Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior Staff Interaction Designer, Search App
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Google 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Lead the design of foundational Search app experiences, developing innovative solutions that address user, product, and business needs while balancing technical constraints and high standards of craft. Influence stakeholders, own holistic design systems or processes across teams, and guide UX designers in developing concepts for research and testing.
Lead UX Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Consilio Llc 🇺🇸 United States of America
Own end-to-end design for critical product areas, partnering with Product and Engineering from problem definition through delivery and post-launch iteration. Define AI-assisted interaction models and evolve Consilio’s multi-product design system, including its components, usage standards, and accessibility practices.
UI/UX Designer
🇨🇦 Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada
Bis Safety Software 🇨🇦 Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada
Own design cases from research and problem definition through iteration and developer handoff, creating intuitive web and mobile experiences with Figma. Collaborate with product, development, QA, and design teams to improve workflows, maintain the design system, and advocate for user-centered solutions.
UI/UX Designer
🇨🇦 Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada
Bis Safety Software 🇨🇦 Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada
You will own the end-to-end design process for web and mobile software, from research and problem definition to developer handoff. You will also collaborate with cross-functional teams to build and maintain the company's design system while improving existing product workflows.
Senior Product Designer
🇸🇬 Singapore
Arta Finance 🇸🇬 Singapore
Design and prototype AI-powered financial workflows and enterprise platform experiences, translating complex customer problems into intuitive, production-ready products. Collaborate with product, engineering, and partner teams to evolve design systems, validate concepts with users, and ensure high-quality implementation.
Senior Graphic Designer (Wellness and Healthcare)
🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Dragons Group 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Lead the design and delivery of digital content, campaigns, presentations, and marketing materials for pharmaceutical and healthcare clients, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and consistent visual quality. Mentor a mid-level designer, present work to clients, collaborate across teams, integrate relevant AI tools, and help build scalable design systems and processes.
UI/UX Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Tricog Health 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Design end-to-end mobile and web experiences, from user flows and early concepts through polished interfaces and AI-assisted prototypes. Maintain and extend the design system, create detailed engineering handoffs, and perform design QA in collaboration with product and engineering teams.
Principal Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Smarkets 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Own product design from discovery through delivery, defining design direction and creating clear, polished experiences across prediction and betting markets. Research user needs, prototype and test concepts, improve design systems, and raise design quality through collaboration with leadership, product, and engineering teams.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Cassidy 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Own end-to-end design for major product areas, from identifying customer problems and exploring concepts through prototyping, launch, and ongoing improvement. Design intuitive experiences for AI agents, workflows, and knowledge management, while helping evolve the design system and collaborating closely with founders, engineers, and customers.
Art Director & Visual Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Napster Corp. 🇺🇸 United States of America
Set visual direction and create design deliverables across marketing, communications, partnerships, sales, and executive initiatives, including campaign assets, presentations, and event materials. Own Figma-based design systems and reusable templates, maintain brand consistency, and use generative AI tools to support creative workflows.
Product Designer
🇸🇪 Danderyds kommun, Stockholm County, Sweden
Roaring 🇸🇪 Danderyds kommun, Stockholm County, Sweden
Lead product design and UX from discovery through implementation, creating user flows, prototypes, and polished interfaces that make complex data and workflows easier to understand. Collaborate with Product, Design, Engineering, users, and customers; maintain the design system; and ensure the quality of the implemented product.
PRODUCT DESIGNER
🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Station F 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Own end-to-end design for Joko’s AI shopping assistant and core customer journeys, from problem framing and user research through prototyping, launch, and iteration based on data and feedback. Improve personalized experiences across mobile, web, and browser extensions, while helping shape the design system, craft standards, and collaboration with product, engineering, and brand teams.
Product Designer (Specialized in Visual Design)
🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal
Kitro 🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal
Design end-to-end user interfaces, responsive dashboards, and interactive prototypes that make complex food-waste data intuitive for specialized users. Develop and maintain the shared design system, and collaborate with product and software teams to align information architecture and visual design with user needs, technical constraints, and the product roadmap.
Head of Design - Developer Tools & AI Infrastructure
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Greylock Partners 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Define and lead the product design vision, standards, and design systems while personally designing and prototyping core product experiences. Partner closely with founders and engineering to ship an intuitive developer experience across the product UI, APIs, SDKs, and other developer-facing surfaces.
AI Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Exadel 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Design and prototype user experiences for LLM-powered and generative interfaces, translating research into useful product opportunities and iterating on conversational, adaptive, and system-driven concepts. Collaborate with engineers, senior designers, and clients to shape interaction patterns, extend design systems, communicate design decisions, and contribute to the company’s AI design practice.
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.