Design Leadership Jobs
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Product Designer II
🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Microsoft 🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
The role involves designing end-to-end experiences that combine deep functional UX with high-end visual execution, focusing on creating polished, high-fidelity UI for key product areas including the AI & Copilot charter for Microsoft Teams. Responsibilities also include leveraging Figma precisely to craft component-driven layouts, building interactive prototypes, contributing to design critiques, and evolving design systems and patterns.
Senior Product Designer - Design Systems
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Ebay 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Develop and refine eBay's design system by integrating various design disciplines to create user-friendly guidelines and patterns. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure consistent application of the design system and improve user experience.
Product Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Adobe 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
The Product Designer will work with a multidisciplinary team to develop design solutions that redefine how brands optimize and personalize experiences. They will also ensure that visual language and interaction patterns align with Adobe’s design system.
Lead UX Designer
🇺🇸 Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States of America
Billiontoone 🇺🇸 Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States of America
The Lead UX Designer will own the complete UX vision and strategy for the Unity platform, partnering with product leadership to shape roadmaps and translating complex molecular diagnostics into intuitive digital experiences. They will lead the entire design process from discovery through final production, creating high-quality artifacts and driving the evolution of the design system.
Senior Product Designer (Remote)
Remote (🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America)
Pricelabs Remote (🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America)
The Senior Product Designer will build a deep understanding of users to design user-centric experiences for web and mobile platforms. They will collaborate with internal stakeholders and development teams to create intuitive design solutions and contribute to the design system.
Digital UX UI Designer
🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Hiscox 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
The Digital UX/UI Designer will design user-centered interfaces for customer-facing applications and collaborate with Product Managers and Engineers throughout the Agile development cycle. This role also involves contributing to a consistent design system and advocating for visual and interaction consistency across products.
UX / UI Designer
Conduct UX discovery through user research and usability testing to identify user needs. Collaborate with product managers and engineers to align design with business goals and develop design systems for consistent user experiences.
Senior Product Designer
🇫🇷 Paris, France
Gitguardian 🇫🇷 Paris, France
The Senior Product Designer will make autonomous design decisions that contribute to key metrics and partner with product leadership to influence the roadmap. They will also conduct user research, transform complex ideas into simple solutions, and contribute to the design system.
Principal UX Designer, Design Systems
Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
Sophos Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
The Principal UX Designer will drive end-to-end experience design across critical product areas and manage the design system. They will collaborate with product managers, developers, and researchers to create intuitive and scalable solutions.
Senior Product Designer, Reconciliation (Sydney, Hybrid)
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Gtreasury 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
As a Senior Product Designer, you will own the design strategy, partnering with product managers and engineers to define product vision and translate business goals into user experiences. You will also drive consistency by evolving the design system and championing user needs through research and data.
UX Designer
🇳🇴 Vikan, Troms, Norway
Admincontrol 🇳🇴 Vikan, Troms, Norway
The UX Designer will assess UX problems and conduct user research to understand customer needs. They will also design UI elements and contribute to the development of a scalable design system.
Senior Product Designer (Remote)
Remote (🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America)
Pricelabs Remote (🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America)
The Senior Product UX Designer will create user-centric experiences for web and mobile platforms while collaborating with internal stakeholders and development teams. They will also contribute to the design system and ensure a consistent user experience across all products.
Senior Product Designer
Own end-to-end product design for the iOS app, from discovery to implementation. Define the visual identity and create a design system to ensure consistency and enable rapid iteration.
Senior UI-UX Designer
🇺🇸 Arlington, Texas, United States of America
Saic 🇺🇸 Arlington, Texas, United States of America
The role involves designing intuitive, user-centric interfaces for web applications and collaborating with stakeholders to translate requirements into user-centered design concepts. Responsibilities also include developing responsive front-end code using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and maintaining design systems.
Product Designer
Remote (🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India)
Inheaden Remote (🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India)
The Product Designer will collaborate with cross-functional teams to create user-centered designs and develop wireframes and prototypes. They will also conduct user research and testing to improve user experience and maintain design systems.
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.