Design Leadership Jobs
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UX Designer, Design Systems - SG8 - MTY
🇲🇽 67286 San Pedro Garza García, NLE, Mexico
John Deere 🇲🇽 67286 San Pedro Garza García, NLE, Mexico
The role involves creating and maintaining scalable, reusable design system components, templates, and design tokens while partnering with engineering to ensure design and coded parity, particularly for embedded systems. Responsibilities also include supporting design system governance, conducting audits for compliance, validating accessibility, and developing usage guidelines for design teams.
Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Cariloop Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The Product Designer will design intuitive, user-centered digital experiences to support caregivers and families, collaborating closely with Product Managers, Engineers, and Researchers to translate insights into usable solutions. Responsibilities include designing end-to-end user flows, iterating on designs based on feedback, and ensuring design quality, accessibility, and coherence across experiences.
Senior Product Designer (Global Experience & Design System)
🌍 Remote
Lodgify 🌍 Remote
The Senior Product Designer will own and evolve Lodgify's Design System, focusing on usability, accessibility, and scalability by defining contribution models and governance. This role involves translating product strategy into scalable design patterns and standardizing complex cross-product experiences like the Universal Calendar.
Sr. Engineer Software - UX Designer
🇮🇳 Pune City, India
Vertiv 🇮🇳 Pune City, India
The role involves owning the end-to-end UX process, including research, workflows, and interaction design, specifically translating complex IT infrastructure and data center workflows into intuitive user experiences. Responsibilities also include designing high-fidelity UI screens, creating and maintaining a scalable design system, and ensuring compliance with WCAG accessibility standards.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Wsp 🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
The Senior UI/UX Web Designer will define and implement visual design and overall user experience strategy for web and mobile applications. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate UI/UX principles and ensure adherence to accessibility and quality standards.
Advisor Graphic Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 Perry County, Ohio, United States of America)
Gainwell Technologies Llc Remote (🇺🇸 Perry County, Ohio, United States of America)
The Advisor Graphic Designer will lead the creation of digital project deliverables, ensuring a unified site strategy and a consistent user experience. They will collaborate with teams to provide strategic recommendations and ensure compliance with accessibility standards.
Graphic Designer III - Reporting Manager
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
The Tsui Group 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
The Graphic Designer III - Reporting Manager will integrate visual communications and document production to enhance transparency and compliance in construction reporting. They will work closely with various teams to ensure materials meet branding and accessibility standards.
Senior Product Designer - Digital CX
🇬🇧 London, TW3 1DA, United Kingdom
None 🇬🇧 London, TW3 1DA, United Kingdom
The Senior Product Designer will deliver world-class, intuitive, evidence-based experiences across web and native platforms, championing the customer voice using research insights and data aligned with business strategy. They will partner with cross-functional teams to ensure solutions meet user needs, business goals, and technical requirements while supporting delivery with a focus on accessibility and design systems.
Lead Product Designer (Design System)
🇬🇧 London, TW3 1DA, United Kingdom
None 🇬🇧 London, TW3 1DA, United Kingdom
The Lead Product Designer will lead a small team of product designers to deliver world-class, innovative user experiences across web and native platforms while owning the strategic direction of the Sky design system. This role involves partnering with engineering and product teams to ensure system usability, performance, and brand consistency, and championing accessibility standards.
Associate Director, Senior UX Designer (FTC)
🇬🇧 London, City of London, United Kingdom
Janus Henderson Investors 🇬🇧 London, City of London, United Kingdom
The Senior UX Designer will lead UX strategy and design approaches for complex digital initiatives, creating intuitive, accessible, and effective digital experiences across the global ecosystem. This role involves championing accessibility, driving contributions to the Design System, and collaborating closely with various cross-functional partners.
UX Designer
🇬🇧 Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Kainos 🇬🇧 Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
The UX Designer will be responsible for delivering intuitive product experiences based on user needs and design principles, which includes designing wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity mock-ups adhering to usability and accessibility standards. Key tasks involve leading the creation of journey maps, facilitating user research and testing, analyzing feedback, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to translate requirements into effective designs.
Senior UX Designer
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Flexera 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
The Senior Designer for Design Systems will create and maintain reusable components and patterns in Figma, ensuring alignment with Flexera’s brand and accessibility standards. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to promote adoption and foster a culture of design excellence.
Mid Product Designer (UI/UX)
🇷🇴 Bucharest, Romania
Expleo 🇷🇴 Bucharest, Romania
The role involves designing intuitive, ergonomic UX/UI for web, mobile, and tablet, defining interactions, and contributing to multi-brand Design Systems while adhering to accessibility standards. Responsibilities also include preparing clear handoff specifications for development and collaborating cross-functionally with product owners and engineers to ensure timely, quality delivery.
UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 Fairfax, Virginia, United States of America
Bixal 🇺🇸 Fairfax, Virginia, United States of America
Responsibilities include conducting user research, designing wireframes and high-fidelity UI solutions for web platforms, and ensuring designs meet Section 508 accessibility requirements and WCAG standards. The role also involves collaborating with developers, applying human-centered design methods, and contributing to shared design systems like USWDS.
CBS - BMC - BMC Enablement-Technology Enablement - UI Designer
🇮🇳 Kanayannur, India
Ey 🇮🇳 Kanayannur, India
The UI Designer will own the design process from discovery through delivery, creating wireframes, user flows, and prototypes. They will collaborate with engineering and UX researchers to ensure design integrity and accessibility across platforms.
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.