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Senior Design Technologist
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States
Icon 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States
Build tooling and data structures to streamline the use of building products within BIM/CAD environments like Revit. Develop LLM-driven and agentic tools to translate design intent into ICON-compatible designs while maintaining design rulesets and QA protocols.
Senior Design Technologist
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States
Icon 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States
The Senior Design Technologist will build and maintain tooling and data structures to integrate ICON's building products into BIM/CAD environments. This role involves developing LLM-driven design automation and collaborating with software teams to translate design intent into technical specifications.
Senior Product Designer - Air Taxi
🇺🇸 San Carlos, California, United States
Joby Aviation 🇺🇸 San Carlos, California, United States
You will lead the product design and development of core operational applications, including flight scheduling portals and pilot interfaces. You will collaborate with engineering and flight operations teams to optimize user experiences for eVTOL and helicopter operations.
Senior Product Designer, B2B eCommerce
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Ōura 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
The Senior Product Designer will lead UX design for B2B web products, including sales systems, checkout flows, and client-specific landing page templates. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to iterate on scalable features while maintaining brand consistency across the Oura ecosystem.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇦 Ukraine
Mazal Games 🇺🇦 Ukraine
The Senior Graphic Designer will create high-quality UI and visual assets for games, working closely with the Art Director and development team. They are responsible for taking concepts through to final production-ready delivery while maintaining visual consistency.
Senior Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Take Take Take 🌍 Remote
Own the end-to-end product experience from onboarding to community, translating the brand into a premium digital interface. Collaborate closely with engineering and product teams to drive key metrics and implement AI-driven design processes.
Senior UX Designer (Space Engineers Franchise)
🇪🇸 Spain
Keen Software House 🇪🇸 Spain
Take ownership of the UX for Space Engineers and Space Engineers 2, translating complex sandbox mechanics into intuitive player experiences. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify friction and establish consistent UX principles and design systems.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States
Albi 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States
Own the end-to-end product design process from problem definition and research to high-fidelity Figma solutions and implementation. Collaborate with product and engineering teams to ship improvements and mentor others through design critiques.
UX DESIGNER SENIOR H/F
🇫🇷 Montpellier, Occitania, France
Nexton 🇫🇷 Montpellier, Occitania, France
Define the transverse UX vision for complex banking products and interconnected systems while leading advanced user research and prototyping in Figma. The role involves mentoring junior designers, evolving the organizational design system, and collaborating with Product Owners and Lead Developers.
Senior UX Designer (Space Engineers Franchise)
🇦🇹 Austria
Keen Software House 🇦🇹 Austria
Take ownership of the UX for Space Engineers and Space Engineers 2, translating complex sandbox mechanics into intuitive player experiences. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify friction and establish consistent UX principles and design systems.
Senior UX Designer (Space Engineers Franchise)
🇫🇷 France
Keen Software House 🇫🇷 France
Take ownership of the UX for Space Engineers and Space Engineers 2 by identifying usability problems and translating complex mechanics into intuitive player experiences. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define player flows, HUDs, and interaction patterns from concept to implementation.
Senior UX Designer (Space Engineers Franchise)
🇨🇿 Prague, Prague, Czechia
Keen Software House 🇨🇿 Prague, Prague, Czechia
Take ownership of UX across the Space Engineers franchise by identifying usability problems and designing intuitive player experiences for complex systems. Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including Game Design, Engineering, and Art to translate mechanics into clear, functional interfaces from concept to implementation.
Senior UX Designer (Space Engineers Franchise)
🇨🇿 Prague, Prague, Czechia
Kswh 🇨🇿 Prague, Prague, Czechia
Define, maintain, and evolve the visual brand identity of the Space Engineers franchise across all marketing channels. Create high-quality promotional artwork, including key visuals, store assets, and social media graphics, while collaborating with production teams to ensure visual consistency.
UX DESIGNER SENIOR H/F
🇫🇷 Montpellier, Occitania, France
Nexton 🇫🇷 Montpellier, Occitania, France
Define the transverse UX vision for complex banking products and systems while piloting advanced user research. Collaborate with product owners and development teams to harmonize user experiences across multiple squads.
Lead Visual / UI Designer
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Rmg 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Lead the visual evolution of an existing design system to modernize its look and feel while incorporating AI-driven interaction models. Collaborate with senior stakeholders to align on concepts and hand off designs to engineering teams for implementation.
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.