Design Leadership Jobs
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Lead Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Faire 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Define product direction through customer insights and lead end-to-end design from discovery to production. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build intuitive experiences and evolve the company's design system.
Marketplace App UI/UX Designer
🇸🇦 Al Khobar, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia
B8ak | بيتك 🇸🇦 Al Khobar, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia
Own the end-to-end design experience for a two-sided marketplace, focusing on the customer booking funnel and the service provider's management tools. Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Growth teams to optimize conversion rates and maintain a bilingual design system.
Senior UI Designer
🇺🇸 New Gloucester, ME 04260, United States of America
Anchour 🇺🇸 New Gloucester, ME 04260, United States of America
You will lead UI design across digital products, websites, and eCommerce platforms from concept through launch. You are responsible for building scalable design systems, creating high-fidelity prototypes, and partnering with developers to ensure design intent is maintained through QA.
AI Interface Specialist, Staff UX Designer, Google Labs
🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Google 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Drive the development of innovative design solutions for multi-modal and spatial AI interactions. Architect scalable platforms and design systems while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to ship products across multiple platforms.
Design Systems Lead (Remote, Antofagasta)
Remote (🇨🇱 Chile)
Blacksmith Agency Remote (🇨🇱 Chile)
The Design Systems Lead is responsible for building and owning client design systems, including token architecture and core component libraries. They must document these systems to ensure seamless execution by developers or automated pipelines across multiple brands.
Design Systems Designer (Remote, La Serena)
Remote (🇨🇱 Chile)
Blacksmith Agency Remote (🇨🇱 Chile)
The role involves building and owning client design systems, focusing on token architecture, variables, and core component libraries. You will document these systems to ensure seamless execution by developers or automated pipelines across multiple client brands.
Web Design Systems Designer (Remote, Concepcion)
Remote (🇨🇱 Chile)
Blacksmith Agency Remote (🇨🇱 Chile)
The role involves building and owning client design systems, focusing on token architecture, variables, and core component libraries. You will document these systems to ensure seamless execution by developers or automated pipelines across multiple brands.
Product Design Systems Designer (Remote, Valparaiso)
Remote (🇨🇱 Chile)
Blacksmith Agency Remote (🇨🇱 Chile)
The designer will build and own client design systems, focusing on token architecture, variables, and core component libraries. They are responsible for documenting these systems to ensure seamless execution by developers and automated pipelines.
Head of Design
🇺🇸 United States of America
Primis 🇺🇸 United States of America
The Head of Design will set the product's design vision and own the design system while remaining hands-on in Figma. They will report to the Head of Product and influence the product roadmap.
Senior UI Designer
🇺🇸 New Gloucester, ME 04260, United States of America
Anchour 🇺🇸 New Gloucester, ME 04260, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end UI design process from concept to launch across websites, eCommerce platforms, and digital products. Develop and maintain scalable design systems, component libraries, and high-fidelity prototypes while collaborating with UX, development, and marketing teams.
Design Systems Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Meta 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
You will lead the strategic direction and execution of Instagram's design system, ensuring quality and consistency across all platforms and AI-generated experiences. This involves driving component library development, fostering cross-functional collaboration, and implementing scalable design architecture.
UX / UI Designer - Springfield
🇺🇸 United States of America
Photon 🇺🇸 United States of America
You will own the end-to-end design process for web and mobile products, ranging from initial research and wireframes to high-fidelity UI. You will collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to build scalable design systems and validate decisions through user testing.
Design Systems Engineer (Remote, Aguascalientes)
Remote (🇲🇽 Mexico)
Blacksmith Agency Remote (🇲🇽 Mexico)
The role involves building and owning client design systems by extracting patterns into working systems of tokens, variables, and core components. You will document these systems to ensure seamless execution by developers or automated pipelines across multiple client brands.
Design Systems Designer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Genius Ai 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
You will own the vision and execution of the design system, architecting a robust component library and driving adoption across the organization. Additionally, you will lead the development of design tokens and collaborate with engineering to streamline the design-to-development handoff process.
Design Systems Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Genius Ai 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Own the vision and execution of the design system, architecting a robust component library and defining standards for mobile and web. Lead the design-to-dev handoff process and ensure the company-wide rebrand is consistently applied across the product.
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.