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Graphic Designer + Landing Page Developer

Remote (🇬🇹 Guatemala City, Guatemala Department, Guatemala)

Design and develop high-performing, conversion-focused landing pages and digital marketing assets. Optimize user experience and conversion rates to drive measurable business results and lead generation.

RemoteFull-time
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Graphic Designer + Landing Page Developer

Remote (🇭🇳 Honduras)

Design and develop high-performing, conversion-focused landing pages and digital marketing assets. Optimize user experience and conversion rates to drive measurable business results and lead generation.

RemoteFull-time
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Lead UX Designer

🇺🇸 Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States of America

Lead the end-to-end UX vision and strategy for the Unity prenatal diagnostic platform, translating complex genomics into intuitive digital experiences. Oversee the design process from research to production while mentoring junior designers and collaborating with cross-functional clinical and technical teams.

Hybrid$179,521 - $211,201Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer

Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)

As a Senior Product Designer, you will lead design end-to-end on ambitious projects, collaborating with founders and product leads. You will turn business goals into customer experiences and ensure high-quality work is shipped.

Remote$150,000 - $180,000Full-timeSenior
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Lead Product Designer, Powered by TodayTix

🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom

Lead design across complex B2B product initiatives, collaborating closely with product managers, engineers, and other designers. Promote a culture of design excellence by mentoring other designers and ensuring high-quality delivery.

HybridFull-timeSenior
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Principal Product Designer, Payer

Remote (🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America)

As a Principal Product Designer, you will lead the design vision and execution for the payer group, focusing on building experiences that uphold trust among patients, providers, and payers. You will translate regulatory requirements into intuitive experiences while collaborating closely with product and engineering teams.

Remote$249,600 - $312,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer

Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)

As a Senior Product Designer, you will lead design end-to-end on ambitious projects, collaborating with founders and product leads. You will turn business goals into customer experiences and ensure high-quality work is shipped.

Remote$140,000 - $180,000Full-timeSenior
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Lead Product Designer, Powered by TodayTix

🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America

Lead design across complex B2B product initiatives, collaborating closely with product managers, engineers, and other designers. Promote a culture of design excellence by mentoring other designers and ensuring high-quality delivery.

Hybrid$185,000 - $200,000Full-timeSenior
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Lead UI / UX Designer

🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Lead UX/UI design for interactive products and branded experiences across web, VR, and emerging technology platforms. Collaborate closely with various stakeholders from concept through launch to create intuitive and visually compelling experiences.

Onsite$120,000 - $160,000ContractSenior
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Staff Product Designer, APM

🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America

The Staff Product Designer will lead design initiatives within the APM team, focusing on creating intuitive experiences for complex technical workflows. They will collaborate with PMs and engineers to drive product direction and enhance user understanding of system behavior.

Hybrid$210,000 - $280,000Full-timeSenior
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Mechanical Engineer, Data Center Design Engineering

🇺🇸 Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States of America

Lead the design and implementation of next-generation liquid cooling and thermal systems for AI data center infrastructure. Manage the full lifecycle from concept through construction, including technical roadmaps and owner-furnished equipment.

Onsite$173,000 - $245,000Full-timeSenior
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Lead Product Designer - Connectivity

🇨🇦 Canada

The Lead Product Designer will own design across highly technical and strategic surfaces, including API and developer ecosystems, and AI-powered customer experiences. They will partner with PDE Directors to shape the long-term direction of Deel's Connectivity platform and manage a small team of designers.

Hybrid$140,000 - $200,000Full-timeSenior
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Lead Product Designer - Fintech

🇨🇦 Canada

You will own design across Client and Worker experiences on Web and Mobile, impacting products used daily by hundreds of thousands of businesses and millions of workers. The role involves partnering with PDE Directors to shape experiences, working directly with designers on projects, and managing a small team through hands-on collaboration.

HybridFull-timeSenior
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Product Designer UX - BTG Empresas

🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brazil

The Product Designer will be responsible for designing and evolving internal platforms and systems, focusing on creating efficient user experiences. They will lead initiatives for system unification and standardization, translating business and technology problems into design opportunities.

OnsiteFull-timeMid-level
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Principal Product Designer

🌍 Remote

Lead the design of enterprise digital products for a global pharma company, ensuring visual excellence and consistency across the brand ecosystem. Translate product strategy and user needs into accessible, high-fidelity design solutions while evolving enterprise design systems.

Remote$99,000 - $150,000Full-timePrincipal
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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.