Design Leadership Jobs
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Master UX Researcher and Designer
🇮🇪 Athlone, County Westmeath, Ireland
Ericsson 🇮🇪 Athlone, County Westmeath, Ireland
The role involves leading discovery to understand user needs and translating those insights into intuitive, inclusive interaction patterns, while using research, testing, and metrics to guide design decisions. Responsibilities also include planning and running user research, designing flows and interaction patterns with accessibility at the core, and building production-ready interfaces.
Graphic Designer, Senior
🇺🇸 Tampa, Florida, United States of America
Booz Allen Hamilton 🇺🇸 Tampa, Florida, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer will create a wide range of impactful visual materials, including FINTEL, logos, publications, and presentations, ensuring compliance with Section 508 accessibility standards. This role requires leveraging design principles to maintain brand consistency while managing multiple assignments in a fast-paced environment.
Graphic Designer, Senior
🇺🇸 Tampa, Florida, United States of America
Booz Allen Hamilton 🇺🇸 Tampa, Florida, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer will create a wide range of impactful visual materials, including FINTEL, logos, publications, and presentations, ensuring compliance with Section 508 accessibility standards. This role requires leveraging design principles to maintain brand consistency while managing multiple assignments in a deadline-driven environment.
UI Designer
🇵🇱 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Sanoma Learning 🇵🇱 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
The UI Designer will be responsible for designing and evolving the visual language, components, and interaction patterns for Sanoma Learning's designs. Key tasks include maintaining reusable components in Figma, owning shared libraries, and ensuring all designs adhere to accessibility standards.
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Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
H & R Computer Consulting Services 🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
The Graphic Designer will be responsible for creating high-quality visual content, including graphics, infographics, and illustrations, for print, digital, and multimedia platforms to clearly communicate complex scientific information for the National Science Foundation. Key tasks involve designing layouts, developing visual assets for various media, producing original illustrations, and ensuring compliance with branding and accessibility standards.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Yrefy Llc 🇺🇸 Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
The specialist will collaborate with Product Management and Engineering to design intuitive, scalable, and user-centered digital products throughout the entire product lifecycle, from discovery to delivery and iteration. Key duties include conducting user research, creating prototypes, maintaining the design system, and ensuring designs meet accessibility and compliance standards.
Product Designer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Moneris 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The role involves auditing existing systems, conducting deep competitive research, and developing a roadmap for successful adoption across payment platforms, while collaborating with Product, Marketing, and Technology teams. Key duties include contributing to the design system, advocating for accessibility, and participating in QA/UAT to ensure design quality before final development.
Lead Product Designer, Design Systems
🇬🇧 Salford, England, United Kingdom
Bupa 🇬🇧 Salford, England, United Kingdom
The role involves leading the evolution of Bupa’s design system as a strategic enabler, driving coherence, accessibility, and scalability across digital experiences. Key objectives include defining the system's architecture, principles, and governance, while acting as a strategic partner to various cross-functional teams.
Senior Product Designer, Design Systems
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Sentry 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will own and evolve the design system, which includes shared components, patterns, and guidelines, ensuring product consistency, accessibility, and building efficiency. This involves partnering with design and engineering to design, specify, and refine system components, auditing patterns, and creating necessary documentation and libraries.
UI/UX Designer
Remote (🇵🇱 Poland)
Trinetix Remote (🇵🇱 Poland)
The primary duties involve designing intuitive, user-centered interfaces and experiences for web and mobile products, including creating UX flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity UI designs for new features and AI-powered systems. Responsibilities also include conducting user research, validating design decisions, ensuring accessibility, and collaborating with product, business, and engineering teams.
UI/UX Designer
Remote (🇪🇸 Spain)
Trinetix Remote (🇪🇸 Spain)
The primary duties involve designing intuitive, user-centered interfaces and experiences for web and mobile products, including creating UX flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity UI designs for new features and AI-powered systems. Responsibilities also include conducting user research, validating designs, ensuring accessibility, and collaborating closely with product, business, and engineering teams.
UI/UX Designer
Remote (🇵🇹 Portugal)
Trinetix Remote (🇵🇹 Portugal)
The primary duties involve designing intuitive, user-centered interfaces and experiences for web and mobile products, including creating UX flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity UI designs for new features and AI-powered systems. Responsibilities also include conducting user research, validating design decisions, ensuring accessibility, and collaborating with product, business, and engineering teams.
UI/UX Designer
Remote (🇷🇴 Romania)
Trinetix Remote (🇷🇴 Romania)
The primary duties involve designing intuitive, user-centered interfaces and experiences for web and mobile products, including creating UX flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity UI designs for new features and AI-powered systems. This also requires conducting user research, validating design decisions, and ensuring accessibility best practices are applied across all designs.
UI/UX Designer
Remote (🇧🇬 Bulgaria)
Trinetix Remote (🇧🇬 Bulgaria)
The primary duties involve designing intuitive, user-centered interfaces and experiences for web and mobile products, including creating UX flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity UI designs for new features and AI-powered systems. Responsibilities also include conducting user research, validating design decisions, ensuring accessibility, and collaborating with product, business, and engineering teams.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Crio Inc. Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The Senior Product Designer will lead user research initiatives, translating findings into actionable design decisions, and drive the end-to-end design process from concept through final delivery, producing necessary artifacts like wireframes and high-fidelity mockups. They will also actively contribute to the design system, champion accessibility, and collaborate closely with engineers to ensure faithful implementation of design intent.
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.