Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior Product Designer (UX/UI)
🇺🇸 United States of America
Amerisave Mortgage Corp. 🇺🇸 United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will own the end-to-end product experience, translating user needs and business goals into intuitive, high-converting designs across web and mobile platforms. Key tasks include designing complete user journeys, simplifying complex flows, improving conversion funnels, and maintaining scalable design systems for consistency.
UX Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 McLean, VA 22101, United States of America)
Aretum Remote (🇺🇸 McLean, VA 22101, United States of America)
The UX Designer will employ user-centered design principles to complete the end-to-end design process, focusing on creating wireframes and prototypes within a design system. Responsibilities include conducting user research, maintaining design system components, and ensuring deliverables comply with Section 508 and WCAG accessibility standards.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America)
Built Technologies Remote (🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America)
The Senior Product Designer will partner with product and engineering to deliver outcome-focused products, leading user research and discovery efforts to shape product direction. Responsibilities include creating various design artifacts, tracking design impact using metrics, and evolving the design system.
Founding Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Arkham Technologies 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The role involves designing interfaces for AI-driven operational workflows, such as forecasting and pricing, and rethinking human interaction with AI agents for review, approval, and supervision. The designer will also help define the core product and design systems from the ground up.
Product Designer - Contract
🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Pickle Robot Company 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
The UX Designer will be responsible for building the end-to-end user experience for a robotic truck-unloading system, translating complex hardware interactions into intuitive touchscreen controls. This includes documenting workflows, maintaining a UI design system, and creating high-fidelity wireframes and prototypes for testing.
Senior Product Designer, Guest Experience
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Knot Worldwide 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will lead the end-to-end Guest Management experience, transforming guest coordination into an effortless journey by designing intuitive list building, communication, and RSVP collection processes. This role involves driving the design process using data and feedback while collaborating with cross-functional teams and contributing to the design system.
Senior Product Designer
🇦🇷 Buenos Aires, Comuna 1, Argentina
Squire 🇦🇷 Buenos Aires, Comuna 1, Argentina
The Senior Product Designer will drive the design of critical product features from concept through delivery, partnering closely with researchers, Product Managers, and Engineers to solve complex design challenges. They will also contribute to evolving design systems and processes, including the integration of AI tools into the workflow.
Senior Product Designer II, Growth
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Brigit 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The role involves driving end-to-end product design from opportunity framing through implementation, co-leading product areas with product management using research and data to shape vision and priorities. Responsibilities also include owning major product surfaces, mentoring peers, and evolving the design system and research practices.
Graphic Designer
Remote (🇨🇷 San José, San Jose Province, Costa Rica)
Beyondsoft Consulting Remote (🇨🇷 San José, San Jose Province, Costa Rica)
The Senior Designer will lead design development across various digital formats, translating briefs into polished, on-brand visual solutions optimized for platform fit and quality. This role involves partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver production-ready creative, maintaining design systems, and ensuring brand consistency at scale.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Atria Physician Practice New York Pc 🇺🇸 United States of America
This senior individual contributor role involves defining and evolving a multi-year design vision and strategy for the Atria experience, leading design for high-impact initiatives across mobile, web, and in-practice interactions. Key duties include evolving the design system, integrating service design, and driving the use of insights to ensure experiences are seamless, intuitive, and deeply human.
Product Designer, Retail App Design
🇺🇸 Cupertino, California, United States of America
Apple 🇺🇸 Cupertino, California, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will drive the evolution of the design system supporting a suite of apps used by Apple Store team members, balancing strategic vision with hands-on execution. This role involves collaborating across functions and mentoring others in systems thinking and design craft.
Senior UI Designer
🇿🇦 Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa
Absa Group 🇿🇦 Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa
Senior User Interface Designers craft high quality, intuitive, and scalable digital interfaces, solving complex customer and business problems through expertise in visual design, interaction design, and design systems. They take ownership of UI standards and quality, collaborating with various teams to ensure consistency, usability, accessibility, and brand alignment at scale.
UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 Glendale, California, United States of America
Moon 🇺🇸 Glendale, California, United States of America
The role involves translating defined product flows and requirements into detailed, high-fidelity user scenarios and production-ready UI designs using existing design system components. Key tasks include documenting user flows with clear annotations and ensuring consistency across features through thoughtful component usage.
Senior Product Designer, Foundations (Hybrid)
🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Homebase 🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will partner with the foundations team to shape critical platform experiences like authentication, billing, and permissions across mobile and web, while also contributing components and documentation to the design system. This role involves end-to-end design ownership for these horizontal surfaces, focusing on transforming utilitarian experiences into polished, trust-building moments.
UX Designer Intern- Summer 2026
🇺🇸 West Des Moines, Iowa, United States of America
Hy-vee, Inc. 🇺🇸 West Des Moines, Iowa, United States of America
The intern will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design intuitive and visually engaging digital experiences, assisting with user research, journey mapping, wireframing, and prototyping to support product development. Responsibilities also include participating in usability testing, contributing to design systems, and learning about accessibility and design thinking principles.
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.