Design Leadership Jobs
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Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Sans 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
The Graphic Designer will own the voice, narrative, and messaging systems for Sans, translating brand strategy into compelling storytelling across various channels. Responsibilities include redesigning email flows, maintaining the Figma design system, and supporting print and physical touchpoints.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Wispr Flow 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Design new product surfaces and cutting-edge voice interfaces from scratch for millions of users. Balance high-level systems thinking with high-craft visual design while evolving the company's design system.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇪🇬 Cairo, Egypt
International Turnkey Systems - Its 🇪🇬 Cairo, Egypt
The Senior UI/UX Designer will enhance design quality and usability of enterprise-level solutions, ensuring intuitive user experiences. Key responsibilities include improving user interfaces, collaborating on design systems, and producing UX deliverables.
UX Designer NEX
🇺🇸 Houston, Texas, United States of America
Patterson-uti 🇺🇸 Houston, Texas, United States of America
Lead the design process across web and mobile experiences, including discovery research and usability testing. Collaborate with product managers and engineers to ship features and establish a design system.
UX Designer, III
🇺🇸 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Verily 🇺🇸 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Drive the end-to-end design process for healthcare solutions, creating interfaces for patients and clinical staff. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to iterate designs and contribute to the Verily Design System.
Product Designer I
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
J2 Health 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Execute high-craft UI designs and convert UX concepts into high-fidelity assets for the J2 suite. Collaborate with engineering and product teams to improve the design system and conduct design QA.
Product Designer- San Francisco HQ
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Orb 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design process for revenue reporting and invoicing products, from discovery research to implementation. Collaborate with engineers and product managers to translate ambiguous problems into intuitive user experiences and maintain the design system.
User Experience (UX) Designer
🇺🇸 Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
Ensodata 🇺🇸 Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
The UX Designer will improve customer and developer efficiency by translating user needs into well-designed workflows and screens for web and mobile applications. Responsibilities include conducting user research, creating high-fidelity designs, and maintaining design systems in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Alma 🇺🇸 United States of America
The Product Designer will create intuitive UI/UX for AI-powered immigration legal workflows and agentic experiences. They will own the end-to-end design process from research to high-fidelity prototypes while building scalable design systems.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
Costar Group 🇺🇸 Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will create high-fidelity wireframes, mockups, and interactive prototypes to improve the user experience of real estate management software. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams and conduct user research to validate design decisions and evolve design systems.
Senior Product Designer, Mobile (I)
Lead the re-imagination and evolution of mobile apps across iOS and Android platforms. Define interaction and visual design standards while owning and evolving the mobile design system.
Senior Product Designer
🇨🇦 Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Encircle 🇨🇦 Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Own the end-to-end design lifecycle for complex product areas across web, mobile, and tablet platforms. Collaborate with product and engineering teams to implement design systems and conduct customer research to inform iterations.
Senior Product Designer (Mid-Senior)
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Revel 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
As a Senior Product Designer, you will lead the design of user experiences from discovery through delivery, collaborating with various stakeholders. You will advocate for user needs and contribute to evolving design systems that scale with the product.
Sr. Visual Designer
🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Seven Ai 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Lead the visual language and design system for an Agentic Security Platform, focusing on clean interfaces for data-heavy surfaces. Transform UX flows into polished, production-ready components while maintaining consistency and high craft standards across the team.
Lead UX Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Centro 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead the design of a digital platform for employee benefits by collaborating with product and engineering teams to create elegant UI and interaction patterns. You will be responsible for maintaining design systems, conducting user research, and translating complex business workflows into engineering-ready assets.
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.