Design Leadership Jobs
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Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Primer.io 🌍 Remote
The role involves designing and delivering end-to-end product experiences, validating design decisions through research, and collaborating with teams to solve complex problems. Additionally, the designer will craft accessible experiences and contribute to the design system.
Junior Product Designer - Engine by Starling
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Starling 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
The role involves contributing to the entire product development lifecycle, from discovery through delivery, by designing the visual and functional experience of mobile SDKs and web portals across various product domains like payments and lending. Responsibilities also include maintaining the multi-brand design system and ensuring products are designed for rapid adoption and configuration by clients.
Senior Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Teksystems 🌍 Remote
The Senior Product Designer will lead design efforts across mobile and web products, focusing on creating and evolving enterprise-grade design systems. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure that products meet business and user needs.
Senior UX Designer, Design System Accessibility
🇺🇸 Cary, North Carolina, United States
Sas 🇺🇸 Cary, North Carolina, United States
The Senior UX Designer will lead accessibility excellence for SAS's design system, Filament, by establishing accessibility standards and creating design patterns. They will also mentor designers and advocate for inclusive design thinking across the organization.
Senior Product Designer (Global Fully Remote | Full time | SaaS)
🌍 Remote
Passion.io 🌍 Remote
The designer will own end-to-end design for major product initiatives, turning complex workflows into effortless experiences. They will partner closely with Product, Growth, and Engineering teams to solve problems and evolve the design system.
Senior Product Designer (Global Fully Remote | Full time | SaaS)
🌍 Remote
Passion.io 🌍 Remote
The Senior Product Designer will own end-to-end design for major product initiatives, turning complex workflows into effortless experiences. They will partner closely with Product, Growth, and Engineering teams to solve problems and evolve the design system.
Senior Product Designer (Global Fully Remote | Full time | SaaS)
🌍 Remote
Passion.io 🌍 Remote
The designer will own end-to-end design for major product initiatives, turning complex workflows into effortless experiences. They will partner closely with Product, Growth, and Engineering teams to solve problems and evolve the design system.
Senior Product Designer (Global Fully Remote | Full time | SaaS)
🌍 Remote
Passion.io 🌍 Remote
The designer will own end-to-end design for major product initiatives, turning complex workflows into effortless experiences. They will partner closely with Product, Growth, and Engineering teams to solve problems and evolve the design system.
Senior Product Designer (Global Fully Remote | Full time | SaaS)
🌍 Remote
Passion.io 🌍 Remote
The designer will own end-to-end design for major product initiatives, turning complex workflows into effortless experiences. They will partner closely with Product, Growth, and Engineering teams to solve problems and evolve the design system.
UI/UX Designer
🇲🇽 Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
Accenture 🇲🇽 Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
Lead visual design and strategy while defining user flows and enhancing interactions. Develop user personas, set usability standards, and create a UI style guide or design system.
(Senior) Product Designer (all genders)
🇩🇪 Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Envelio 🇩🇪 Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
As a (Senior) Product Designer, you will work on the design and user experience of the Intelligent Grid Platform (IGP) in collaboration with a product manager and engineering manager. You will analyze stakeholder feedback, create mockups and prototypes, and contribute to the design system.
Sr. UI/UX Designer
🇵🇰 Karachi Division, Sindh, Pakistan
Fleekbiz Pvt Ltd 🇵🇰 Karachi Division, Sindh, Pakistan
The Senior UI/UX Designer will lead the conceptualization, design, and delivery of intuitive digital experiences for web and mobile platforms, while conducting user research and usability testing to validate design decisions. They will also be responsible for developing and maintaining a cohesive design system and mentoring junior designers.
Senior UX Designer, Design System Accessibility
🇺🇸 Cary, North Carolina, United States
Sas 🇺🇸 Cary, North Carolina, United States
The Senior UX Designer will lead accessibility excellence for SAS's design system, Filament, by establishing standards and creating accessible design patterns. They will also mentor designers and advocate for inclusive design thinking across the organization.
UX Designer, Design System Components
🇺🇸 Cary, North Carolina, United States
Sas 🇺🇸 Cary, North Carolina, United States
As a UX Designer, you will design detailed mockups and prototypes to communicate component designs and ensure consistency across components. You will also partner with various teams to refine specifications and validate implementations.
UX/UI Product Designer
🇺🇸 Portland, Oregon, United States
Daimler Truck Ag 🇺🇸 Portland, Oregon, United States
The role involves owning and designing UX/UI execution for complex in-vehicle digital features across multiple global truck brands, translating requirements into high-quality, end-to-end design solutions from concept through final UI. Responsibilities also include rigorously applying user-centered design principles, planning user research, building prototypes, delivering implementation-ready outputs, and contributing to design systems.
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.