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Senior Graphic Designer (Branding Focus)1
🇺🇦 Ukraine
Outsourcing Advantage 🇺🇦 Ukraine
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
Remote (🇺🇸 Lebanon, Pennsylvania, United States of America)
Outsourcing Advantage Remote (🇺🇸 Lebanon, Pennsylvania, United States of America)
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.
Principal Product Designer
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Commonwealth Bank 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
As a Principal Product Designer, you will lead the experience strategy for Money Management, collaborating with product and engineering teams to create coherent digital experiences. You will also drive continuous discovery and influence senior stakeholders to align on customer needs and product direction.
Senior Textile Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America
Jcpenney 🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America
The Senior Textile Graphic Designer leads the Art Studio team in creating brand-aligned prints and graphics while implementing new art techniques and technologies. They are responsible for forecasting trends, mentoring talent, and coordinating with cross-functional partners to ensure seamless execution of seasonal directions.
Senior Product Designer - NYC
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Sequence 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Design AI-first product experiences and agentic workflows for billing, invoicing, and finance automation. Partner with product managers and engineers to move from broad concepts to tactical deliverables and prototypes.
Senior UX Researcher (Contract)
Remote (🇺🇸 Arlington County, Virginia, United States of America)
For People Remote (🇺🇸 Arlington County, Virginia, United States of America)
Conduct primary research and build persona profiles to identify friction points in Pennsylvania's rural health data system. Synthesize findings to co-author strategy deliverables and target-state designs to guide federal funding allocation.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Vsco 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead high-impact design initiatives for photography business management tools and AI frameworks from strategy to delivery. Define the AI Agent experience and collaborate with cross-functional squads to shape product direction and align with senior leadership.
Senior Web Designer, FHS Onboarding
🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Fareharbor 🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design process for complex, conversion-focused websites for enterprise tourism clients. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to architect scalable web solutions and mentor junior designers to elevate the company's design culture.
Senior Product Designer, Agentforce for Service
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Salesforce 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
As a Senior Product Designer, you will own end-to-end design workstreams for Agentforce for Service, defining and communicating design strategies that align with Salesforce’s business objectives. You will partner to translate requirements into user-centered solutions and drive a culture of craft in design execution.
Senior Design Manager, Design Studio - Employee Experience & Productivity
🇺🇸 Sunnyvale, California, United States of America
Apple 🇺🇸 Sunnyvale, California, United States of America
Lead a team of product designers to create high-impact employee-facing enterprise applications. Partner with engineering and product leadership to set the quality bar for craft and experience design across multiple workstreams.
Senior UX Designer - Central Technology | Concepteur·trice UX sénior·e - Technologies centrales
🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Behaviour Interactive 🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Lead the UX strategy and design for player-facing platforms and internal tools, including LiveOps and CMS. Focus on optimizing complex workflows and creating scalable interaction models to improve efficiency for both players and internal teams.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America
Cpi Security 🇺🇸 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America
Design intuitive and accessible digital experiences across web, mobile, and ecommerce platforms to improve the customer journey. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business goals and user needs into high-fidelity UI designs and design system components.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Houston, Texas, United States of America
Stream Realty 🇺🇸 Houston, Texas, United States of America
Collaborate with the marketing team and brokers to create marketing deliverables and templated assets for business units. Manage multiple projects simultaneously while streamlining production efficiencies and maintaining high attention to detail.
Product Designer App H/F
🇫🇷 Paris, France
Nexton 🇫🇷 Paris, France
The Senior Product Designer will create intuitive and high-performance mobile experiences for major clients, managing the process from discovery to delivery. They will translate business goals and user needs into fluid journeys and interactive prototypes while ensuring cross-platform consistency.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Tag - The Aspen Group 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end UX design process and establish a scalable design system with a focus on token architecture. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver intuitive digital products and mentor junior designers.
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.