Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 New Castle County, Delaware, United States of America
Bread Financial 🇺🇸 New Castle County, Delaware, United States of America
Lead the design of customer-facing digital product experiences by creating high-fidelity prototypes and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Drive product excellence by implementing design systems and ensuring usability and accessibility across financial services products.
UI/UX Designer - 6 Month Contract
Remote (🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
Blackbird Interactive Remote (🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
Adapt an established simulation game's UI/UX for new platforms and display environments while preserving core gameplay workflows. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to refine navigation, readability, and accessibility for various input methods.
Senior UX-designer LAMP en Chimera
🇳🇱 Utrecht, Netherlands
Ministerie Van Defensie 🇳🇱 Utrecht, Netherlands
The Senior UX Designer will design end-to-end user experiences for complex applications across two technical teams, ensuring design quality and guiding UX practices. They will facilitate workshops and provide expert feedback to enhance user experience and accessibility.
Web Designer
🇺🇸 Overland Park, Kansas, United States of America
Hill's Pet Nutrition 🇺🇸 Overland Park, Kansas, United States of America
The Web Designer will take ownership of various web design projects, creating branded page layouts and visuals while collaborating with cross-functional teams. They will ensure all digital creative work adheres to brand guidelines and accessibility requirements.
Sr. UX Designer
🇺🇸 Westlake Village, California, United States of America
The Guitar Center Company 🇺🇸 Westlake Village, California, United States of America
The role involves bridging the gap between UX design and front-end engineering to create scalable, accessible e-commerce experiences. Responsibilities include developing reusable UI component libraries and optimizing customer journeys for performance and accessibility.
Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Pavago Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The Product Designer will create intuitive digital experiences across web and mobile platforms by combining UX research, UI design, and product problem-solving. They will collaborate with product and engineering teams to maintain scalable design systems and ensure accessibility standards are met.
UX Writer
🇿🇦 Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa
Gotymex 🇿🇦 Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa
The role involves writing customer-facing copy for digital products while developing and maintaining content standards and pattern libraries. You will collaborate cross-functionally to ensure consistency, accessibility, and quality across multiple markets using AI as a thinking partner.
UX Writer
🇸🇬 Singapore
Gotymex 🇸🇬 Singapore
The role involves writing customer-facing copy for digital products while developing and maintaining content standards and pattern libraries. You will collaborate cross-functionally to ensure consistency, accessibility, and quality across multiple markets.
SharePoint UX/UI Web Designer expert
🇱🇺 Luxembourg
Ekxel It Services & Financial Engineering 🇱🇺 Luxembourg
You will support the design and implementation of user-centric web portals based on Microsoft platforms. Your tasks include evaluating business objectives, designing user interfaces, and ensuring compliance with accessibility standards.
Sr. Product Designer, Connected Fitness
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Peloton Interactive 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will partner with cross-functional teams to deliver cohesive experiences across various platforms. They will drive complex design initiatives and contribute to defining best practices for accessibility standards.
[Produto] Product Designer Pleno
🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brazil
Totvs 🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brazil
The Product Designer will work within the Design & UX Chapter, focusing on the Customer Journey and collaborating with Product Owners and Team Leaders to enhance products and systems. Responsibilities include managing the design process from discovery to delivery, ensuring usability and accessibility, and facilitating collaboration across teams.
Sr. Product Designer, Connected Fitness
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Peloton Interactive 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
As a Senior Product Designer, you will partner with cross-functional teams to deliver cohesive experiences across various platforms. You will drive complex design initiatives and contribute to defining best practices for accessibility standards.
UI DESIGNER H/F
🇫🇷 Paris, France
Nexton 🇫🇷 Paris, France
The UI Designer will create graphical interfaces and enrich Design Systems while collaborating with UX Designers, Product Owners, and Developers. They are responsible for ensuring responsive design and accessibility standards across web and mobile platforms using agile methods.
Design Systems Engineer, HMI
🇺🇸 Emeryville, CA 94608, United States of America
Revel 🇺🇸 Emeryville, CA 94608, United States of America
The Design Systems Engineer will research and synthesize HMI standards and accessibility guidelines, translating them into a concrete design system. Responsibilities also include auditing existing interfaces and defining how the product conveys meaning visually.
Junior UX UI Designer- Contractor
🇺🇸 Easton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Victaulic 🇺🇸 Easton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
The designer will create intuitive digital interfaces, wireframes, and prototypes for internal and external users. They will also contribute to the maintenance of the company's design system and ensure all products meet accessibility standards.
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.