Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior E-commerce UI Designer - Remote
🌍 Remote
Jobgether 🌍 Remote
The Senior E-commerce UI Designer will be responsible for crafting high-performing Shopify experiences focused on enhancing user engagement and driving conversions. Key duties include designing conversion-focused website layouts, creating UX flows based on business goals, and building scalable design systems in Figma.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States
Pattern Data 🇺🇸 United States
As a Product Designer, you will own design quality and UX readiness across the product, partnering with Product and Engineering teams. You will create wireframes, prototypes, and maintain a cohesive design system to ensure usability and elegance in the final product.
UX Designer - UXD/Digital Design System (DDS)
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States
Syncreon Consulting 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States
The UX Designer will focus on creating digital and email design patterns and components, as well as interactive digital experiences. This role involves collaborating with various teams to enhance user experiences using established design patterns.
Senior UI Designer (Libra - Legal AI Assistant) (m/f/d)
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Wolters Kluwer 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
The Senior UI Designer will champion user-centered design across products, ensuring intuitive and accessible experiences, while owning and leading the end-to-end UI for Libra’s legal platform. This involves driving UI strategy from concept to high-fidelity prototypes, collaborating with experts, and maintaining the design system for scalable interactions.
Product Designer II
🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Ellevation 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
The Product Designer II will work with a cross-functional team to understand user problems and define the right experience to solve them. They will leverage AI tools for prototyping and contribute to the design system to create consistent user experiences.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Ellevation 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Lead UX strategy and evolve the design systems for the integrated ELD platform. Collaborate closely with Product and Engineering teams to define strategy and execute improvements.
Specialist UI/UX Designer (Figma)
🇮🇳 Pune, Maharashtra, India
Ptc 🇮🇳 Pune, Maharashtra, India
Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and designers to identify user needs and define product requirements. Create and refine designs and prototypes while advocating for users and ensuring alignment with the global design system.
Lead Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Alt 🌍 Remote
The Lead Product Designer will drive user-centric thinking by applying a high-craft, systems-oriented approach to problem-solving and experimentation, while also championing AI-first design by translating emerging LLM capabilities into intuitive product experiences. They will also collaborate deeply with cross-functional teams and spend approximately 20% of their time evolving and maintaining the Design System.
Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Genea 🌍 Remote
As a Product Designer II, you'll own the end-to-end design for features, including research, user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity UI. You will collaborate closely with your squad to ship high-quality features and contribute to Genea's design system.
Lead Product Designer (UX/UI)
The Lead Product Designer will own the end-to-end user experience and visual design of the treasury management platform, modernizing its look and feel while ensuring intuitive navigation of complex financial workflows. Key responsibilities include establishing a design system, leading user research, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance product design.
Product Designer H/F
🇫🇷 Montrouge, Ile-de-France, France
Ringover 🇫🇷 Montrouge, Ile-de-France, France
The Product Designer will create high-quality interfaces ready for integration and participate in the development and documentation of the design system. Collaboration with the Product and Tech teams is essential for design critiques and feedback.
UX Designer - SONG
🇪🇸 Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
Accenture 🇪🇸 Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
The role involves designing and prototyping digital experiences with increasing fidelity, envisioning concepts through low-fidelity prototypes, and generating detailed wireframes and user interface solutions across devices. Responsibilities also include defining and maintaining design systems and collaborating with development teams to ensure alignment with design principles.
Product Designer Pleno (Foco em UI e Design System) - Campinas/SP
🇧🇷 Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
Agibank 🇧🇷 Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
The Product Designer will create high-quality visual interface solutions and structure user flows to ensure a seamless experience. They will collaborate with various teams to define problems and deliver consistent, responsive designs.
Product Designer
🇳🇴 Oslo, Norway
Ifindtech 🇳🇴 Oslo, Norway
The product designer will take full ownership of the UX and design foundation for a data-intensive B2B platform. They will build the design system from scratch and shape complex workflows, maps, and analytics into a powerful user experience.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 Redmond, Washington, United States
Microsoft 🇺🇸 Redmond, Washington, United States
The Principal Product Designer will engage with customers to identify challenges and design AI-powered solutions. They will also create visually compelling interfaces and evolve design systems for enterprise workflows.
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.