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Senior Product Designer, Activation
🇳🇦 Namibia
Superhuman 🇳🇦 Namibia
The Senior Product Designer will work with cross-functional teams to create impactful activation experiences and define features that guide users toward early value. They will also conduct research to inform design iterations and elevate the design culture at Superhuman.
Senior AI Product Designer
🇦🇺 Bowen Hills QLD 4006, Australia
Askable 🇦🇺 Bowen Hills QLD 4006, Australia
Shape a new AI-native product from strategy to execution, focusing on user-centered design and rapid prototyping. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to find product-market fit and iterate based on user feedback.
Senior Product Designer (AI Experiences)
Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
Smartrecruiters Inc Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
The Senior Product Designer will lead the design of AI-driven experiences, focusing on conversational and multi-agent interactions. This role involves end-to-end experience design, including discovery, prototyping, and validation.
Senior Product Designer (AI Experiences)
Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
Smartrecruiters Inc Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
The Senior Product Designer will lead the design of AI-driven experiences, focusing on conversational and multi-agent interactions. This includes owning the end-to-end design process from discovery to validation, ensuring high-quality user experiences across various platforms.
Senior Product Designer (AI Experiences)
Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
Smartrecruiters Inc Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
The Senior Product Designer will lead the design of AI-driven experiences, focusing on conversational systems and multi-agent interactions. This role involves end-to-end experience design, including prototyping, validation, and defining agent behaviors.
Senior Product Designer (AI Experiences)
Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
Smartrecruiters Inc Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
The Senior Product Designer will lead the design of AI-driven experiences, focusing on conversational and multi-agent interactions. This includes owning the end-to-end design process from discovery to validation, ensuring high-quality user experiences across various platforms.
Senior Product Designer (AI Experiences)
Remote (🇫🇷 47130 Clermont-Dessous, France)
Smartrecruiters Inc Remote (🇫🇷 47130 Clermont-Dessous, France)
The Senior Product Designer will lead the design of AI-driven experiences, focusing on conversational and multi-agent interactions. This includes owning the end-to-end design process from discovery to validation, ensuring high-quality user experiences.
Senior Product Designer (AI Experiences)
Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
Smartrecruiters Inc Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
The Senior Product Designer will lead the design of AI-driven experiences, focusing on conversational and multi-agent interactions. This includes owning the end-to-end design process from discovery to validation, ensuring high-quality user experiences across various platforms.
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.