Design Leadership Jobs

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Technical Product Designer, TD Securities

🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The role involves leading end-to-end product design for complex financial workflows, from initial discovery and user research to high-fidelity prototyping in Figma. You will collaborate closely with Front-Office users and engineers to simplify sophisticated business processes and contribute to a shared design system.

$84,900 - $98,400Full-time
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UI Designer (AU Citizen with NV1 Security Clearance)

🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Design intuitive, user-centered interfaces and translate business requirements into high-fidelity wireframes and prototypes. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to maintain design systems and ensure accessibility and responsive design standards.

Full-time
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Graphic Designer

🇨🇴 Colombia

The role involves designing static interfaces and layouts for websites, landing pages, and mobile apps, as well as creating digital content for social media. The designer will maintain design systems in Figma and collaborate with copywriters and developers to ensure visual consistency across various brands.

Full-timeMid-level
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UI/UX Designer (m/w/d)

🇩🇪 Munich, Bavaria, Germany

You will design intuitive user experiences for products by translating complex requirements into user-friendly workflows. You will manage the entire design process from discovery and research to final UI design while actively contributing to the design system.

HybridFull-timeSenior
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Lead Product Designer

🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico

Lead the design of digital product experiences by translating complex problems into user-centered, scalable solutions. Collaborate closely with product, technology, and design teams to evolve the design system and establish best practices.

Full-timeSenior
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Senior Graphic Designer

🇺🇸 Virginia, United States of America

The designer will build and refine responsive web layouts, landing pages, and digital modules using Figma and Photoshop. They are responsible for maintaining scalable design systems and adapting brand assets for digital activation.

$35 - $40Contract
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Graphic Designer – Email & Digital Activation

🇺🇸 Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

The role focuses on creating and adapting digital experiences, including web layouts and landing pages, using Figma and Photoshop. The designer will build and maintain scalable design systems and deliver developer-ready assets for digital campaigns.

ContractMid-level
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UI/UX Designer

🇪🇸 Málaga, Andalusia, Spain

Design intuitive and scalable UI/UX solutions for a complex cybersecurity SaaS platform and AI-powered features. Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to create wireframes, prototypes, and maintain a consistent design system.

Full-time
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Design Systems Lead

🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America

The Design Systems Lead will own the end-to-end architecture, strategy, and evolution of the design system across web and mobile surfaces. This includes designing production-ready components, creating governance models, and integrating AI-powered design tooling into the workflow.

$190,000 - $240,000Full-timeSenior
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Product Designer

🇺🇸 United States of America

The Product Designer will create user flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity mockups to simplify complex AI capabilities and data sets. They will collaborate with product managers and engineers to translate requirements into intuitive interfaces and maintain a cohesive design system.

$111,000 - $132,000Full-timeMid-level
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Senior UX Designer

🇺🇸 United States of America

Lead the end-to-end product design process from discovery to high-fidelity UI, focusing on data and AI-enabled capabilities. Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to build design systems and integrate UX research and analytics into the design workflow.

$180,000 - $250,000Full-timeSenior
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Middle/Senior Product Designer (Design System)

🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

The role focuses on researching, designing, and documenting scalable components and patterns for a multi-platform design system. It involves managing token-based theme architecture and utilizing AI tools to accelerate documentation and quality assurance workflows.

Full-timeSenior
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Product Designer (Part-Time)

🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom

The role involves owning product design for a consumer-facing marketplace, creating high-fidelity UI and managing the design system. You will collaborate with product, engineering, and marketing teams to shape user experiences for sports and cultural event ticketing.

$40,000 - $45,000Part-timeMid-level
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Senior UI/UX Designer (m/w/d)

🇩🇪 Fürth, Bavaria, Germany

The role involves taking overall technical responsibility for UX/UI across the entire product portfolio, including the development of a UX strategy and a central design system in Figma. The designer will integrate AI-driven methods into the design process and create user interfaces for software and hardware components used in industrial plants.

Full-timeSenior
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UX Designer

🇸🇪 Nacka kommun, Stockholm County, Sweden

You will lead the full design process from user research and concept development to final UI delivery and developer handover. Additionally, you will contribute to the design system and collaborate with cross-functional teams to create intuitive experiences for cybersecurity products.

Full-timeMid-level
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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.