Design Leadership Jobs
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Lead Product Designer
🇫🇷 Paris, France
Smartop 🇫🇷 Paris, France
The Lead Product Designer will design simple and intuitive experiences for demanding users and ensure a coherent design vision across the platform. They will also evolve the design system and conduct user research to transform complex workflows into clear interfaces.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 California, United States of America
Bill 🇺🇸 California, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer is responsible for expanding and utilizing the BILL brand design system and delivering high-quality design for various marketing assets. They will interpret strategic briefs, lead projects from concept to delivery, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to achieve business goals.
Senior Product Designer – MLB App, Web and Streaming
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Major League Baseball 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead the design of live game experiences across MLB's app, web, and streaming platforms, focusing on real-time data and storytelling. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to evolve the Basepath design system and mentor other designers.
UI/UX Designer - TS/SCI + CI Polygraph Required
🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Cfocus Software Incorporated 🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
The UI/UX Designer will design user interfaces and experiences for web and mobile applications, conducting user research and usability testing. They will collaborate with developers to ensure design fidelity and develop design systems.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Trust In Soda 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
As a Staff Product Designer, you'll define the overall user experience vision across multiple products and platforms. You'll lead the development of a scalable Design System and create innovative user experiences that simplify complex workflows.
AI Product Designer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Karbon Digital 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The AI Product Designer will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design intuitive software interfaces and conduct user research to understand customer needs. They will create wireframes and prototypes while maintaining a consistent design system for AI products.
Product Designer
🇪🇪 Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia
Coolbet 🇪🇪 Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia
Drive the end-to-end design process, ensuring designs contribute to a seamless user experience. Collaborate with Product Managers and Engineers to refine designs and maintain the Design System.
Lead Product Designer F/H
🇫🇷 93400 Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, France
Altavia 🇫🇷 93400 Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, France
Define and drive the overall product design vision and UX architecture for a B2B SaaS platform. Partner with the CPO to shape product strategy and manage a scalable design system while mentoring other designers.
Senior Product Designer
🇵🇭 Parañaque, Southern Manila District, Philippines
Solana Foundation 🇵🇭 Parañaque, Southern Manila District, Philippines
Own end-to-end UX design for Solana Foundation web products, focusing on research, information architecture, and interaction patterns for complex interfaces. Collaborate with product managers and engineers to maintain design systems and ship high-quality, data-intensive B2B experiences.
Product Designer
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Crealogix 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Design interaction concepts, UI interfaces, and prototypes for mobile and responsive web applications within the FinTech sector. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate complex banking processes into intuitive user flows and maintain the design system.
Product Designer
🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal
Causeway Technologies 🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal
Deliver high-quality, user-centric product design for web SaaS and mobile applications from research to developer handoff. Contribute to the Concrete Design System and collaborate with product and engineering teams to implement innovative solutions.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Vibeiq Inc. 🇺🇸 United States of America
The Product Designer will own design work across VibeIQ's core product surfaces, creating flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs. They will collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to turn complex needs into clear user experiences and contribute to the shared design system.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 South Jordan, Utah, United States of America
Lumion 🇺🇸 South Jordan, Utah, United States of America
Own the end-to-end product design across the entire platform, from PRDs to high-fidelity UI and engineering specs. Build a comprehensive design system and create interactive prototypes to validate features with real users before production.
Mechanical Design Systems Engineer
🇫🇮 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
Chart Industries 🇫🇮 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
The role focuses on mechanical design and systems engineering to ensure the success of Chart's projects. It involves working within a specific physical environment to develop engineering solutions.
Lead UX Designer
🇺🇸 United States Penitentiary, Atlanta, 601 McDonough Boulevard Southeast, Atlanta, GA 30315, United States of America
Floor & Decor 🇺🇸 United States Penitentiary, Atlanta, 601 McDonough Boulevard Southeast, Atlanta, GA 30315, United States of America
Lead the UX vision and strategy for flooranddecor.com, managing a team of designers to align digital experiences with business goals. Oversee the end-to-end research program and evolve the design system to ensure consistency and accessibility across all touchpoints.
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.