Design Leadership Jobs

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Senior UI/UX Designer

🇧🇾 Belarus

The role involves developing the vision for new features, improving existing interfaces, and identifying ways to enhance the user experience for hybrid-casual games. Key tasks include creating intuitive interfaces and maintaining the current project style through close collaboration with project teams.

Hybrid$60,000 - $80,000Full-timeSenior
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Sr. UI/UX Designer

🇮🇳 Surat, Katargam Taluka, India

The Senior UI/UX Designer will serve as the primary design owner for multiple client projects, delivering high-quality and consistent design solutions across varied domains like websites, SaaS products, and custom applications. Success involves acting as the single point of ownership and ensuring complex UX/UI problems are solved clearly and efficiently.

Full-timeSenior
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Sr. UX Designer - 11179

🇮🇳 Pune, Pune City, India

The Senior UX Designer will drive the design strategy and vision for Coupa's Design System, focusing on components and patterns that support platform and emerging AI product experiences. Responsibilities include establishing standards, providing guidance to other designers, and collaborating with product, engineering, and AI/ML teams.

Full-timeSenior
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Senior UI/UX Designer

🇮🇩 Special Capital Region of Jakarta, Java, Indonesia

The Senior UI/UX Designer will engage in the end-to-end product design process, collaborating with cross-functional teams to define and implement innovative features. They will also seek and provide feedback to ensure project goals are met effectively.

Full-timeMid-level
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Senior UX Designer

🇺🇸 United States of America

Design end-to-end conversational experiences across various modalities and collaborate with teams to shape prompt strategies and validate designs. Contribute to design systems and frameworks that scale across products and platforms.

Onsite$119,800 - $234,700Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer, Design Systems

🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America

As a Senior Product Designer, you will own and evolve major components within Strava’s design system, focusing on improving consistency and product quality. You will collaborate closely with engineering and product design partners to ensure alignment between design and code.

Hybrid$143,000 - $153,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer

🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America

The Senior Product Designer will own and deliver end-to-end design projects for consumer products to enhance clarity and user agency in decentralized finance and web3, while tackling complex challenges by inventing new mental models and designing cutting-edge interactions.

Onsite$238,000 - $265,000Full-timeSenior
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Product Designer

🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America

The Product Designer will own end-to-end design processes, from discovery and strategy to final visual execution and design QA. They will collaborate with product managers, engineers, and senior designers to create intuitive and visually compelling solutions.

Hybrid$134,200 - $134,200ContractMid-level
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Sr. UX Product Designer - Hybrid

🇺🇸 Orange, California, United States of America

The Senior UX Product Designer will create the end-to-end UX strategy for mobile and web applications, ensuring a cohesive user experience across all products. They will oversee UI execution and maintain UX quality while aligning with product strategy and go-to-market execution.

Hybrid$120,000 - $140,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer

🇮🇳 Pune, Pune City, India

Lead the end-to-end design of digital experiences across platforms, ensuring a seamless and intuitive user experience. Collaborate with product owners and stakeholders to define problems and co-create solutions.

Full-timeSenior
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Senior UI/UX Designer

🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America

The Senior UI/UX Web Designer will define and implement visual design and overall user experience strategy for web and mobile applications. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate UI/UX principles and ensure adherence to accessibility and quality standards.

Hybrid$90,000 - $120,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior UI/UX Designer

🇺🇸 United States of America

The Senior UI/UX Designer will be responsible for the complete design process, from understanding user needs to creating final designs ready for development. Key tasks include designing user interfaces, conducting user research, and collaborating with product managers and developers.

Hybrid$80,000 - $110,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer, AI Configs

🇺🇸 United States of America

Design key developer workflows across the software engineering lifecycle, focusing on AI. Conduct user research, define user experience strategy, and deliver high-quality design artifacts.

Hybrid$145,500 - $235,400Full-timeSenior
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Senior UX Designer, Ecommerce

Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)

Design and optimize high-impact ecommerce flows including product discovery, PDPs, checkout, subscriptions, and post-purchase experiences. Lead end-to-end design execution from problem definition through wireframes, prototypes, and final UI.

RemoteFull-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer (Secondment/Max Term Contract)

🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

The Senior Product Designer will lead discovery work to uncover customer problems and translate insights into concepts, prototypes, and high-fidelity UX/UI designs consistent with the design system. They will collaborate closely with cross-functional stakeholders throughout the agile lifecycle to shape product strategy and advocate for best-in-class user experience.

Hybrid$100,000 - $120,000Full-timeSenior
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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.