Design Leadership Jobs
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Brand & Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Tavus 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead the market-facing visual identity and high-fidelity web experiences while ensuring a cohesive user journey from marketing to product. Collaborate with the product team to enhance onboarding flows and maintain the overall design system.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Tavus 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Architect and govern the Tavus design system, including tokens, components, and patterns to ensure scalability across products. Collaborate with engineering and product teams to implement high-fidelity visual and interaction craft.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Gradial 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Lead the design of complex, AI-native product areas for enterprise marketing teams from ambiguity to shipment. Define UX patterns for AI-assisted workflows and evolve the company's design system and interaction standards.
Product Design Lead - Design Systems
🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America
Pebl 🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America
Own and evolve the design system, including components, tokens, and documentation across web and mobile surfaces. Partner with engineering to ensure system decisions translate cleanly into code and maintain quality and consistency.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Dover, New Hampshire, United States of America
Nivoda 🇺🇸 Dover, New Hampshire, United States of America
Own end-to-end design for growth surfaces to improve conversion, retention, and revenue across the customer lifecycle. Collaborate with PMs and engineers to run design experiments and maintain the company's design system.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Companycam 🇺🇸 United States of America
Own the end-to-end design process for high-impact product areas, from early concept to polished execution. Define new interaction patterns for AI-powered experiences and contribute to the scalable design system.
Staff Product Designer - future opportunities
Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)
Shakepay Fr Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)
Act as the bridge between design and engineering by owning product features from problem definition to front-end code delivery. Develop functional prototypes to validate ideas and evolve the design system across mobile and web platforms.
Product Designer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Fortive 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Design end-to-end workflows for complex web and mobile applications using user-centered design principles and customer insights. Collaborate with product managers and engineers to create scalable solutions and evolve the company's design system.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Leap Llc 🇺🇸 United States of America
Own the end-to-end design vision and agentic interaction model for the Leap Crew platform. Establish a continuous research practice with contractors and define the design system and strategy for the product.
Senior Product Designer, Craft & Systems
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Tastytrade 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Own design execution across the core platform from early discovery through production handoff. Build and maintain design system foundations and partner with engineering on implementation quality.
Product Design Lead - Design Systems
🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America
Pebl 🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America
Own the end-to-end architecture, strategy, and evolution of the design system across web and mobile surfaces. Partner with engineering to ensure design-to-code parity and integrate AI-powered design tooling into workflows.
Senior Product Designer, Craft & Systems
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Tastytrade 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Lead the creation and maintenance of the design system foundations, including token architecture and component standards, across web, desktop, and mobile platforms. Drive high-quality design execution and mentor other designers to ensure visual consistency and scalability across the core platform.
Senior Product Designer, Craft & Systems
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Tastylive 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Lead the creation and maintenance of the design system, including token architecture and component standards across web, desktop, and mobile platforms. Drive high-quality design execution and mentor other designers to ensure scalability and visual coherence across the core platform.
Senior Product Designer
🇫🇷 Paris, France
Timeleft 🇫🇷 Paris, France
Own end-to-end design across the mobile app, web surfaces, and design system to translate product goals into high-quality UX. Lead design discovery and execution while partnering with product managers and engineers to balance user needs and business goals.
Principal Product Designer, Facilities
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Veho 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead the design strategy and execution for warehouse and facility operations tools, including the Warehouse Management System and mobile scanning apps. Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Operations teams to optimize workflows and drive the overall 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.