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Product Designer - Bravel
🇺🇦 Lviv, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine
Skelar 🇺🇦 Lviv, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine
The Product Designer will be responsible for creating the complete user experience and visual identity of the AI Language Tutor application from onboarding to core interaction. This includes designing a voice-first interface and building a scalable design system.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States of America
Robinhood 🇺🇸 Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will execute the technical design of high-priority digital product features and synthesize business objectives into intuitive UI/UX solutions. They will also drive the development of design systems and facilitate design critiques to ensure high standards of usability and technical integrity.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Littleton, Colorado, United States of America
Boost Mobile 🇺🇸 Littleton, Colorado, United States of America
Senior Product Designers maintain design cohesion across digital platforms while bridging complex business requirements and user needs. They establish robust design systems and leverage AI-driven workflows to enhance the product development lifecycle.
Design Systems Lead
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Imprint 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Design Systems Lead will own the strategy, evolution, and execution of Imprint's design system while collaborating with various teams to enhance product development. This role involves mentoring a team and advocating for design systems across the organization.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Spot & Tango 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Collaborate with product and engineering teams to design engaging digital experiences and conduct UX research to inform feature designs. Maintain the design system and create polished UI designs ready for engineering handoff.
Senior Product Designer - Mobile
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Ōura 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Design UX & UI for the Oura mobile app features and the overall design system. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create and iterate on mobile features that enhance user engagement and improve outcomes.
Sr Product Manager, Design Systems
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Salesforce 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
As a Senior Product Manager for SLDS, you will shape the product roadmap for UI customization and the Design Systems website, ensuring high-quality increments and platform health. You will collaborate with engineering, design, and accessibility specialists to maintain backward compatibility and support a global base of developers and designers.
Intermediate Product Designer
🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Best Buy Canada 🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
As an Intermediate Product Designer, you will contribute to the evolution of Loyalty and Media & Ads experiences, designing cohesive, end-to-end experiences that connect various customer touchpoints. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality experiences and improve design systems.
UI Designer
🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Caci Digital Experience (formerly Cyber-duck) 🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
The UI Designer will own and evolve the product’s design system, managing the lifecycle of components and ensuring accessibility compliance. They will work closely with the development team to ensure components are ready for development and participate in design alignment sessions.
Product Designer
🇵🇰 Lahore Division, Lahore City Tehsil, Lahore 54100, Pakistan
Bytecrew Technologies Pvt Ltd 🇵🇰 Lahore Division, Lahore City Tehsil, Lahore 54100, Pakistan
The Product Designer will own end-to-end design for mobile and web platforms, from early concepts to final developer handoffs. They will build and maintain the Figma design system while collaborating closely with engineers and PMs in agile sprints.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 San Diego, California, United States of America
Veracyte 🇺🇸 San Diego, California, United States of America
The Senior UX Designer creates intuitive, scalable user experiences for internal systems and customer-facing portals, translating complex diagnostic workflows into digital interfaces. Key duties include designing end-to-end workflows, maintaining design systems, and collaborating with Product and Engineering teams to optimize Salesforce integrations.
Design Systems Lead
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Imprint 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Design Systems Lead will own the strategy, evolution, and execution of Imprint's design system. This role involves partnering with various teams to create systems that enable faster product development and higher quality experiences.
CAD & Design Systems Manager – Mission Critical Infrastructure
🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America
Jobot 🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America
The CAD & Design Systems Manager will lead the development and management of engineering standards, design systems, CAD libraries, and automation tools for mission-critical infrastructure projects. This role involves improving design quality, increasing engineering efficiency, and supporting high-performance project delivery.
Senior UI Designer (digital assets)
🇵🇱 Poznan, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland
Publicis Groupe Holdings B.v 🇵🇱 Poznan, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland
Maintain and evolve technical design systems and modular templates in Figma for multi-brand eCommerce assets. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure scalability, brand compliance, and the implementation of AI-driven workflow enhancements.
Lead Product Designer
Lead the end-to-end design process for key product features, from initial wireframes to final engineering handoff. Maintain and evolve the design system while utilizing AI-based tools to accelerate ideation and prototyping.
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.