Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior Graphic Designer
🇧🇬 Bulgaria
Xometry Europe 🇧🇬 Bulgaria
The role involves creating high-quality digital and print assets while bridging the gap between design and technology to communicate complex manufacturing capabilities. Responsibilities include prototyping, experimenting with AI and generative design, and maintaining scalable design systems.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Georgia, United States of America
Xometry Europe 🇺🇸 Georgia, United States of America
The role involves creating high-quality digital and print assets while bridging the gap between design and technology to communicate complex manufacturing capabilities. Responsibilities include prototyping, experimenting with AI, and contributing to scalable design systems and visual narratives.
UI/UX Designer - AI Hub - Amman or Cairo
🇯🇴 Amman, Amman Sub-District, Jordan
Ey 🇯🇴 Amman, Amman Sub-District, Jordan
Lead the full UI/UX design lifecycle for AI-powered digital products from discovery to delivery. Collaborate with stakeholders and developers to create scalable design systems and user-focused interfaces.
Mid-level Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Xelix 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
The role involves taking ownership of the design process from discovery to delivery, creating wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs. You will collaborate with product managers and engineers to ensure user-centered solutions that align with the product vision and design system.
UX Designer - Design Systems
🇳🇱 Delft, South Holland, Netherlands
Topdesk 🇳🇱 Delft, South Holland, Netherlands
The role involves owning and adapting the enterprise design system, specifically integrating AI tooling and token-aware surfaces. You will create prototypes, define usage guidelines, and collaborate with engineers and product managers to ensure system scalability and consistency.
UX Designer - Design Systems (m/f/d)
🇩🇪 Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Topdesk 🇩🇪 Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
The role involves owning and adapting the design system, including components and patterns, to enable AI-driven prototyping and scalable solutions. You will collaborate with product triads to ensure consistency, deliver developer documentation, and raise the organization's design maturity.
Product Designer (UI/UX)
Remote (🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom)
Bjak Remote (🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom)
Lead the end-to-end design process for product areas, creating wireframes, prototypes, and polished UI for web and mobile. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define problems and evolve the design system for scalability.
UI/UX Designer
🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Aqary Investement And Development 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
The role involves designing modern user interfaces and seamless user experiences for real estate web and mobile platforms. Responsibilities include creating wireframes, prototypes, and maintaining a consistent design system while collaborating with development and marketing teams.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 Bellevue, Washington, United States of America
Humanly 🇺🇸 Bellevue, Washington, United States of America
Own the end-to-end product design cycle for AI-native hiring software, covering everything from discovery and research to polished UI and developer hand-off. Establish the design standard and evolve the design system across conversational AI workflows and B2B tools.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Ltk Usa Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Lead the end-to-end design of high-impact tools and workflows for Brand and Creator platforms across web and iOS. Partner with Product, Engineering, and Data teams to translate business needs into scalable design systems and measurable outcomes.
Staff Product Designer, Systems & UX – Web & Mobile Apps, Emerging Experiences
🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
General Motors 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Define product structures and scalable interaction models for future digital experiences across web and mobile platforms. Translate emerging technologies into tangible frameworks and contribute to shared design systems and component libraries.
Product Designer Senior
🇨🇱 Santiago, Provincia de Santiago, Chile
Drimo 🇨🇱 Santiago, Provincia de Santiago, Chile
Translate business objectives into user-centered digital solutions to create intuitive and efficient experiences. Lead user research, maintain the design system, and collaborate with stakeholders to validate functional designs.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Brookline, Massachusetts, United States of America
Itoya Topdrawer Corporation 🇺🇸 Brookline, Massachusetts, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design process for new product features and proprietary brand categories from concept to execution. Manage the website's technical and design aspects while establishing a consistent design system across all touchpoints.
Senior Product Designer
🇨🇾 Limassol, Limassol Municipality, Cyprus
Indrive 🇨🇾 Limassol, Limassol Municipality, Cyprus
Design and optimize complex mobile and web user flows with a focus on growth and measurable product impact. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to validate hypotheses through experiments and maintain scalable design systems.
Sr Bilingual UX Designer (100% remote)
Remote (🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
Lifeworks Remote (🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
Develop user scenarios, high-fidelity wireframes, and prototypes using Figma while adhering to the design system. Collaborate with developers and product managers to ensure technical feasibility and implement accessible interfaces for health products.
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.