Design Leadership Jobs
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Freelance Product Designer (Fractional)
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Clera 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
You will own the entire design surface, including UI, dashboards, and AI conversational layers, while collaborating directly with founders and engineers. Additionally, you will build a design system from scratch and conduct user research to identify and resolve friction points.
Product Designer
🇮🇹 Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Mdotm 🇮🇹 Milan, Lombardy, Italy
The Product Designer will lead features from ideation and UX research to final production, focusing on translating complex AI data into simple interfaces. They will maintain the Design System and collaborate with developers and PMs to ensure technical feasibility and scalability.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Taptap Send 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
The Staff Product Designer will lead the visual and experiential direction of the global brand and expand the design system into scalable infrastructure. They will own the end-to-end design of new product offerings and set the high-quality craft standard for the design team.
UI DESIGNER APP MOBILE H/F
🇫🇷 Montpellier, Occitania, France
Nexton 🇫🇷 Montpellier, Occitania, France
The UI Designer will create graphical interfaces for mobile apps and web, working closely with UX Designers, Product Owners, and Developers. Responsibilities include developing components within the Design System and ensuring accessibility and responsive standards are met.
UX DESIGNER SENIOR H/F
🇫🇷 Montpellier, Occitania, France
Nexton 🇫🇷 Montpellier, Occitania, France
Define the transverse UX vision for complex banking products and interconnected systems while leading advanced user research and prototyping in Figma. The role involves mentoring junior designers, evolving the organizational design system, and collaborating with Product Owners and Lead Developers.
UI/UX Designer
🌍 Remote
Vates Virtualization Management Stack (xcp-ng / Xen Orchestra) 🌍 Remote
Design intuitive and user-friendly interfaces for Vates products by creating user journeys, wireframes, and interactive prototypes. Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to translate complex technical requirements into clear user experiences and maintain the design system.
UI DESIGNER APP MOBILE H/F
🇫🇷 Montpellier, Occitania, France
Nexton 🇫🇷 Montpellier, Occitania, France
Collaborate with UX designers, product owners, and developers to create and refine mobile application interfaces using agile methodologies. Maintain and enrich the Design System while ensuring high-quality UI standards for native iOS and Android platforms.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States
Perry Weather 🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States
Lead end-to-end product design from concept to shipment, focusing on complex workflows for non-desktop users. Responsibilities include conducting user research, maintaining a scalable design system, and collaborating with PMs and engineering to ensure platform coherence.
Lead Visual / UI Designer
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Rmg 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Lead the visual evolution of an existing design system to modernize its look and feel while incorporating AI-driven interaction models. Collaborate with senior stakeholders to align on concepts and hand off designs to engineering teams for implementation.
Senior Product Designer
🇵🇹 Portugal
Bitsight 🇵🇹 Portugal
The Senior Product Designer will own the end-to-end design process for product areas, focusing on integrating innovative AI solutions into the user experience. They will lead research, contribute to the design system, and collaborate closely with product teams to deliver usable and credible data intelligence.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Discover International 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Lead end-to-end product experiences for a nonprofit research institute, focusing on customer journeys from discovery to launch. Collaborate with engineering, data, and marketing teams to implement UX guidelines and evolve the digital design system.
UX Designer (Remote)
🌍 Remote
Hire Feed 🌍 Remote
Design and prototype user interfaces for a global digital platform while conducting user research and usability testing. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to maintain design systems and iterate on products based on data-driven metrics.
Lead Product Designer
🇦🇹 Vienna, Austria
Clera 🇦🇹 Vienna, Austria
You will lead product design, branding, and team direction while working directly with founders and engineering to ship daily. The role involves hands-on design work, conducting customer interviews, and maintaining design systems across three core product areas.
Senior UX Designer (f/m/d) AI Agent Conversational Experience
🇩🇪 Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Ionos De 🇩🇪 Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
You will design and enhance user journeys for a new AI agent platform, focusing on intuitive and efficient interfaces. Additionally, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop high-fidelity prototypes and maintain a cohesive design system.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States
Perry Weather 🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States
Lead end-to-end product design from concept to shipment, including conducting user research and defining success metrics. Maintain a scalable design system and ensure platform coherence across multiple industries and personas.
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.