Design Leadership Jobs
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Staff, UX Designer - Design System.
🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Clearwater Analytics 🇺🇸 San Jose, California, 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.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 City of White Plains, New York, United States of America
Veterinary Emergency Group (veg) 🇺🇸 City of White Plains, New York, United States of America
Lead user research and design the end-to-end experience for employee and customer-facing applications. Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders to create mockups, prototypes, and design system guidelines.
Senior Product Designer, (Senior Consultant, Experience & Design)
🇺🇸 Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
Fearless 🇺🇸 Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
Lead the evolution and governance of the organization's design system, ensuring consistency, scalability, accessibility, and usability across products. Collaborate across product workstreams to define shared interaction models and design cohesive experiences that span multiple applications.
Senior Product Designer, (Senior Consultant, Experience & Design)
🇺🇸 Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
Fearless 🇺🇸 Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
Lead the evolution and governance of a scalable design system to ensure consistency and accessibility across digital products. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design cohesive user experiences and shared interaction patterns for enterprise applications.
Senior UI/UX Designer, Ecommerce
🇺🇸 Glendale, California, United States of America
Softline Solutions 🇺🇸 Glendale, California, United States of America
Own the end-to-end UX for Brio's ecommerce surfaces, including landing pages and product detail pages. Develop and maintain a scalable Figma design system while using data and research to optimize the customer journey.
Instagram Product Designer, Brand-in-Product
🇺🇸 Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States of America
Meta 🇺🇸 Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States of America
Lead the design vision for Instagram's brand identity within the product, translating brand strategy into tangible user experiences. Develop scalable design systems and frameworks to ensure consistent, high-quality branded moments across various product surfaces.
Senior Product Designer, Design Systems
The role involves contributing to an enterprise-level design system for a large account across native and web platforms. Responsibilities include creating detailed documentation, prototypes, and collaborating with engineering teams for hand-offs and visual QA.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Nourish 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Staff Product Designer will establish best practices for information architecture and design best-in-class experiences for users across various products. They will also help drive qualitative user research and maintain the design system.
Lead UX Designer, Design Systems
🇺🇸 Boise, Idaho, United States of America
Clearwater Analytics 🇺🇸 Boise, Idaho, United States of America
The Lead UX Designer will create an excellent end-user interaction and overall experience for users navigating web-based applications and websites. They will work with various teams to understand user needs and project goals, create wireframes or prototypes, and advocate for end users throughout the company.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Ondo Finance 🇺🇸 United States of America
Design end-to-end product experiences for institutional-grade financial instruments on the blockchain. Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to translate complex financial concepts into intuitive UI and evolve the company's design system.
Digital Product Designer
🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Kits.com (tsx:kits) 🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
The Digital Product Designer will drive the full design lifecycle from concept to execution, ensuring a user-first approach. They will also own and evolve design systems while collaborating with cross-functional teams to launch high-quality digital experiences.
Product Designer
🇪🇸 Spain
Shakers 🇪🇸 Spain
As a Product Designer, you will design experiences for clients and freelancers, run user tests, and maintain the Design System. You will collaborate closely with the Product Trio to shape solutions and ensure effective handoffs to developers.
Senior UI Designer
🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Livanova 🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
The Senior UI Designer will define and deliver user experiences for an implantable medical device platform, focusing on visual design and user-centered product design. They will also own the strategic evolution of the Design System and resolve complex design issues across multiple products.
Lead UX Designer, Design Systems
🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Clearwater Analytics 🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Lead the creation of scalable and accessible end-user interactions for web-based applications and websites. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop UX/UI guidelines and advocate for end-user needs throughout the company.
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 manages the integration and interfaces of transmission and driveline hardware systems. They coordinate between engineering teams, suppliers, and manufacturing to ensure robust design controls and build readiness for prototype orders.
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.