Design Leadership Jobs
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Digital Product Designer (UX/UI) (m/w/d)
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Finanzen.net Gmbh 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Responsible for the holistic UX/UI design of the broker product, from research-based user flows to high-quality interfaces. This includes maintaining the design system and collaborating with product management to translate requirements into innovative features using AI and prototyping.
Senior Product Designer, Visual Lease and CoStar Real Estate Manager
🇺🇸 Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
Costar 🇺🇸 Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will create user flows, wireframes, and prototypes to integrate Visual Lease and CoStar Real Estate Manager. They will act as a user advocate, conducting research and collaborating with cross-functional teams to evolve design systems.
Lead Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Rec Technologies 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design of AI-powered consumer booking experiences and complex staff-side administrative tools. Build and maintain the company's design system while mentoring the design team to raise overall craft standards.
Product Designer, Design Systems - Irving
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Photon 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Design and maintain reusable UI components, patterns, and libraries in Figma to ensure consistency across Citi products. Develop specific UX patterns for AI-assisted workflows, agentic experiences, and generative UI.
Product Designer
🇵🇪 Callao, Peru
Multiplica Talent 🇵🇪 Callao, Peru
Design and evolve digital products from exploration to delivery, ensuring alignment between business goals and user needs. Create high-fidelity UI, wireframes, and maintain Design Systems while conducting UX research and usability tests.
Senior Product Designer
🇦🇺 Australia
Nexl 🇦🇺 Australia
The role involves owning the design of shared platform surfaces and stewarding the company's design system to ensure consistency and scalability. You will collaborate directly with engineering leadership to define problem spaces and translate complex workflows into intuitive user experiences.
Staff/Lead Product Designer (63362)
Remote (🇺🇸 California, United States of America)
Thistle Health Inc Remote (🇺🇸 California, United States of America)
Lead the creation of high-quality user experiences for consumers and internal users while developing scalable design systems. The role evolves from an individual contributor to a player-coach responsible for building and managing the product design team.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Reducto 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead end-to-end product design, owning everything from brand identity to the creation of user workflows and high-fidelity experiences. Develop and maintain the company's design system while collaborating directly with the CEO and engineers.
Senior Product Designer, Visual Lease and CoStar Real Estate Manager
🇺🇸 Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
Costar Group 🇺🇸 Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will create user flows, high-fidelity wireframes, and interactive prototypes to integrate Visual Lease and CoStar Real Estate Manager. They will act as a user advocate, conducting research and collaborating with cross-functional teams to evolve design systems and improve user experience.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Weight Watchers 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead the design vision and strategy for major product areas, driving 0 to 1 initiatives and evolving a unified design system. Partner with cross-functional leadership to translate complex business requirements into intuitive user experiences and mentor other designers.
Sr. Design Technologist (Product Designer)
Remote (🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico)
Simplepractice Remote (🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico)
The role focuses on bridging the gap between design intent and engineering execution by maintaining the semantic and component token layer of the design system. Responsibilities include collaborating with engineers on implementation, documenting governance standards, and integrating AI-assisted design tools into workflows.
Senior Brand & Product Designer
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Valkyrie 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
The role involves designing and evolving scalable brand systems and marketing collateral to communicate complex technical ideas. Additionally, the designer will create intuitive user interfaces and maintain design systems for product development.
Senior Marketing & Web Designer
Remote (🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom)
Stape Remote (🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom)
The role involves redefining the visual style and creative direction of a fintech product to create bold, conversion-focused external communications. Responsibilities include maintaining the brand book, building scalable design systems, and creating various graphic assets for web and social media.
Staff Product Designer, Design Systems
🇨🇦 Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Clio 🇨🇦 Calgary, Alberta, Canada
As a Staff Product Designer, you'll own the vision and evolution of Clio's design system, driving frameworks, patterns, and standards for product experiences. You'll partner closely with Product and Engineering leaders to define experience strategy and success metrics based on customer insights.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)
Owner.com Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)
Shape product direction and own the end-to-end design process from exploration to production. Create scalable, AI-powered experiences and advance the company's design systems and quality standards.
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.