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Lead Product Designer
🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Propertyguru Group 🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Lead the strategic direction of product design by creating end-to-end customer journeys and scalable design systems. Influence cross-functional teams and foster a culture of experimentation and AI adoption to improve product outcomes.
Senior Product Designer
🇮🇳 India
Mitratech 🇮🇳 India
Lead the end-to-end design process for complex enterprise features, from discovery and workflow definition to high-fidelity prototyping. Collaborate with product and engineering teams to integrate AI-native workflows and maintain a scalable design system.
Design Systems & Operations Lead
🇺🇸 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Pnc 🇺🇸 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
The Design Systems & Operations Lead will own the design delivery ecosystem, ensuring effective workflows and cross-team collaboration. This role involves optimizing operating models and driving the adoption of design systems across various teams.
Senior Product Designer
🇵🇭 Taguig, Southern Manila District, Philippines
Youtrip 🇵🇭 Taguig, Southern Manila District, Philippines
Lead strategic product initiatives for B2B and B2C financial products from discovery to delivery. Own the evolution of the design system to ensure scalability and consistency across platforms.
Senior UI Designer
🇺🇸 Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Livanova 🇺🇸 Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
The Senior UI Designer will define and deliver intuitive user experiences for an implantable medical device platform. They will own the strategic evolution of the design system and resolve complex design issues across multiple products.
Senior Frontend Engineer, Design Systems
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Deputy 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Build and maintain production-ready UI components while shaping a design system optimized for AI-native workflows. Collaborate with designers to create low-friction prototyping templates and ensure high-fidelity translation from design to code.
Sr. Dir, Design Engineering
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Github, Inc. 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Define the technical and organizational vision for design engineering, focusing on AI-native workflows and front-end architecture. Lead a team of design engineers to scale GitHub's design systems and design-to-code ecosystem.
Product Designer
🇮🇳 Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Noon 🇮🇳 Gurgaon, Haryana, India
As a Product Designer, you will lead the design charter for Darkstore, Fulfillment, and Supply Chain products, translating complex operational workflows into intuitive digital experiences. You will create and maintain design systems, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs for internal applications.
AI Product Designer (Builder)
🇲🇾 Malaysia
Deriv.com 🇲🇾 Malaysia
Lead the end-to-end process of taking product problems from research and design to a working frontend implementation using AI coding tools. Contribute to making the company's design system AI-native by refining documentation, APIs, and agent instructions.
Staff Product Designer, New Content Experiences
🇵🇦 Panama City, Distrito de Panamá, Panama
Netflix 🇵🇦 Panama City, Distrito de Panamá, Panama
The role involves translating ambiguous needs into clear experience visions and scalable design systems for new content experiences like livestreams and podcasts. The designer will partner with cross-functional leaders to shape product strategy and advocate for global members.
Product Designer
🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Entain 🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Design end-to-end product experiences and high-quality UI solutions for sports betting and entertainment platforms. Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to evolve design systems and improve customer experiences through research and testing.
Product Designer
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Entain 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Design end-to-end product experiences and high-quality UI solutions for sports betting and entertainment platforms. Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to evolve design systems and improve customer experiences through research and testing.
Product Designer
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Entain 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Design end-to-end, scalable product experiences and high-quality UI for digital wagering and entertainment platforms. Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to translate customer needs into intuitive features and evolve design systems.
Senior UI Designer
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Livanova 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
The Senior UI Designer will define and deliver intuitive user experiences for an implantable medical device platform. They will own the strategic evolution of the design system and resolve complex design issues across multiple products.
Senior UI Designer
🇺🇸 Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America
Livanova 🇺🇸 Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America
The Senior UI Designer will define and deliver intuitive user experiences for an implantable medical device platform. They will own the strategic evolution of the multi-brand Design System and resolve complex design issues across multiple products.
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.