Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Oag Aviation Worldwide 🌍 Remote
Lead design for complex, data-rich product areas and design end-to-end journeys from discovery through high-fidelity execution. Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Data teams to deliver high-quality solutions and evolve the design system.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 California, United States
Cast & Crew 🇺🇸 California, United States
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.
Senior Product Designer - Design Systems
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Ebay 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Develop and refine eBay's design system by integrating various design disciplines to create user-friendly guidelines and patterns. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure consistent application of the design system and improve user experience.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Fal 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Own end-to-end product design for features, including problem framing, flows, UI, and QA. Design across web and true mobile experiences while maintaining the design system and driving adoption with engineering.
Senior UX Designer
As a Senior UX Designer, you will deliver innovative experiences tailored to user needs in Oracle Payments products and collaborate closely with Product Management, Engineering, and User Research teams. You will lead design critiques and contribute to the Redwood Design System while mentoring less experienced designers.
Staff Product Designer, Core UX Design
🌍 Remote
Github, Inc. 🌍 Remote
The Staff Product Designer will define excellent products and developer experiences with a clear point of view, while also advancing the design system and exploring new, AI-ready UX patterns. This role involves extensive cross-functional partnership to test ideas, generate solutions, and deliver high-quality, accessible visual and interaction designs.
Product Designer II
🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Microsoft 🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
The role involves designing end-to-end experiences that combine deep functional UX with high-end visual execution, focusing on creating polished, high-fidelity UI for key product areas including the AI & Copilot charter for Microsoft Teams. Responsibilities also include leveraging Figma precisely to craft component-driven layouts, building interactive prototypes, contributing to design critiques, and evolving design systems and patterns.
Senior Product Designer - Design Systems
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Ebay 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Develop and refine eBay's design system by integrating various design disciplines to create user-friendly guidelines and patterns. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure consistent application of the design system and improve user experience.
Product Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Adobe 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
The Product Designer will work with a multidisciplinary team to develop design solutions that redefine how brands optimize and personalize experiences. They will also ensure that visual language and interaction patterns align with Adobe’s design system.
Lead UX Designer
🇺🇸 Menlo Park, California, United States
Billiontoone 🇺🇸 Menlo Park, California, United States
The Lead UX Designer will own the complete UX vision and strategy for the Unity platform, partnering with product leadership to shape roadmaps and translating complex molecular diagnostics into intuitive digital experiences. They will lead the entire design process from discovery through final production, creating high-quality artifacts and driving the evolution of the design system.
Senior Product Designer (Remote)
🌍 Remote
Pricelabs 🌍 Remote
The Senior Product Designer will build a deep understanding of users to design user-centric experiences for web and mobile platforms. They will collaborate with internal stakeholders and development teams to create intuitive design solutions and contribute to the design system.
Senior UX Designer (d/f/m)
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Scout24 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
As a Senior UX Designer, you will simplify complex workflows and lead design initiatives across web and mobile platforms. You will collaborate with leadership to shape the platform vision and influence the product's design system.
Digital UX UI Designer
🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Hiscox 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
The Digital UX/UI Designer will design user-centered interfaces for customer-facing applications and collaborate with Product Managers and Engineers throughout the Agile development cycle. This role also involves contributing to a consistent design system and advocating for visual and interaction consistency across products.
UX / UI Designer
Conduct UX discovery through user research and usability testing to identify user needs. Collaborate with product managers and engineers to align design with business goals and develop design systems for consistent user experiences.
Senior Product Designer
🇫🇷 Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Gitguardian 🇫🇷 Paris, Ile-de-France, France
The Senior Product Designer will make autonomous design decisions that contribute to key metrics and partner with product leadership to influence the roadmap. They will also conduct user research, transform complex ideas into simple solutions, and contribute to 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.