Design Leadership Jobs
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Product Designer, Design Systems
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Mirage 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The role involves owning and evolving the design system across web and mobile platforms, focusing on scalability, accessibility, and consistency by defining core foundations like tokens, typography, and component libraries. Responsibilities also include partnering with engineering, establishing governance models, driving alignment across product teams, and mentoring other designers on system usage.
UI / UX Designer
Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
Dohe Europe Ltd Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
The role involves designing the complete UX for five distinct portals within the EdTech Hub, covering everything 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 standards, and ensuring implementation fidelity through developer handoffs.
Lead Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Together Ai 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Lead Product Designer will craft and map elegant user flows, prototype smooth interactions, and launch new product features while contributing to and evolving the design system for consistency and scalability. This role involves driving the design vision for the AI development tooling ecosystem and partnering with the executive team on strategic product decisions.
Product Designer, CRM
🇧🇷 Brazil
Mindbody 🇧🇷 Brazil
The Product Designer will own end-to-end design for key CRM features, including customer management, communications, and reporting, translating user needs into thoughtful design solutions. They will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to deliver measurable business and user outcomes while contributing to the design system.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Blitzy 🇺🇸 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
The Product Designer will be responsible for designing features, flows, and interfaces for Blitzy's AI code generation platform, translating product requirements into detailed UI designs and interaction specifications. This role also involves contributing components to the design system and producing high-fidelity designs in Figma with rigorous attention to detail and polish.
UX Designer
🇨🇦 Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Atreides Caseri Inc. 🇨🇦 Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
The UX Designer will be responsible for designing and rapidly prototyping user interfaces for geospatial intelligence platforms, OSINT analytics tools, and mission-critical data systems, while collaborating closely with product managers and end users to understand operational workflows and pain points. Key tasks include building functional prototypes, creating scalable design systems, and ensuring designs are technically feasible when embedded with engineering teams.
UI Designer / Design Systems Expert
🇧🇪 Brussels, Brussels-Capital, Belgium
Sopra Steria 🇧🇪 Brussels, Brussels-Capital, Belgium
The role involves shaping high-quality, scalable user interfaces by creating and maintaining design system components, collaborating closely with development teams using React/CSS, and ensuring visual coherence across digital products. As a consultancy-driven position, the expert will also support the adoption, governance, and communication of the design system within client teams.
Senior Product Designer
🇸🇪 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Storytel 🇸🇪 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
The Senior Product Designer will own the end-to-end user experience, translating insights into evidence-based design decisions and crafting high-quality, accessible UI aligned with the Design System. This role involves close collaboration with Product and Engineering to shape, build, and ship impactful solutions while ensuring strong design execution during implementation.
Senior Product Designer- Sovereign AI
🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
Dream 🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
The Senior Product Designer will own the design vision for the Sovereign AI division, establishing design standards and evolving the design system from the ground up. Responsibilities include developing deep fluency in user workflows, designing for high-stakes, mission-critical analytical systems, and driving the full design lifecycle from concept to iteration.
UI-UX Product Designer
🇷🇴 Bucharest, Romania
Orion Innovation 🇷🇴 Bucharest, Romania
The role involves designing and delivering artifacts like wireframes, user stories, and mockups, while translating complex concepts into user-friendly interfaces for video streaming solutions. Responsibilities also include conducting user research, collaborating with product teams, and maintaining the existing design system for visual consistency.
UI/UX Designer - REMOTE - AP007
Remote (🇦🇷 Buenos Aires, Comuna 1, Argentina)
Pearl Remote (🇦🇷 Buenos Aires, Comuna 1, Argentina)
The role involves conducting user research, creating wireframes and high-fidelity UI designs across web, SaaS, and mobile platforms, and building/maintaining design systems and component libraries. Designers will collaborate with product, engineering, and marketing teams to translate user needs into effective interfaces.
UI/UX Designer - REMOTE - AP007
Remote (🇧🇷 São Paulo, Região Metropolitana de São Paulo, Brazil)
Pearl Remote (🇧🇷 São Paulo, Região Metropolitana de São Paulo, Brazil)
The role involves conducting user research, creating wireframes and high-fidelity UI designs across web, SaaS, and mobile platforms, and building/maintaining design systems and component libraries. Designers will collaborate with product, engineering, and marketing teams to translate user needs into effective interfaces.
Web Graphic Designer
🇹🇷 Istanbul, Turkey
Codeway 🇹🇷 Istanbul, Turkey
The Web Graphic Designer will be responsible for designing high-converting landing pages and web interfaces that align with brand identity while maximizing user engagement and conversion rates. This role also involves creating visually compelling digital assets for performance marketing campaigns and contributing to the evolution of design systems.
Graphic Designer
🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
Redwood Software 🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
This role involves powering the day-to-day visual output of the marketing team by turning established brand systems into polished, ready-to-use assets across various needs, focusing heavily on templates and repeatable designs. Key tasks include producing high-volume design assets for campaigns, owning the creation and maintenance of presentation decks and modular design systems, and utilizing AI tools to accelerate production.
Senior Product Designer, Experience (Social Core)
🌍 Remote
Vrchat 🌍 Remote
The Senior Product Designer will lead end-to-end product design for social core experiences, including connecting with friends, group discovery, and events, while setting clear team direction in ambiguous spaces. They will drive cross-platform design across VR, desktop, mobile, and web, establishing reusable interaction patterns and contributing to the UI 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.