Design Leadership Jobs

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Product Designer # 26-22592

🇲🇽 Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua, Mexico

The role involves building a scalable design system from the ground up, focusing on component architecture, design tokens, and governance. The designer will own both the Figma definitions and the front-end implementation in Storybook to ensure consistency and scalability.

$500 - $590Contract
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Product Designer

You will build and maintain a modular design system while designing complex, conversion-focused onboarding flows for financial and compliance products. You will also collaborate with engineering teams to ensure seamless implementation and iterate on designs based on data and customer feedback.

Full-timeMid-level
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Midweight Product Designer (UI/UX)

🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom

The Product Designer will own the end-to-end design process for a new publishing product, translating the CEO's vision into user journeys and polished interfaces. They will collaborate with developers to ensure successful implementation while maintaining a practical design system.

Full-timeMid-level
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Senior Product Designer

🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Own the end-to-end product experience for Tendios Bid and Create, from problem definition to high-fidelity UI and production monitoring. Design AI-first interaction patterns and maintain the design system while collaborating closely with Product Managers and Engineering.

HybridFull-timeSenior
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Midweight Product Designer (UI/UX)

🇬🇧 City of Westminster, England, United Kingdom

You will own the end-to-end design process for a new publishing product, from initial user journeys and visual identity to final launch. You will work directly with the CEO and developers to define product scope, maintain design systems, and ensure the project meets its milestones.

Full-timeMid-level
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UX Designer

🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States

Design end-to-end user experiences across web, iOS, and Android platforms, from early concepts to production-ready files. Partner with product and engineering teams to ship new features, growth experiments, and improvements to the design system.

$100,000 - $150,000Full-timeMid-level
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UX Designer Senior H/F

🇫🇷 Saint-Ouen, Centre-Val de Loire, France

The Senior UX Designer will lead the complete redesign of a strategic internal banking application, creating mockups and prototypes in Figma. They will collaborate within an Agile Scrum team to ensure interfaces meet accessibility standards and align with the existing design system.

HybridFull-timeSenior
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UI & Interaction Designer

🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico

The designer will create and implement UI patterns and visual assets within a design system while collaborating with business teams to define product concepts and user journeys. They are responsible for translating business objectives into functional interfaces and conducting usability evaluations to optimize user flows.

Full-timeJunior
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Senior Graphic Designer

🇨🇴 Bogota, Capital District, RAP (Especial) Central, Colombia

The role involves architecting and evolving the global brand identity and design systems across all audience touchpoints. The designer will lead multi-channel campaigns and mentor junior designers while partnering with executive leadership.

Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer

🇵🇱 Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland

Lead the design of product features and user journeys for financial platforms and mobile applications from discovery to delivery. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to simplify complex, data-heavy workflows while maintaining design system consistency.

Full-timeSenior
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UX / UI Designer (f/h) 80% - CDD 6 mois

🇨🇭 Morges, Vaud, Switzerland

The role involves conducting user research and interviews to design user-centric digital solutions and information architectures. You will create mockups, prototypes, and maintain the Design System while collaborating with developers for production.

Part-time
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Senior Product Designer

🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom

The role involves designing complex operational workflows and maintaining a consistent design system for an internal real estate platform. You will conduct discovery and validation with consultants to translate operational pain points into usable AI-assisted features.

$50,000 - $70,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer

🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States

Own end-to-end design projects from discovery and research through implementation while partnering with product managers and engineers. Maintain and evolve the design system to ensure consistent implementation across AI-driven and data-heavy interfaces.

Full-timeSenior
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Graduate Intern, Architectural & Interior Design Systems – Fall 2026

🇺🇸 Culver City, California, United States

The intern will evaluate and implement AI solutions to automate architectural drawing maintenance, production, and design services. They will also interface with the internal AI team to determine the feasibility of new implementations and modules.

Part-timeEntry
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Product Designer

🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Create user flows, wireframes, and polished designs to improve discoverability and conversion while contributing to the company's design system. Collaborate with product managers and engineers to align design solutions with product strategy and user insights.

Full-time
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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.