Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior UI/UX Designer
🇵🇹 Portugal
Intermedia Intelligent Communications 🇵🇹 Portugal
Define and design intuitive AI-powered experiences, including copilots and conversational interfaces, for business users. Lead the end-to-end design process from research and prototyping to implementation and post-launch optimization within a design system.
Senior Product Designer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Jobber 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
You will lead design system projects to refine components, interaction patterns, and design tokens that scale across web and mobile platforms. Additionally, you will partner with engineering and product teams to ensure high-quality implementation and advocate for UX quality and accessibility across the company.
Staff Product Designer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Jobber 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead the evolution of the design system across the product suite while collaborating with cross-functional teams to improve consistency and UX quality. Drive major design initiatives, define governance models, and mentor team members to foster a culture of high-quality design and engineering collaboration.
Product Designer, Codex
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Openai 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and ship intuitive, high-quality products for coding agents. This involves conducting user research, defining product strategy, and contributing to the evolution of the company's design system.
Product Designer, Accessibility
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Openai 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
You will lead the company-wide accessibility program by defining strategy, governance, and roadmaps while designing inclusive experiences across all product platforms. You will also partner with engineering, legal, and product teams to integrate accessibility standards into design systems and workflows.
UX Designer
🇳🇱 Leusden, Utrecht, Netherlands
Smartphonehoesjes.nl 🇳🇱 Leusden, Utrecht, Netherlands
The role involves designing and building scalable e-commerce solutions from research and prototyping to live implementation in the codebase or SiteSpect. You will translate business goals into UX priorities, maintain the design system, and collaborate with stakeholders to optimize the customer journey.
UI/UX Designer
🇨🇦 Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Ndax Canada Inc. 🇨🇦 Calgary, Alberta, Canada
The UI/UX Designer will craft intuitive digital experiences by conducting user research, creating wireframes, and developing high-fidelity prototypes. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure design feasibility, maintain design systems, and enhance overall user engagement.
UI Designer (Remote)
🌍 Remote
Hire Feed 🌍 Remote
The role focuses on designing user interfaces and visual elements for web and mobile platforms while maintaining scalable design systems. It involves collaborating with product teams to translate requirements into high-fidelity, intuitive designs.
UX Designer (Remote)
🌍 Remote
Hire Feed 🌍 Remote
The role involves designing and prototyping user interfaces for a global digital platform. Responsibilities include conducting user research, creating design systems, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to improve product usability.
Product Designer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Cayde Ai 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead the end-to-end product design and visual language for the North American market, adapting the existing Korean design system. Own the candidate experience and website conversion paths while collaborating directly with founders to turn customer insights into design decisions.
Senior Visual Designer - Search
The Senior Designer owns the end-to-end user experience and visual design for search interfaces across enterprise digital platforms. They are responsible for driving interaction decisions, maintaining design system consistency, and collaborating with product and engineering teams.
Senior Visual Designer, Profile/Account Hub
The Senior Visual Designer will execute high-fidelity visual UI designs for the Account Hub while ensuring usability and flow improvements. They will also collaborate with the design system team to integrate and contribute patterns to the broader ecosystem.
Senior Product Designer
🇫🇷 Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Implicity 🇫🇷 Paris, Ile-de-France, France
You will lead the design of complex product features, ensuring they are intuitive for clinical users while collaborating closely with product managers and engineers. Additionally, you will contribute to the evolution of the design system and integrate AI-driven workflows to enhance product development efficiency.
Senior UI/UX Designer - Berlin
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Perry Street Software 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Collaborate with product managers and engineers to solve user problems and deliver polished, engineering-ready UI. Plan user tests, host design reviews, and contribute to the evolution of design systems.
Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Drive 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
You will own the end-to-end design process for B2B and B2C products, collaborating with engineering and marketing teams to solve complex user challenges. Additionally, you will maintain design systems, conduct user research, and leverage data to optimize UI performance.
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.