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Design Systems Lead (Remote, Manaus)
🌍 Remote
Blacksmith Agency 🌍 Remote
You will own the architecture and construction of client design systems, including tokens, variables, and core component libraries. You are responsible for documenting these systems to ensure they can be executed by developers or automated pipelines without further guidance.
Lead Product Designer, Growth
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Perplexity 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Lead product design across the full growth funnel, including acquisition, onboarding, activation, and retention. Partner with cross-functional teams to design and run experiments that drive user growth and product value.
Lead Product Designer, Growth
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Perplexity 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
You will lead product design for the full growth funnel, including onboarding, acquisition, conversion, and retention strategies. You will partner with cross-functional teams to run experiments and ship features that balance UI paradigms with AI applications.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 Arlington, Virginia, United States
Ecs 🇺🇸 Arlington, Virginia, United States
Lead design efforts for priority digital products and forms by translating complex regulatory requirements into clear, user-friendly experiences. Collaborate with engineering, business owners, and compliance stakeholders to define problems and deliver execution-ready design specifications.
Staff Product Designer, Agentic CMS
🇺🇸 United States
Webflow 🇺🇸 United States
You will lead the end-to-end design of the Agentic CMS, defining how enterprise teams author, govern, and publish content across various channels. This involves creating systems that support both human users and AI agents while ensuring a coherent and scalable experience.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Sotheby's Institute Of Art 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
The Senior Product Designer will lead design efforts for both client-facing applications and internal operational tools. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to conduct user research, define information architecture, and execute high-quality UI designs.
Senior Director & Head of Design
🇺🇸 United States
Drivecentric 🇺🇸 United States
You will lead the product design team and define the strategy for agentic experiences and information architecture across the DriveCentric platform. This role involves hands-on design work, managing a growing team, and ensuring seamless integration of AI agents into complex dealership workflows.
Sr. Innovation & Design Engineer, Worldwide Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Bellevue, Washington, United States
Amazon 🇺🇸 Bellevue, Washington, United States
You will invent, design, and implement engineering solutions for complex material flow and efficiency problems across the global supply chain. Additionally, you will lead design and innovation efforts for the transportation network while collaborating with internal teams and external vendors.
Principal UX Researcher
🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Athenahealth 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
The Principal UX Researcher will lead discovery research and experience measurement initiatives to inform product strategy for clinician-facing mobile applications. This role involves conducting onsite customer shadowing, synthesizing research into actionable insights, and partnering with cross-functional teams to drive evidence-based design decisions.
Product Designer, IG Projects - Instagram
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Meta 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
You will lead the end-to-end design vision for centralized AI tooling at Instagram, shaping how product teams build and collaborate. This involves defining information architecture, setting design standards for AI-generated outputs, and driving organizational alignment across complex workstreams.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 Arlington, Virginia, United States
Ecs Tech Inc 🇺🇸 Arlington, Virginia, United States
Lead design efforts for priority digital products and forms by translating complex regulatory requirements into clear, user-friendly experiences. Partner with business owners, engineering, and compliance stakeholders to define problems and ensure designs meet federal usability and accessibility standards.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 Brighton, England, United Kingdom
Kier Group 🇬🇧 Brighton, England, United Kingdom
Lead and manage engineering design delivery for water and wastewater treatment projects across a major framework partnership. Responsibilities include line managing Design Managers and collaborating with discipline leads to ensure optimal design methodologies.
Design Engineering Manager
🌍 Remote
Cloudstaff 🌍 Remote
Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing design engineering team while defining clear expectations and KPIs. Collaborate with Product Management to deliver customer-focused solutions and improve execution using AI-enabled tools.
Lead UX Designer
🇺🇸 Appleton, Wisconsin, United States
U.s. Venture, Inc. 🇺🇸 Appleton, Wisconsin, United States
The Lead UX Designer will own end-to-end user experience design for high-impact initiatives while partnering with engineering and product leaders to translate research into scalable solutions. They are also responsible for establishing design standards, governance, and mentoring the team on UX best practices.
VDC BIM Designer, DC Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States
Amazon Web Services (aws) 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States
You will coordinate consolidated BIM models for data centers, utilizing Revit and Navisworks to maintain design standards and ensure quality. Additionally, you will lead design coordination meetings, perform clash detection, and support information exchange processes during construction phases.
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.