Design Leadership Jobs
Find your next Design Leadership role at companies that value creative talent
Showing 1764 jobs
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America
Companycam 🇺🇸 Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America
Own the end-to-end design process for high-impact product areas, from early concept to polished execution. Define new interaction patterns for AI-powered experiences and contribute to the scalability of the design system.
Director of Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Siro 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Own the end-to-end product design craft, including the creation of design systems and AI interactions for mobile and web surfaces. Partner with senior leadership to frame problems, influence the product roadmap, and represent the voice of the customer.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Siro 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Own the end-to-end product craft, including the creation of design systems, patterns, and AI interactions for mobile and web surfaces. Partner with senior leadership to frame problems, influence the product roadmap, and conduct in-person user research.
Web & UI Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Jewish National Fund - Usa 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Web & UI Designer is responsible for creating high-quality, responsive digital interfaces and high-fidelity mockups for the organization's website and marketing campaigns. The role involves maintaining a consistent design system and collaborating with developers to ensure precise implementation of visual designs.
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 complex, multi-modal, and spatial AI interactions. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to architect scalable design systems and influence stakeholders to deliver industry-leading product experiences.
Senior Product Designer, Design Systems (Remote, Chiclayo)
Remote (🇵🇪 Peru)
Blacksmith Agency Remote (🇵🇪 Peru)
The role involves building and owning scalable design systems, including token architecture and core component libraries for multiple client brands. You will document these systems to ensure seamless execution by developers and automated pipelines.
Design Systems Designer (Remote, Huancayo)
Remote (🇵🇪 Peru)
Blacksmith Agency Remote (🇵🇪 Peru)
The role involves building scalable design system architectures using tokens, variables, and core components in Figma. You will document these systems to ensure seamless execution by developers and automated pipelines across multiple client brands.
Product Design Systems Designer (Remote, Arequipa)
Remote (🇵🇪 Peru)
Blacksmith Agency Remote (🇵🇪 Peru)
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 or automated pipelines.
Web Design Systems Designer (Remote, Trujillo)
Remote (🇵🇪 Peru)
Blacksmith Agency Remote (🇵🇪 Peru)
You will own the architecture of client design systems by building token structures, variables, and core component libraries in Figma. Your role involves documenting these systems to ensure they can be executed by developers or automated pipelines without further questions.
Head of Design
The Head of Design will lead diverse, global teams in crafting human-centered digital experiences while integrating AI into design workflows. They will provide strategic guidance, manage design systems, and foster a culture of creativity and innovation across the organization.
Product Designer
🇬🇧 Brierley Hill, Dudley, DY5 3EY, United Kingdom
Workwave 🇬🇧 Brierley Hill, Dudley, DY5 3EY, United Kingdom
You will manage the end-to-end design process for product initiatives, transforming business objectives into intuitive, high-quality experiences for non-technical users. You will also collaborate closely with product managers and engineers to ensure design consistency and alignment with the company's design system.
Lead Product Designer (Digital) - Hybrid
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Globe And Mail 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Lead Product Designer will create compelling user experiences across web and mobile platforms while establishing a design vision for product programs. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams, mentor designers, and conduct user research to validate solutions and ensure consistency through design systems.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America
Cityvet 🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer will own creative projects from concept to production across digital, social, print, and web touchpoints. They will serve as a brand steward for CityVet and Arista Advanced Pet Care, developing scalable design systems and multimedia assets.
Lead Product Designer - Design Foundations, Interstate
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Cox Automotive Inc. 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
You will own and evolve the Interstate B2B design system, setting the quality bar and design direction for components, tokens, and patterns. Additionally, you will shape AI-assisted design tooling and collaborate across teams to ensure consistency and efficiency at scale.
UI/UX Designer (m/w/d)
🇩🇪 Germany
Gini 🇩🇪 Germany
The role involves designing intuitive user experiences and workflows for the Insights and Extraction Platform products. Responsibilities span the entire design process from discovery and research to prototyping, usability testing, and maintaining the 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.