Design Leadership Jobs
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Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Onshore 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Product Designer will be responsible for designing and iterating on the web application, collaborating closely with Engineers to deliver features that simplify complex tax workflows. They will also partner with Customer Success to translate user pain points into actionable product improvements and build/maintain a cohesive design system.
Senior Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Tradeify 🌍 Remote
The Senior Product Designer will own the end-to-end design for major product initiatives, translating complex trading workflows into intuitive, high-performance user experiences. This role involves leading discovery through research and prototyping, designing data-heavy interfaces, and establishing/evolving the product design system.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Funding Circle 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The Senior Product Designer will lead end-to-end design projects, focusing on creating elegant, systematic UI and maintaining design systems as the company expands to a multi-product experience. Responsibilities include translating complex problems using diagrams and flows, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, and validating hypotheses through user research and testing.
Sr. Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Chalkboard 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will own the end-to-end design process, transforming complex sports gaming flows into simple, intuitive, and high-impact user experiences across key product surfaces. This involves leading product discovery, translating insights into thoughtful designs, and continuously refining the design system for consistency and scalability.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 Warrendale, Allegheny County, PA 15086, United States of America
Green Cabbage 🇺🇸 Warrendale, Allegheny County, PA 15086, United States of America
The Senior UI/UX Designer will own and evolve the design vision, establishing a unified design language, defining UI standards, and creating a scalable design system in Figma across the company's SaaS products. This role involves translating product requirements into high-fidelity designs, conducting user research, and ensuring intuitive, professional, and accessible implementation in collaboration with Product and Engineering teams.
Staff Product Designer, Design Systems
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Airwallex 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The role involves conducting audits to define reusable components and patterns across digital products, identifying inconsistencies, and collaborating with teams to ensure alignment and adoption of the design system. Responsibilities also include working with developers on implementation, crafting usage guidelines, enforcing upkeep processes, and championing the design system's value internally.
Stażysta UX Designer
🇵🇱 Gdynia, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
Zeiss Group 🇵🇱 Gdynia, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
The intern will be responsible for creating functional and graphic designs for components within a design system and style guide for a digital desktop application. Responsibilities also include supporting functionality research, user testing, gathering feedback, and co-creating interactive mockups and vector graphic elements.
(Senior) Product Designer (UI) (m/f/d)
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Sap Fioneer 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
The Product Designer will be responsible for designing user flows, screens, and high-fidelity mockups, collaborating closely with product, engineering, and design teams to ensure intuitive and production-ready UI. Key tasks include utilizing design systems, supporting cross-functional teams with assets, and staying current on industry trends to elevate the design practice.
UX Designer/ AI Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Focuskpi Inc. 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The role involves leading end-to-end UX concept development for forward-looking initiatives, focusing on Generative Design System investigations like adaptive UI surfaces and tokenized patterns. Responsibilities also include defining and prototyping Agentic OS interaction models and translating complex AI system behaviors into clear, human-centered design frameworks.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany)
Cosuno Remote (🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany)
The role involves taking full ownership of the end-to-end product design process, collaborating closely with the Product Team from ideation through to shipping visual designs. Responsibilities include evolving the design language, working with engineering to deliver feasible solutions, and maintaining the design system in Figma.
Senior Product Designer (4-6 years)
The Senior Product Designer will partner with product managers to define goals, conduct research, and translate insights into product vision and design strategy. Key tasks include creating high-fidelity prototypes in Figma, building scalable design systems, and collaborating with engineering for implementation.
Product Designer SR (FF - PD - 20260226)
The Product Designer will partner closely with Product Managers to understand user needs and craft every detail of new product features through ideation, iteration, prototyping, and user testing across all screen sizes. This role also involves evolving design systems, conducting research, and sharing work in design reviews to gather stakeholder feedback.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Sydecar 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will own the end-to-end design for the Investor team experiences, including onboarding, payments, transfers, and account management, leading efforts to drive retention and platform preference. Responsibilities include serving as the primary design lead, owning journey maps, collaborating with cross-functional partners, creating high-fidelity mockups, and leading the evolution of the design system.
UI / UX Designer
Remote (🇸🇬 Singapore)
Dohe Europe Ltd Remote (🇸🇬 Singapore)
The role involves designing the complete user experience for five distinct portals within the EdTech Hub, spanning from Information Architecture to delivering production-ready artifacts like prototypes and a Design System for developers. Key tasks include defining user personas, collaborating on screen structure, establishing design system components, and ensuring implementation fidelity through developer handoffs.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Faculty 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The Senior Product Designer will lead the design of groundbreaking, user-centered solutions for the platform, integrating research findings with business goals to drive design improvements and strategic decisions. Responsibilities include end-to-end design delivery, evolving design systems, championing accessibility, and mentoring team members.
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.