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Senior Product Designer - Agentic AI Solutions
🇺🇸 Lebanon, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Lucidya 🇺🇸 Lebanon, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design of Agentic AI experiences to ensure trust, transparency, and intuitive workflows for enterprise users. Create scalable design systems and localized experiences for both Arabic and English environments.
RQ11164 - UX Designer - Senior
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Maarut 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The role involves creating user-friendly interfaces and designing overall product functionality through a user-centered approach. It also requires leading concurrent service design projects to improve integrated service delivery solutions and business processes.
Principal UX Designer, AWS Marketplace and Partner Services
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end UX vision and strategy for AWS Marketplace and Partner Central to optimize buyer and seller journeys. Influence product strategy and mentor designers while establishing cross-service design standards for enterprise commerce.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Wise 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the end-to-end user experience for Wise's referral program, from initial strategy and awareness to reward claims. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive the design process from ideation to high-fidelity UI and quality assurance.
Design Engineering Architect
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Cadence Design Systems 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Lead the design and development of high-speed Die-to-Die and SERDES products using leading-edge technology nodes. Collaborate with layout engineers and global technical teams to verify circuit blocks against customer specifications.
Product Designer - (Mobile) 3 Month Daily Rate Contract
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Easygo 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Lead the end-to-end design of Stake's native iOS and Android applications, translating complex web experiences into intuitive mobile interactions. Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to align design patterns and ensure high-quality delivery at scale.
Staff/Principal Product Designer
Remote (🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)
Amber Electric Remote (🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)
Lead the design of high-priority, complex product challenges to help customers transition to renewable energy. Act as a strategic partner to the Head of Design, shaping product direction and raising the bar for design craft across the organization.
Communication & Interior Design Manager
🇲🇾 Johor Bahru, Malaysia
Ikano-retail 🇲🇾 Johor Bahru, Malaysia
Lead the Communication & Interior Design team to increase home furnishing interest and create demand through effective store layout and range presentation. Manage the store commercial calendar and align store communication with the IKEA brand to maintain a competitive edge.
Senior Product Designer (Marketplace)
South Korea, Seoul
Coupang Internal South Korea, Seoul
Lead the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the Marketplace business, focusing on the seller lifecycle from acquisition to shipment. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to remove friction points and improve the end-to-end seller experience.
Brand & Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Workstream 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Execute high-quality visual assets across marketing and sales channels while ensuring brand consistency across all touchpoints. Act as a strategic partner to manage design requests, scope projects, and lead brand systems.
Senior Product Designer, Design Systems
🇵🇱 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Netflix 🇵🇱 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Lead the evolution of the Hawkins design system by integrating AI capabilities to automate UI generation and maintain UX consistency. Partner with engineering to define structured logic, component APIs, and automated testing frameworks for enterprise tooling.
UX Designer - Clearance Required
🇺🇸 La Mesa, California, United States of America
Logistics Management Institute 🇺🇸 La Mesa, California, United States of America
Lead human-centered design and user research to translate mission needs into validated prototypes for DoD digital transformation. Collaborate with technical leads to align design directions with AWS GovCloud constraints and mission requirements.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
50,000feet, Llc 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Lead the strategy and execution of innovative digital and AI-enabled products through human-centered design principles. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate complex business requirements into intuitive, scalable user experiences.
Design Manager - Interiors
🇺🇸 Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Gensler 🇺🇸 Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Manage all phases of corporate interior projects from set-up through construction administration, ensuring they are delivered on time and on budget. Lead project teams and maintain client relationships while overseeing scheduling, budgets, and financial performance.
Design Manager (Civils)
🇬🇧 Crawley, West Sussex, England, United Kingdom
Bechtel 🇬🇧 Crawley, West Sussex, England, United Kingdom
Lead the engineering design management of major airfield civil infrastructure projects from inception through handover. Coordinate multidisciplinary teams and external consultants to ensure solutions meet safety, quality, and cost objectives.
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.