Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior Architect Design Systems H/F
🇫🇷 Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Nexton 🇫🇷 Paris, Ile-de-France, France
The Senior Architect Design Systems acts as a bridge between design and engineering to ensure the technical coherence and scalability of the design system. They are responsible for defining architecture, managing design tokens, automating build pipelines, and coaching teams on best practices.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Kobalt Labs 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
The Product Designer will define the next generation of Kobalt's product and brand by creating intuitive workflows and a robust design system. They will also own the end-to-end design and implementation of the company website and evolve the visual identity.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇳🇱 The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
Dyflexis 🇳🇱 The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
You will own the visual strategy for marketing and lead generation, creating high-quality assets across various digital and print channels. This includes maintaining the design system, collaborating with the UX/UI team, and supporting event-related visual materials.
Product Designer - BeReal
🇫🇷 Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Bereal 🇫🇷 Paris, Ile-de-France, France
You will conduct user research and design high-impact features that solve problems while maintaining a simple and elegant user experience. Additionally, you will collaborate with engineering teams to implement solutions, track key metrics, and contribute to the evolution of the product design system.
Senior Product Designer
🇷🇸 Belgrade, Central Serbia, Serbia
Greencastle Digital 🇷🇸 Belgrade, Central Serbia, Serbia
Conduct user research, usability testing, and data analysis to inform evidence-based design decisions. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build and evolve scalable design systems while ensuring consistent and intuitive user experiences.
Senior Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Assessfirst 🌍 Remote
You will design and evolve the end-to-end product experience, from discovery to production, while focusing on AI-native features like agents and copilots. You will collaborate closely with product managers and engineers to maintain the design system and conduct continuous user research.
UI/UX Designer
🇨🇦 Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
2k 🇨🇦 Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
You will own and maintain the atomic design system in Figma while creating intuitive player flows, wireframes, and information hierarchies. Additionally, you will collaborate with art and engineering teams to translate designs into visually cohesive, shippable game features.
Principal UX Designer
🇺🇸 Morrisville, North Carolina, United States
Bertelsmann-jobs 🇺🇸 Morrisville, North Carolina, United States
The Principal UX Designer will own and standardize UX processes, templates, and operating models to enable efficient execution at scale across the product portfolio. They will also drive cross-functional alignment and lead the adoption of product tools and design systems to ensure operational excellence.
UI Designer
🇮🇳 Mumbai City, Maharashtra, India
Media.net 🇮🇳 Mumbai City, Maharashtra, India
Design intuitive interfaces for mobile, web, and desktop products while collaborating with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into polished design solutions. Leverage AI tools and agentic workflows to accelerate ideation, prototyping, and the implementation of scalable design systems.
UI/UX Designer
🇺🇦 Ukraine
Viseven 🇺🇦 Ukraine
Create responsive UI/UX solutions, including designs, layouts, and interactive prototypes based on user and business requirements. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop design systems and ensure the final implementation matches the approved designs.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Mirage 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
You will partner with executive and product teams to define the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for AI-native video creation tools. Additionally, you will lead complex design initiatives from concept to launch while establishing design systems and mentoring team members.
UI/UX Designer
🇷🇴 Bucharest, Romania
Viseven 🇷🇴 Bucharest, Romania
Create responsive and adaptive UI/UX solutions including mockups and interactive prototypes while maintaining design systems. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to validate designs, support developer handoff, and ensure high-quality feature implementation.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Hitachi 🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Lead UI/UX design for MES, Smart Factory, HMI, and enterprise applications within semiconductor manufacturing environments. Collaborate with architects, engineers, and developers to deliver scalable design systems and complex industrial interfaces.
UI/UX Designer
🇵🇱 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Viseven 🇵🇱 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Create responsive UI/UX solutions, mockups, and interactive prototypes while maintaining design systems and documentation. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to validate design decisions and support the developer handoff process.
Product Designer (UI-focused)
🇺🇦 Ukraine
Amo 🇺🇦 Ukraine
The Product Designer will lead the visual design of a new product from inception to implementation, including the development of a design system. They will validate product hypotheses through design experiments and ensure seamless collaboration with developers and the product team.
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.