Design Leadership Jobs

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Graphic Designer (Brand)

🇨🇿 Moravskoslezský Kočov, Moravia-Silesia, Czechia

Lead the development of brand guidelines, design systems, and high-quality visual assets across multiple channels. Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to own projects from concept to delivery, ensuring brand consistency and quality.

Full-timeSenior
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Graphic Designer (Brand)

🇵🇹 Porto, Portugal

Lead the development of brand guidelines and design systems while creating high-quality visual and motion assets across various channels. Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to drive creative solutions from concept through delivery.

Full-timeSenior
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Graphic Designer (Brand)

🇵🇱 Poland

Lead the development of brand guidelines and design systems while creating high-quality visual and motion assets across various channels. Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to drive projects from concept to delivery, ensuring brand consistency and quality.

HybridFull-time
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Graphic Designer (Brand)

🇵🇹 Portugal

Lead the development of brand guidelines, design systems, and high-quality visual assets across multiple channels. Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to drive brand projects from concept to delivery while ensuring consistency and quality.

HybridFull-time
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Senior Product Designer

🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States

Own end-to-end design for assigned product surfaces, from problem framing to shipped UI. Collaborate with product and engineering to run discovery, build high-fidelity prototypes, and maintain the design system.

$190,000 - $220,000Full-timeSenior
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Graphic Designer (Brand)

🇪🇸 Spain

Lead the development of brand guidelines and design systems while creating high-quality visual and motion assets across various channels. Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to drive creative solutions from concept through final delivery.

Full-time
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Senior Product Designer

🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States

You will own end-to-end design for assigned product surfaces, collaborating closely with product and engineering teams to translate user needs into high-fidelity UI. Additionally, you will contribute to the design system and help shape the overall design direction and craft standards for the company.

$190,000 - $220,000Full-timeSenior
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Product Designer F/M

🇫🇷 Grenoble, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

The Product Designer will lead user-centered design processes, including research, prototyping, and testing, to create cohesive digital experiences. They will also act as a design advocate, facilitating co-creation workshops and contributing to the company's global design system.

HybridFull-timeMid-level
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Senior ui / ux designer

🇧🇩 Dhaka, Dhaka Division, Bangladesh

Lead the translation of an existing web product into a premium, cohesive mobile experience for iOS and Android. Establish and maintain a scalable master Figma design system while collaborating closely with engineering for implementation.

Full-timeSenior
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Senior Web Designer, Design Systems (Remote LATAM)

🌍 Remote

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 a seamless execution by developers or automated pipelines across multiple client brands.

RemoteFull-timeSenior
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UI UX Designer

🇮🇳 Delhi, Delhi, India

The designer will create intuitive, conversion-focused digital experiences including websites, landing pages, and dashboards. They will collaborate with founders and developers to translate business requirements into high-quality interactive prototypes and design systems.

Onsite$480,000 - $600,000Full-timeMid-level
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Junior Product Designer

🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel-Aviv District, Israel

You will build and maintain a modular design system while leading end-to-end design processes for complex AI-driven platforms. You will collaborate with product and development teams to deliver high-quality, functional user experiences.

Full-timeJunior
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Senior UI/UX Designer

🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia

The role involves designing user-friendly interfaces and digital experiences for web and mobile applications while maintaining scalable design systems. The designer will collaborate with stakeholders and developers to translate business requirements into effective UI/UX solutions through research and testing.

Full-timeSenior
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(Senior) UI/UX Designer (m/w/d) - App Design / fluege.de

🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany

The role involves designing user-centric app experiences for native iOS and Android platforms, from initial wireframes to final UI. It also requires conducting qualitative and quantitative research to drive data-based design decisions and maintaining the design system.

HybridFull-time
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Senior Brand Designer | Web & Design Systems (8-month contract)

🇧🇷 Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

Lead end-to-end web brand design projects from concept to launch, focusing on high-converting marketing experiences. Own and evolve the web design system, ensuring consistency across digital touchpoints and collaborating closely with developers.

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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.