Design Leadership Jobs
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Contract Product Designer (Staff-level), 6 months
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Linktree 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Design and deliver end-to-end user experiences across key product surfaces, collaborating closely with product, engineering, and data partners. Lead complex design projects independently while contributing to Linktree's design system and ensuring design quality.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Cyncly 🇺🇸 United States of America
The Senior UX/UI Designer will lead the creation and stewardship of a unified design language across Cyncly's global product portfolio. Responsibilities include owning the design system, collaborating with product designers and engineers, and advocating for design system adoption.
Senior Manager UX Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Appnovation 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Senior Manager UX Designer will drive the design of AI-first platforms, working closely with cross-functional teams to deliver rapid prototypes and solutions. This role involves hands-on design, leadership in agentic AI experiences, and ownership of design system patterns.
Senior Product Designer (UX).
Remote (🇳🇬 Lagos, Lagos Island, Nigeria)
Moniepoint Remote (🇳🇬 Lagos, Lagos Island, Nigeria)
Lead the end-to-end design process for financial products, from discovery and research to final UI execution. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create scalable design systems and mentor junior designers to foster innovation.
UX Designer III
🇺🇸 Lake Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America
National Information Solutions Cooperative (nisc) 🇺🇸 Lake Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America
Lead the UX design for complex product areas by conducting user research and translating insights into actionable design solutions. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to refine design systems and ensure intuitive, user-centered experiences.
Junior Product Designer
🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Olx 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
The Junior Product Designer will collaborate with product managers, engineers, and data analysts to create user-centered solutions and take accountability for the quality of their designs. They will also use AI-native workflows to prototype and iterate directly in code, contributing to the design system.
Principal Product Designer
🇵🇹 Portugal
Olx 🇵🇹 Portugal
Lead the quality of interaction, UX, and visual design across business units while defining and governing design systems. Mentor the design team and influence product strategy through design-led thinking.
UI UX Designer
🇮🇳 Navi Mumbai, Thane Subdistrict, India
Arcot Ai Solutions Private Limited 🇮🇳 Navi Mumbai, Thane Subdistrict, India
The designer will collaborate with stakeholders to create user-friendly interfaces for web and mobile applications. Key tasks include conducting user research, developing wireframes, and maintaining consistent design systems.
Android Designer (Design Systems)
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc. (sga, Inc.) 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
You will be designing and refining components for Android, balancing Material Design conventions with Adobe's cross-platform design language. Collaboration with engineering and other designers is essential to ensure a cohesive design system across platforms.
Senior Manager UX Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Appnovation Technologies 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead the design of AI-first platforms and agentic AI experiences, focusing on conversational UX and assistant behaviors. Own specific design system patterns and ship them as code into the engineering pipeline to ensure compliant, scalable delivery.
Senior Product Designer - Design Systems
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Procore Technologies 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Lead the evolution of Procore's Design System by creating scalable components and AI-forward infrastructure for web and mobile platforms. Partner with product and engineering teams to drive adoption and ensure a consistent, human-centered user experience.
Principal Product Designer
🇳🇱 Netherlands
Olx 🇳🇱 Netherlands
Lead the quality of interaction, UX, and visual design across business units while defining and governing design systems. Mentor and elevate the design team, ensuring high-quality execution and alignment with product strategy.
Product Designer
🇨🇿 Capital Apartments, Wenceslas Square 36, 110 00 Prague, Czechia
Make 🇨🇿 Capital Apartments, Wenceslas Square 36, 110 00 Prague, Czechia
Own the end-to-end design execution for enterprise experiences, core automation, and AI tools, from user flows to production-ready UI in Figma. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to turn requirements into shipped features while contributing to the company's design system.
Senior Product Designer, Integrity
🇸🇬 Singapore
Grab 🇸🇬 Singapore
Create user-centric solutions for internal enterprise web tools and mobile applications to enhance platform safety and integrity. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive design-led initiatives and contribute to the evolution of the design system and organization.
Senior Product Designer, Support
🇸🇬 Singapore
Grab 🇸🇬 Singapore
Create user-centric solutions for internal enterprise web tools and mobile applications to enhance the customer support experience. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive design-led initiatives and contribute to the evolution of the design system and organization.
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.