Design Leadership Jobs
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Interior Maintenance Horticulture Technician-Foliage Design Systems
🇺🇸 Orlando, Florida, United States of America
Botanical Designs 🇺🇸 Orlando, Florida, United States of America
The Interior Maintenance Horticulture Technician is responsible for performing landscape maintenance tasks, including grooming, trimming, and cleaning plants at client sites. They must manage assigned routes effectively, identify plant replacements, and maintain positive relationships with clients and co-workers.
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 and engineering by integrating AI into design system workflows to automate tasks and improve efficiency. They are responsible for building scalable UI components and ensuring consistency across CNN's digital platforms.
Design Systems Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Rmg Digital 🇺🇸 United States of America
The Design Systems Designer will evolve and scale the design system to support complex, AI-driven interaction patterns and dynamic UI generation. They will also establish clear design standards and guardrails to ensure consistency across technical teams while collaborating with engineering to align design components with implementation.
Product Designer, Design Systems
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Anthropic 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
You will design and evolve the core UI system, including foundations and components, while partnering with product teams to ensure consistent application. Additionally, you will prototype in code and define quality standards to ensure the system is legible to both humans and AI models.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
White Circle 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
You will evolve the Figma design system and create intuitive interfaces for complex AI safety workflows. You will work closely with product, engineering, and research teams to iterate quickly and ship high-quality product flows.
Product Designer
🇧🇬 Sofia, Sredec, Bulgaria
Trading 212 🇧🇬 Sofia, Sredec, Bulgaria
You will design and deliver key features within the app, ensuring high-quality user experiences from concept to detailed UI. You will work closely with product managers and engineers to ship features with velocity while contributing to the design system.
Freelance Web Designer – Remote
Remote (🇨🇭 Switzerland)
Twine Remote (🇨🇭 Switzerland)
You will design high-fidelity web and product interfaces while building and maintaining scalable design systems. Additionally, you will create interactive prototypes and collaborate closely with developers to ensure accurate implementation of designs.
Freelance Web Designer – Remote
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Twine Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Design high-fidelity web and product interfaces while developing and maintaining scalable design systems. Collaborate closely with developers to ensure accurate implementation and provide organized, production-ready assets.
Senior Web Designer
🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain
Amply 🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain
Own the end-to-end web design process from creative direction and design system creation to developer handoff and QA. Collaborate with project managers and developers to deliver high-quality, production-ready digital experiences while managing project scope and client expectations.
Senior Web Designer
🇵🇱 Warszawa, 83-433 Nowe Polaszki, Poland
Amply 🇵🇱 Warszawa, 83-433 Nowe Polaszki, Poland
Own web design projects from kickoff to launch, including concept, design systems, execution, and developer handoff. Collaborate with developers and clients to ensure high-quality, production-ready digital experiences.
Product Designer
🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
Sedric.ai 🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
You will own the end-to-end user experience for the entire platform, ensuring a coherent product narrative across all features. You are responsible for evolving the design system and driving design strategy to maintain high quality while shipping at speed.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Luma Financial Technologies 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Product Designer will manage and maintain a design system in Storybook and GitHub while coaching product owners on design standards. They will also collaborate closely with front-end engineers to ensure production code aligns with design prototypes.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Virtualitics 🇺🇸 United States of America
You will design chat-first, agent-driven experiences and build high-quality interfaces using established design systems. You will also partner with product managers to turn complex problems into clear user flows and prototypes while participating in UX reviews.
UX Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 California, United States of America)
Harnham Remote (🇺🇸 California, United States of America)
The UX Designer will own the end-to-end design of B2B digital merchandising and customer acquisition experiences. They will also contribute to the evolution of the design system, including dark-mode patterns and component library enhancements.
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 DRUIDS system. Partner with product designers, engineers, and PMs to build tools and workflows that integrate design systems into the product development lifecycle.
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.