Design Leadership Jobs
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Sr. UX Designer - 11179
🇮🇳 Pune, Pune City, India
Coupa Software, Inc. 🇮🇳 Pune, Pune City, India
The Senior UX Designer will drive the design strategy and vision for Coupa's Design System, focusing on components and patterns that support platform and emerging AI product experiences. Responsibilities include establishing standards, providing guidance to other designers, and collaborating with product, engineering, and AI/ML teams.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Microsoft 🇺🇸 United States of America
Design end-to-end conversational experiences across various modalities and collaborate with teams to shape prompt strategies and validate designs. Contribute to design systems and frameworks that scale across products and platforms.
Senior Product Designer, Design Systems
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Strava 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
As a Senior Product Designer, you will own and evolve major components within Strava’s design system, focusing on improving consistency and product quality. You will collaborate closely with engineering and product design partners to ensure alignment between design and code.
Product Designer III - Design Ops
Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)
Best Buy Canada Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)
The Product Designer III - Design Ops will evolve the Best Buy Design System and create shared libraries, templates, and assets to support consistent work across product teams. They will also optimize design operations and workflows while partnering with various teams to improve operational health.
UI/UX Designer (with Figma Expertise)
🇵🇭 Philippines
Remote Va 🇵🇭 Philippines
The role involves designing and prototyping user interfaces using Figma, including creating wireframes, mockups, and interactive prototypes. Key duties also include conducting user research, collaborating with developers for implementation, and maintaining design systems.
UI/UX Designer (with Figma Expertise)
🇵🇭 Philippines
Remote Va 🇵🇭 Philippines
The role involves designing and prototyping user interfaces using Figma, including creating wireframes, mockups, and interactive prototypes. Key duties also include conducting user research, collaborating with developers for implementation, and maintaining design systems.
UI/UX Designer (with Figma Expertise)
🇵🇭 Philippines
Remote Va 🇵🇭 Philippines
The UI/UX Designer will design and prototype user interfaces using Figma and conduct user research and usability testing to refine designs. They will collaborate with developers to ensure accurate implementation of design specifications and maintain design systems.
Product Designer - Design Systems
🇺🇸 United States of America
Nextdoor 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead design for Nextdoor’s internal design system and partner closely with engineering and product teams. Advocate for a user-first approach and mentor other designers while driving experimentation and A/B testing efforts.
Lead Product Designer - Design Systems
🇺🇸 San Mateo, California, United States of America
Verkada 🇺🇸 San Mateo, California, United States of America
The Lead Product Designer will define and maintain the core Figma component library and create scalable systems for various interfaces. They will also establish governance processes for new components and advocate for design and engineering collaboration.
Senior Product Designer (Secondment/Max Term Contract)
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Commonwealth Bank 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
The Senior Product Designer will lead discovery work to uncover customer problems and translate insights into concepts, prototypes, and high-fidelity UX/UI designs consistent with the design system. They will collaborate closely with cross-functional stakeholders throughout the agile lifecycle to shape product strategy and advocate for best-in-class user experience.
UX Designer
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
F5 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
The UX Designer will be responsible for end-to-end design of large-scale features, complex workflows, and data visualizations for the AI security suite, acting as the subject matter expert for enterprise UX. This role involves cross-functional partnership with PMs, developers, and data science to define requirements, conduct user validation, and maintain the design system.
Senior Product Designer - Design System
🇳🇿 Auckland, New Zealand
Serko Ltd 🇳🇿 Auckland, New Zealand
The role involves creating foundational components, interaction patterns, and documentation to empower other designers, while shaping and maintaining a robust Figma library from basic elements to complex components. This includes providing support, training, guidance, and feedback to other teams to ensure a cohesive experience across products.
UX Designer
🇵🇱 Zabierzów, Kraków County, Poland
Novomatic Technologies Poland 🇵🇱 Zabierzów, Kraków County, Poland
The role involves defining project assumptions, analyzing requirements, and creating solutions through mockups and prototypes for mobile and web applications. The designer will ensure visual integrity using design systems and collaborate with developers during product realization.
UI/UX Web Designer
🌍 Remote
Autobidmaster 🌍 Remote
The UI/UX Web Designer will collaborate with product managers, developers, and stakeholders to create user-centered designs and maintain the project's design system. They will also conduct UX research and usability testing to validate design decisions and optimize designs for various devices.
Senior UI Designer
🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America
At&t 🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America
The Senior UI Designer will collaborate across teams to align visual design with overarching strategies and work cross-functionally to deliver on-brand creative work. They will also advocate for growth in design by contributing to the evolution of AT&T design systems and best practices.
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.