Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Dalet 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead full-spectrum discovery and user research to shape product execution and build a unified, token-driven design system. Transform complex, data-heavy enterprise workflows into intuitive, responsive layouts while mentoring team members.
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 UI components and maintain accessibility standards.
Senior Product Designer, Identity
🇵🇱 Warszawa, 83-433 Nowe Polaszki, Poland
Bolt 🇵🇱 Warszawa, 83-433 Nowe Polaszki, Poland
Identify and implement meaningful user and business opportunities within identity and verification flows to create scalable product experiences. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to prototype design concepts, optimize acquisition funnels, and contribute to evolving design systems.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Ifs 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Own the end-to-end design process for defined feature areas, from initial problem framing to producing production-ready Figma files. Collaborate within cross-functional squads to design AI-driven features and contribute to the company's design system while ensuring accessibility standards.
UX Designer Trainee
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design intuitive user interfaces and simplify complex cybersecurity workflows. Create wireframes, prototypes, and maintain the product's design system using Figma.
Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Addin365 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Responsible for software UX and design aesthetics for products used by global brands, utilizing Microsoft design systems and internal frameworks. The role involves creating functional, visually appealing features and providing implementation-ready specifications for AI-native engineering workflows.
Design Systems Designer (Contract)
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Cambly Inc. 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
You will design and build a structured, variable-based token architecture and a documented component library to modernize the existing design system. Additionally, you will write precise specifications and documentation to ensure seamless implementation by designers, engineers, and AI coding agents.
Product Designer
🇷🇴 Bucharest, Romania
Everymatrix 🇷🇴 Bucharest, Romania
The Product Designer will create scalable, user-focused experiences for a CRM and player engagement platform. This includes delivering high-fidelity prototypes, evolving the design system, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to align designs with business goals.
Product Designer (UI/UX)
🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
Cyera 🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
The Product Designer will own the end-to-end user experience, creating prototypes and final implementations for complex B2B SaaS platforms. They will collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to develop product style guidelines and a consistent design system.
Senior Product Designer – UX Quality & Design Systems
🇵🇱 Wrocław, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Opera 🇵🇱 Wrocław, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
The role focuses on scaling design quality across the ecosystem by running design reviews and establishing scalable design foundations like pattern libraries and UX principles. You will also work to improve critical user flows and champion simplicity to help teams build better products faster.
Staff Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Fonoa 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the end-to-end design of AI-powered products and complex tax workflows for Fonoa's Tax Operating System. Develop and scale a new design system while collaborating with cross-functional teams to raise the overall quality bar of the platform.
Staff Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Fonoa 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the end-to-end design of AI-powered products and experiences for a Tax Operating System. Simplify complex regulatory workflows and develop a scalable design system from the ground up.
Product Designer II
🇮🇳 Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Sprinklr 🇮🇳 Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Create intuitive enterprise software experiences and AI-first workflows using Sprinklr's design system. Partner with Product Management and Engineering to translate user needs into high-fidelity designs, prototypes, and interaction models.
Design Systems Designer (Contract)
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Cambly 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Design and build a structured, variable-based token architecture and a documented component library for Cambly's design system. Modernize existing systems with clear usage rules and precise specifications for designers, engineers, and AI coding agents.
Senior Product Designer
🇮🇳 Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Sprinklr 🇮🇳 Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Design next-generation enterprise software experiences focusing on AI-first workflows and agentic design patterns. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create intuitive user flows, high-fidelity designs, and scalable interaction models using the company's design system.
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.