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Principal Design Systems Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Ethos 🇺🇸 United States of America
The Principal Design Systems Designer will build the foundations for a design system that enables designers, PMs, and engineers to produce high-quality UI. This role involves auditing current UI, defining information architecture, and creating a scalable token strategy.
Senior UX Designer (Fixed-term)
🇷🇸 Belgrade, City of Belgrade, Serbia
Clarivate 🇷🇸 Belgrade, City of Belgrade, Serbia
Design intuitive user experiences and high-fidelity interfaces for IP Management Systems from concept to delivery. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to conduct usability testing and evolve design systems to ensure product consistency.
Senior Design Technologist, Amazon Payment Products
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Drive the intersection of design systems, GenAI-powered marketing automation, and creative tooling for Amazon Payment Products. Build scalable infrastructure and Figma-to-code pipelines to automate the production of on-brand creative assets across various customer touchpoints.
Senior Product Designer, Internal Tools
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Base Power Company 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Own the design and evolution of internal tools and design systems to improve operational workflows across the company. Collaborate with Engineering and Operations to prototype and ship production-ready UI using AI coding tools.
Principal Design Systems Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Ethos Life 🇺🇸 United States of America
Build and lead the first AI-native design system at Ethos, creating a seamless pipeline from Figma to production. Establish scalable token strategies, component libraries, and documentation to ensure UI consistency and accessibility across the platform.
[8AI] Product Designer
🇨🇷 San José, San Jose Province, Costa Rica
Software Mind 🇨🇷 San José, San Jose Province, Costa Rica
Design end-to-end product experiences for complex data-rich interfaces across web and mobile platforms. Collaborate with product and engineering teams to build scalable design systems and validate solutions through iterative testing.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
General Intuition & Medal 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Own the end-to-end design of consumer-facing experiences for gaming and creator communities across desktop and mobile. Build and maintain a scalable design system while collaborating closely with engineers to ensure accurate production implementation.
Senior Product Designer (Legal)
🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Blink Ux 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Lead end-to-end design initiatives from discovery to delivery, creating scalable solutions that align with business objectives and user needs. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to evolve the design system and ensure cohesive, accessible experiences across platforms.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Fizz 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Product Designer will own the end-to-end design process for the Fizz app across all features, platforms, and markets. This includes creating design directions, building a scalable design system, and partnering with engineering to ship high-fidelity, Gen Z-focused experiences.
Visual Designer
🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Stravito 🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
The Visual Designer will craft and maintain Stravito's visual language across the website, brand communications, and marketing campaigns. This includes creating high-quality assets for social media, sales materials, and contributing to the overall design system.
Sr. UI/UX Designer (m/f/d)
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Holy 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Lead the design and governance of the HOLY Shop's design system and customer journey across four markets. Bridge the gap between creative vision and market performance by designing high-converting experiences and providing precise technical specs for developers.
Product Designer UX/UI (all genders)
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Tooltime 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
As a Product Designer UX/UI, you will be part of a cross-functional product squad focused on delivering value to customers. You will conduct user research, develop product concepts, and create high-fidelity designs using the ToolTime Design System.
UI/UX Designer
🇪🇬 Cairo, Egypt
Capgemini 🇪🇬 Cairo, Egypt
Develop and optimize a multibrand design system using Figma variables and extended collections. Design user flows and provide UX/UI guidance to product teams while ensuring brand alignment.
Lead Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Crossing Hurdles 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Own end-to-end product design, from discovery through high-fidelity UI, across embedded accounting and bookkeeping experiences. Act as the founding designer, owning the entire design function including product UX, design systems, and select brand/website work.
Senior UX Designer -File Systems
🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
Nasuni 🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
The role involves creating wireframes, interactive prototypes, and high-fidelity designs for the Nasuni Portal using Figma. The designer will collaborate with front-end engineers and product managers to implement a unified design system and ensure accessibility standards.
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.