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Senior UI Designer inom retail

🇸🇪 Stockholm Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden

The role involves building and maintaining large-scale design systems and merging two separate systems into one scalable platform product. You will focus on the retail store environment and collaborate closely with UI developers in an AI-first workflow.

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Senior Product Designer, Cefi

🇨🇳 Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, China

Lead the design of intuitive and trustworthy user experiences for CeFi products, transforming complex needs into comprehensive design deliverables. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define product initiatives and elevate design quality through formal reviews and workshops.

Onsite$100,000 - $150,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer, Defi

🇨🇳 Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, China

Lead the creation of intuitive and aesthetically appealing user experiences for CeFi products by synthesizing needs from product, engineering, and marketing. Transform qualitative and quantitative insights into disruptive features through detailed workflows, prototypes, and collaborative design reviews.

Onsite$100,000 - $150,000Full-timeSenior
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UX Designer Senior Specialist - Tools & Automation

🇮🇳 Port Blair, Port Blair Tehsil, India

Design and architect UI/UX solutions to automate Google processes and build scalable interfaces across different geographies. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure design feasibility and conduct code reviews for quality benchmarks.

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Senior UX Designer

Remote (🇳🇵 Kathmandu Metropolitan City, Kathmandu, Nepal)

The Senior UX Designer will design high-quality user experiences, workflows, and high-fidelity UI for a specific product area. They are responsible for simplifying complex functionality and maintaining consistency through the use of shared design systems.

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Senior Product Designer

🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland

Lead the design process for a bespoke business process automation platform, translating enterprise strategy into high-quality user experiences. Orchestrate design activities including discovery, co-creation, and testing within a multi-disciplinary agile team.

OnsiteFull-timeSenior
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Senior/Lead UX Researcher

🇵🇱 Wrocław, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Drive end-to-end UX research initiatives to improve digital products for customers and internal users. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate research findings into actionable product recommendations.

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Senior Graphic Designer

🇺🇸 Diamond Bar, CA 91765, United States of America

The role involves creating high-quality visuals for eCommerce, digital marketing, and print materials to elevate brand identity. Additionally, the designer is responsible for professional studio photography, including lighting, shooting, and retouching product and lifestyle images.

OnsiteFull-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer

🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America

Own and scale the VUI design system while designing AI-powered tools and cross-product platform experiences. Partner with engineering to ensure tight alignment between design intent and implementation across mobile and web.

Hybrid$190,000 - $205,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer

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

Own the end-to-end design process for complex operational domains, from discovery and problem framing to shipping and measuring impact. Partner with PMs and engineers in a trio model to shape the product roadmap and reduce structural design debt.

$138,299 - $169,033Full-timeSenior
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Senior Lead Product Designer

🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Lead the end-to-end design process for complex AI products, transforming technical research into intuitive user experiences. Develop and evolve scalable design systems and frameworks while collaborating with cross-functional teams to align product strategy.

Onsite$161,280 - $241,920Full-timeSenior
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Senior UX Designer

🇺🇸 United States of America

Lead the design of AI-driven enterprise experiences for complex supply chain workflows, translating ambiguity into clear interaction models and high-fidelity UI. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate intelligent capabilities like recommendation systems and automation into scalable product strategies.

Onsite$140,000 - $160,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior UX Designer

🇺🇸 United States of America

Lead the end-to-end design for Docrio and Matters & Intakes products, managing everything from problem framing to high-fidelity design and release QA. Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, and customers to conduct research and ensure designs are feasible and performant.

Onsite$125,000 - $145,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer

🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India

The role involves owning the end-to-end design of high-traffic consumer products, including funnels and core user journeys. The designer will lead design efforts as the team grows and focus on growth surfaces.

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Senior UX Designer

🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Lead the end-to-end UX design for large-scale digital experiences, focusing on subscription services for a global technology client. This includes defining user flows, creating high-quality UX artifacts, and aligning design decisions with measurable business outcomes.

Hybrid$60,000 - $80,000Full-timeSenior
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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.