Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior UI Designer
🇵🇹 Faro, Portugal
Vml Enterprise Solutions 🇵🇹 Faro, Portugal
The Senior UI Designer will create pixel-perfect responsive interfaces and digital brand identities to improve user experience and increase conversion. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to execute design systems at scale for large consumer-facing brands.
Senior UI Designer
🇵🇹 Faro, Portugal
Vml 🇵🇹 Faro, Portugal
Create pixel-perfect responsive interfaces and digital brand identities that improve user experience and increase conversion. Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to execute design systems at scale for large consumer-facing brands.
Senior Product Designer
🇦🇹 Vienna, Austria
Squer 🇦🇹 Vienna, Austria
Own the end-to-end design process from problem discovery and human-centered research to high-fidelity prototyping and implementation. Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders to ensure product vision alignment and translate design decisions into scalable design system rules.
Senior Product Designer
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Cmc Markets 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Lead the end-to-end design of next-generation trading products and evolve the Figma-based design system for global web and mobile platforms. Collaborate with product and engineering leaders to translate complex financial data into intuitive, high-performance user interfaces.
Product Designer - UX/UI & Design Systems (Remote)
Remote (🇸🇻 El Salvador)
Pavago Remote (🇸🇻 El Salvador)
Own the end-to-end product experience across web and mobile applications by combining UX research, UI design, and design system maintenance. Collaborate with Product Managers and Engineers to create scalable, accessible, and visually polished SaaS interfaces.
Experience Designer Lead Senior - Design Systems
🇺🇸 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Pnc 🇺🇸 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Lead and mentor a pod of designers to maintain and evolve enterprise design systems, ensuring consistency and scalability across digital experiences. Drive the design system strategy, roadmap, and governance while coordinating with engineering and accessibility partners.
Member of Creative Studio (Web Designer - Marketing & Landing Pages)
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Perplexity 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Own the end-to-end design of marketing and landing pages while creating a scalable CMS design system for internal self-serve page creation. Collaborate with Growth, Product Marketing, and engineers to ensure high-converting, on-brand web experiences.
Staff Design Technologist
🇺🇸 United States of America
Kong 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead the intersection of product design and frontend implementation by building AI-enabled design workflows and maintaining design systems. Act as a bridge between design and engineering to reduce implementation drift and ensure UI cohesion across technical products.
Founding Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Sandstone 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design of core product features and establish the company's design systems and standards. Collaborate with founders and engineering to build an AI-native platform for legal departments and scale the design culture.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States of America
Robinhood 🇺🇸 Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States of America
Execute the technical design of high-priority digital product features from problem definition through to final implementation. Drive the development of shared design systems and optimize interfaces based on user feedback and engineering constraints.
Senior UI/UX Designer
Remote (🇨🇷 Ulloa, Heredia, Costa Rica)
Transunion Remote (🇨🇷 Ulloa, Heredia, Costa Rica)
The role involves leading UX/UI design efforts for multiple products, translating business goals into high-fidelity designs and interactive prototypes. You will collaborate with product managers and engineers to maintain design systems and optimize user experiences for a highly visible web application.
Product Designer
🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain
Mediasmart 🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain
Design complex features and data-heavy workflows for a programmatic advertising platform, focusing on campaign management and analytics. Maintain and evolve the company's design system in Figma to ensure scalability and consistency across multiple products.
Senior Visual Designer
Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)
Redthreadinnovations Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)
Lead the visual execution of digital products and brands, creating polished UI and production-ready designs. Collaborate with UX designers and engineers to deliver scalable visual solutions and maintain design systems.
Product Designer
Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
Smartrecruiters Inc Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
The Product Designer will translate complex problems into user-centered solutions by collaborating with PMs and Engineers. Responsibilities include owning design execution from concept to delivery and contributing to the organizational design system.
Founding Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Granted 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Own and elevate the end-to-end UX/UI across mobile, web, and internal platforms while building a scalable design system from the ground up. Partner with leadership and engineering to translate complex healthcare flows into simple, trustworthy user experiences.
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.