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Design Leadership Jobs

Find your next Design Leadership role at companies that value creative talent

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Senior Product Designer (Global Experience & Design System)

🌍 Remote

The Senior Product Designer will own and evolve Lodgify's Design System, focusing on usability, accessibility, and scalability by defining contribution models and governance. This role involves translating product strategy into scalable design patterns and standardizing complex cross-product experiences like the Universal Calendar.

Remote$90,000 - $110,000Full-timeSenior
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Sr. Engineer Software - UX Designer

🇮🇳 Pune City, India

The role involves owning the end-to-end UX process, including research, workflows, and interaction design, specifically translating complex IT infrastructure and data center workflows into intuitive user experiences. Responsibilities also include designing high-fidelity UI screens, creating and maintaining a scalable design system, and ensuring compliance with WCAG accessibility standards.

Full-timeMid-level
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Lead UX Designer

🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

The Lead UX Designer will collaborate with traders, researchers, and engineers to design interfaces supporting core trading behavior, requiring a deep understanding of user workflows derived from research and observation. Responsibilities also include translating complex requirements into clear designs and leading the evolution of shared design systems.

Onsite$200,000 - $225,000Full-timeLead
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Staff Product Designer

Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)

The role involves leading the development of AI-driven automation and tooling for the design system, including automated component generation and design-to-code workflows, while partnering closely with Engineering on technical implementation. The designer will also experiment with generative AI, contribute to AI-powered product offerings, and mentor other designers.

Remote$150,000 - $200,000Full-timeSenior
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Product Designer – Private Bank Digital, Senior Associate

🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America

The role involves executing UX/UI design work for digital products within Private Banking, translating complex financial challenges into simple, elegant, and user-centered solutions. Responsibilities include delivering high-quality design assets, contributing to design systems, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to implement design solutions.

Onsite$80,000 - $120,000Full-timeMid-level
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Product Designer – Private Bank Digital, Senior Associate

🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America

The role involves executing UX/UI design work for digital products within Private Banking, translating complex financial challenges into simple, elegant, and user-centered solutions. Responsibilities include delivering high-quality design assets, contributing to design systems, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to implement design solutions.

Onsite$80,000 - $120,000Full-timeMid-level
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Senior Product Designer – Private Bank Digital, Vice President

🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America

The role involves executing UX/UI design work for digital products within Private Banking, translating complex financial challenges into simple, elegant, and user-centered solutions. Responsibilities include delivering high-quality design assets, contributing to design systems, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to implement design solutions.

Onsite$142,500 - $205,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer – Private Bank Digital, Vice President

🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America

The role involves executing UX/UI design work for digital products within Private Banking, translating complex financial challenges into simple, elegant, and user-centered solutions. Responsibilities include delivering high-quality design assets, contributing to design systems, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to implement design solutions.

$142,500 - $205,000Full-timeSenior
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Staff Product Designer

Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)

The Staff Product Designer will lead product design from initial problem framing through polished execution, focusing on creating scalable, user-centered solutions across different surfaces by thinking in systems. They will also advance the design system, leverage AI tools for exploration and synthesis, and mentor other designers.

Remote$124,200 - $197,000Full-timeSenior
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Staff Product Designer

Remote (🇨🇦 Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada)

The Staff Product Designer will lead product design from initial problem framing through polished execution, focusing on creating scalable, user-centered solutions across different surfaces by thinking in systems. This role involves leveraging AI tools to enhance design workflows, advancing the design system, and mentoring other designers through high-quality feedback.

Remote$117,900 - $159,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior AI Product Designer

🇺🇸 Somerville, Massachusetts, United States of America

The role involves partnering with product and engineering in the discovery phase by prototyping, testing, and iterating to determine valuable and usable features. Key duties include designing cohesive experiences, scaling the design system, leading user research, and acting as a design advocate across the company.

Hybrid$100,000 - $160,000Full-timeSenior
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UI Designer

🇵🇭 Philippines

The role is responsible for the design system, building components, templates, and designing the visual elements and interactive features of a product, ensuring visually appealing and intuitive user interfaces. Duties include designing user-friendly interfaces, maintaining design systems for consistency, and collaborating with UX designers and product managers.

OnsiteFull-timeMid-level
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[Job-27447] Mid-Level UI Designer, Brazil

🇧🇷 Brazil

The role involves crafting beautiful, functional, and user-centered interfaces across mobile and web platforms, playing a key part in shaping intuitive digital experiences. Responsibilities also include contributing to the design system and collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products.

Full-timeMid-level
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Senior Product Designer (UI/UX)

🇩🇿 Oran, Oran District, Algeria

The Senior Product Designer will be responsible for designing clear, elegant, and functional web and mobile interfaces, creating necessary design artifacts like user flows, wireframes, and design systems. They will collaborate internally and with clients to realize digital experiences and ensure visual and functional consistency.

Hybrid$80,000 - $250,000Full-timeSenior
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UX Product Designer (f/m/d)

🇩🇪 Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

The role involves developing UX concepts, performing user tests, building high fidelity designs, and taking care of UI and Interaction Design across the B2C and B2B product portfolio. Responsibilities also include Product Discovery, User Research, Usability Testing, and maintaining the Design System.

HybridFull-time
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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.