Design Leadership Jobs
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Product / UI Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Defaqto 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
You will deliver a core Defaqto design language and establish a unified, scalable design system across various platforms. This includes creating design tokens, a comprehensive component library, and ensuring a seamless experience across marketing and product environments.
Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Cint 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
The role involves championing exceptional user experience solutions across a suite of SaaS products through user research, testing, and high-fidelity design artifacts. The designer will collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to translate complex systems into simple UI concepts and maintain a shared design system.
Staff Product Designer, Design Systems & Foundations
🇨🇦 Canada
Highlightta 🇨🇦 Canada
Lead the evolution of ZUI, Zipline's design system, focusing on component architecture, design tokens, and accessibility standards. Partner with engineering and product teams to establish shared interaction patterns and scalable design foundations.
Staff Product Designer, Design Systems & Foundations
🇺🇸 United States of America
Zipline 🇺🇸 United States of America
The Staff Product Designer will own and evolve Zipline's design system, ensuring it supports product development and creates consistent user experiences. They will partner with engineering and product teams to establish shared interaction patterns and drive the adoption of design systems across the organization.
Staff Product Designer, Design Systems & Foundations
🇺🇸 Madison, Mississippi, United States of America
Highlightta 🇺🇸 Madison, Mississippi, United States of America
Lead the evolution of ZUI, Zipline's design system, focusing on component architecture, design tokens, and accessibility standards. Partner with engineering and product teams to establish shared interaction patterns and scalable foundations across the organization.
UI/UX Designer - Business Applications
🇦🇹 Vienna, Austria
Loop® 🇦🇹 Vienna, Austria
Design and maintain scalable enterprise design systems and translate complex business logic into structured UX flows for ERP and CRM environments. Collaborate with technical teams to ensure the feasibility of data-heavy interfaces and produce production-ready specifications.
Sr. UX Designer, Alexa Enterprise and Emerging Design
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Sr. UX Designer will participate in the end-to-end design process for complex features and products, developing concepts that enhance customer experiences. They will collaborate with engineers and other designers, conduct user research, and contribute to design systems.
Head of Design
🇮🇳 India
Aspora 🇮🇳 India
Lead and unify the product, brand, and marketing design functions under a single global vision. Establish design quality standards and drive the evolution of the design system across all customer-facing surfaces.
Senior UI Designer
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Vml 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Produce high-fidelity, pixel-precise UI designs for a complex digital banking product suite while evolving an enterprise-grade design system. Collaborate with UX designers, product managers, and engineers to ensure visual consistency and high-quality implementation across mobile and web interfaces.
Senior Product Designer (Connect)
South Korea, Gyeonggi Seongnam-si
42dot South Korea, Gyeonggi Seongnam-si
Lead the design strategy for in-vehicle user experiences and connected mobile products. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and deliver cohesive user experiences while improving design systems.
Senior UX Designer (BE)
🇧🇪 Belgium
Cluepoints 🇧🇪 Belgium
Lead UX discovery and design scalable, data-rich interfaces for an AI-enabled clinical research platform. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create human-in-the-loop AI experiences and maintain the shared design system.
Senior UX Designer (London, UK)
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Cluepoints 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Lead UX discovery and design scalable, data-rich interfaces for an AI-enabled clinical research platform. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create intuitive human-in-the-loop AI experiences and maintain the shared design system.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Madrid Highway Department, North Street, Madrid, Town of Madrid, NY 13660, United States of America
Aircall 🇺🇸 Madrid Highway Department, North Street, Madrid, Town of Madrid, NY 13660, United States of America
Own the end-to-end product experience for a complex AI-native sales platform, from discovery to high-fidelity execution. Build and evolve a scalable design system while auditing and improving existing visual and experience debt.
Visual Designer
🇮🇳 Bangalore South, India
Netbramha Studios 🇮🇳 Bangalore South, India
The role involves transforming business requirements into high-quality visual designs for consumer and enterprise applications across multiple platforms. The designer will create and maintain scalable design systems and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless execution.
Senior Product Designer (Connect)
South Korea, Gyeonggi Seongnam-si
42dot South Korea, Gyeonggi Seongnam-si
Lead the design strategy for Connect IVI OS and mobile products, translating product vision into intuitive user experiences. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define product roadmaps and maintain consistent design systems.
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.