Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior Product Designer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Maintainx 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead the end-to-end design process for AI-powered maintenance and asset management experiences across web and mobile platforms. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to simplify complex workflows and contribute to the scalability of the company's design system.
Senior Product Designer, MapMy
🌍 Remote
Outside 🌍 Remote
Lead end-to-end design for MapMy's mobile and web experiences while establishing an AI-accelerated design practice. You will own the design system, drive the research agenda, and mentor other designers to raise the overall craft bar.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Findhelp 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
The role involves designing and iterating on products for the social service ecosystem by collaborating with research, engineering, and product teams. Key duties include creating wireframes, maintaining design systems, and using data to inform user experience decisions.
UI/UX Designer - Telehealth Platform (Part-Time Remote)
Remote (🇨🇦 Ontario, Canada)
Cloudcure Remote (🇨🇦 Ontario, Canada)
Design and iterate on patient-facing flows and improve the internal provider dashboard. Collaborate with developers to maintain a consistent design system and ensure accurate implementation.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Serhant Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Lead the end-to-end design of the SMPLE platform across mobile, web, and internal dashboards. Build scalable design systems and transform complex operational workflows into intuitive user interfaces.
UI/UX Designer
🇵🇰 Karachi Division, Sindh, Pakistan
Lumida Wealth 🇵🇰 Karachi Division, Sindh, Pakistan
Own the end-to-end product experience by designing intuitive, high-trust user journeys for a complex financial platform. Collaborate with product, engineering, and growth teams to translate ambiguous ideas into scalable design systems and high-fidelity interfaces.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇧🇬 Bulgaria
Xometry Europe 🇧🇬 Bulgaria
The role involves creating high-quality digital and print assets while bridging the gap between design and technology to communicate complex manufacturing capabilities. Responsibilities include prototyping, experimenting with AI and generative design, and maintaining scalable design systems.
UX Designer - Design Systems
🇳🇱 Delft, South Holland, Netherlands
Topdesk 🇳🇱 Delft, South Holland, Netherlands
The role involves owning and adapting the enterprise design system, specifically integrating AI tooling and token-aware surfaces. You will create prototypes, define usage guidelines, and collaborate with engineers and product managers to ensure system scalability and consistency.
UX Designer - Design Systems (m/f/d)
🇩🇪 Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Topdesk 🇩🇪 Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
The role involves owning and adapting the design system, including components and patterns, to enable AI-driven prototyping and scalable solutions. You will collaborate with product triads to ensure consistency, deliver developer documentation, and raise the organization's design maturity.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Ltk Usa Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Lead the end-to-end design of high-impact tools and workflows for Brand and Creator platforms across web and iOS. Partner with Product, Engineering, and Data teams to translate business needs into scalable design systems and measurable outcomes.
Senior Product Designer
🇨🇾 Limassol, Limassol Municipality, Cyprus
Indrive 🇨🇾 Limassol, Limassol Municipality, Cyprus
Design and optimize complex mobile and web user flows with a focus on growth and measurable product impact. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to validate hypotheses through experiments and maintain scalable design systems.
UI/ UX Designer
Remote (🇵🇭 Philippines)
Treantly Remote (🇵🇭 Philippines)
Design seamless, high-conversion web experiences and interactive prototypes to support product adoption and user acquisition. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement scalable design systems and iterate based on data insights.
Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Bible Study Fellowship 🇺🇸 San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
The Graphic Designer will produce high-quality digital and print assets and maintain a consistent design system across a global ministry platform. They will collaborate with a creative team to execute brand-aligned visuals for web, email, and signage.
ALTERNANCE - UX DESIGNER F/H
🇫🇷 13600 La Ciotat, France
Thales 🇫🇷 13600 La Ciotat, France
The UX Design apprentice will conduct user research, create wireframes and prototypes, and collaborate with Product Managers to integrate user needs into B2B telecommunications products. They will also contribute to the evolution of the design system and maintain UX documentation such as personas and user journeys.
Product Designer
🇮🇳 India
Techwave 🇮🇳 India
Design and improve digital products for audit, tax, and advisory workflows, translating complex requirements into usable solutions. Collaborate with Product Managers and Engineers to deliver high-quality interfaces while maintaining design system consistency.
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.