Design Leadership Jobs
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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 UI assets like mockups and prototypes, and actively contributing to the evolution and maintenance of the Design System. They will also collaborate closely with development teams to ensure design recommendations are correctly implemented and participate in user testing and design reviews.
Staff Product Designer
🇨🇦 Canada
Planera 🇨🇦 Canada
The Staff Product Designer will own the end-to-end design of the mobile app experiences, leading complex problem spaces from discovery through launch and partnering closely with product and engineering to shape priorities. This role involves advocating for mobile users, driving excellence in interaction design, and contributing to product strategy while influencing the design system.
Senior Product Designer - Barcelona
🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Wizeline 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
The Senior Product Designer will conceptualize, design, and deliver intuitive and visually appealing user interfaces while collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure effective design solutions. Responsibilities also include translating insights into artifacts like personas and prototypes, advocating for customer needs, and evolving the design system.
Product Designer, Deployed
🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Brain Co. 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
The role involves leading end-to-end design efforts, including UX research, interaction design, visual design, prototyping, and testing for complex, AI-driven software products. This includes collaborating with cross-functional teams and helping to establish and evolve the design system and guidelines.
Staff Product Designer — AI
🇵🇹 Porto, Portugal
Talkdesk 🇵🇹 Porto, Portugal
This role involves leading end-to-end design for complex, AI-driven product initiatives across multiple teams, translating strategic problems into clear frameworks, user journeys, and scalable systems. Responsibilities also include driving the evolution of the Design System for AI surfaces and mentoring other designers, while spending 80% of time on hands-on design work.
Product Designer (UX/UI)
Remote (🇦🇲 Armenia)
Searadar Remote (🇦🇲 Armenia)
The role involves owning the full design cycle, starting with a UX audit of the current booking flow and competitor analysis to understand user drop-offs. Key tasks include designing solutions through wireframes, high-fidelity UI, and creating design system components to replace the manual sales process with a self-service online booking experience.
Graphic Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America)
Comfy Remote (🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America)
The role involves maintaining brand guidelines, ensuring visual consistency across design systems, and designing/optimizing core web pages and campaign landing pages. Responsibilities also include executing high-volume production design, building template libraries, and collaborating on creative development for launches and marketing campaigns.
UI Designer
🇵🇪 Lima, Lima Metropolitan Area, Peru
Havas Group 🇵🇪 Lima, Lima Metropolitan Area, Peru
The role involves designing and adapting graphic pieces for the website, such as banners and landing pages, while ensuring high visual impact. A key function is guaranteeing visual consistency across all digital assets by strictly applying the existing Design System.
UI Designer
🇵🇪 Lima, Lima Metropolitan Area, Peru
Havas Group 🇵🇪 Lima, Lima Metropolitan Area, Peru
The UI Designer will be responsible for the design and evolutionary maintenance of graphic assets for the website, including banners and landing pages, ensuring high visual impact. A key part of the role involves guaranteeing visual consistency across all digital assets by strictly applying the existing Design System.
Sr Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Fremont, California, United States of America
Hyve Solutions 🇺🇸 Fremont, California, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer will deliver high-quality, polished design across brand, marketing, communications, and product experiences while creating and evolving comprehensive design systems that scale across various platforms. This role involves leading ideation and concept development, translating complex technical ideas into simple, impactful creative solutions for key channels.
Product Designer
🇮🇳 Bangalore North, India
Growthx 🇮🇳 Bangalore North, India
The role involves leading product discovery through user interviews and translating insights into clear strategy and beautiful product direction, while owning the entire design craft from low-fi wireframes to polished UI, including micro-copy and motion details. Responsibilities also include maintaining the design system, building interactive prototypes, conducting user tests, and ensuring high-quality execution across mobile and desktop.
Product Designer
🇬🇷 Athens, Central Athens, Greece
Epignosis 🇬🇷 Athens, Central Athens, Greece
The Product Designer will be responsible for designing end-to-end user experiences from initial concepts through final UI and handoff, utilizing Figma to create various design artifacts and contributing to the evolution of the design system. They will own design solutions within their product area, ensuring they balance user needs, business goals, and technical constraints while measuring success through usability and adoption.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇷🇸 Serbia)
Smartcat Remote (🇷🇸 Serbia)
The Product Designer will partner deeply with Product Managers and Engineers from problem discovery to solution delivery, contributing to strategy and ensuring an exceptional user experience. Key tasks include conducting user research, creating various design artifacts like wireframes and prototypes, and building/maintaining the design system.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇵🇹 Portugal)
Smartcat Remote (🇵🇹 Portugal)
The Product Designer will partner deeply with Product Managers and Engineers from problem discovery through solution delivery, contributing to strategy and ensuring an exceptional user experience. Key tasks include conducting user research, creating various design artifacts like wireframes and prototypes, and building/maintaining the design system.
Product Designer - Design system H/F
🇫🇷 92300 Levallois-Perret, France
Devoteam 🇫🇷 92300 Levallois-Perret, France
The Product Designer will be central to designing and managing the Design System, collaborating closely with designers, developers, and stakeholders to ensure consistency, efficiency, and scalability across digital products. Responsibilities include developing, documenting, and maintaining the Design System, driving innovation, and evangelizing its use through training and support.
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.