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Motion Graphic Designer

🇬🇧 Horsham, West Sussex, England, United Kingdom

The role involves creating static and motion-led creative assets for campaigns, social media, and web platforms. The designer will lead video storytelling and develop scalable design systems while utilizing AI tools to optimize workflows.

$42,000 - $48,000Full-time
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Product Designer

🇬🇧 United Kingdom

Own the end-to-end design process from research and problem framing to high-fidelity UI and iteration for a financial platform. Build and maintain a scalable design system across web and mobile while collaborating with product and engineering teams.

Full-timeSenior
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Product Designer

đŸ‡”đŸ‡± Poland

Own the end-to-end design process from research and problem framing to high-fidelity UI and iteration for a financial platform. Build and maintain a scalable design system across web and mobile while collaborating with product and engineering teams.

Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer🚗

🇳🇮 Oslo, Norway

You will own the visual and experiential identity of the product across all user interfaces while managing the design system. Additionally, you will facilitate cross-functional collaboration and integrate AI tools to enhance product development and user experience.

Full-timeSenior
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Interaction Designer

đŸ‡ș🇾 United States of America

The role involves transforming complex user challenges into intuitive digital experiences across Windows, web, and mobile platforms. Key duties include maintaining the product design system and conducting qualitative and quantitative research to inform design decisions.

$78,300 - $95,700Full-time
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Software Product Designer

đŸ‡ș🇾 Somerville, Massachusetts, United States of America

The Software Product Designer will shape the UX/UI for embedded, desktop, and web products through collaboration with engineering and product management. Key duties include conducting user research, creating high-fidelity prototypes, and maintaining scalable design systems.

$110,000 - $165,000Full-time
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Senior UX Designer

đŸ‡ș🇾 Carmel, Indiana, United States of America

The Senior UX Designer creates intuitive, accessible user interfaces and manages the Affinity digital design system. They collaborate with research and engineering teams to translate user findings into scalable digital experiences while mentoring junior designers.

Full-timeSenior
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Graphic Designer (Figma | Production Design)

đŸ‡”đŸ‡­ Philippines

The role focuses on producing high-volume brand assets for social media, web, and out-of-home advertising. The designer will ensure the visual identity is applied precisely across global touchpoints following existing design systems.

Full-time
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Senior Product Designer

🇹🇩 Canada

Lead end-to-end design initiatives for B2B payment products, from journey mapping and wireframing to high-fidelity prototypes. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to simplify complex financial workflows and evolve scalable design systems using AI-assisted tools.

$130,000 - $150,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer (UX/UI)

đŸ‡šđŸ‡± Santiago, Provincia de Santiago, Chile

You will design end-to-end digital experiences for a regional ecosystem of financial products, working directly with banking clients. The role involves both design and execution, leveraging generative AI to automate repetitive tasks and evolve the company's design system.

HybridFull-timeMid-level
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Senior Product Designer

🇼🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India

You will own the end-to-end UX for complex, high-stakes workflows and lead the design process from research to high-fidelity mockups. Additionally, you will maintain and extend the design system while pushing the team to uphold high standards for accessibility and edge cases.

Full-timeSenior
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UI Designer | Naturaily [13-17k net PLN, B2B]

đŸ‡”đŸ‡± Poland

You will design high-quality interfaces for websites and e-commerce stores while building and maintaining scalable design systems. Additionally, you will lead client workshops and collaborate closely with development and business teams to translate goals into visual concepts.

$13,000 - $17,000Full-time
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Senior Product Designer

🇹🇩 Canada

Lead end-to-end product design initiatives for B2B payment products, including journey mapping, wireframing, and high-fidelity prototyping. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to conduct user research and evolve scalable design systems while integrating AI-assisted workflows.

$130,000 - $150,000Full-timeSenior
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Sr. UX Designer, IMDb

đŸ‡ș🇾 Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Own end-to-end UX design for customer-facing experiences across web, iOS, and Android platforms. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate complex requirements into intuitive designs and evolve the IMDb design system.

$137,800 - $186,400Full-timeSenior
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Interaction Designer

đŸ‡ș🇾 United States of America

You will transform complex user challenges into intuitive, elegant interaction experiences across desktop, web, and mobile platforms. Additionally, you will own and evolve the product design system while conducting research and usability testing to inform design decisions.

$78,300 - $95,700Full-time
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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.