Design Leadership Jobs
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Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Bunch 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
You will lead UX and UI for core product areas from discovery through delivery, shaping conversational interfaces and building a design system from scratch. Your role will involve prototyping rapidly and ensuring quality assurance for the live experience.
Product Designer
🇧🇷 Porto Alegre, Brazil
Farfetch 🇧🇷 Porto Alegre, Brazil
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define problem spaces and design user-centered solutions that drive business outcomes. Deliver high-fidelity UI components and scalable design systems to ensure a cohesive customer journey across the product portfolio.
Motion Graphic Designer
🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Keka Hr 🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Design and animate premium motion pieces for various departmental needs while mentoring junior motion designers. Collaborate with multiple teams to build scalable motion systems and maintain Keka's motion design system.
4882 - Sr Product Designer (Contractor through Deel)
🇺🇾 Uruguay
Compass 🇺🇾 Uruguay
The Sr Product Designer will work on major feature initiatives from concept to shipping and collaborate with PMs and engineers to realize designs across platforms. They will also participate in sprint planning and contribute to the design system.
Senior Product Designer
🇵🇹 Porto, Portugal
Teamviewer Germany Gmbh 🇵🇹 Porto, Portugal
Design intuitive product concepts and pixel-perfect features from ideation to execution. Collaborate with UX research, developers, and product managers to integrate customer feedback and scale the design system.
Senior Product Designer, DEX
🇵🇹 Porto, Portugal
Teamviewer Germany Gmbh 🇵🇹 Porto, Portugal
The role involves designing user-centric product concepts and pixel-perfect features from ideation to execution. You will collaborate with UX research, developers, and product managers to integrate customer feedback and scale the design system.
Lead Product Designer (Bilingual; 20M JPY; B2C Mobile)
🇯🇵 Tōkyō, 1, Marunouchi 1, Chiyoda, Tokyo 100-0005, Japan
ビルドプラス 🇯🇵 Tōkyō, 1, Marunouchi 1, Chiyoda, Tokyo 100-0005, Japan
This position takes complete ownership of the UX strategy, information architecture, and UI design for a global consumer platform. You will lead international user research to drive multicultural UX adaptation and build a scalable design system.
UI/UX Designer
🇸🇬 Singapore
Ntt Data, Inc. 🇸🇬 Singapore
The UI/UX Designer will define user workflows, information architecture, and design standards for enterprise applications. They will evaluate AI-generated prototypes and ensure alignment with user needs and organizational design systems.
Senior Design Systems Specialist / Product Designer (all genders)
🇩🇪 Hamburg, Germany
Appsfactory 🇩🇪 Hamburg, Germany
You will drive the creation, evolution, and governance of complex design systems across digital products and platforms. You will work closely with various teams to bridge design intent and technical implementation while introducing AI-supported workflows.
Senior Design Systems Specialist / Product Designer (all genders)
🇩🇪 Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
Appsfactory 🇩🇪 Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
You will drive the creation, evolution, and governance of complex design systems across digital products and platforms. This includes establishing scalable component architectures and collaborating closely with product and engineering teams.
UI Designer
🇧🇬 Sofia, Sredec, Bulgaria
Kbc Global Services 🇧🇬 Sofia, Sredec, Bulgaria
As a UI Designer, you will design pixel-perfect visual designs and interactive prototypes for mobile and web platforms. You will also implement accessibility guidelines and maintain the design system for consistent UI components.
Sr UX Designer I
🇮🇳 Chennai, India
Remitly 🇮🇳 Chennai, India
Lead the end-to-end design of user-centered digital product experiences, from research and concepting to high-fidelity prototyping. Collaborate with product managers and engineers to implement intuitive solutions while contributing to and maintaining the internal design system.
Sr UX Designer I
🇮🇳 Chennai, India
Relx 🇮🇳 Chennai, India
Lead the end-to-end design of user-centered digital product experiences, from research and concepting to high-fidelity prototyping. Collaborate with product managers and engineers to implement intuitive, accessible solutions while contributing to the internal design system.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Quantifind 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
The Product Designer will take ownership of product surfaces and lead features from initial research to high-fidelity specifications. They will collaborate with Product Management and Engineering to scale the design system and translate user pain points into actionable improvements.
Product Designer - Bravel
🇺🇦 Kyiv, Ukraine
Skelar 🇺🇦 Kyiv, Ukraine
You will design the user experience and visual identity of the AI Language Tutor from scratch, including onboarding and interaction with the AI. You will also build a scalable design system and participate in user research to iterate on designs based on user insights.
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.