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Senior UX Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Red Badger 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
The role involves leading UX activities, facilitating design sprints, and managing stakeholders to deliver user-centric digital products. Responsibilities include conducting user research, prototyping at various fidelities, and coaching teams in Lean UX and Human Centred Design principles.
Senior Engineer, Digital Design Engineering
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Analog Devices 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Lead block-level digital designs and verification efforts while ensuring timing closure and power optimization. Mentor junior engineers and collaborate with customers to define technical requirements and solutions.
Senior Graphic Designer - Figma, AI
🇵🇱 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Base.com 🇵🇱 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
The role involves designing a full spectrum of assets from SaaS product UI and components in Figma to marketing materials and event graphics. You will also maintain the visual system and integrate AI tools into the daily design workflow for asset generation and iteration.
Senior UX Researcher
🇩🇪 Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Hesse, Germany
Maxon 🇩🇪 Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Hesse, Germany
Own the research strategy for Cinema 4D across the full product lifecycle to inform design and product management decisions. Act as the internal authority on professional artist workflows and mentor other researchers to improve team standards.
Senior UI/UX Designer (Marketing Experinece)
🇩🇪 66346 Püttlingen, Germany
Ups 🇩🇪 66346 Püttlingen, Germany
The role is responsible for defining navigation models, user flows, and overall information structure across enterprise digital platforms. It involves providing UX governance and oversight for marketing and digital initiatives to ensure scalable, user-centered experiences.
Senior UX Designer
Remote (🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Normative Remote (🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Drive user-centered design improvements for enterprise product experiences, focusing on accessibility and alignment with business needs. Create a variety of design artifacts including prototypes, customer journeys, and interface designs while collaborating in multidisciplinary teams.
Senior Electrical Design Engineer, APAC Data Center Design Engineering
🇯🇵 Tōkyō, 1, Marunouchi 1, Chiyoda, Tokyo 100-0005, Japan
Amazon 🇯🇵 Tōkyō, 1, Marunouchi 1, Chiyoda, Tokyo 100-0005, Japan
Lead the electrical design of data centers across the APAC region, focusing on critical infrastructure like MV systems, generators, and UPS. Collaborate with internal teams, utilities, and vendors to ensure designs meet quality, budget, and regulatory requirements.
Principal Product Designer, Customer Design Lead
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Thumbtack 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead the end-to-end customer experience across native and web platforms to ensure product coherence and consistency. Drive strategic product direction by identifying systemic gaps and mentoring senior and mid-level designers.
Principal Product Designer, Customer Design Lead
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Thumbtack 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end customer experience across native and web platforms to ensure product coherence and consistency. Drive strategic product direction by identifying systemic gaps and mentoring senior and mid-level designers.
Senior UX Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Linda Werner & Associates Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Own the end-to-end design process for 4-6 internal AI-powered product surfaces, including dashboards and workflow automation tools. Establish a lightweight design system and collaborate with senior engineers to simplify complex data-heavy workflows.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Pico Rivera, CA 90660, United States of America
Vesta Home 🇺🇸 Pico Rivera, CA 90660, United States of America
Design original, production-ready luxury furniture and home décor collections based on merchandising direction. Collaborate with product development and manufacturing teams to ensure design feasibility and quality standards.
Senior Graphic Designer/ Marketing Creative Services
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Weigel Broadcasting Co 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
The role involves designing dynamic motion graphics for network sizzle videos and creating digital and print collateral to communicate the company's story. The designer will support marketing efforts for ten television networks while collaborating across the organization to meet tight deadlines.
Senior Network Design Engineering (Government)
🇺🇸 Columbia, Maryland, United States of America
At&t 🇺🇸 Columbia, Maryland, United States of America
Provide expert consultation and develop scalable network designs for wireless, wireline, and broadband infrastructure. Manage the full lifecycle of network implementation, including configuration, performance optimization, and compliance documentation.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Transunion 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Drive end-to-end design for high-impact identity protection, fraud, and credit experiences. Translate product requirements into user-centered solutions while managing executive stakeholders and ensuring ADA accessibility compliance.
Senior UX/UI Product Designer I
Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)
Life360 Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)
Lead the end-to-end product design for the Circle Expansion team to create scalable UI/UX solutions for diverse family structures. Partner with PMs, engineering, and research to deliver high-quality experiences across software and hardware surfaces while mentoring other designers.
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.