Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior Product Designer (UX/UI)
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Luna Physical Therapy Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The Senior Product Designer will manage and improve the mobile and internal web application design systems to ensure consistency and accessibility. They will collaborate closely with Product Managers to define user needs, conduct research, and iterate on designs primarily for mobile applications, supporting engineering through design handoff.
UX Designer
🇬🇧 Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Tes 🇬🇧 Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
The designer will be accountable for the entire design lifecycle in a specific product area, turning complex user insights into simple, accessible products while helping to stabilize the design function. Key duties include driving continuous discovery, leading lean experiments, refining design processes (DesignOps), and contributing to the Design System.
UI/UX Designer
🇧🇷 Sorocaba, Região Metropolitana de Sorocaba, Brazil
Nextpower 🇧🇷 Sorocaba, Região Metropolitana de Sorocaba, Brazil
The UI/UX Designer will be responsible for defining, evolving, and ensuring the quality of the user experience across software products, including legacy platforms and new SaaS solutions focused on energy and digital governance. Key duties involve conducting user research, creating prototypes, collaborating with Product and Development teams, and maintaining the corporate Design System.
Senior Product Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Navex 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
The role involves conducting comprehensive mixed-method user research and designing intuitive user interfaces for SaaS enterprise software solutions. Responsibilities also include collaborating with cross-functional teams and contributing to the established design system.
Senior Product Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Navex 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
The role involves conducting comprehensive mixed-method user research and designing intuitive user interfaces specifically for SaaS enterprise software solutions. Responsibilities also include collaborating with cross-functional teams and actively contributing to the established design system.
SENIOR UI/UX DESIGNER
Remote (🇺🇸 Coral Gables, Florida, United States of America)
Kentech Consulting Inc Remote (🇺🇸 Coral Gables, Florida, United States of America)
The Senior UI/UX Product Designer will lead the end-to-end user experience design for the PowerBAK platform, owning visual and interaction design across multiple user types including candidates, investigators, and public sector hiring teams. Key tasks involve designing three core interfaces, creating a scalable design system, and designing complex workflows like multi-step applications and data visualization components.
Product Designer
🇷🇸 Belgrade, City of Belgrade, Serbia
Unlimit 🇷🇸 Belgrade, City of Belgrade, Serbia
The designer will be responsible for end-to-end design, including creating and maintaining design systems and layouts across web products, and conducting UX research to design user flows and information architecture. Key tasks involve producing high-quality visual designs, developing the internal Design System, and ensuring quality control through design reviews.
Senior UX Designer
Remote (🇸🇮 Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Aleph Remote (🇸🇮 Ljubljana, Slovenia)
The Senior UX Designer will own the end-to-end user journey for web-based applications, delivering high-fidelity, production-ready designs that maintain a premium aesthetic across all states and interactions. This role also involves leading the creation and maintenance of a robust Design System in Figma and collaborating closely with engineers during implementation.
Staff Product Designer - Breakout
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Kraken Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The Staff Product Designer will lead the evolution and modernization of Breakout's end-to-end product experience, defining scalable UX patterns for trading, accounts, KYC, and performance tracking. This involves driving product strategy alongside Product and Engineering, establishing design systems, and ensuring consistency across trading surfaces.
Staff Product Designer - Breakout
Remote (🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom)
Kraken Remote (🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom)
The Staff Product Designer will lead the evolution and modernization of Breakout’s end-to-end product experience, defining scalable UX patterns for trading, accounts, KYC, and performance tracking. This role involves driving product strategy alongside Product and Engineering, establishing design systems, and raising the craft bar through hands-on execution and mentorship.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America
Jerry.ai 🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America
The Staff Product Designer will lead design initiatives from inception to launch across core offerings like insurance, safety, and repairs, focusing on modernizing car care for everyday drivers. They will partner with cross-functional teams to create elegant, frictionless experiences, build the design system, and thoughtfully apply AI to enhance user experience.
Senior UX Designer
🇳🇱 Utrecht, Netherlands
Keylane 🇳🇱 Utrecht, Netherlands
The Senior UX Designer will be responsible for shaping high-quality user experiences across Keylane’s products, translating complex workflows into usable solutions from discovery through delivery. This includes collaborating closely with Product and Engineering, contributing to the design system, and mentoring peers.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇮🇱 The New North, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel)
Navan Remote (🇮🇱 The New North, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel)
The Senior Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design process for key workstreams within the Enterprise platform, including concept development, user flows, final UI polish, and creating developer-ready documentation. This role requires simplifying complex business requirements and dense data into clear, intuitive B2B interfaces while contributing to and evolving the design system.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
Pepsico 🇺🇸 Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
The main function involves working on the Design System by developing, creating, and modifying design components based on end-user needs. This includes participating in the entire design process from initial research through testing and validation.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
Pepsico 🇺🇸 Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
The main function involves working on the Design System, developing, creating, and modifying design components based on end-user needs throughout the entire design process from research to validation. Responsibilities include planning and conducting research, synthesizing insights, and creating Design System deliverables like components, prototypes, documentation, and presentations.
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.