Design Leadership Jobs
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Lead Specialist, UX Designer
🇺🇸 Hoboken, NJ 07030, United States of America
Pearson 🇺🇸 Hoboken, NJ 07030, United States of America
The Lead Specialist, UX Designer will own the end-to-end visual design quality for the unified design system, defining foundational elements like tokens and component specifications. This role involves setting creative direction, designing production-ready components, and leading design critiques while mentoring other designers.
Advanced Specialist, UX Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Pearson 🇺🇸 United States of America
The role involves designing high-fidelity UI components, patterns, and templates for a unified design system, establishing visual standards across web and mobile platforms. Responsibilities also include redesigning key screens, crafting micro-interactions, and partnering with technologists to ensure effective code translation.
Advanced Specialist, UX Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Pearson 🇺🇸 United States of America
The specialist will design high-fidelity UI components, patterns, and templates in Figma for a unified design system, establishing visual standards across web and mobile platforms. They will also redesign key screens and user flows, craft micro-interactions, and partner with technologists to ensure effective code translation.
Advanced Specialist, UX Designer
🇺🇸 Hoboken, NJ 07030, United States of America
Pearson 🇺🇸 Hoboken, NJ 07030, United States of America
The role involves designing high-fidelity UI components, patterns, and templates for a unified design system, establishing visual standards across web and mobile platforms. Responsibilities also include redesigning key screens, crafting micro-interactions, and partnering with technologists to ensure effective code translation.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
American Express 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The role involves identifying necessary artifacts like wireframes and prototypes based on project needs and delivering high-quality designs, while also developing user understanding through various methodologies, research, and data analysis. Responsibilities include presenting design decisions, improving design processes, contributing to design systems, and collaborating closely with cross-functional partners to define and deliver project requirements.
Lead Product Designer: Design Systems
🇿🇦 Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa
Old Mutual Limited 🇿🇦 Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa
The Lead Product Designer is responsible for creating intuitive user experiences, delivering exceptional design solutions, and advocating for design systems while supporting the Portfolio Design Lead with problem-solving. Key duties involve defining user research requirements, executing product UX/UI design from discovery through high-fidelity prototypes, and collaborating closely with cross-disciplinary teams in Agile sprints.
Product Designer, Data Solutions & Initiatives
🇺🇸 Cupertino, California, United States of America
Apple 🇺🇸 Cupertino, California, United States of America
The Product Designer will own the end-to-end design of complex data products, moving beyond mockups to build functional prototypes using code and designing transparent interfaces for AI model predictions. Responsibilities include driving clarity in ambiguity, leading cross-functional workshops, maintaining the Design System, and mentoring junior colleagues.
Senior Product Designer
🇳🇱 Netherlands
Diligent Corporation 🇳🇱 Netherlands
The Senior Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design process, from discovery through iteration, while collaborating closely with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to shape solutions. Key duties include translating research into usable designs, championing user-centered design and ethical AI integration, and contributing to design systems and best practices.
Junior UX Designer
🇿🇦 Cape Town, City of Cape Town, South Africa
Ozow 🇿🇦 Cape Town, City of Cape Town, South Africa
The Junior UX Designer will assist in designing end-to-end user experiences across Ozow's products by translating user needs and requirements into intuitive UX solutions, including creating user flows, wireframes, and prototypes. Responsibilities also involve participating in user research, analyzing feedback, collaborating with product and development teams, and contributing to the design system.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Intact Fc 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The role involves guiding the application of the brand into visually captivating designs across all touchpoints, overseeing brand guidelines, and exploring visual compositions to maximize creative impact. The designer will also collaborate with the creative director, stay updated on design trends, and aid in creating design systems and templates.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇮🇱 The New North, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
Applift 🇮🇱 The New North, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
The role involves leading the company's UI design efforts for SaaS and web app features, collaborating with product managers to plan and design effective solutions, and ensuring design quality through the design system. Responsibilities also include guiding developers on implementation, taking ownership of the entire design process, and iterating based on user feedback and data insights.
Freelance UI Designer
Remote (🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia)
Dijitally Remote (🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia)
The designer will be responsible for creating high-quality, production-ready UI for customer and merchant-facing financial products, translating UX insights into refined interfaces, and evolving a scalable design system. They will also partner with Product, Engineering, and Brand teams to maintain visual consistency and design intuitive financial workflows.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇹🇳 Tunisia
Venari Security 🇹🇳 Tunisia
The Senior UI/UX Designer will lead the design renovation of the vComply SaaS platform by auditing the current design, proposing improvements, and delivering high-fidelity assets focused on modernizing the user experience and data presentation. Key tasks include designing intuitive dashboards, developing data visualization components, and evolving the platform's design system.
UI/UX Designer
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Eeze 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The role involves conceptualizing, designing, and assisting in implementing intuitive user interface and user experience solutions for digital products. This includes collaborating with cross-functional teams to define strategy, creating design artifacts like wireframes and prototypes, and documenting design systems.
Senior Product Designer (m/f/d) – UX/UI Travel & Booking
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Pincamp Gmbh 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
The Senior Product Designer will own the end-to-end design journey, translating complex requirements into intuitive user flows, wireframes, and mockups while driving user research to ensure products solve real customer problems. They will also champion consistency by driving Design Systems and ensuring seamless implementation through partnership with engineering.
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.