Design Leadership Jobs
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Lead UI Designer
🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America
At&t 🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America
The Lead UI Designer will collaborate across teams to align visual design with overarching strategies and work closely with technology and brand teams to troubleshoot site issues. They will also mentor fellow designers and contribute to the evolution of design systems and best practices.
Senior Brand & Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Reno, Nevada, United States of America
Nevada System Of Higher Education 🇺🇸 Reno, Nevada, United States of America
The Senior Brand & Graphic Designer will serve as the primary visual steward for the University’s visual identity systems and will influence the institution's public image. This role involves developing scalable design systems and templates while maintaining brand integrity across various platforms.
Senior Product Designer - Digital CX
🇬🇧 London, TW3 1DA, United Kingdom
None 🇬🇧 London, TW3 1DA, United Kingdom
The Senior Product Designer will deliver world-class, intuitive, evidence-based experiences across web and native platforms, championing the customer voice using research insights and data aligned with business strategy. They will partner with cross-functional teams to ensure solutions meet user needs, business goals, and technical requirements while supporting delivery with a focus on accessibility and design systems.
Lead Product Designer (Design System)
🇬🇧 London, TW3 1DA, United Kingdom
None 🇬🇧 London, TW3 1DA, United Kingdom
The Lead Product Designer will lead a small team of product designers to deliver world-class, innovative user experiences across web and native platforms while owning the strategic direction of the Sky design system. This role involves partnering with engineering and product teams to ensure system usability, performance, and brand consistency, and championing accessibility standards.
Associate Director, Senior UX Designer (FTC)
🇬🇧 London, City of London, United Kingdom
Janus Henderson Investors 🇬🇧 London, City of London, United Kingdom
The Senior UX Designer will lead UX strategy and design approaches for complex digital initiatives, creating intuitive, accessible, and effective digital experiences across the global ecosystem. This role involves championing accessibility, driving contributions to the Design System, and collaborating closely with various cross-functional partners.
Sr. Product Designer
🇺🇸 City of Pewaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America
Generac Power Systems 🇺🇸 City of Pewaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will own the end-to-end design of digital experiences connecting customers to Generac products, collaborating with cross-functional teams to define problems and deliver high-quality designs. Major duties include designing mobile experiences integrated with connected systems, conducting user research, developing prototypes in Figma, and contributing to the design system's evolution.
UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 Kohler, Sheboygan County, WI 53044, United States of America
Rehlko 🇺🇸 Kohler, Sheboygan County, WI 53044, United States of America
The UI/UX Designer will contribute to the development and maintenance of design systems and collaborate with stakeholders to define and implement innovative solutions for product direction, visuals, and experience. Responsibilities include executing visual design stages from concept to engineering hand-off, conceptualizing user-friendly ideas, and creating necessary design documentation like wireframes and user flows.
Sr Mobile UX Designer
Remote (🇨🇦 Calgary, Alberta, Canada)
Bayer Remote (🇨🇦 Calgary, Alberta, Canada)
As a Senior UX Designer, you will design user experiences for the mobile FieldView platform while collaborating with cross-functional teams. You will conduct research, create wireframes and prototypes, and contribute to design systems.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Dusty Robotics 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
The role involves delivering complete UX/UI designs for the iPad app and web portal to ensure an intuitive robot experience, alongside performing user research to validate solutions. Responsibilities also include collaborating with product management, engineering, and customer success to align design with business goals and maintaining the design system.
Senior UX Designer
🇮🇳 Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Godaddy 🇮🇳 Gurgaon, Haryana, India
The role involves owning end-to-end design execution across mobile web, mobile, and web applications to ensure a seamless user experience, while solving complex design challenges by balancing business needs with customer insights. Responsibilities also include crafting scalable design systems, using data to inform decisions, building prototypes, leading design discussions, and mentoring junior designers.
Senior Product Designer - Platform (Identity)
🇺🇸 United States of America
Coinbase Careers Page 🇺🇸 United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will work in a small team to iteratively improve user experience, taking new features from ideation through production, including design, prototyping, and user testing. They will also partner with the Design Systems team to define scalable design patterns and execute on the product roadmap.
Lead UX Designer
Remote (🇮🇪 Ireland)
Abc Financial Services Remote (🇮🇪 Ireland)
As a Lead UX Designer, you will own the end-to-end design of significant product initiatives, leading discovery and research, shaping product strategy, and partnering closely with Engineering. You will also contribute to the evolution of the design system and mentor other designers within the team.
Senior UX Designer
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Flexera 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
The Senior Designer for Design Systems will create and maintain reusable components and patterns in Figma, ensuring alignment with Flexera’s brand and accessibility standards. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to promote adoption and foster a culture of design excellence.
UX Designer
🇸🇪 Mölndals kommun, Västra Götaland County, Sweden
Avaron Ab 🇸🇪 Mölndals kommun, Västra Götaland County, Sweden
The role involves creating user-centered, accessible, and consistent wireframes, prototypes, and user flows, while contributing to and working from an existing design system and brand profile. Responsibilities also include supporting research activities like user testing and translating insights into improvements.
Senior Product Designer (Digital) - Design System
🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Sqli 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Lead the design and implementation of design systems and tools to enhance design processes. Collaborate with product managers and engineers to create effective design solutions that align with user needs and business goals.
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.