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Principal Product Designer | UX/UI & AI Experience Design
🇵🇱 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Human Intelligence 🇵🇱 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Lead the UX and UI strategy for AI-powered products across healthcare, education, and wellbeing platforms. Own the full design lifecycle from discovery and research to high-fidelity design and developer handoff.
Principal Product Designer | UX/UI & AI Experience Design
🇧🇬 Sofia, Sredec, Bulgaria
Human Intelligence 🇧🇬 Sofia, Sredec, Bulgaria
Lead the UX/UI strategy and complete product design lifecycle for AI-powered platforms across healthcare, education, and wellbeing. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to transform complex technology into intuitive, human-centered digital experiences.
Principal Product Designer | UX/UI & AI Experience Design
🇳🇬 Lagos, Lagos Island, Nigeria
Human Intelligence 🇳🇬 Lagos, Lagos Island, Nigeria
Lead the UX/UI strategy and complete product design lifecycle for AI-powered platforms across healthcare, education, and wellbeing. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to transform complex AI technology into intuitive, human-centered digital experiences.
UX designer
🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Ing 🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
The role involves creating digital services and interaction designs to improve customer journeys for liquidity and information management services. The designer will maintain the design library and lead the organization toward a higher level of UX maturity.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Techaxis, Inc 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Senior Designer will own visual elements such as typography, color systems, and layout across various projects for Fortune 100 clients. They will also partner with design leadership on UX architecture and mentor junior designers.
Design Systems Lead
🇺🇸 United States of America
Creative Circle 🇺🇸 United States of America
The Design Systems Lead will lead the redesign and evolution of the enterprise design system and component library, partnering closely with design, development, and web governance teams. This role involves translating creative direction and design standards into AI-ready frameworks and documentation.
Senior Product Designer - Design Systems
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Procore Technologies 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Lead the evolution of Procore's Design System, focusing on quality and scalability while collaborating with product and engineering teams. Facilitate cross-functional collaboration and ensure the Design System meets user needs across platforms.
Graphic Design Manager
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Retrofête 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead the day-to-day execution of graphic design across all brand touchpoints and manage the Graphic Design team. Oversee the creation of creative assets for marketing, eCommerce, retail, and wholesale initiatives while maintaining brand consistency.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇳🇬 Nigeria)
Moniepoint Group Remote (🇳🇬 Nigeria)
As a Senior User Experience Designer, you will execute high-quality designs for financial products and collaborate with cross-functional teams. You will lead the design process from research to final execution while mentoring junior designers.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇧🇷 Brazil
Cyncly 🇧🇷 Brazil
The Senior UX/UI Designer will lead the creation and stewardship of a unified design language across Cyncly's global product portfolio. This includes owning the design system's evolution, collaborating with product designers and engineers, and ensuring accessibility and quality standards are met.
Staff Product Designer, Growth
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Linktree 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
As a Staff Product Designer, you will lead the design direction for user experiences that drive growth, including onboarding and monetization. You will also mentor other designers and collaborate with cross-functional teams to shape product strategy.
Staff Product Designer, Mobile
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Linktree 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Set and continually raise the bar for native iOS and Android design across the entire product. Lead cross-pillar mobile reviews to ensure a coherent user experience as teams ship quickly.
Contract Product Designer (Staff-level), 6 months
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Linktree 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Design and deliver end-to-end user experiences across key product surfaces, collaborating with cross-functional teams. Lead complex design projects independently while contributing to Linktree's design system.
Staff Product Designer, Growth
🇺🇸 United States of America
Linktree 🇺🇸 United States of America
As a Staff Product Designer, you will lead the design direction for user experiences that drive growth, including onboarding and monetization. You will also mentor other designers and collaborate with cross-functional teams to shape product strategy.
Staff Product Designer, Growth
🇺🇸 United States of America
Linktree 🇺🇸 United States of America
As a Staff Product Designer, you will lead the design direction for user experiences that drive growth, focusing on onboarding, conversion, and monetization. You will also mentor other designers and collaborate with cross-functional teams to shape product 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.