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Staff Product Designer - Design Systems
🇺🇸 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Jewelers Mutual Group 🇺🇸 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
The Staff Product Designer will lead the build-out and maintenance of the design system based on HeroUI, establishing foundations, gaining adoption, and creating necessary documentation and governance. Concurrently, the role involves creating and maintaining comprehensive journey maps for priority product areas to inform product strategy and identify customer experience opportunities.
Graphic Designer I - Signage & Wayfinding - 2026 Graduate
🇺🇸 Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Populous 🇺🇸 Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
The role involves creating impactful signage and wayfinding design systems for high-profile national and international clients across various markets, conceptualizing designs that utilize typography, brand, and 3D form to ensure clear communication and easy navigation. Responsibilities also include managing construction documents from concept through fabrication and installation, and researching user-centered wayfinding systems for complex places.
UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Camp Systems International, Inc. 🇺🇸 United States of America
The UI/UX Designer will transform complex aviation workflows into intuitive, user-centered designs, partnering closely with Product Managers, developers, and stakeholders to define product visuals and interaction patterns. Key tasks include creating high-quality UX deliverables like wireframes and prototypes in Figma, ensuring design system cohesion, and collaborating with engineering for accurate UI implementation.
Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
Advertising Agency 🇺🇸 Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
The Graphic Designer will be responsible for designing high-impact new business pitch decks, agency presentations, social media, and marketing assets to bring the agency brand to life. This role also involves bringing campaign concepts to visual life, creating email designs, developing design systems, and collaborating closely with various internal teams.
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.