Design Leadership Jobs
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Product Designer
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Cmc Markets 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
The role involves translating complex trading requirements and dense financial data into high-performance, effortless interfaces for professional users. Responsibilities include owning and maturing the Figma design system, running the full design lifecycle, conducting user research, and partnering with Product and Engineering teams.
UX Designer
🇳🇱 Delft, South Holland, Netherlands
Topdesk 🇳🇱 Delft, South Holland, Netherlands
The role involves managing the entire design process from initial discovery through final delivery, including transforming research insights into intuitive and accessible user experiences. Responsibilities also include creating design artifacts like wireframes and prototypes, maintaining the design system, and ensuring seamless developer handover.
UX Designer (m/f/d)
🇩🇪 Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Topdesk 🇩🇪 Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
The UX Designer is responsible for the entire design process, from initial discovery to final delivery, including identifying research needs and transforming insights into intuitive, accessible, and inclusive user experiences. Key tasks involve creating design artifacts like wireframes and prototypes, validating designs through testing, and ensuring consistency via the design system.
Staff Product Designer
Remote (🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom)
Tripleten Remote (🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom)
The Staff Product Designer will co-own the Learner Experience with the Head of Design, focusing on shaping UX across all learner-facing surfaces, particularly designing adaptive learning systems that evolve based on individual needs. This role involves working in a 0->1 build environment, driving rapid experimentation, ensuring the design system scales, and mentoring other designers.
Staff Product Designer
Remote (🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal)
Tripleten Remote (🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal)
The Staff Product Designer will co-own the Learner Experience with the Head of Design, focusing on shaping UX across all learner-facing surfaces, particularly designing adaptive learning systems that evolve based on individual needs. Responsibilities include driving rapid experimentation, ensuring the design system scales, and mentoring other designers.
Staff Product Designer
Remote (🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain)
Tripleten Remote (🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain)
The Staff Product Designer will co-own the Learner Experience with the Head of Design, focusing on shaping UX across all learner-facing surfaces and designing adaptive learning systems that evolve based on individual needs. Responsibilities include driving rapid experimentation, ensuring the design system scales, mentoring other designers, and clearly communicating design intent to stakeholders.
Staff Product Designer
Remote (🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany)
Tripleten Remote (🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany)
The Staff Product Designer will co-own the Learner Experience with the Head of Design, focusing on building a novel learner experience model that introduces adaptive learning beyond static flows. Responsibilities include driving rapid experimentation, ensuring the design system scales, and mentoring other designers.
Senior UI Designer F/H
🇫🇷 Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Thales 🇫🇷 Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine, France
The Senior UI Designer will be responsible for transforming complex business needs into simple, effective, and coherent visual solutions, designing high-quality user interfaces, and actively contributing to the evolution and maintenance of the Design System. This role involves accompanying product development through close collaboration with development teams and ensuring the user interface meets accessibility standards.
UI/UX Designer
Remote (🇮🇳 India)
Mea Platform Remote (🇮🇳 India)
The role involves translating complex insurance workflows into intuitive digital experiences through design, prototyping using tools like Figma Make, and ensuring adherence to design systems and accessibility standards. Responsibilities also include planning and analyzing user testing sessions to validate design assumptions and iterating based on feedback.
Product Designer - OPE
The Product Designer will be responsible for creating intuitive and scalable user experiences across mobile and web platforms, focusing on seamless booking, location-based, and commerce experiences for visitors to the Giza Plateau. Key tasks include designing end-to-end user journeys, simplifying complex transactional flows, and developing scalable design systems.
UI/UX Designer
Ukraine, Heroiv Nebesnoi Sotni Alley, 4, Klov, Kyiv, 01001
Everstar Ukraine, Heroiv Nebesnoi Sotni Alley, 4, Klov, Kyiv, 01001
Responsibilities include conducting quantitative and qualitative UX research and creating digital products from initial concept through post-release support. The role involves collaborating with PM and Dev teams during discovery and delivery phases and maintaining a comprehensive design system.
Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America)
Parafin Remote (🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America)
The Product Designer will be responsible for designing end-to-end product experiences for new features and improvements across Parafin’s B2B products, turning complex workflows into intuitive interfaces. They will partner with product managers and engineers, contribute to the design system, and explore incorporating AI tools into the design workflow.
Senior Product Designer
🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Trulioo 🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
The Senior Product Designer will lead complex product initiatives from discovery through final implementation, delivering clear user flows, interaction patterns, and high-fidelity UI across web and mobile surfaces. This role involves translating ambiguous requirements into intuitive user experiences, focusing on multi-step workflows, data-heavy interfaces, and ensuring visual consistency via the design system.
UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 Santa Clara, California, United States of America
Dexmate 🇺🇸 Santa Clara, California, United States of America
The primary focus involves building, documenting, and maintaining a scalable design system within Figma, creating reusable components, and ensuring consistency across web and robot interfaces. Secondary responsibilities include assisting in feature design across platforms and supporting rapid prototyping cycles.
Senior Product Designer, Financial Operations
🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Lightspeed Commerce 🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
The Senior Product Designer will lead project work from a design perspective with autonomy, transforming complex concepts into clear, user-friendly features by exploring and integrating AI and emerging technologies. They must also embed systems thinking by utilizing design systems and contributing to their improvement while designing holistic, elegant, and user-friendly flows.
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.