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Senior Product Designer, DineOut, Delivery Consumer App
🇪🇪 Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia
Bolt Technology 🇪🇪 Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia
Own the end-to-end design process for new early-stage products, from discovery and problem framing to interaction design and launch. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to turn ambiguous problem spaces into clear, validated design directions.
Global UX Designer Senior Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Boston Consulting Group 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Define and design service experiences for employees by creating service design blueprints and conducting behavioral research. Collaborate with cross-functional global teams and senior leadership to implement value-creating service improvements.
Senior Product Designer
🇫🇷 Paris, France
Proton 🇫🇷 Paris, France
Own the end-to-end design process for one or more product areas, from initial scoping and ideation to final specifications and QA. Translate complex security and privacy constraints into simple, trustworthy user experiences while contributing to the Proton Design System.
Senior Graphic Designer & Art Director (all genders)
🇩🇪 Hamburg, Germany
About You Se & Co. Kg 🇩🇪 Hamburg, Germany
Develop and execute brand identities and visual guidelines across digital, print, and physical touchpoints. Lead creative campaigns from ideation to post-production, including art directing shoots and creating immersive visual experiences.
Senior Graphic Designer & Art Director (all genders)
🇩🇪 Hamburg, Germany
About You Se & Co. Kg 🇩🇪 Hamburg, Germany
Develop and execute brand identities and visual guidelines across digital, print, and physical touchpoints. Lead creative campaigns from ideation to post-production, including art directing shoots and creating immersive visual experiences.
Senior UX Researcher
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Utility Warehouse 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead end-to-end research for complex problem spaces to influence product vision and design requirements. Act as a strategic partner to Product, Design, and Engineering teams while mentoring junior researchers.
Senior UX Designer, Google Meet Intelligence
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Google 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Drive the intelligence strategy for Google Meet by creating high-quality design deliverables and user journeys. Collaborate with UX research and engineering to implement intelligent features and maintain consistency across Workspace products.
Senior Product Designer
🇸🇪 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Legora Ab 🇸🇪 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Design user flows, interactions, and interfaces for AI-powered tools, turning ambiguous problems into concrete, high-quality product experiences, and collaborating closely with engineers to bring designs to life. Use Figma to iterate quickly, contribute to the design system, and push for clarity, consistency, and quality across the product.
Senior Front-End Developer, Design Systems
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Bank Of New York Mellon 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead the development and evolution of a scalable design system, focusing on reusable web components and advanced theming solutions. Collaborate with designers and engineers to translate design principles into technical guidelines and maintain comprehensive documentation.
Senior Design Manager, Restaurant Architecture (US & Canada)
🇺🇸 Bloomington, Minnesota, United States of America
International Dairy Queen, Inc. 🇺🇸 Bloomington, Minnesota, United States of America
Provide design and building systems direction to expedite plan completion for new store development and reinvestment projects. Manage prototypical design standards and review project submissions to ensure alignment with operational criteria.
Senior Product Designer, Identity
🇵🇦 Panama City, Distrito de Panamá, Panama
Netflix 🇵🇦 Panama City, Distrito de Panamá, Panama
Lead the design of end-to-end identity, access, and account initiatives to support the broader Netflix ecosystem. Create scalable platform patterns and frameworks while balancing user needs with critical business objectives.
Senior Graphic Designer (Branding Focus)1
🇨🇴 Colombia
Outsourcing Advantage 🇨🇴 Colombia
Lead end-to-end branding and graphic design projects from concept to final delivery for diverse clients. Develop visual identities and create marketing collateral while collaborating directly with clients to ensure brand consistency.
Senior Graphic Designer (Branding Focus)1
🇪🇬 Egypt
Outsourcing Advantage 🇪🇬 Egypt
Lead end-to-end branding and graphic design projects to shape the visual identity of diverse clients. Create marketing collateral and collaborate directly with clients to present professional design solutions.
Senior Graphic Designer (Branding Focus)1
🇵🇭 Philippines
Outsourcing Advantage 🇵🇭 Philippines
Lead end-to-end branding and graphic design projects from concept to final delivery for diverse clients. Develop visual identities and create marketing collateral while collaborating directly with clients to ensure brand consistency.
Senior Graphic Designer (Branding Focus)1
🇿🇦 South Africa
Outsourcing Advantage 🇿🇦 South Africa
Lead end-to-end branding and graphic design projects to shape the visual identity of diverse clients. Create marketing collateral and collaborate directly with clients to present professional design solutions.
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.