences, and evolving shared design systems.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Draper, UT 84020, United States of America
Amh 🇺🇸 Draper, UT 84020, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will lead the design strategy for assigned product lines, owning the end-to-end design vision from discovery through delivery, and partnering with Product Management to define problems and success metrics. Responsibilities also include conducting user research, designing high-quality interactive and visual assets, driving the evolution of the design system, and mentoring other designers.
UX Designer
🇺🇸 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America
Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores 🇺🇸 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America
The designer will own design work for features within the Love's mobile app (iOS and Android), contributing to visual, interaction, and experience design while collaborating with cross-functional teams throughout the process. Key functions include designing intuitive experiences, contributing to the component library/design system, creating design artifacts across fidelity levels, and building prototypes for validation.
UX Designer
🇺🇸 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America
Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores 🇺🇸 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America
The UX Designer will own design work for features within the Love's mobile app (iOS and Android), contributing to visual, interaction, and experience design while collaborating with cross-functional teams throughout the process. Responsibilities also include contributing to the component library/design system and creating design artifacts from wireframes to polished specifications.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Arlington County, Virginia, United States of America
Govini 🇺🇸 Arlington County, Virginia, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate user needs into product features, concepts, and user experiences, while designing and documenting user flows, wireframes, and interactive prototypes for data visualization and exploration within the Ark platform. Responsibilities also include presenting designs to stakeholders, contributing to the design system, and leading/mentoring other product designers.
Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Chess.com 🌍 Remote
The role involves collaborating closely with Product, Engineering, and Design teams to define problems and deliver intuitive, consistent interfaces for web and mobile platforms. Responsibilities include owning projects from concept through implementation, utilizing and contributing to the design system, and iterating based on feedback and user insights.
Senior Product Designer (Ecommerce/Growth)
🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Cover Genius 🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
The Senior Product Designer will lead the design and optimization of embedded purchase flows, sales panels, and product discovery experiences that drive conversion within partner retail and banking platforms. This role involves designing for diverse partner contexts, leading rapid experimentation, and driving the evolution of the design system.
UI/UX Product Designer
🇵🇭 Manila, Capital District, Philippines
Avepoint 🇵🇭 Manila, Capital District, Philippines
The Product Designer will be responsible for architecting solutions by translating complex business requirements into logical user flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity prototypes. This role involves iterating designs based on user data, maintaining the global design system, and collaborating closely with Product Managers and developers.
UI / UX Designer
🇨🇭 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
Medbase Gruppe 🇨🇭 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
The role involves taking responsibility for the existing design system, strategically developing it to ensure consistency, scalability, and high visual quality across all digital products. Responsibilities also include defining the visual design language and translating complex product requirements into intuitive, visually compelling interfaces using structured, component-based work in Figma.
Senior UX Designer
🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Ing 🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
The Senior UX Designer will lead UI design efforts to create engaging and consistent interfaces for transaction services and analytics, while establishing and maintaining a cohesive visual identity through contribution to a robust design system. This role also involves guiding junior designers, collaborating strategically with stakeholders, and optimizing design processes.
Asset & Wealth Management - UX Designer - Associate - London
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Goldman Sachs 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The role involves owning and evolving a large-scale enterprise design system, driving its structure, governance, and scalability across diverse financial use cases. A key focus is integrating Artificial Intelligence into the core design workflow to accelerate processes and experiment with generative UI patterns.
Senior Digital Product Designer Senior Digital Product Designer
🇪🇸 08950 Esplugues de Llobregat, Spain
Nestle Operational Services Worldwide Sa 🇪🇸 08950 Esplugues de Llobregat, Spain
The Senior Digital Product Designer will lead end-to-end digital design processes, integrating user insights and analytics to create innovative, visually refined, and conversion-focused experiences for the Nespresso eCommerce App and beyond. This role involves conducting user research, developing wireframes and prototypes, and mentoring junior designers while championing the design system.
[OVERDARE] Product Designer
South Korea, Seoul
Overdare South Korea, Seoul
The role involves leading the end-to-end product design for a global game platform, covering the entire design process from problem definition to solution enhancement for various user groups like players and creators. Responsibilities also include building and operating a design system for scalability and consistency, and maximizing design productivity by actively integrating AI tools and technologies into workflows.
Senior UX Designer, Future of AI, Envisioning Studio
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Google 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design of next-generation AI creativity and learning tools, establishing new design systems and interaction models through rapid prototyping. Partner with cross-functional teams to transform emerging AI research into high-impact product surfaces and drive large-scale projects from concept to shipped prototypes.
Senior Product Designer with Technical Expertise
🇵🇱 Lublin, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland
Infotree Global Solutions 🇵🇱 Lublin, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland
The role involves strengthening UX through visual design aligned with user needs and maintaining visual coherence by implementing changes to the Design System. Responsibilities also include designing final UI views for web/mobile solutions and engaging directly with consumers through user research activities.
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.