Design Leadership Jobs
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AI Product Designer (£60k-£70k) at Fast-growing digital product agency
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Jack & Jill/external Ats 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The role involves leading end-to-end product design for diverse client projects, focusing on building and scaling applications that leverage machine learning and artificial intelligence. Responsibilities include conducting research, developing interactive prototypes, and evolving design systems while shaping internal AI-driven workflows.
UX Designer - Everyday Banking Platform (12-Month FTC)
🇬🇧 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Lloyds Banking Group 🇬🇧 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
The UX Designer will skillfully craft the end-to-end user experience, creatively using components from a central design system to balance content and UI elements on screen. This role involves bringing designs to life via prototyping software and balancing business requirements with user needs gathered from research.
Product Designer - Unified Systems
Remote (🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)
Culture Amp Remote (🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)
The role involves contributing to the design, development, maintenance, and scaling of design system components, foundations, and patterns, focusing on accessibility, usability, and consistency. Responsibilities also include creating documentation, partnering with engineers for high-quality implementation, and supporting teams using the system.
Product Designer - Unified Systems
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Culture Amp 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
The role involves contributing to the design, development, maintenance, and scaling of design system components, foundations, and patterns, focusing on accessibility, usability, and consistency. Responsibilities also include creating documentation, partnering with engineers for high-quality implementation, and supporting teams using the system.
Product Designer
🇬🇷 Municipality of Marousi, North Athens, Greece
Hellas Direct 🇬🇷 Municipality of Marousi, North Athens, Greece
The Product Designer will shape products across the entire customer journey, including quote, purchase, and claims flows, by designing thoughtful and intuitive solutions. This involves owning product design for web and mobile, translating user needs into practical solutions, and maintaining the design system.
Design Engineering Architect
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Cadence Design Systems 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
This senior technical leadership role involves defining the long-term verification architecture and methodology strategy for next-generation Tensilica CPU cores, ensuring functional integrity across multiple processor variants. Key duties include architecting simulation testbenches, leading UVM environment development, and championing advanced verification techniques like formal verification.
Senior UI/UX Designer
Remote (🇫🇷 Reims, Marne, France)
Idt Remote (🇫🇷 Reims, Marne, France)
The role involves owning the end-to-end design process for new features and improvements, translating product requirements into detailed designs, and building/scaling a consistent design system in Figma. Responsibilities also include collaborating with product and engineering teams and ensuring design quality in the final release.
UX Designer
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Accenture 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
This multi-disciplinary role involves performing user research, transforming business processes into user journeys through service design, and acting as an experienced interaction designer familiar with design systems. The designer will deliver various artifacts including service blueprints, user journeys, flows, and prototypes to meet user needs and business requirements.
Product Designer – FUSSBALL.DE (m/w/d)
🇩🇪 Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
Deutscher Fußball-bund E.v. (dfb) 🇩🇪 Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
The Product Designer will holistically develop the user experience for FUSSBALL.DE, designing end-to-end user experiences for the mobile app and web product from concept through UI implementation. This role involves close collaboration with Product Management and Engineering while actively contributing to the evolution of the Design System.
UX Designer
🇳🇿 Thames 3500, New Zealand
Pexa Group 🇳🇿 Thames 3500, New Zealand
The role involves taking ownership of feature design from discovery through to development-ready screens, balancing user needs, business goals, and technical constraints while contributing to and utilizing the existing design system. Responsibilities also include developing clear user journeys, ensuring designs are inclusive and accessible, and supporting strategic design initiatives.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇷🇴 Bucharest, Romania
Uipath 🇷🇴 Bucharest, Romania
The role involves architecting the global user experience for UiPath's international web presence, events, and other properties, ensuring seamless localization across multiple languages and regions. Responsibilities also include designing high-conversion landing pages and evolving the marketing design system for consistency and scalability.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Premier Inc. 🇺🇸 United States of America
This role involves defining and evolving the end-to-end user experience across complex, multi-product ecosystems, setting strategic design vision, and leading hands-on design execution for high-quality, accessible UX/UI solutions. Responsibilities also include maintaining scalable design systems, collaborating cross-functionally, and mentoring other designers to elevate overall design quality.
UX Designer
🇳🇱 Hoofddorp, North Holland, Netherlands
Basic-fit 🇳🇱 Hoofddorp, North Holland, Netherlands
The mission is to create a frictionless user experience by identifying high-friction moments, diving deep into user behavior, and translating insights into measurable improvements. Responsibilities include leading the design process, initiating discovery activities, defining problems, and shipping pragmatic solutions using the design system.
Senior Product Designer
🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal
Catawiki 🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal
The Senior Product Designer will drive research efforts to identify user needs and transform ideas for innovation into viable solutions, working hands-on to create design deliverables like user journeys, prototypes, and design system elements. They will align with multiple stakeholders, incorporating feedback early and often to ensure a consistent, user-centered platform.
Senior Product Designer (UI) - contract
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Collinson 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The Senior Product Designer will lead the design of elegant, mobile-first interfaces across various platforms, defining animations and micro-interactions to ensure natural and meaningful movement. They will also contribute to evolving the design system and championing accessibility best practices across all designs.
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.