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Staff Visual Designer, Google Drive
🇺🇸 Boulder, Colorado, United States of America
Google 🇺🇸 Boulder, Colorado, United States of America
Set the visual direction for Google Drive across web and mobile, including its typography, color, layouts, iconography, and motion. Build and govern scalable design systems, and create clear, trustworthy visual experiences for complex workflows and Gemini AI capabilities in partnership with UX, product, and engineering teams.
Staff Visual Designer, Google Drive
🇺🇸 Sunnyvale, California, United States of America
Google 🇺🇸 Sunnyvale, California, United States of America
Set the visual design direction for Google Drive across web and mobile, including typography, color, layouts, iconography, and motion. Build and govern scalable design systems, and create clear, trustworthy visual experiences for complex workflows and Gemini AI capabilities in partnership with UX, product, and engineering teams.
Senior UI/UX Designer
Lead the design of web and mobile interfaces, including user research, wireframes, prototypes, usability testing, and responsive design. Develop and maintain design systems and visual assets, ensure consistency across products, and mentor other designers while collaborating with product managers and developers.
Product Designer Mid
🇵🇪 Lima, Lima Metropolitan Area, Peru
Encora 🇵🇪 Lima, Lima Metropolitan Area, Peru
Design and improve digital experiences across web platforms, mobile applications, and internal systems by translating business needs into clear, scalable, user-centered solutions. Conduct user research and usability validation, evolve design systems, document reusable patterns, and collaborate with product, technology, and business teams through implementation.
PRODUCT DESIGNER SPECIALIST
🇧🇷 Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Inter Carreiras 🇧🇷 Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Lead design initiatives and provide technical leadership for the UX Share Experience team, establishing scalable standards and reusable experiences across the SuperApp. Partner with Product, Technology, and Data teams, apply AI to improve design quality and efficiency, support designers and squads on complex challenges, and advance the Design System and design culture.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Nbcuniversal 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead end-to-end product design for responsive web and mobile experiences, from discovery and research through prototyping, implementation, and iteration. Collaborate with product, engineering, research, and other stakeholders to create user-centered designs, maintain design systems, and improve experiences using feedback, analytics, and business goals.
Product Designer
You will build and maintain a modular design system while designing complex, conversion-focused onboarding flows for global financial infrastructure. You will collaborate closely with engineering teams to translate designs into production and establish design standards for the team.
Lead Product Designer
🇦🇹 Vienna, Austria
Clera 🇦🇹 Vienna, Austria
You will lead product design, branding, and the design team while working directly with founders and engineering. The role involves hands-on design work, conducting customer interviews, and scaling design systems to support daily product releases.
Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Avenue Code Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Collaborate with product managers, developers, and designers to define goals and create service blueprints, flows, wireframes, and prototypes for digital products. Conduct research and usability testing, support stakeholder workshops and presentations, gather requirements, and contribute to design systems and component libraries.
Senior Visual Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lhh 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Create high-quality visual assets, motion graphics, and animated content for digital, social, web, presentation, and marketing channels while maintaining brand consistency. Develop scalable layouts and design systems, collaborate with creative and marketing teams, and manage projects from concept through delivery.
Staff Visual Designer, Google Drive
🇺🇸 Sunnyvale, California, United States of America
Google 🇺🇸 Sunnyvale, California, United States of America
Set the visual direction for Google Drive across web and mobile, including its typography, color, layouts, iconography, and motion. Build and govern scalable design systems, and create clear, trustworthy visual experiences for Gemini AI features and complex Drive workflows in partnership with UX, product, and engineering teams.
"UI/UX Designer SR#1017902"
Remote (🇧🇷 Brazil)
Dexian Brasil Remote (🇧🇷 Brazil)
Create wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity interfaces, and conduct user research and usability testing to inform design decisions. Collaborate with product and development teams, maintain design systems, improve navigation and interactions, and use metrics and feedback to iteratively enhance user experience.
Lead UX Designer (Contract)
Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)
Hirevouch Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)
Lead end-to-end product design, including user research, journey and information architecture mapping, interactive prototyping, and polished accessible interface design. Maintain and extend enterprise design systems, and align product, engineering, and global design teams across timezones.
CAD Services and Design Systems Engineer
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Groundwork Renewables 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Own and maintain GroundWork's CAD platforms, standards, controlled design assets, automation, and drawing quality systems, coordinating with IT and other stakeholders. Improve engineering documentation workflows through training, cross-functional feedback, approved design updates, and support for PLM/PDM and related product-data integrations.
Marketing Web Designer (UX/UI)
🇺🇸 United States of America
Jobgether 🇺🇸 United States of America
Design polished, on-brand, conversion-focused marketing web experiences and maintain a scalable Figma design system and consistent visual standards. Collaborate with marketing, content, analytics, and engineering teams, applying accessibility practices and analytics, experimentation, and AI-assisted workflows to improve website performance and implementation.
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.