Design Leadership Jobs
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Product Designer
🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brazil
Mjv Technology & Innovation 🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brazil
The role involves leading the end-to-end product design process, from discovery and hypothesis validation to high-fidelity prototyping. The designer will balance usability, technical feasibility, and business value while maintaining the company's Design System.
UI/UX Designer
🇲🇾 Petaling Jaya, Petaling, Malaysia
Segwitz Sdn Bhd 🇲🇾 Petaling Jaya, Petaling, Malaysia
The role involves designing high-fidelity user interfaces and intuitive user experiences for web and mobile applications, including SaaS platforms and dashboards. Additionally, the designer will create visually striking corporate websites and maintain scalable design systems to ensure brand consistency.
Senior Web Designer, Design Systems (Remote, Sao Paulo)
Remote (🇧🇷 Brazil)
Blacksmith Agency Remote (🇧🇷 Brazil)
The role involves building and owning client design systems, focusing on token architecture and core component libraries. You will document these systems to ensure seamless execution by developers or automated pipelines across multiple brands.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Phillip Burton Federal Building & United States Courthouse, 450 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94102, United States of America
Aspiron Search 🇺🇸 Phillip Burton Federal Building & United States Courthouse, 450 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94102, United States of America
The role involves upgrading design systems and creating aesthetically pleasing dashboards and data visualizations for complex data sources. The designer will also develop feature workflows and scalable UI patterns to ensure the product is intuitive for CISO and technical users.
Staff / Principal Product Designer, Design Systems
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Rho 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Own and govern the frontend design system, including architecture, tokens, primitives, and motion language. Partner with engineers and PMs to set the craft bar and build a scalable system that enables efficient shipping across the organization.
Design Systems Designer (Remote, Guadalajara)
Remote (🇲🇽 Mexico)
Blacksmith Agency Remote (🇲🇽 Mexico)
The role involves building scalable design system architectures using tokens, variables, and core components in Figma. You will document these systems to ensure seamless execution by developers and automated pipelines across multiple client brands.
Senior Web Designer, Design Systems (Remote, Monterrey)
Remote (🇲🇽 Mexico)
Blacksmith Agency Remote (🇲🇽 Mexico)
The role involves building and owning client design systems, focusing on token architecture, variables, and core component libraries. You will document these systems to ensure seamless execution by developers or automated pipelines across multiple client brands.
Design Systems Designer (Remote, Bogota)
Remote (🇨🇴 Colombia)
Blacksmith Agency Remote (🇨🇴 Colombia)
The role involves building scalable design system architectures using tokens, variables, and core components in Figma. You will document these systems to ensure seamless execution by developers and automated pipelines across multiple client brands.
Senior Web Designer, Design Systems (Remote, Manizales)
Remote (🇨🇴 Colombia)
Blacksmith Agency Remote (🇨🇴 Colombia)
The role involves building and owning client design systems, focusing on token architecture, variables, and core component libraries. You will document these systems to ensure seamless execution by developers or automated pipelines across multiple client brands.
Senior Web Designer, Design Systems (Remote, Pereira)
Remote (🇨🇴 Colombia)
Blacksmith Agency Remote (🇨🇴 Colombia)
The role involves building and owning client design systems, focusing on token architecture, variables, and core component libraries. You will document these systems to ensure seamless execution by developers or automated pipelines across multiple brands.
Associate Product Designer (College Grad 2027)
🇺🇸 Redwood City, California, United States of America
Solace 🇺🇸 Redwood City, California, United States of America
You will design user-friendly healthcare experiences by creating wireframes, prototypes, and interfaces while collaborating with product managers and engineers. Additionally, you will participate in user research and design reviews to iterate on solutions and maintain design system standards.
Design Systems Designer (Remote, Brasilia)
Remote (🇧🇷 Brazil)
Blacksmith Agency Remote (🇧🇷 Brazil)
The role involves building and owning client design systems, focusing on token architecture, variables, and core component libraries. You will document these systems to ensure seamless execution by developers or automated pipelines across multiple brands.
Product Designer (UI/UX)
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Annora 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Own the product UI and customer-facing web design to create clear, modern workflows for manufacturing and quoting. Develop a scalable design system and reusable patterns to ensure visual and interaction quality across the product.
Software Engineer, Design Systems
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Whatnot 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Build and evolve the Whatnot Design System components across iOS, Android, and web to ensure consistent and accessible UI. Own the design token architecture and the automated pipeline syncing Figma designs to production code.
Software Engineer, Design Systems
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Whatnot 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Build and evolve the Whatnot Design System components across iOS, Android, and web to ensure consistent and accessible UI. Own the design token architecture and the automated pipeline that syncs Figma designs to production code.
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.