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Senior Product Designer - International Wealth and Premier Banking
🇺🇸 Sparta, Illinois, United States of America
Hsbc 🇺🇸 Sparta, Illinois, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will influence the vision, strategy, and roadmap to position HSBC at the forefront of customer experience design while elevating design quality and championing design thinking across UX, UI, and UX Writing in collaboration with a global team. This role requires translating complex financial and regulatory requirements into simple, engaging digital experiences and using research and data to validate customer value.
Senior UI/UX Designer
Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)
Deep Origin Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)
The role involves driving customer UX research, conducting usability testing, and rapidly creating low- and high-fidelity prototypes to support discovery and experimentation. Responsibilities also include working closely with product management and engineering to align design direction and ensure consistent delivery of user-centric solutions.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Fetch Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The Senior Product Designer will lead efforts within a focused team to measurably improve people’s lives by taking ownership and significantly impacting the final product experience within the Fetch app. Responsibilities include leading design critiques, influencing team decisions, exploring new opportunities, and launching features into production within the first year.
Sr. UX Designer - Canada
Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)
Novoed, Inc. Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)
The Senior UX Designer will own 1-2 major projects, leading design from initial problem exploration through final implementation, while partnering closely with product management to define scope and recommendations. Responsibilities also include conducting user research, providing production-ready assets to engineers, and contributing to product strategy and roadmap discussions.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Tria Federal 🇺🇸 United States of America
The Senior UX Designer will lead end-to-end UX design efforts across the product lifecycle, translating complex requirements into intuitive workflows, interaction models, and scalable experience patterns for a large-scale federal healthcare initiative. This includes creating various design artifacts, partnering with researchers, and ensuring design fidelity throughout implementation.
Senior Interaction / Product Designer
🇺🇸 Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
Captech Consulting 🇺🇸 Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
Responsibilities include creating personas, customer journeys, wireframes, prototypes, and responsive web/mobile interface designs following best practices, as well as designing new digital experiences and enhancing existing ones based on design systems. The role also involves presenting design rationale clearly to clients and teams, consulting on accessible design, and synthesizing user research to inform decisions.
Senior Interaction / Product Designer
🇺🇸 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America
Captech Consulting 🇺🇸 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America
Responsibilities include creating personas, customer journeys, wireframes, prototypes, and responsive web/mobile interface designs following best practices, as well as designing new digital experiences and enhancing existing ones based on design systems. The role also involves presenting design rationale clearly to clients and teams, consulting on accessible design, and synthesizing user research to inform decisions.
Senior Interaction / Product Designer
🇺🇸 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Captech Consulting 🇺🇸 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Responsibilities include creating personas, customer journeys, wireframes, prototypes, and responsive web/mobile interface designs following best practices, as well as designing new digital experiences and enhancing existing ones based on design systems. The role also involves presenting design rationale to clients and teams, consulting on accessible design, and synthesizing user research to inform decisions.
Senior Interaction / Product Designer
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Captech Consulting 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Responsibilities include creating personas, customer journeys, wireframes, prototypes, and responsive web/mobile interface designs following best practices, as well as designing new digital experiences and enhancing existing ones based on design systems. Designers will also present concepts clearly, consult on accessible design, provide constructive feedback, and conduct user research to inform decisions.
Senior Interaction / Product Designer
🇺🇸 Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
Captech Consulting 🇺🇸 Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
Responsibilities include creating personas, customer journeys, wireframes, prototypes, and responsive web/mobile interface designs following best practices, as well as designing new digital experiences and enhancing existing ones based on design systems. The role also involves presenting design rationale clearly to clients and teams, consulting on accessible design, and synthesizing user research to inform decisions.
Senior Interaction / Product Designer
🇺🇸 Reston, Virginia, United States of America
Captech Consulting 🇺🇸 Reston, Virginia, United States of America
Responsibilities include creating personas, customer journeys, wireframes, prototypes, and responsive web/mobile interface designs following best practices. Designers will also present concepts clearly to clients and internal teams, consult on accessible design, and synthesize user research to inform decisions.
Senior Visual / Product Designer
🇺🇸 Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
Captech Consulting 🇺🇸 Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
Responsibilities include designing engaging digital experiences for web and mobile products, extending existing designs, and producing clear presentations to communicate design rationale to clients and internal teams. Designers will also consult on accessible design, contribute to user research artifacts, and collaborate closely with developers to ensure design fidelity.
Senior Visual / Product Designer
🇺🇸 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America
Captech Consulting 🇺🇸 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America
Responsibilities include designing engaging digital experiences for web and mobile products, extending existing designs, and producing clear presentations to communicate design rationale to clients and internal teams. Designers will also consult on accessible design, contribute to user journey documentation, and incorporate user research findings into design decisions.
Senior Visual / Product Designer
🇺🇸 Reston, Virginia, United States of America
Captech Consulting 🇺🇸 Reston, Virginia, United States of America
Responsibilities include designing engaging digital experiences for web and mobile products, extending existing designs based on design systems, and producing clear presentations to communicate design rationale to clients and internal teams. Designers will also consult on accessible design, contribute to user research artifacts, and collaborate with developers to ensure design fidelity.
Senior Visual / Product Designer
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Captech Consulting 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Responsibilities include designing engaging digital experiences for web and mobile products, extending existing designs, and producing clear presentations to communicate design rationale to clients and internal teams. Designers will also consult on accessible design, contribute to user journey documentation, and incorporate user research findings into design decisions.
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.