Design Leadership Jobs
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Product Designer H/F
🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Nexton 🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai Emirate, United Arab Emirates
The Product Designer will handle the entire design process from user research and auditing to creating wireframes and dynamic prototypes. They will collaborate with Product Owners and Developers to improve user journeys and deliver high-fidelity visuals within a Design System.
UI DESIGNER H/F
🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Nexton 🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai Emirate, United Arab Emirates
The UI Designer will create graphical interfaces and user journeys using existing Design Systems in an agile environment. They will collaborate closely with UX Designers, Product Owners, and Developers to ensure high-quality web and mobile interfaces.
Principal UX Designer (NetSec)
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Palo Alto Networks 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Drive design excellence for global B2B product suites by architecting systemic solutions for complex enterprise environments. Lead the UX vision, oversee design system evolution, and mentor senior designers to elevate design maturity.
Product Designer H/F
🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Nexton 🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai Emirate, United Arab Emirates
The Product Designer is responsible for the entire design process, from analyzing user needs and conducting UX workshops to creating wireframes and prototypes. They collaborate with Product Owners and Developers to improve user journeys and deliver high-fidelity visuals within a Design System.
UI/UX Designer (m/w/d) Schwerpunkt Design System – fluege.de / Berlin
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Tc Flights Germany Gmbh 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
The role focuses on the conception, construction, and continuous development of a scalable multi-brand design system for flight portals. This includes creating Figma libraries, designing web and app experiences, and collaborating with developers and product owners to ensure company-wide adoption.
Junior Product Designer
🇿🇦 Stellenbosch Local Municipality, Cape Winelands District Municipality, South Africa
Babylonstoren 🇿🇦 Stellenbosch Local Municipality, Cape Winelands District Municipality, South Africa
The role involves designing and iterating on user-facing digital products and user journeys for luxury hospitality brands. You will collaborate with product owners and engineers to refine interfaces and implement a multi-brand design system.
Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America)
Transect Remote (🇺🇸 Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America)
Own the end-to-end design process for a complex B2B SaaS platform, from early concept to shipped UI. Collaborate with product and engineering teams to integrate AI features and maintain a consistent design system.
Product Designer
🇻🇪 Caracas, Municipio Libertador, Venezuela
Fina 🇻🇪 Caracas, Municipio Libertador, Venezuela
The Product Designer is responsible for designing product experiences that drive key business metrics, ensuring visual consistency and quality. They will translate business problems into evidence-based design solutions and maintain the design system.
UI/UX Product Designer
🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
Kela 🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
Lead the end-to-end design process for customer-facing web applications, focusing on onboarding, dashboards, and complex cybersecurity workflows. Collaborate with product managers and engineers to maintain design systems and ensure high-quality implementation.
Senior Product Designer - UX & Design Systems
🇺🇸 Lindon, Utah County, UT 84042, United States of America
Trucordia 🇺🇸 Lindon, Utah County, UT 84042, United States of America
The role involves owning and scaling the company's design system, including component libraries and design tokens, to ensure consistency across products. Additionally, the designer will create end-to-end UX flows and polished UI for new AI-powered experiences.
UX Designer (User Experience) - Freelance
🇮🇳 Bengaluru Urban, - 560080, Karnataka, India
Datahunt.co.in 🇮🇳 Bengaluru Urban, - 560080, Karnataka, India
The UX Designer will own the design process from research to production-ready specifications, ensuring that the product meets real customer needs. They will also collaborate closely with engineers and contribute to the design system.
Principal UX Designer
🇺🇸 Santa Clara County, California, United States of America
Palo Alto Networks 🇺🇸 Santa Clara County, California, United States of America
Lead end-to-end product design for complex cybersecurity workflows and drive UX strategy in partnership with cross-functional leadership. Mentor other designers and champion consistency across the product ecosystem through the advancement of the design system.
Staff, UX Designer - Design System.
🇺🇸 Boise, Idaho, United States of America
Clearwater Analytics 🇺🇸 Boise, Idaho, United States of America
Own the vision, roadmap, and governance for Clearwater's design system across all web products. Drive adoption of the design system across the organization and provide design leadership and mentorship to designers and engineers.
Design Systems Engineer Transmissions – FWD AT, CVT & Hybrid
🇺🇸 Auburn Hills, Michigan, United States of America
Stellantis 🇺🇸 Auburn Hills, Michigan, United States of America
The Design Systems Engineer is responsible for managing the system interfaces and interactions between components of the transmission and driveline system. This includes overseeing hardware system design reviews, managing DFMEA/DRBFM reviews, and coordinating with various teams to ensure project milestones are met.
SRT/Direct Connection – Design Systems Engineer - Propulsion Engineering
🇺🇸 Auburn Hills, Michigan, United States of America
Stellantis 🇺🇸 Auburn Hills, Michigan, United States of America
The position is responsible for developing, validating, and releasing performance parts for the Direct Connection catalog. This includes ensuring that assemblies and components meet program objectives for cost, weight, performance, quality, and timing.
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.