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Designer Principal de Produits, Systèmes de Conception / Senior Product Designer, Design Systems
Remote (🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America)
One North Remote (🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America)
Lead the creation, maintenance, and evolution of scalable enterprise design systems, including Figma libraries, components, documentation, and governance. Collaborate with product, engineering, research, and client teams to improve accessibility and consistency, support implementation and adoption, and mentor designers.
Principal Product Designer - Contract - Remote - Ontario
Remote (🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Robert Half Remote (🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Set and uphold design quality standards, guide design direction, build design credibility with product and engineering teams, and contribute to strategic framing and organizational challenges. Advance AI-enabled design practice, develop designers through feedback and critique, and lead case studies that demonstrate design’s value.
Principal Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Smarkets 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Own product design from discovery through delivery, defining design direction and creating clear, polished experiences across prediction and betting markets. Research user needs, prototype and test concepts, improve design systems, and raise design quality through collaboration with leadership, product, and engineering teams.
Principal Design Manager (Data Centres) - London, Bicester or Newcastle upon Tyne
🇬🇧 Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom
Engie 🇬🇧 Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom
Lead design teams and manage complex technology-sector projects from pre-contract through delivery, ensuring quality, schedule, contractual, and financial objectives are met. Manage client and stakeholder relationships, design coordination and approvals, sub-consultants, team performance, and project reporting while supporting business development.
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Principal Design Manager (Data Centres) - London, Bicester or Newcastle upon Tyne
🇬🇧 Bucknell, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom
Engie 🇬🇧 Bucknell, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom
Lead design teams and manage complex technology-sector projects from pre-contract through post-contract, ensuring quality, schedule, contractual compliance, and financial performance. Manage client and stakeholder relationships, design coordination and approvals, sub-consultants, project reporting, and team development.
Principal Design Manager (Data Centres) - London, Bicester or Newcastle upon Tyne
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Engie 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead design teams and manage complex data centre projects from pre-contract through delivery, including schedules, budgets, contracts, quality assurance, and stakeholder approvals. Maintain client and supplier relationships, mentor team members, monitor project performance and profitability, and support business development.
Principal UX Designer, Senior Talent and Transformation (STT)
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Define the UX vision and strategic roadmap for AI-native tools that support senior leaders, and own end-to-end product experiences from discovery through launch. Lead executive and cross-functional collaboration, establish design patterns and guidelines, champion human-centered design, and coach designers to raise the organization’s design standards.
Principal Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Smarkets 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
You will define and drive the product design direction from scratch, working closely with leadership, product, and engineering teams. Your role involves creating simple, elegant interfaces and conducting user research to inform product strategy and enhance the design system.
Principal Product Designer - Design Systems
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Twinkl Educational Publishing 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Set the design system’s direction, scope, governance, and measures of success, while designing and delivering components, tokens, modules, and templates across web and mobile products. Drive adoption and accessibility, collaborate with engineering and research teams, lead high-stakes product design work, and mentor colleagues through influence rather than direct management.
Principal UX Designer, Senior Talent and Transformation (STT)
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
The Principal UX Designer will set the UX vision and strategic product roadmap while leading the design of end-to-end product experiences. They will also facilitate executive work sessions, mentor junior designers, and drive the adoption of design best practices across the organization.
Principal Product Designer, Spending
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Chime 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead design for spending, savings, and investing experiences from concept through launch and iteration, creating polished mobile products that make complex financial decisions clear and intuitive. Set design direction, prototype and refine ideas using feedback, collaborate across disciplines, and mentor designers while raising the quality and consistency of the app.
Principal Product Designer, Spending
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Chime Financial, Inc 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead design across spending, savings, and investing experiences from early concepts through launch and iteration. Partner with product, engineering, and research teams to deliver intuitive, high-quality mobile experiences.
Freelance Principal UX Researcher
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Red Badger 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
The Principal UX Researcher will lead strategic discovery across multi-team client programs and establish research standards and operations. They are responsible for turning customer insights into actionable roadmap decisions while managing and coaching other researchers.
Principal Product Designer, Lending
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Chime 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Own end-to-end design for high-priority lending initiatives, from problem framing and discovery through launch and iteration, translating complex financial products into clear, trustworthy member experiences. Shape product direction with cross-functional partners, use research and data to improve outcomes, and strengthen reusable design patterns while applying strong visual and interaction craft.
Principal Design Manager
🇦🇺 Cordelia, Queensland, Australia
Jacobs 🇦🇺 Cordelia, Queensland, Australia
Lead the design delivery of major transport infrastructure projects across bus rapid transit, roads and highways, and rail, coordinating with commercial, project management, and technical teams. Strengthen client relationships, support business development and project wins, represent Jacobs in the market, and mentor teams while promoting collaboration, knowledge sharing, and safety.
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.