Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 North Carolina, United States of America
Ensora Health 🇺🇸 North Carolina, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will lead design strategy and execution for complex, cross-functional product initiatives, translating customer insights into scalable and elegant design solutions. This role involves conducting advanced user research, championing accessibility, and evolving the enterprise design system.
Junior UX Designer
🇬🇧 Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Tes 🇬🇧 Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
The role involves executing discovery and delivery tasks, including turning research findings into prototypes, modernizing legacy platforms to meet accessibility standards, and supporting the research team by running usability tests on designs. Additionally, the designer will support Design Operations by acting as a user of the Design System, organizing libraries, and facilitating clarity in workshops.
UX Designer Senior H/F
🇫🇷 41100 Saint-Ouen, France
Inetum 🇫🇷 41100 Saint-Ouen, France
The Senior UX Designer will be responsible for understanding complex functional requirements within the banking sector and designing mockups and prototypes in Figma, ensuring compliance with accessibility standards and enriching the existing design system. They will actively participate in Agile Scrum rituals, iterating quickly and verifying the quality of developed screens against the Figma designs.
Senior Product Designer (Design Systems)
🇭🇺 Budapest, Hungary
Diligent Corporation 🇭🇺 Budapest, Hungary
The role involves leading the end-to-end design process from discovery through high-fidelity execution and developer handoff. A key focus is evolving and maintaining the design system in Figma, ensuring consistency and accessibility across the platform.
Senior Product Designer UX - Customer Web
🇺🇸 Arlington, Texas, United States of America
D.r. Horton 🇺🇸 Arlington, Texas, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer UX will lead the end-to-end UX design for customer-facing web experiences, translating business goals and user insights into intuitive, conversion-focused designs. This involves creating user flows, journey maps, and high-fidelity prototypes while applying and evolving enterprise design systems and accessibility guidelines.
Lead UX Designer, Emerging Experiences
🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
Target 🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
The Lead Product Designer will participate in cross-functional design sprints to explore new guest experiences and contribute to future-state journeys through design, prototyping, and visual storytelling. They will also guide the design process, mentor junior designers, and ensure high standards of craft, including accessibility and user research.
UI/UX Designer - (onsite)
🇺🇸 Frisco, Texas, United States of America
Public Storage 🇺🇸 Frisco, Texas, United States of America
This role is responsible for designing intuitive, accessible, and visually compelling user interfaces for web and mobile platforms, transforming business goals into elegant digital journeys. Key duties include conducting user research, creating prototypes, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and advocating for digital accessibility standards.
Senior Analyst, UI & UX Designer
🇨🇳 Junle, Shanghai, China
Aia 🇨🇳 Junle, Shanghai, China
This role is responsible for governing design principles across all AIA products and services, ensuring consistency, usability, and adherence to brand and accessibility standards. The Senior Analyst will conduct design audits, review all UI/UX work from internal teams and vendors, and provide actionable feedback to guide teams toward best practices.
Senior UI Designer F/H
🇫🇷 Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Thales 🇫🇷 Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine, France
The Senior UI Designer will be responsible for transforming complex business needs into simple, effective, and coherent visual solutions, designing high-quality user interfaces, and actively contributing to the evolution and maintenance of the Design System. This role involves accompanying product development through close collaboration with development teams and ensuring the user interface meets accessibility standards.
UI/UX Designer
Remote (🇮🇳 India)
Mea Platform Remote (🇮🇳 India)
The role involves translating complex insurance workflows into intuitive digital experiences through design, prototyping using tools like Figma Make, and ensuring adherence to design systems and accessibility standards. Responsibilities also include planning and analyzing user testing sessions to validate design assumptions and iterating based on feedback.
Digital Graphic Designer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Sun Life 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Digital Graphic Designer will be responsible for researching, designing, and developing digital solutions with a focus on user experience and accessibility, while also consulting on marketing campaigns to ensure they are on-brand and on-strategy. Key tasks include designing wireframes, email campaigns, landing pages, and developing video projects from concept through post-production.
UX Designer
🇲🇽 66650 Gran Dinastía, NLE, Mexico
Enroute 🇲🇽 66650 Gran Dinastía, NLE, Mexico
The UX Designer will primarily design intuitive, visually engaging user interfaces for web applications, translating product requirements and user needs into wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, and interactive prototypes. The role includes improving user flows and interaction patterns based on usability best practices, ensuring compliance with web accessibility standards (such as WCAG), and conducting usability evaluations.
Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Everytown For Gun Safety Support Fund Inc. 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The graphic designer will create visually dynamic and compelling graphic assets for various platforms including social media, video, email, web, and print, translating complex ideas into visual concepts using a range of tools. Responsibilities also include contributing to brand systems, managing projects from start to finish, and ensuring work integrates accessibility and equity.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Cuvva Limited 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
As a Senior Product Designer, you will own and shape the end-to-end design process, collaborating closely with Product Managers, Engineers, and Data partners to craft user experiences. Your work will involve designing and prototyping solutions across mobile and web, ensuring accessibility and continuous improvement based on user feedback.
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.
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.