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Senior UX Product Designer - Supply Chain Middle Mile
🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
Target 🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
As a Senior Product Designer, you will shape the future of supply chain operations through digital applications used by warehouse leaders. Your work will involve collaborating with various teams to create intuitive and actionable experiences from complex operational data.
Lead Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America
St. Louis Jewish Community Center 🇺🇸 Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America
Lead the design execution for all print and digital marketing materials while ensuring brand consistency. Collaborate with marketing and communications teams to develop creative assets for various campaigns and initiatives.
Freelance UX / Product Designer — DTC Subscription Experience
🇺🇸 United States of America
Stately 🇺🇸 United States of America
Design and prototype high-converting landing pages and funnel flows that drive conversion and measurable impact. Lead the UX strategy and execution for interactive customer experiences, ensuring they are both performant and visually strong.
SR UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
General Dynamics Information Technology 🇺🇸 United States of America
The Senior UI/UX Designer will provide subject matter expertise in UX design, guiding teams in Human-Centered Design methodologies. They will lead the design and development of user interfaces, ensuring applications are user-friendly and visually appealing.
Staff UX Researcher
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Honeybook 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead complex, multi-method research initiatives to shape product direction and align cross-functional priorities. Generate actionable insights and compelling narratives to influence executive decision-making and business strategy.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Neural Earth 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design of a geospatial intelligence platform, focusing on map-based risk dashboards and AI-assisted workflows. Collaborate with engineering and data science teams to translate complex spatial data into intuitive interfaces for non-technical users.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Revel 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design process from discovery to delivery, creating wireframes, high-fidelity UI, and prototypes. Collaborate with engineers and product managers to build scalable design systems and intuitive interfaces for hardware control software.
Digital Product Designer, Principal
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Rei (recreational Equipment Inc.) 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
The Principal Digital Product Designer shapes high-impact digital experiences by defining product direction and creating design standards across REI's platforms. They lead the end-to-end design process, collaborating with cross-functional teams and mentoring other designers to elevate overall design quality.
Magnetic Motor Design Manager
🇺🇸 Irvine, California, United States of America
Parker Hannifin 🇺🇸 Irvine, California, United States of America
Lead the electromagnetic systems development team, ensuring designs are manufacturable at scale while meeting aerospace requirements. Engage with customers to capture requirements and translate them into actionable specifications.
Magnetic Motor Design Manager
🇺🇸 Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America
Parker Hannifin 🇺🇸 Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America
The Magnetic Motor Design Manager will lead the electromagnetic systems development team, ensuring designs are manufacturable at scale while meeting aerospace requirements. Responsibilities include technical leadership, system integration, manufacturing collaboration, and program management.
Design Technologist / BIM Lead - Product Platform
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
The American Housing Corporation 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
The Design Technologist / BIM Lead will own the digital production flow and design automation on the Product team, implementing BIM-management best practices and maintaining source-of-truth models for building components. This role is central to creating a seamless workflow between product development and scalable project delivery.
Lead UX Designer
🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Athenahealth 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Lead UX efforts for athenaOne by defining, designing, and testing workflows in partnership with cross-functional teams. Focus on improving user experiences for complex claim preparation, submission, and resolution tasks.
Lead UX Designer - Ecommerce
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Floor & Decor 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
The Lead UX Designer will define and steward the UX vision and strategy for flooranddecor.com, ensuring alignment with business goals and customer needs. This role also involves leading a team of designers and overseeing the end-to-end research program.
Senior UX_UI Designer
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Caterpillar Inc. 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
The Senior UX/UI Designer will lead experience vision and coordinate work to support customer-centric design excellence across eCommerce product teams. Responsibilities include delivering high-quality design solutions, participating in design workshops, and monitoring post-launch evaluation metrics.
Product Designer, HMI
🇺🇸 Sunnyvale, California, United States of America
Applied Intuition 🇺🇸 Sunnyvale, California, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design lifecycle to create immersive Human-Machine Interfaces for future vehicles. Collaborate with OEMs, product managers, and engineers to validate design solutions for embedded software and companion devices.
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.