Design Leadership Jobs
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Lead Product Designer — Platform & Experience
Remote (🇬🇧 East Riding of Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom)
Futurefit Ai Remote (🇬🇧 East Riding of Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom)
The Lead Product Designer will own the visual language and design system of the FutureFit AI platform, ensuring coherence across various user surfaces. They will lead the design of complex feature initiatives and maintain high design standards throughout the product development lifecycle.
Senior UX Designer
🇵🇹 Portugal
Intermedia Intelligent Communications 🇵🇹 Portugal
Own the end-to-end design of product features from discovery to delivery for a B2B SaaS platform. Collaborate with product and engineering teams to create scalable UX/UI solutions and evolve shared design systems.
Lead Product Designer - Design Systems
🇺🇸 Michigan, United States of America
Rocket Companies 🇺🇸 Michigan, United States of America
Lead the evolution and scaling of the company's design system across web and mobile platforms. Partner with engineering and product teams to create scalable components, patterns, and documentation while mentoring other designers.
Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Plano, Texas, United States of America
Myfunded Futures 🇺🇸 Plano, Texas, United States of America
Create high-impact visual content across social media, email, and landing pages to define the brand's identity for a Gen Z trading audience. Collaborate with marketing leadership to translate complex trading concepts into engaging visuals and evolve the company's design system.
Staff UX Designer
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Halo Investing Inc 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Lead the design vision for a structured notes platform by translating complex financial products into intuitive advisor experiences. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to conduct user discovery, manage analytics via Fullstory, and maintain a scalable design system in Figma.
Lead Product Designer — Platform & Experience
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Futurefit Ai 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Lead Product Designer will own the visual language and design system of the FutureFit AI platform, ensuring coherence across various user personas. They will lead the design of complex feature initiatives and maintain high standards of accessibility and user experience.
Lead Product Designer — Platform & Experience
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Futurefit Ai 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Lead Product Designer will own the visual language and design system of the FutureFit AI platform, ensuring coherence across various user personas. They will lead the design of complex features and ensure accessibility standards are met throughout the design process.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Tatari 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead the product design process from discovery to delivery, focusing on translating complex TV advertising workflows into a seamless self-serve experience. The role involves a 60/40 split between core product design and owning the evolution of the company's design system.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Tatari 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead the product design process from discovery to delivery, focusing on translating complex TV advertising workflows into a seamless self-serve experience. The role involves a 60/40 split between true product design and owning the evolution of the company's design system.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Tatari 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Lead the product design process from discovery to delivery, focusing on translating complex TV advertising workflows into a seamless self-serve experience. The role involves a 60/40 split between true product design and owning and advancing the company's design system.
Product Designer
🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brazil
Syngenta Group 🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brazil
Lead user research and design end-to-end experiences for AI-driven decision support tools for global users. Develop a cohesive design system and collaborate with data scientists and engineers to translate complex AI outputs into actionable visual interfaces.
Lead Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Diego, California, United States of America
Circle 🇺🇸 San Diego, California, United States of America
The Lead Product Designer will audit existing workflows and unify them into a cohesive platform experience. They will design systems for Authentication, Roles & Permissions, and Billing that other product teams will rely on.
Lead Product Designer — Platform & Experience
🇨🇦 Canada
Futurefit Ai 🇨🇦 Canada
Own the visual language, design system, and interaction coherence across all platform surfaces for job seekers, staff, and employers. Lead the end-to-end design of complex feature initiatives and ensure accessibility standards are met by default.
Senior Product Designer
🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Openup 🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Own the end-to-end design of key user journeys across web and mobile, focusing on onboarding, booking, and content discovery. Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to ship high-quality, trustworthy interfaces and contribute to the overall design system.
Product Designer
🇨🇭 Zurich, Switzerland
Cradle 🇨🇭 Zurich, Switzerland
Design end-to-end features for a complex AI-guided protein discovery platform, moving from problem definition to shipped screens. Maintain and evolve the company's design system while collaborating closely with platform engineers to ensure implementation accuracy.
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.