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Staff Product Designer - Consumer Experience
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Stubhub 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Lead the design of end-to-end user experiences and partner with product, engineering, and data teams to shape strategy and align on roadmap priorities. Uphold design excellence and contribute to the evolution of StubHub’s design system while coaching junior designers.
Staff Product Designer - Consumer Experience
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States
Stubhub 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States
Lead the design of end-to-end user experiences and partner with product, engineering, and data teams to shape strategy and align on priorities. Uphold design excellence and contribute to the evolution of StubHub’s design system while coaching junior designers.
Staff Product Designer - Consumer Experience
🇺🇸 Aliso Viejo, California, United States
Stubhub 🇺🇸 Aliso Viejo, California, United States
Lead the design of end-to-end user experiences and partner with product, engineering, and data teams to shape strategy and align on priorities. Uphold design excellence and contribute to the evolution of the design system while coaching junior designers.
UX Designer (NetSec)
🇺🇸 Santa Clara, California, United States
Palo Alto Networks 🇺🇸 Santa Clara, California, United States
Lead end-to-end product design for complex cybersecurity workflows and drive UX strategy in partnership with Product, Engineering, and PM leadership. Advocate for the customer by ensuring design decisions prioritize clarity, security, and ease-of-use.
Sr. Product Designer
Serve as design lead, building end-to-end experiences across the employee and advisor platforms. Contribute to product strategy by identifying new opportunities and improving existing features.
Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Luma Ai 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
You will lead the design process for major features, from initial product thinking to high-fidelity interactive prototypes. Additionally, you will collaborate with engineers and product teams to define product strategy and ensure high-quality implementation of the design vision.
UX Designer (Rakuten Senior Business) - Marketing Division
🇯🇵 Tokyo, Japan
Rakuten 🇯🇵 Tokyo, Japan
Lead the end-to-end UX design process for Rakuten Senior's products and services, from upstream planning to execution, utilizing the Human-Centered Design (HCD) process and promoting user-centered design with a focus on accessibility.
Senior Graphic Designer
🌍 Remote
Motus 🌍 Remote
The Senior Graphic Designer will lead concept development and visual execution across various marketing and brand projects. They will manage the full design lifecycle, from ideation to final delivery, ensuring brand consistency and high-quality output.
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.