Design Leadership Jobs
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Lead Product Designer - Design System Frameworks
🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America
Rivian 🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America
The role involves designing and evolving scalable UI frameworks that power Rivian's digital experiences across in-vehicle, mobile, and web platforms, while creating cross-platform patterns that balance flexibility with brand integrity. Responsibilities also include collaborating with technical teams, documenting patterns in tools like Figma and Zeroheight, and championing accessibility and performance standards.
Digital Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
E.on Next 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
As a Product Designer, you will design intuitive UX/UI solutions for mobile apps and web products while collaborating with cross-functional teams. You will create user journeys, wireframes, prototypes, and ensure designs meet accessibility standards.
UX Designer (M/F/D) - Parental Leave Cover
🇩🇪 Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Floyt Mobility Gmbh 🇩🇪 Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
As a UX Designer, you will shape the user experience across web and mobile platforms, focusing on user research, prototyping, and collaboration with cross-functional teams. You will advocate for usability and accessibility while refining user journeys based on data and feedback.
Senior UX Designer, Design System Accessibility
🇺🇸 Cary, North Carolina, United States of America
Sas 🇺🇸 Cary, North Carolina, United States of America
The Senior UX Designer will lead accessibility excellence for SAS's design system, Filament, by establishing accessibility standards and creating design patterns. They will also mentor designers and advocate for inclusive design thinking across the organization.
SENIOR UX DESIGNER
🇮🇳 India
Walmart 🇮🇳 India
As a Senior UX Designer, you will work on creating inclusive digital experiences and ensure compliance with accessibility standards. You will collaborate with various teams to review and test products for accessibility compliance.
Senior Product Designer - Software Platform
🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Tive 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design process for complex product areas, translating user needs and business goals into intuitive experiences for customer-facing products, mobile applications, and underlying design systems. This involves designing and optimizing workflows for data-heavy use cases like alerts, dashboards, and configuration flows while ensuring technical feasibility and accessibility.
UX Designer - Parts Supply & Distribution Services
🇺🇸 Milan, IL 61624, United States of America
John Deere 🇺🇸 Milan, IL 61624, United States of America
As a UX Designer, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to create user-centered experiences for applications related to parts operations. Your work will involve designing wireframes, prototypes, and ensuring accessibility compliance.
UX Designer (MNSITE-3656)
🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
Integres, Llc 🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
Lead user research activities and design intuitive interfaces for an IT team. Collaborate with stakeholders to refine designs and ensure compliance with accessibility guidelines.
Lead Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Follett Software, Llc 🌍 Remote
The Lead Product Designer will propose and drive the experience strategy for an entire product line, collaborating with product managers and designers to create cohesive and on-brand outcomes. They will conduct user research, synthesize data, and produce designs that conform to accessibility and brand requirements.
Senior Product Designer – Digital Health & AI Experiences
🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America
Guardant Health 🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design strategy for Guardant’s digital experiences, focusing on AI-powered clinical and patient tools, and define the design vision across AI-driven platforms to present complex data insights with clarity and humanity. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop high-fidelity prototypes, conduct usability tests, and ensure visualizations meet clinical accuracy, accessibility, and comprehension expectations.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 California, United States of America
Cast & Crew 🇺🇸 California, United States of America
The Senior UX Designer will lead the design of user experiences for various payroll processes and collaborate with product managers, developers, and researchers to create actionable designs. They will also contribute to the design system and ensure designs adhere to accessibility standards.
UX Designer
🇨🇭 Zurich, Switzerland
Computershare 🇨🇭 Zurich, Switzerland
You will design end-to-end user experiences for complex financial products and conduct user research, usability testing, and design reviews to validate and refine solutions. You will partner with business analysts, developers, and product managers to ensure seamless implementation and implement accessibility and inclusive design practices.
UX Designer
🇨🇭 Zurich, Switzerland
Computershare 🇨🇭 Zurich, Switzerland
You will design end-to-end user experiences for complex financial products and conduct user research, usability testing, and design reviews. Collaborate with business analysts, developers, and product managers to ensure seamless implementation and adherence to accessibility standards.
Product Designer
🇬🇧 Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Sopra Steria 🇬🇧 Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
The Product Designer will craft intuitive digital experiences for web and mobile products, collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure usability and consistency. Responsibilities include designing user-centered experiences, owning Figma workflows, conducting usability testing, and ensuring accessibility compliance.
Senior Product Designer
🇪🇬 Cairo, Egypt
Elmenus Technologies 🇪🇬 Cairo, Egypt
Lead the design process from discovery to delivery, including user flows, wireframes, and production-ready specifications. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to advocate for accessibility and performance while evolving the design system.
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.