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Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States of America
Robinhood 🇺🇸 Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will drive the end-to-end design of key features and build new systems within Robinhood's product ecosystem. They will utilize AI to explore problem spaces and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, user-focused financial experiences.
Senior Product Design Manager (6-month Term)
🇺🇸 Lake Tapps, Pierce County, WA 98390, United States of America
Characterstrong 🇺🇸 Lake Tapps, Pierce County, WA 98390, United States of America
Lead the design of intuitive and scalable product experiences while overseeing a team of UX designers. Responsible for governing the design system, improving information architecture, and aligning design solutions with business goals and technical feasibility.
Senior Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Medallion 🌍 Remote
Own high-impact problem spaces to design end-to-end workflows for healthcare operations, focusing on automation and AI integration. Partner with cross-functional teams to turn complex operational needs into legible, trustworthy, and scalable product experiences.
Senior Product Designer II
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Compass 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Design scalable CRM workflows and AI-powered features to help real estate agents manage relationships and automate tasks. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create intuitive multimodal experiences and maintain design system consistency.
Senior Product Designer II
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Compass 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Design scalable CRM workflows and AI-powered features to help real estate agents manage relationships and automate tasks. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate user insights into intuitive, multimodal experiences across web and mobile platforms.
Senior Product Designer II
🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Compass 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Design scalable CRM workflows and AI-powered features to help real estate agents manage relationships and automate tasks. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create intuitive, multimodal user experiences across web and mobile platforms.
TTT - Senior Graphic Designer with UX/UI - EY GDS
🇧🇦 88280 Nevesinje municipality, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ey 🇧🇦 88280 Nevesinje municipality, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Create innovative graphic and UX/UI designs for internal campaigns, tools, and client deliverables while ensuring strict adherence to EY global branding guidelines. Collaborate with the Tax Technology and Transformation team to translate client needs into digital assets and high-quality PowerPoint presentations.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 St Helens, England, United Kingdom
Robertson Group 🇬🇧 St Helens, England, United Kingdom
Oversee the design process and manage the development of all contractor design within the project to ensure adherence to programs and specifications. Coordinate external contractors and subcontractors while managing design information flow and contract administration.
Senior Product Designer, New Ventures (f/m/x)
🇵🇱 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Hellofresh 🇵🇱 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Lead the end-to-end design and development of new brands and product experiences for the New Verticals team. Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to align design strategies with business goals and drive the project intake process.
Midweight Product Designer
🇬🇧 Cherwell District, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Joma Jewellery And Katie Loxton 🇬🇧 Cherwell District, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
The role involves designing and developing on-brand products from initial concept to final delivery, including creating technical specifications and artwork. You will collaborate with senior designers and buying teams to ensure quality standards and timelines are met for affordable luxury collections.
Senior Product Designer - Gifting & Lifestyle
🇬🇧 Cherwell District, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Joma Jewellery And Katie Loxton 🇬🇧 Cherwell District, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Lead the design and development of gifting and lifestyle products from concept to production, ensuring alignment with the brand's affordable luxury positioning. Manage and mentor junior designers while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver seasonal collections.
Senior Product Designer (1-year fixed-term contract)
🇬🇧 Hounslow, England, United Kingdom
None 🇬🇧 Hounslow, England, United Kingdom
Design and own end-to-end digital experiences for Sky Sports across mobile, web, and TV platforms. Lead complex product initiatives from discovery and problem definition through to production-ready UI and post-launch optimization.
Senior Product Designer
🇧🇬 Burgas, Bulgaria
Avenga 🇧🇬 Burgas, Bulgaria
The role involves designing intuitive end-to-end user flows and maintaining design systems for mobile and web applications. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver UX deliverables and present design recommendations to stakeholders.
Senior Product Designer - JaneX
🇨🇦 Canada
Jane 🇨🇦 Canada
Design intuitive clinical documentation experiences and AI-assisted workflows to reduce friction for healthcare practitioners. Lead the design process by grounding decisions in research and aligning cross-functional stakeholders through storytelling.
Senior UX Researcher, 6-month contract
Remote (🇭🇺 Hungary)
Goto Remote (🇭🇺 Hungary)
Lead UX research activities to validate AI-driven prototypes and strategic initiatives for the Grasshopper product. Collaborate with product, engineering, and design teams to deliver actionable insights through interviews, usability studies, and workshops.
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.