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Civil/Site Design Manager
🇺🇸 Buffalo, New York, United States
Popli Design Group 🇺🇸 Buffalo, New York, United States
The Group Manager oversees the daily operations of the Civil/Site design group, including staff mentoring, financial management, and quality assurance. They serve as the senior technical resource for signing and sealing documents while coordinating activities with clients and municipalities.
Senior UX Researcher
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Grindr 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Own end-to-end mixed-method research for specific product areas to drive strategic business and product decisions. Partner with Product, Design, and Data Science to shape roadmaps and lead research on sensitive topics like sexual health and LGBTQ+ experiences.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Wheaton, Illinois, United States
Brookstone Capital Management 🇺🇸 Wheaton, Illinois, United States
Lead the creative development of marketing campaigns and produce high-quality video content for various digital and traditional platforms. Design a wide range of print and digital collateral to elevate the brand and support business objectives.
Senior UX Designer, Brazil
🇧🇷 Brazil
Ci&t 🇧🇷 Brazil
Lead the end-to-end UX process from research and discovery to wireframing and usability testing. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into accessible, human-centered digital experiences.
Mid/Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Salt 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
You will be responsible for UX and UI design across a growing suite of fintech software products. This includes evolving an established design system and presenting design decisions directly to the client.
Senior Product Designer II - Lifecycle & Growth
🇨🇦 Canada
Instacart 🇨🇦 Canada
Lead high-impact growth initiatives by designing end-to-end customer journeys for partnerships, incentives, and lifecycle experiences. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business goals and customer insights into polished, scalable product experiences.
Senior Product Designer
🇵🇪 Lima, Lima, Peru
Scotiabank 🇵🇪 Lima, Lima, Peru
Lead the design front within a multidisciplinary team to create and maintain innovative digital products for the retail banking sector. Plan and execute discovery processes, coordinate with stakeholders, and ensure the consistency and quality of digital experiences.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Motion Recruitment 🇺🇸 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
You will drive end-to-end product design across web and mobile platforms while integrating modern AI tools into the design lifecycle. The role involves hands-on prototyping, cross-functional collaboration with leadership, and the evolution of design systems.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 Columbia, Maryland, United States
Sealing Technologies, A Parsons Company 🇺🇸 Columbia, Maryland, United States
The Senior UI/UX Designer will own the end-to-end design process for a unified software suite, from research and wireframing to high-fidelity Figma mockups and developer handoff. They will also build reusable component libraries and partner with engineering to ensure design quality and consistency across mission-critical applications.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Brightspeed 🇺🇸 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
The Senior Product Designer will lead complex UX/UI projects from discovery to delivery while setting the quality standard for the team. They will also translate strategic direction into concrete design approaches and leverage AI-assisted methods to improve digital experiences.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇩🇪 Germany
Lifewave 🇩🇪 Germany
The Senior Graphic Designer will elevate the visual quality and consistency of LifeWave marketing materials across EMEA for both digital and print channels. They will build scalable design systems, lead visual direction for social media, and create compelling visual narratives for campaigns and events.
Senior Product Designer
🇨🇱 Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile
Betterfly 🇨🇱 Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile
You will design and evolve AI-driven product experiences by defining interaction patterns and system behaviors. You will collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to map user flows, prototype solutions, and ensure design consistency across the platform.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States
80twenty 🇺🇸 United States
Lead the experience design for growth channels, focusing on the customer journey from the website through to checkout. Own the revamp of the core website and the optimization of the quoting flow to drive lead generation and adoption.
Senior UX Researcher
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Grindr 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
You will own end-to-end research for specific product areas, framing questions and delivering insights that drive product and business decisions. You will also partner with Product, Design, and Data Science teams to shape roadmaps and integrate user evidence into strategic planning.
Senior Product Designer II (Remote Eligible)
🌍 Remote
Smartsheet 🌍 Remote
You will conceptualize and create intuitive user experiences for web and mobile apps while driving strategic impact through scalable enterprise platform design. You will also partner with cross-functional teams to validate solutions and mentor junior designers to elevate the overall quality of the design organization.
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.