Design Leadership Jobs
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Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Seesaw 🇺🇸 United States of America
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and iterate on global Family Engagement products for educators and families. Utilize data analytics and user research to drive product improvements and maintain a consistent design system.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Candid Health 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
You will build scalable design systems and platforms while designing complex product experiences for healthcare payment workflows. Additionally, you will mentor other designers and drive cross-functional alignment with product, engineering, and operations teams.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Candid Health 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
You will build scalable design systems and platforms while designing complex product experiences for healthcare payment workflows. Additionally, you will mentor other designers and drive cross-functional alignment with product, engineering, and operations teams.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Candid Health 🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
You will build scalable design systems and platforms while designing complex product experiences for healthcare payment workflows. Additionally, you will mentor other designers and drive cross-functional alignment with product, engineering, and operations teams.
Sr. UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Catapult Federal Services 🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Lead the visual identity and design system for a mission-critical data brokerage solution from the ground up. Create high-fidelity mockups, prototypes, and marketing materials while collaborating with cross-functional teams in an Agile environment.
Senior Designer, Design Systems
🇺🇸 Burbank, California, United States of America
Paramount+ 🇺🇸 Burbank, California, United States of America
Build, scale, and document a comprehensive design system for web, mobile, and TV platforms. Collaborate with engineering and product teams to create reusable components, tokens, and documentation while ensuring accessibility compliance.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Mooresville, NC 28115, United States of America
Petscreening 🇺🇸 Mooresville, NC 28115, United States of America
Own end-to-end product design for a dedicated product area, acting as a strategic partner to Product Management and Engineering. You will translate customer insights and business objectives into intuitive experiences while evolving the company's design system and mentoring junior designers.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Paretohealth 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Execute high-quality creative assets across marketing, sales, and digital channels, including sales decks, email campaigns, and landing pages. Support the Art Director by managing day-to-day design tasks, producing light motion graphics, and maintaining design systems.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Dover, Delaware, United States of America
Paretohealth 🇺🇸 Dover, Delaware, United States of America
Execute high-quality creative assets for marketing, sales, and digital channels, including sales decks, email campaigns, and landing pages. Support the design team by producing motion graphics, managing design systems, and translating complex data into visual formats.
Experience Design Manager
🇷🇴 Romania
Concentrix 🇷🇴 Romania
Lead end-to-end UX design strategy and execution for specific product areas while managing and developing a team of designers. Partner with Product and Engineering teams to deliver intuitive, user-centered solutions through research, prototyping, and design system contributions.
Figma Design Systems Specialist
🇺🇸 United States of America
Swoon 🇺🇸 United States of America
The specialist will audit a complex enterprise Figma workspace and execute a complete migration strategy between Enterprise accounts. Key tasks include mapping dependencies, restructuring libraries, repairing broken token references, and validating publishing workflows.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Candid Health 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
You will build scalable design systems and platforms while designing complex product experiences for healthcare payment workflows. Additionally, you will lead end-to-end design projects, mentor other designers, and drive alignment across product, engineering, and operations teams.
Design Systems & CAD Specialist
🇨🇦 Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Legrand Slovenija 🇨🇦 Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Develop and maintain standardized CAD systems, templates, and libraries to support scalable engineering operations. Ensure consistency and accuracy across design processes to reduce cycle times and improve productivity.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Browserbase 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Architect and ship product experiences for a developer platform by bridging design and code. You will lead design across the platform product and establish a scalable, reusable design system.
Performance Ad Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Rythm 🇺🇸 United States of America
You will design static ad creative for paid social and display campaigns while building and iterating on high-converting landing pages. Additionally, you will translate performance data into new creative directions and maintain scalable 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.