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Founding Product Designer at Fiddle
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Jack & Jill 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead the entire product design lifecycle from research and UX to high-fidelity interaction prototyping. Define and evolve the design system for a new category of creative software, replacing static mockups with a live, code-integrated IDE.
Product Designer at Series B backed AI startup
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Jack & Jill 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The role involves architecting a scalable design system from the ground up, including tokens and components. The designer will define the interaction layer for next-generation AI agents and eventually lead specific product domains.
Brand & Product Designer (+ Equity) at Series B AI research lab
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Jack & Jill 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The designer will define the visual identity of an AI research lab, splitting time between evolving the brand through cinematic assets and designing high-impact product moments. Key tasks include leading visual identity across digital platforms and collaborating on onboarding flows and design system elements.
Founding Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Clark 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Founding Product Designer will define the end-to-end user experience for Clark's AI-powered audit and accounting platform. This includes owning the design process from discovery and wireframes to high-fidelity mockups and building a scalable design system.
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Product Designer - Design Systems & UI
🇺🇸 United States of America
Computer Task Group, Inc 🇺🇸 United States of America
The role involves creating high-fidelity UI designs for web and mobile applications while contributing to and expanding established design systems. You will also build interactive Figma prototypes and collaborate with cross-functional teams to refine design solutions based on user insights and technical constraints.
Freelance UI Designer
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Dijitally 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
The role involves designing high-quality, production-ready UI for customer and merchant-facing fintech products across web and mobile platforms. You will evolve a scalable design system and partner with Product and Engineering teams to create intuitive financial workflows.
Product Designer II
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Tekion 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
The Product Designer II will own the end-to-end design process for product features, including research, wireframing, and high-fidelity prototyping. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure cohesive design implementation and contribute to the maintenance of the product design system.
Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Invertops Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Design and maintain information-dense operational interfaces, including approval queues and dispatch boards. Build and maintain a coherent design system while prototyping with real data to ensure field usability.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇧🇷 Brazil
Jobgether 🇧🇷 Brazil
Lead the end-to-end evolution of a unified design system, including the creation of scalable design tokens and reusable components. Collaborate with engineers and designers to establish governance, accessibility standards, and documentation across a global SaaS portfolio.
Graphic Designer | E-commerce & Campaign Design
🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Bono 🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
The designer will create D2C ads, campaign banners, and email visuals for 15 e-commerce webshops and a private label supplement brand. They are also responsible for developing and maintaining the company's brand identity and design systems in collaboration with the design team.
Senior UX Designer
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Carma 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
You will own end-to-end UX design for web and mobile, creating high-fidelity UI and mapping customer journeys. You will also build scalable design systems and collaborate with product and engineering teams to shape the product lifecycle.
UI/UX Designer
🇧🇩 Dhaka, Dhaka Metropolitan, Bangladesh
Optinex - Enterprise Seo Agency 🇧🇩 Dhaka, Dhaka Metropolitan, Bangladesh
The designer will create intuitive interfaces, wireframes, and high-fidelity prototypes for web and mobile products using Figma. They will collaborate with stakeholders to develop reusable design systems and improve products based on user feedback.
Graphic Designer
🇰🇭 Cambodia
Jobify (cambodia) Co., Ltd 🇰🇭 Cambodia
The role involves designing UI screens and assets for mobile and web applications while maintaining comprehensive design systems in Figma. Additionally, the designer will create brand identities, marketing visuals, and print collateral for various channels.
Product Designer, Design Systems
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Openai 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead and evolve the design system foundations for ChatGPT by establishing principles, patterns, and standards for high-quality user experiences. Partner with cross-functional teams to translate design judgment into durable standards and reusable foundations across platforms.
Founding Product / UX Designer (Equity)
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Unreal Urban 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Own end-to-end product and UX design for the Falorin platform across web and mobile. Translate user research and behavioral data into polished interfaces and a flexible design system.
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.