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Senior Product Designer
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Programa 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Lead end-to-end design of product features, from discovery and wireframes through polished UI, working closely with Product and Engineering on prioritization, delivery, and iteration. Use Claude Code and AI workflows to ship smaller product improvements, maintain design system consistency, and contribute to product decisions and design processes.
Senior Product Designer
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Equiem 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Design and deliver trusted data intelligence experiences, including dashboards, reporting, and decision-support tools, through customer research, prototyping, testing, and iteration. Lead design practice across four product squads by evolving the design system, setting quality standards, and creating self-serve guidance and AI workflows.
UX Designer
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Jobgether 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Lead UX work across client projects, translating business objectives into user journeys, information architecture, interaction models, and production-ready design solutions. Collaborate with clients and multidisciplinary teams to align decisions, improve measurable product outcomes, and maintain consistent, high-quality UX craft.
Senior Freelance Web Designer & Developer – B2B Software
🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Onecnc 🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Lead the website project from strategy and information architecture through UX, visual design, and development, creating a polished global website for OneCNC's CAD/CAM products. Recommend and implement a suitable CMS, and establish responsive design, conversion, SEO, performance, and usability foundations while enabling the internal team to maintain content.
Lead UX Designer
🇩🇪 Germany
Actai 🇩🇪 Germany
Design polished, intuitive user interfaces and build and maintain UI components and design systems. Refine visual details and collaborate with product designers and engineers to deliver pixel-perfect experiences and continuously improve the product interface.
UX Designer
🇫🇷 France
Jobgether 🇫🇷 France
Lead UX work across client projects, translating complex business goals into user journeys, information architecture, interaction models, and production-ready solutions. Collaborate with clients and multidisciplinary teams, facilitate alignment, and improve usability, engagement, conversion, navigation, and onboarding outcomes.
[쿠팡페이] Staff Product Designer
South Korea, Seoul
Coupang South Korea, Seoul
The Staff Product Designer will lead the end-to-end product design strategy, collaborating with cross-functional teams to define product goals and roadmaps. They are responsible for driving design excellence, maintaining design systems, and utilizing data-driven insights to optimize user experiences.
Senior Analog Design Manager (m/f/div)
🇮🇪 Cork, County Cork, Ireland
Infineon Technologies 🇮🇪 Cork, County Cork, Ireland
Lead and develop a team of analog and mixed-signal design engineers, setting technical direction and delivering high-quality IP for automotive microcontrollers. Define and execute the IP roadmap, drive innovation in design methods and tools, and collaborate across teams and sites to meet safety, quality, and product goals.
Design Manager - Sports Infrastructure (Building Engineering)
🇦🇺 Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Aecom 🇦🇺 Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary design teams across building disciplines, serving as the primary client interface and translating stakeholder needs into technical briefs. Direct design strategy, assurance, risk, program, commercial, and governance activities while ensuring integrated, compliant, safe, and buildable project outcomes.
UX Designer
Remote (🇪🇸 Spain)
Jobgether Remote (🇪🇸 Spain)
Lead UX work across client projects, translating business objectives into user journeys, information architecture, interaction models, and production-ready design deliverables. Collaborate with clients and multidisciplinary teams to align priorities, facilitate decisions, improve measurable product outcomes, and maintain consistent, high-quality UX.
UX Designer
Remote (🇩🇪 Germany)
Jobgether Remote (🇩🇪 Germany)
Lead UX work across client projects, translating business goals into user journeys, information architecture, interaction models, and production-ready design solutions. Collaborate with clients and multidisciplinary teams to establish priorities, facilitate alignment, improve product outcomes, and maintain a high standard of UX craft.
UX Designer
Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
Jobgether Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
You will lead end-to-end UX direction by translating complex business goals into intuitive user journeys and scalable digital experiences. The role involves close collaboration with product, design, and engineering teams to define priorities and ensure high-quality, production-ready deliverables.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇧🇷 Brazil)
Jobgether Remote (🇧🇷 Brazil)
You will lead the end-to-end product design lifecycle for complex financial and mortgage workflows, transforming manual processes into intuitive digital experiences. This involves collaborating with product and engineering teams to define strategy, facilitate workshops, and maintain high-quality design standards using AI-powered tools.
Business Consulting - Service Design Manager
🇹🇭 Bangkok, Thailand
Ey 🇹🇭 Bangkok, Thailand
Lead product support operations and teams, maintaining product stability and service quality through incident management, escalations, and resolution. Collaborate with product and engineering stakeholders on prioritization, performance reporting, release readiness, and continuous improvement.
Senior Director, Package Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Renesas Electronics 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Lead a global technical program management organization delivering AI and datacenter power package engineering and NPI programs, from development and qualification through production ramp. Establish program governance, manage risks and cross-functional issue resolution, coordinate execution with OSAT/CM partners, and develop a high-performing global TPM team.
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.