Design Leadership Jobs
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Founding Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
P-1 Ai Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The role involves architecting the interaction between engineering customers and the agentic AI, Archie, by defining logic, conversational flows, and rigorous design systems. Responsibilities include leading UX research, shaping AI communication, and bridging design with the technical engineering pipeline.
Senior Product Designer
🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Propertyguru Group 🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Lead product design for complex, cross-functional initiatives spanning multiple squads and shape the design strategy for the product area by identifying the right problems to solve. Set craft standards through design reviews and mentorship while contributing to and evolving the company's design system.
Sr. Website UX Designer
🇺🇸 California, United States of America
Palo Alto Networks 🇺🇸 California, United States of America
This role involves hands-on UX and UI design to accelerate the refresh of the website design system, working cross-functionally to transform Figma designs into modular, reusable AEM components. Key duties include partnering with stakeholders to design scalable web experiences, leading the design system evolution, and utilizing AI to improve design operations and iteration speed.
Senior Product Designer II, Platform Product
Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
Hubspot Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
The role involves defining, designing, and stewarding experiences that span the entire platform to ensure cohesion and prevent silos, while also shaping, evolving, and contributing to design systems to solve for consistency and scalability. Designers will leverage and shape AI features through ideation, design, and experimentation, collaborating deeply with cross-functional partners.
Senior Product Designer II, Platform Product
Remote (🇮🇪 Ireland)
Hubspot Remote (🇮🇪 Ireland)
The role involves defining, designing, and stewarding experiences that span the entire platform to ensure cohesion and prevent silos, while also shaping, evolving, and contributing to design systems to set standards for consistency and scalability. Additionally, the designer will ideate, design, and experiment with AI and automation features across customer experiences and the design workflow.
UI/UX Designer
🇿🇦 Cape Town, City of Cape Town, South Africa
Transperfect 🇿🇦 Cape Town, City of Cape Town, South Africa
The designer will be responsible for creating user interfaces and experiences for corporate and marketing websites, including designing wireframes, mockups, and high-fidelity designs for new features. Key duties also involve contributing to the creation and maintenance of a shared design system and ensuring designs meet accessibility and brand standards.
UX Designer
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Asx 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
The role involves applying research methodologies to understand insights that inform design, carrying products through the design thinking process to produce viable deliverables, and collaborating with engineering teams to identify solutions. Responsibilities also include creating prototypes at various fidelities and contributing to the maintenance of the digital design system.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Mateo, California, United States of America
Parspec 🇺🇸 San Mateo, California, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will own the end-to-end design of product features, translating complex B2B workflows into intuitive interfaces and clear user flows while collaborating closely with Product and Engineering to iterate quickly. Key duties include producing high-quality interaction and visual design, contributing to the design system, and leading user research initiatives to reduce cognitive load.
Graphic Designer (InDesign Specialist) - Part-Time (Remote)
Remote (🇵🇭 Manila, Capital District, Philippines)
Outsource Access Remote (🇵🇭 Manila, Capital District, Philippines)
The role involves transforming raw data and broker notes from commercial real estate firms into polished, high-end marketing assets like property brochures using mastery of Adobe InDesign systems. Additionally, the designer will contribute to building playbooks and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to support future scaling of the team.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Dmg::media 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The Senior Product Designer will guide the design process from concept to implementation, collaborating with various teams on hands-on UX and UI work across digital touch-points like the website and app. Key duties include creating design artifacts, maintaining a cohesive design system, and presenting design trade-offs to senior stakeholders.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Daxko 🇺🇸 United States of America
The Senior UX Designer will transform complex workflows into clear, accessible, and engaging user experiences across the product ecosystem by partnering with product managers and engineers. Responsibilities include driving user research, creating high-fidelity designs and prototypes using Figma, and contributing to the design system's growth.
UI/UX Designer
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Adree 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
The role involves designing and developing intuitive user interfaces and enriching user experiences for web and mobile applications, requiring the creation of wireframes, prototypes, and visual designs. Responsibilities also include conducting user research, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and maintaining the design system for consistency.
UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
The Agora Companies 🇺🇸 Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
The role involves designing intuitive, scalable, and user-centered experiences for marketing technology platforms, which includes creating wireframes, mockups, and prototypes for web-based platforms. Responsibilities also cover supporting user research, collaborating cross-functionally, and maintaining design systems and standards.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 Tampa, Florida, United States of America
Shift4 🇺🇸 Tampa, Florida, United States of America
This role bridges design and engineering by translating design specifications and components into high-quality, reusable front-end code and maintaining the coded design system in partnership with design system owners. Responsibilities also include building interactive prototypes using AI-assisted tools and establishing foundational tools and workflows for design-to-code processes.
Product Designer Senior H/F
🇫🇷 Paris, France
Nexton 🇫🇷 Paris, France
The Senior Product Designer will be responsible for designing future multi-screen TV interfaces, leveraging a robust Design System, and creating TV user journeys by developing mockups. They will also collaborate with Product Managers and UX Strategists on product vision, document assets, and ensure quality assurance with developers.
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.