Design Leadership Jobs
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Principal Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Smarkets 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
You will define and drive the product design direction from scratch, working closely with leadership, product, and engineering teams. Your role involves creating simple, elegant interfaces and conducting user research to inform product strategy and enhance the design system.
Product Designer
🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Carousell Group 🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
The Product Designer will champion the user-centered design process by conducting research, analyzing data, and creating wireframes and prototypes. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure a seamless user journey and contribute to the maintenance of the company's design system.
Lead UI/UX Designer
🇮🇱 Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
Aitan 🇮🇱 Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
The Lead UI/UX Designer will oversee the design of web, mobile, and command & control systems while collaborating with R&D to simplify complex workflows. They will also be responsible for maintaining the company's design system and driving the user experience strategy for new products.
Product Designer
🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Bluesky Hr Consultancy Inc. 🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Lead design outcomes in a cross-functional team, discovering user needs and translating insights into end-to-end experiences across mobile and web. Communicate design decisions, evolve the design system, validate solutions through prototyping, and support design quality by coaching peers and influencing stakeholders.
Principal Product Designer - Design Systems
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Twinkl Educational Publishing 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Set the design system’s direction, scope, governance, and measures of success, while designing and delivering components, tokens, modules, and templates across web and mobile products. Drive adoption and accessibility, collaborate with engineering and research teams, lead high-stakes product design work, and mentor colleagues through influence rather than direct management.
UI/UX Designer
🇵🇱 Poland
Outokumpu 🇵🇱 Poland
Collaborate with business stakeholders, development teams, product owners, and vendors to understand user needs and create UX solutions, user journeys, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity UI concepts. Promote usability, accessibility, and consistent brand-aligned experiences while maintaining design systems, Figma libraries, and reusable assets, and using AI tools to support ideation and validation.
Senior Product Designer
🇸🇬 Singapore
Arta Finance 🇸🇬 Singapore
Design and prototype AI-powered financial workflows and enterprise platform experiences, collaborating with product, engineering, users, and external partners to shape product direction. Build and evolve a flexible design system, and work with engineers through implementation to ensure polished, high-quality products.
Senior Product Designer
🇨🇭 Switzerland
Jobgether 🇨🇭 Switzerland
Own product design projects from problem definition and user-needs analysis through implementation review and quality assessment, creating responsive interfaces and complex financial workflows. Build and maintain scalable design systems, prototype and present solutions, and collaborate with Product, Business, Engineering, and QA teams while using AI tools to streamline routine work.
Senior Product Designer
🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal
Iterable 🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal
You will lead the evolution of the Aurora design system by defining component contracts, structured specifications, and machine-readable design intent. You will also partner with engineering teams to ensure consistent, accessible, and high-quality product experiences across Figma, code, and AI-assisted workflows.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Ladders 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Define the vision for search and discovery, and lead product design from discovery through production while collaborating with cross-functional teams on AI-assisted and personalized experiences. Connect design decisions to customer and business outcomes, advance the design system, prototype new concepts, and mentor other designers.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Ladders 🇺🇸 United States of America
Define product initiatives with cross-functional teams and lead design from strategy through execution, producing high-quality user experiences, interactions, and prototypes. Use AI-enabled workflows, user research, and design systems to explore ideas, address user needs, and maintain high design standards.
Senior Product Designer
🇳🇱 Netherlands
Jobgether 🇳🇱 Netherlands
Own product design work from problem definition through implementation review, creating responsive interfaces and complex workflows for financial products. Build and maintain scalable design systems, collaborate with product and engineering teams, and use AI tools to streamline routine design tasks while ensuring quality.
Product Designer
🇮🇳 India
Moengage Inc 🇮🇳 India
Partner with product, engineering, and research teams to drive product strategy and design intuitive user experiences. Manage the end-to-end design process, including user research, prototyping, and maintaining the design system.
Freelance Senior Graphic Designer (3-Month Contract)
Remote (🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia)
Codeninja Remote (🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia)
The designer will develop a scalable design system, including brand guidelines, marketing templates, and a redesigned corporate portfolio. They will also create reusable assets for social media, newsletters, and video content to ensure consistent brand presentation.
Senior Product Designer
🇮🇪 Ireland
Jobgether 🇮🇪 Ireland
Own product design from problem definition and user-needs analysis through implementation review and quality assessment, creating responsive interfaces and complex financial workflows. Build and maintain scalable design systems, collaborate with product and engineering partners, and use AI tools to streamline routine design work.
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.