Design Leadership Jobs
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Graphic Designer
🇦🇺 Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Hays 🇦🇺 Perth, Western Australia, Australia
The Graphic Designer will design and produce high-quality digital and print materials, ensuring alignment with accessibility guidelines. They will also collaborate with internal stakeholders and liaise with external suppliers for product delivery.
SR UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Jobgether 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead end-to-end UX/UI design activities from discovery and research to final interface specifications for complex software systems. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create scalable design systems and ensure accessibility compliance.
UI Visual and UX Designer
🇦🇺 Australia
Suncorp Group 🇦🇺 Australia
The UI Visual Designer will create high-quality, customer-focused digital experiences by designing UI assets for web and mobile platforms. They will collaborate with UX leads and cross-functional teams to ensure designs align with brand and accessibility guidelines.
UI Visual and UX Designer
🇦🇺 Australia
Suncorp 🇦🇺 Australia
Create high-quality, delivery-ready visual designs and UI assets for responsive web and mobile platforms. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to maintain design systems and ensure accessibility and brand alignment.
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Design Systems Engineer
🇮🇹 Modena, Italy
Bright Matrix Global 🇮🇹 Modena, Italy
The Design Systems Engineer will audit and improve a React component library to ensure it aligns with design standards and is production-ready. Responsibilities include reviewing components for design fidelity, ensuring accessibility, and maintaining Storybook coverage.
Design Systems Engineer, HMI
🇺🇸 United States of America
Revel 🇺🇸 United States of America
The role involves researching HMI and accessibility standards to build and document a foundational design system for safety-critical hardware interfaces. You will audit existing interfaces and define visual guidelines for state, alarms, and interaction conventions.
Drupal Web Designer
🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal
Inetum 🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal
Design, develop, and maintain visually appealing, responsive websites using Drupal. Collaborate with stakeholders to implement user interfaces and optimize sites for performance, accessibility, and SEO.
UI/UX Designer - Business Applications
🇦🇹 Salzburg, Austria
Loop® 🇦🇹 Salzburg, Austria
Design and maintain scalable enterprise design systems and translate complex business logic into structured UX flows for ERP and CRM environments. Collaborate with technical teams to ensure data-heavy interfaces are technically feasible and meet accessibility standards.
Web Designer
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
City Of Chicago - Department Of Technology & Innovation 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
The Web Designer will design and build responsive webpage layouts and components, collaborating with business owners and multidisciplinary teams. They will also update and maintain website content, ensuring adherence to design standards and accessibility.
Lead Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Panorama Education 🇺🇸 United States of America
As a Lead Product Designer, you will lead design efforts across product areas, creating experiences that connect educators and students with data and insights. You will also define AI-powered features and contribute to the design system while championing accessibility and inclusive design.
Interaction Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Department For Education 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
As an Interaction Designer, you will design and prototype high-quality user interfaces aligned to user needs and business goals. You will collaborate across disciplines to shape end-to-end service experiences and ensure designs meet strict accessibility standards.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom
Barclays 🇬🇧 Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom
Create user-centered and visually appealing designs for digital banking products through research, UI/UX design, and stakeholder collaboration. Lead the design process from discovery to delivery, ensuring accessibility and alignment with brand identity.
Product Designer: Design Systems (12 month FTC)
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Financial Times 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Design and evolve reusable components, patterns, and libraries for the Origami design system across web and mobile platforms. Collaborate with engineers and product teams to ensure consistency, accessibility, and the integration of AI-assisted workflows.
UI/UX Designer Associate
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Bosch Group 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
The role involves designing responsive, user-centric interfaces for web and mobile applications while ensuring brand consistency and accessibility. The designer will conduct user research and collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate requirements into high-fidelity prototypes and design specifications.
UX Designer
🇺🇸 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America
Pyramid Consulting, Inc 🇺🇸 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America
The UX Designer will audit existing designs, identify user pain points, and advocate for user needs throughout the design process. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to create wireframes, prototypes, and visual assets while ensuring usability and accessibility.
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.