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Senior Product Designer (2-Year Term Position)

🇨🇦 Canada

As a Senior Product Designer, you will focus on critical user problems and propose innovative solutions while collaborating with cross-functional teams. You will operate across the full product lifecycle, from concept to delivery, ensuring high-quality implementation.

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Senior UX Designer

🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States

Lead the UX strategy and vision for an AI-first enterprise product while designing intuitive workflows that integrate human decision-making with AI assistance. Conduct user research and usability testing to inform design decisions and advocate for user needs.

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Senior UX Designer – Design, Manufacturing

🇫🇮 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

The Senior UX Designer will translate abstract concepts into concrete design requirements and lead end-to-end research initiatives to understand user and business needs. They will collaborate with product and tech teams to create intuitive designs and influence product strategy.

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Senior Product Designer - Pay Ecosystem

🌍 Remote

Influence strategy for the product team and identify opportunities for impact in collaboration with stakeholders. Craft high-fidelity user interfaces and lead vision initiatives for the team while ensuring scalability and usability.

Remote$56,300 - $126,700Full-timeSenior
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Senior UX Designer, Cloud Security

🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States

The role involves collaborating with Product Managers, Engineers, and stakeholders to provide creative solutions and communicate user experiences through various design artifacts. Additionally, the designer will integrate user feedback and advocate for design-centered changes.

$151,000 - $222,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior UX Designer

🇬🇧 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Design and deliver end-to-end player experiences across Jagex’s digital ecosystem, collaborating with various teams to create seamless user journeys. Champion accessibility and performance while evolving design systems and leveraging data for continuous improvement.

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Senior Product Designer

🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

The Senior Product Designer will lead the design process for B2C Mortgage Finder products, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful solutions. They will champion user-centered design practices and ensure alignment with customer needs and business goals.

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Senior Product Designer

🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

As a Senior Product Designer, you will lead the design process for B2B and B2C products, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful solutions. You will champion user-centered design practices and contribute to the overall design strategy for the business unit.

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Senior Product Designer (Menu Management) - Fixed term

🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany

The Senior Product Designer will improve how restaurants manage and elevate their menu offerings across the global platform, focusing on intuitive self-service flows and quality standards. They will lead design conversations and collaborate with various stakeholders to define and solve meaningful product problems.

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Associate Graphic Designer

🇱🇰 Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka

The Associate Graphic Designer will create and edit various visual materials while maintaining brand standards. They will collaborate with senior designers and incorporate feedback to refine designs.

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Senior Product Designer

🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

The Senior Product Designer will transform customer and business outcomes into native mobile experiences and design user journeys that integrate financial and property data. They will lead research and discovery efforts, ensuring design decisions balance user needs with business goals.

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Senior Product Designer - CEG(Bangkok - Based, Relocation Provided)

🇹🇭 Bangkok, Thailand

The role involves running discovery phases, defining product requirements, and testing prototypes with users. Additionally, the designer will present their work, participate in design critiques, and ensure consistency in UX design across products.

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Senior UX Designer - 2XKO

🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

As a Senior UX Designer, you will deliver design work for player-facing features and collaborate with cross-functional teams to define the product vision. Your role includes creating wireframes, prototypes, and design artifacts while measuring player sentiment towards features.

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Senior Product Designer

🇫🇮 Finland

The Senior Product Designer will be responsible for end-to-end design for key features, delivering high-quality user flows, concepts, prototypes, and design documentation. They will also mentor junior designers and ensure quality in design outcomes while balancing user needs with business goals.

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Senior Product Designer

🇮🇱 Tel Aviv, Tel-Aviv District, Israel

Lead end-to-end feature design from concept to execution, including prototyping interactions and new AI behaviors. Collaborate closely with engineering to ensure high-quality visual and interaction details are implemented in the final product.

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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.