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Senior Product Designer, Provider Growth
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Headway 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
As a Senior Product Designer for Provider Acquisition, you'll own the design of top-of-funnel experiences to convert interested providers into qualified leads. You'll work closely with product marketing, engineering, and data to rapidly test, learn, and optimize.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States
Spoton: Product 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States
As a Senior Product Designer, you will shape design strategy and mentor teammates while delivering product excellence. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to create thoughtful and scalable design solutions.
Senior UI / UX Designer
🇬🇧 Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Barclays 🇬🇧 Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
The Senior UI/UX Designer will conduct user research and usability tests to understand customer needs and create intuitive user interfaces for digital banking products. They will collaborate with stakeholders and cross-functional partners to ensure designs meet user needs and align with the bank's brand identity.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Formlabs 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
The Senior Product Designer will deeply understand customer needs and translate insights into innovative features while collaborating with engineering to refine designs. They will also conduct research and audits to inform strategic design decisions and maintain design systems.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, NY
Gemini 🇺🇸 New York, NY
Gemini is seeking a Senior Product Designer to shape and influence product and design strategy, creating elegant design solutions for complex product problems.
Senior UX & Product Designer- (7 month contract) Digital Experience Uplift team
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Ticketek Entertainment Group 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Lead end-to-end UX and product design processes, ensuring alignment with business objectives and fan delight. Collaborate with various teams and external agencies to maintain design quality and consistency.
Senior Product Designer - Business Onboarding
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Wise 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
The Senior Product Designer will define how to onboard business customers and create user-friendly experiences for a complex financial product. They will build empathy for customers and guide their team to prioritize customer-centricity and design quality.
Senior Product Designer (m/f/d)
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Autoscout24 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Lead and oversee the user experience of a product from conception to launch, collaborating with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders. Contribute to strategic decisions and facilitate conversations to drive progress against goals.
Product Designer, Growth Leads
San Francisco Bay Area
Gusto San Francisco Bay Area
Gusto is hiring a Senior Staff Product Designer to shape the future of their top-of-funnel experience on Gusto.com, influencing how hundreds of thousands of small businesses discover and engage with Gusto.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Liverpool, New York, United States
American Food & Vending ⏐ American Dining Creations 🇺🇸 Liverpool, New York, United States
Lead the development and execution of high-quality graphic design projects while ensuring consistency with the company’s visual identity. Mentor junior designers and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver effective design solutions.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇵🇱 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Mastercard 🇵🇱 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
The Senior Graphic Designer will work closely with project managers, art directors, and copywriters to develop and deliver marketing campaigns. They will ensure quality and consistency of design across all mediums while managing the production of communication materials on time and within budget.
UX/UI Designer (LATAM)
🌍 Remote
Rapptr Labs 🌍 Remote
Rapptr Labs is seeking a senior product designer to join their team, working remotely from Latin America to design intuitive, beautiful experiences across iOS, Android, and web platforms.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇷🇴 Bucureşti, Bucharest, Romania
Tqa 🇷🇴 Bucureşti, Bucharest, Romania
The Senior Graphic Designer will improve and refine client-facing presentations and marketing materials, ensuring clarity and impact in design. They will also create visual assets and maintain brand consistency across all materials.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States
Ruggable 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States
The Senior Graphic Designer will collaborate with various teams to create compelling designs that align with brand standards. They will manage multiple projects and ensure the execution of creative concepts from ideation to final delivery.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇦🇷 Argentina
Brainlabs 🇦🇷 Argentina
Lead the design team in executing a high volume of assets for clients while ensuring adherence to brand guidelines. Act as the lead creative voice on client calls, presenting work and consulting on design strategy.
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.