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Senior Graphic Designer
🇬🇧 Bradford, England, United Kingdom
Bradford Council 🇬🇧 Bradford, England, United Kingdom
Lead the development of high-quality creative design solutions and act as the brand guardian for Bradford Council across print and digital channels. Provide expert creative advice to stakeholders and manage multiple design projects to support council priorities.
Senior Product Designer
🇵🇹 Portugal
Bitsight 🇵🇹 Portugal
The Senior Product Designer will own the end-to-end design process for product areas, focusing on integrating innovative AI solutions into the user experience. They will lead research, contribute to the design system, and collaborate closely with product teams to deliver usable and credible data intelligence.
Senior Product Designer
You will design intuitive, cohesive experiences across Web, Desktop, TV, and Mobile platforms to help musicians learn and create. You will also collaborate with engineering, AI, and data teams to translate complex audio technology into seamless user workflows.
Senior Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States
Apollo Graphql 🇺🇸 United States
You will assess product surfaces to identify high-leverage design opportunities and lead the modernization of core developer experiences. You will partner with engineering to drive end-to-end solutions and set design standards that improve product usability and developer workflows.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Futureheads Recruitment | B Corp™ 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Redesign a connected suite of digital health products from the ground up to simplify complex healthcare workflows. Create high-quality UI and realistic prototypes while establishing shared design patterns and visual direction.
Senior UI/UX Designer (m/w/d)
🇦🇹 Vienna, Austria
Angeheuert Gmbh 🇦🇹 Vienna, Austria
You will lead the holistic design process for complex digital platforms, from initial concept to final implementation. This includes creating intuitive user interfaces, developing design systems, and conducting user testing to validate and optimize digital experiences.
Senior UX Designer (f/m/d) AI Agent Conversational Experience
🇩🇪 Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Ionos De 🇩🇪 Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
You will design and enhance user journeys for a new AI agent platform, focusing on intuitive and efficient interfaces. Additionally, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop high-fidelity prototypes and maintain a cohesive design system.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇹🇷 Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Esnuff 🇹🇷 Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
The role involves creating social media, product, and packaging designs to strengthen the visual identity of various brands. The designer will also provide strategic creative consultancy and guide the brands' visual language.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇮🇳 Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
Morphogenesis 🇮🇳 Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
The Visual Communications Manager will lead the design language across digital, print, and internal communication touchpoints. Responsibilities include managing website UI/UX, creating social media content, and developing visual narratives for architectural projects and award submissions.
Senior Visual Designer - Product Marketing
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Legora 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Own the visual output for product marketing, including campaign visuals, feature launches, and sales enablement materials. Manage end-to-end product photo and video shoots while collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure brand consistency.
Senior Video Editor And Motion Graphic Designer
🇪🇬 Smouha, Alexandria, Egypt
Bab Rizq 🇪🇬 Smouha, Alexandria, Egypt
The role involves creating scroll-stopping videos and eye-catching motion graphics to bring e-commerce brands to life. The candidate will be responsible for turning simple ideas into impactful visuals for Reels, Ads, and social media platforms.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇮🇳 Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Rebel Studio 🇮🇳 Kolkata, West Bengal, India
The role involves creating visual concepts and implementing designs across social media, print media, and digital platforms. Responsibilities include developing templates, campaign artwork, UI/UX designs, and motion graphics.
Senior eCommerce UI/UX Designer - APAC
🇹🇭 Thailand
Won 🇹🇭 Thailand
Execute high-conversion ecommerce experiences and full customer journey redesigns using AI-native design systems. Build and maintain scalable component libraries while optimizing workflows through automation and AI agents.
Senior Graphic Designer (Campaigns, Video editing, Animation)
🇵🇭 Taguig, Metro Manila, Philippines
Aecom 🇵🇭 Taguig, Metro Manila, Philippines
The role involves managing end-to-end graphic design production for marketing campaigns, proposals, and internal presentations across print and digital platforms. It also requires providing technical guidance to junior team members and ensuring high-quality output through rigorous review processes.
Senior UX Designer - India
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Anatta Design 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
The Senior UX Designer will create user-centric, business-driven strategies for e-commerce websites and execute them through functional and beautiful interfaces. They will collaborate with cross-departmental teams to optimize shopping experiences while validating design decisions through analytics and user research.
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.