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Senior Design Engineering Manager
🇹🇼 New Taipei, Taiwan
Jabil 🇹🇼 New Taipei, Taiwan
Lead a team of electrical design engineers to develop innovative electrical solutions and integrated circuitry. Oversee the entire design process from conceptualization to implementation while ensuring projects are on time and within budget.
Senior UX Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America)
Workato Remote (🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America)
Lead end-to-end design for complex enterprise features, translating technical depth into intuitive interfaces for automation and AI workflows. Partner with product managers and engineers to define product vision and ensure high standards of usability and craft.
Senior Product Designer, GenAI Ad Formats
Remote (🇵🇦 Panama City, Distrito de Panamá, Panama)
Netflix Remote (🇵🇦 Panama City, Distrito de Panamá, Panama)
Lead the design and execution of AI-powered ad consumer experiences and GenAI-powered pipelines across various Netflix surfaces. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to establish design principles for personalized, adaptive ad formats while ensuring privacy and regulatory compliance.
Senior Product Designer, Visual Lease and CoStar Real Estate Manager
🇺🇸 Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
Costar 🇺🇸 Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will create user flows, wireframes, and prototypes to integrate Visual Lease and CoStar Real Estate Manager. They will act as a user advocate, conducting research and collaborating with cross-functional teams to evolve design systems.
Senior Product Designer, Ads
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Discord 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design process for Discord's ads products, specifically focusing on 'Quests' to drive revenue generation. Partner with cross-functional squads to create wireframes, mockups, and prototypes while maintaining the design pattern library.
Senior Product Designer
🇦🇺 Australia
Nexl 🇦🇺 Australia
The role involves owning the design of shared platform surfaces and stewarding the company's design system to ensure consistency and scalability. You will collaborate directly with engineering leadership to define problem spaces and translate complex workflows into intuitive user experiences.
Senior Product Designer - Accounting Systems
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Mercury 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Define and design an AI-powered experience within Mercury's accounting ecosystem to simplify complex financial workflows. Partner with engineering and product teams to create scalable interaction patterns and high-quality product experiences.
Senior Product Designer, Visual Lease and CoStar Real Estate Manager
🇺🇸 Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
Costar Group 🇺🇸 Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will create user flows, high-fidelity wireframes, and interactive prototypes to integrate Visual Lease and CoStar Real Estate Manager. They will act as a user advocate, conducting research and collaborating with cross-functional teams to evolve design systems and improve user experience.
Senior Product Designer II, Professionals
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Trust & Will Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Lead the end-to-end design of complex B2B platform products for financial advisors, attorneys, and nonprofit partners. Collaborate with Product and Engineering squads to translate research and behavioral data into high-quality, AI-enhanced user experiences.
Senior Brand & Product Designer
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Valkyrie 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
The role involves designing and evolving scalable brand systems and marketing collateral to communicate complex technical ideas. Additionally, the designer will create intuitive user interfaces and maintain design systems for product development.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Tradeweb 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The role involves designing and producing creative concepts for various marketing deliverables including sales materials, presentations, and web content. The designer will ensure all assets align with corporate brand standards and collaborate with the Art Director to deliver high-impact visual solutions.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇨🇷 Costa Rica)
Granicus Lac Remote (🇨🇷 Costa Rica)
Lead the end-to-end design process from concept to completion using a user-centered approach for complex SaaS products. Collaborate with cross-functional global teams to create intuitive user experiences and mentor junior designers.
Senior Marketing & Web Designer
Remote (🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom)
Stape Remote (🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom)
The role involves redefining the visual style and creative direction of a fintech product to create bold, conversion-focused external communications. Responsibilities include maintaining the brand book, building scalable design systems, and creating various graphic assets for web and social media.
Senior Product Designer, Drafting
🇨🇦 Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Clio 🇨🇦 Calgary, Alberta, Canada
As a Senior Product Designer, you will lead the end-to-end design process, from strategic discovery to development and launch. You will partner with Product and Engineering to define and execute experience design strategy and success metrics.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)
Owner.com Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)
Shape product direction and own the end-to-end design process from exploration to production. Create scalable, AI-powered experiences and advance the company's design systems and quality standards.
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.