Design Leadership Jobs
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Visual Designer (Digital Marketing Manager)
🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
Optimizely 🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
The Visual Designer will own the visual experience of Optimizely.com by maintaining and evolving the web design system. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to build reusable components and create high-quality, user-centered digital experiences.
Senior UX Designer
🇸🇪 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Qred Bank Ab 🇸🇪 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Lead end-to-end UX research initiatives and synthesize data to uncover user friction points across web and mobile platforms. Drive continuous discovery and contribute to the shared design system to ensure scalable framework consistency.
Software Engineer III - Frontend / Design Systems
🇺🇸 Plano, Texas, United States of America
Jpmorganchase 🇺🇸 Plano, Texas, United States of America
You will design, build, and maintain high-quality, reusable, and accessible UI components for the firm's front-end design system. Additionally, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement secure code and leverage AI-assisted tools to optimize development workflows.
UI/UX Designer
🇵🇹 Lagos, Faro, Portugal
Jobberman 🇵🇹 Lagos, Faro, Portugal
The designer will create intuitive, user-centered interfaces for web and mobile platforms while conducting research and usability testing. They are also responsible for maintaining the design system and collaborating with developers to ensure accurate implementation.
Lead UX Designer
🇳🇱 Netherlands
Bjak 🇳🇱 Netherlands
The Lead UX Designer will create beautiful, fast, and intuitive interfaces while maintaining UI components and design systems. They will work closely with product and engineering teams to ensure visual consistency and deliver pixel-perfect user experiences.
Lead UX Designer
🇩🇪 Germany
Bjak 🇩🇪 Germany
Design high-quality, intuitive user interfaces and maintain comprehensive UI components and design systems. Collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to ensure visual consistency and deliver pixel-perfect experiences.
Lead UX Designer
🇨🇭 Zurich, Switzerland
Bjak 🇨🇭 Zurich, Switzerland
You will design high-quality, intuitive user interfaces and maintain comprehensive UI components and design systems. You will work closely with product and engineering teams to ensure visual consistency and deliver pixel-perfect experiences.
Senior Product Designer, Partner Marketplace
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Realtor.com 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to lead the design process from conception to completion for consumer and client-facing platforms. Actively contribute to the evolution of the design system while serving as the voice of the user to deliver innovative, high-quality design solutions.
UX Designer
🇺🇸 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America
Love's Travel Stops 🇺🇸 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America
Design intuitive and visually consistent experiences for iOS and Android mobile applications while collaborating with cross-functional teams. Lead design initiatives, contribute to the design system, and conduct usability testing to ensure high-quality implementation.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Adapt.com 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
You will own the design of company agent setups, integrations, and controls while building a code-backed design system. You will collaborate with engineers to ship core product flows and refine visual details based on direct customer feedback.
Interaction Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Talent 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
You will design accessible, responsive user journeys and visual interfaces for content-heavy websites using Figma. Additionally, you will collaborate with researchers and developers to iterate on prototypes and maintain design systems.
Applied AI Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Citizen 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
You will define the consumer mobile experience for Citizen as an AI-native product, overseeing the design system and revenue-generating features. You will work directly with the CEO to build and manage AI agents that automate production workflows and accelerate prototyping.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Legalzoom 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Develop functional, production-quality prototypes and components that integrate AI capabilities into the user experience. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define product directions, maintain design systems, and instrument usage data to inform future iterations.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Gallatin Ai, Inc. 🇺🇸 United States of America
Collaborate with product managers and engineers to design user interfaces for complex military logistics systems. Conduct user research and utilize AI-assisted prototyping to iterate on design solutions and maintain design system consistency.
Senior Web Designer, Design Systems (Remote, Piura)
Remote (🇵🇪 Peru)
Blacksmith Agency Remote (🇵🇪 Peru)
You will build and maintain scalable design system architectures in Figma using tokens, variables, and semantic naming. Additionally, you will ship core component libraries and document systems to ensure they can be executed by automated pipelines.
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.