Design Leadership Jobs
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Digital Product Designer (m/f/x)
🇩🇪 Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Scalable Gmbh 🇩🇪 Munich, Bavaria, Germany
You will own the design process from problem framing to delivery, collaborating closely with product and engineering teams. You will use qualitative and quantitative insights to create accessible, engaging experiences while evolving the company's design system.
Lead UX & Design Manager
🇬🇧 Newbury, England, United Kingdom
Three Uk 🇬🇧 Newbury, England, United Kingdom
The Lead UX & Design Manager defines the design vision, strategy, and operating model for Business Digital while leading a multidisciplinary team of UX and UI specialists. They are responsible for driving design maturity, managing design systems, and ensuring all digital products deliver exceptional, user-centered customer experiences.
Lead Product Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Greytip Software Private Limited 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Lead the end-to-end design strategy and execution for core Cloud HR Tech modules while managing a team of 2 to 4 designers. The role involves producing high-fidelity artifacts, evolving the Figma design system, and optimizing dev-handoff workflows.
Staff Frontend Engineer - Design Systems
🇺🇸 San Mateo, California, United States
Verkada 🇺🇸 San Mateo, California, United States
Develop and scale a centralized React-based component library and design tokens to ensure UI consistency across enterprise applications. Act as the primary bridge between Design and Engineering while mentoring product teams on UI best practices and accessibility standards.
Product Designer - Digital Products (Remote)
🌍 Remote
Hire Feed 🌍 Remote
The role involves designing and prototyping user interfaces for digital products while maintaining design systems and component libraries. The designer will collaborate with cross-functional teams to align user experiences with business goals through iterative testing and research.
UX Designer (Remote)
🌍 Remote
Hire Feed 🌍 Remote
The role involves designing and prototyping user interfaces for a global digital platform. Responsibilities include conducting user research, creating design systems, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to improve product usability.
UI Designer (Remote)
🌍 Remote
Hire Feed 🌍 Remote
The role involves designing user interfaces and visual elements for digital products while maintaining scalable design systems. The designer will collaborate with product teams to translate requirements into high-fidelity, intuitive designs for web and mobile platforms.
Sr. Associate – UX Designer – Design Systems-DS
🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Amgen 🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Telangana, India
The UX Designer will lead brand onboarding into the Amgen Design System and manage roadmaps, timelines, and migration plans across multiple workstreams. They will also collaborate with global marketing, product, and engineering teams to ensure consistent, accessible, and high-quality digital experiences.
Staff Product Designer
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
Startx Med 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
The role involves creating intuitive interfaces for complex medical data and maturing the organization's design system and processes. The designer will collaborate with engineering and conduct user interviews with healthcare practitioners to shape the product roadmap.
Product Designer, Web Experience
🇺🇸 United States
Zillow 🇺🇸 United States
Lead the UX strategy and CMS design system vision for marketing web surfaces, including landing pages and microsites. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create scalable, reusable web patterns that balance user needs with business conversion metrics.
UX Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Talkspace 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Design end-to-end user experiences across web and mobile platforms while partnering with product and engineering teams to ship new features. You will also support conversion and growth experiments, maintain design systems, and conduct usability testing to inform design decisions.
Senior eCommerce UI/UX Designer - APAC
🇯🇵 Japan
Won 🇯🇵 Japan
Execute high-conversion ecommerce experiences and full customer journey redesigns using AI-native design systems. Build and maintain scalable component libraries while collaborating with the VP of Design to drive measurable growth in conversion and AOV.
Principal Product Designer - Remote work | REF#303527
🌍 Remote
Bairesdev 🌍 Remote
Lead the end-to-end design process from discovery to delivery, ensuring visual and functional consistency through design systems. Collaborate with engineering and product stakeholders to deliver user-centric solutions that meet business goals.
Product Designer
🇵🇪 Lima, Lima, Peru
Vass 🇵🇪 Lima, Lima, Peru
The Product Designer will create impactful digital experiences and design solutions for mobile, B2B, and e-commerce projects. Responsibilities include managing design systems and negotiating proposals with stakeholders.
Staff Product Designer - Remote work | REF#303525
🌍 Remote
Bairesdev 🌍 Remote
Lead the end-to-end evolution of product experiences from discovery to delivery while maintaining scalable design systems. Champion design excellence by balancing user needs with business strategy and optimizing internal Design Ops.
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.