Design Leadership Jobs
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Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Planning Center Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The Product Designer will collaborate across multiple disciplines to craft simple and intuitive user experiences for the Church Center product, taking ownership from problem framing through to shipping. A key responsibility involves taking a leading role in evolving Doxy, the design system for Church Center.
Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Fanduel 🇬🇧 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
The designer will explore and shape ideas based on user and business needs, leading small to medium-sized projects with growing independence while delivering high-quality UX and UI design across user journeys. They must use prototyping and testing to validate solutions, implement AI in the design lifecycle, and contribute to the design system.
Senior UI/UX Designer - Evinova
🇺🇸 Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America
Astrazeneca 🇺🇸 Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America
The role involves leading cross-functional alignment to define shared standards and evolving Figma libraries to reflect a code-first component architecture, ensuring scalability and alignment with the implemented system. Key duties include enabling AI-assisted workflows, embedding accessibility standards, creating documentation, and driving continuous improvement of the design system roadmap.
Senior Product Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Razorpay Software Private Limited 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
The Senior Product Designer will participate in product and design ideation, planning, and prioritization across diverse products, driving user research and making data-backed design decisions. They will also collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams to deliver customer experiences and develop visual design systems.
Product Designer II
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Razorpay Software Private Limited 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
The Product Designer will drive user research, define design strategies based on data, and collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams to deliver delightful customer experiences across diverse products. They will also be responsible for developing and extending visual design systems and pattern libraries.
Junior Product Designer - India
🇮🇳 Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Syfe 🇮🇳 Gurgaon, Haryana, India
The role involves designing user flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity mockups for web and mobile financial products, while collaborating closely with product managers and engineers from exploration through shipping. Responsibilities also include participating in design critiques, conducting basic user research, and helping to maintain the design system.
UI/UX Designer (Website)
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Iwoca 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The UI/UX Designer will be responsible for owning and stewarding the visual identity of the public-facing website, ensuring it aligns with the brand and marketing strategy. This includes managing and evolving the website design system while also designing ad hoc layouts, pages, and graphics using Webflow.
Product Designer
🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Connecteam 🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv District, Israel
The Product Designer will be responsible for designing end-to-end solutions for complex features across mobile and web platforms, collaborating closely with Product Managers and Developers. This role involves leading the entire design process, from research and prototyping through visual design and testing, while maintaining and evolving the design system.
Staff Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Faculty 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The Staff Product Designer will set the global quality bar for the AI-native Decision Intelligence platform, focusing on establishing design coherence across simulations and defining interaction models for human-AI collaboration on high-stakes decisions. This role involves pioneering new AI-native design patterns, building scalable design systems, and driving a high-ambition design culture through mentorship and structured critiques.
Strong Middle/Senior UI/UX Designer
🇫🇷 63990 Job, France
S-pro 🇫🇷 63990 Job, France
The designer will be responsible for designing, evolving, and scaling complex design systems, including components, tokens, and theming, while also utilizing AI tools to enhance the design workflow speed and quality. Key duties involve designing end-to-end UX flows for complex fintech products and creating native mobile experiences for iOS and Android, ensuring platform-specific adherence.
UI/UX Designer
Remote (🇵🇰 Lahore Division, Lahore City Tehsil, Lahore 54500, Pakistan)
Gigalabs (pvt) Ltd. Remote (🇵🇰 Lahore Division, Lahore City Tehsil, Lahore 54500, Pakistan)
The main responsibilities involve designing intuitive and engaging user interfaces for website applications, creating various design artifacts like wireframes and high-fidelity designs using Figma, and optimizing complex dashboards for usability and data visualization. The role also requires conducting user research and maintaining design consistency through design systems.
Product Designer - Design Systems
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Jiostar 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
The role involves co-owning the Design Language System, driving its evolution, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to build and document high-quality, scalable components and patterns. A key focus is leveraging AI tools to prototype, automate workflows, and accelerate the development and adoption of the design system across platforms.
Web Designer
Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
Paddle Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
The Web Designer will lead the design, implementation, and optimization of the brand across marketing sites, resource hubs, and campaign microsites, focusing on turning curiosity into qualified pipeline. Key duties include driving the conversion experience on the marketing website and owning/scaling the web-based design system.
Embedded UI Designer / Engineer
🇮🇳 Bangalore North, India
Expleo 🇮🇳 Bangalore North, India
The primary role involves designing and implementing high-performance UI screens and widgets for industrial controller HMIs running on resource-constrained MCUs/SoCs, focusing on responsiveness and memory efficiency. Secondary responsibilities include building complementary web utilities for configuration or simulation and contributing to a shared design system for visual consistency.
Product Designer
The Product Designer will be responsible for developing and maintaining a scalable design system to elevate visual and interaction consistency across the platform, while also designing intuitive workflows and prototyping new interaction patterns for multi-domain control. A key part of the role involves traveling on-site to conduct usability testing with operators and translating field observations into actionable design improvements.
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.