Design Leadership Jobs
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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.
Head of Design, AI-First
🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Puffy 🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Lead the design function to transform web design into an AI-native operation, owning the design system, toolchain, and roadmap. Partner with the CRO team to implement high-volume, high-quality design variants that drive conversion lift.
Head of Design, AI-First
🇵🇱 Warszawa, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
Puffy 🇵🇱 Warszawa, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
Lead the design function to transform web design into an AI-native operation, owning the design system, toolchain, and roadmap. You will manage a team of three as a player-coach to increase delivery speed and conversion lift for a billion-dollar D2C brand.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Taptap Send 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
You will define the visual and experiential direction for a global fintech brand while building scalable design systems and new product offerings. You will collaborate across product, engineering, and growth teams to ship high-impact features that improve financial accessibility.
Senior UX/UI Designer - Design Systems & Developer Handover
🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Multibank Group 🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
The role involves evolving and maintaining the company's design system and creating end-to-end user experiences for financial products. The designer will lead the developer handover process and partner with frontend engineers to ensure consistency and scalability.
UI/UX Designer
🇺🇦 Kyiv, Ukraine
Playtech 🇺🇦 Kyiv, Ukraine
Design mobile-first iGaming products and create UI layouts, interactive components, and visual flows using global and local design systems. Collaborate with Product Owners, managers, and developers to produce game assets, logos, and polished visual experiences.
Graphic Designer - Creative Agency
🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Gameloft 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Create high-quality visual assets for corporate and employer branding across digital, print, and social media platforms. Collaborate with international teams to translate communication briefs into compelling visual experiences and design systems.
Product Designer
🇱🇹 Vilnius, Vilnius County, Lithuania
Outcraft Ai 🇱🇹 Vilnius, Vilnius County, Lithuania
Own the end-to-end design of core surfaces including campaign setup, agent configuration, and analytics. Lead problem discovery and collaborate with PMs and Engineering to build a design system for AI agent interactions.
Head of Design, AI-First
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Puffy 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Lead the design function to transform web design into an AI-native operation, owning the design system, toolchain, and roadmap. Partner with the CRO team to implement high-volume, high-quality design variants that drive conversion lift.
Head of Design, AI-First
🇨🇦 Canada
Puffy 🇨🇦 Canada
Lead the design function to transform web design into an AI-native operation, owning the design system, toolchain, and roadmap. Partner with the CRO team to implement high-volume, high-quality design variants that drive conversion lift.
Head of Design, AI-First
🇸🇬 Singapore, Singapore
Puffy 🇸🇬 Singapore, Singapore
Lead the design function to transform web design into an AI-native operation, owning the design system, toolchain, and roadmap. You will manage a team of three as a player-coach to improve conversion and reduce design-to-development handoff time.
UI/UX Designer (Frontend coding experience) - Offer $1800 Gross
🇻🇳 Hà Nội, Vietnam
Fetch Technology Vietnam 🇻🇳 Hà Nội, Vietnam
Own the end-to-end UI/UX design process from user flows and wireframes to high-fidelity visuals in Figma. Implement these designs into production code using React, HTML5, and CSS3 while maintaining the design system.
Digital Product Designer (m/f/x)
🇩🇪 München, Brandenburg, Germany
Scalable Capital 🇩🇪 München, Brandenburg, Germany
The role involves taking ownership of the design process from problem framing to delivery, creating polished UI and accessible experiences. You will evolve the design system and collaborate closely with Product and Engineering teams to ensure high-quality implementation.
Digital Product Designer (m/f/x)
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Scalable Capital 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
The role involves taking ownership of the design process from problem framing to delivery, creating accessible UI and prototypes. You will collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to evolve the design system and ensure a coherent user experience across platforms.
產品設計五部 - Senior AI & System Product Designer
🇹🇼 Taiwan
仁寶 🇹🇼 Taiwan
Lead the information architecture and experience planning for medical and robot service systems (RaaS/TaaS), including enterprise management backends. Establish and maintain scalable cross-platform design systems and integrate advanced AI technologies into intuitive user interfaces.
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.