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Senior UX Designer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Thomson Reuters 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead the end-to-end design of AI-powered features, focusing on agentic workflows and human-in-the-loop systems. Collaborate with data science and engineering to translate complex model behaviors into intuitive, trustworthy user experiences.
Graphic Designer, Senior
🇺🇸 Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
Booz Allen Hamilton 🇺🇸 Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
Create a wide range of visual deliverables including logos, publications, and multimedia products while ensuring Section 508 accessibility compliance. Collaborate with stakeholders and senior designers to communicate government and defense-sector priorities through impactful brand identity.
Senior Product Designer, Member Growth
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Spring Health 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Design high-quality, intuitive product experiences for the core member platform to drive business outcomes like conversion and retention. Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, and Data Science to translate user problems into polished, production-ready solutions.
Senior Product Designer, Member Growth
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Spring Health 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Design high-quality, intuitive product experiences for the core member platform to improve conversion, engagement, and retention. Collaborate with Product Managers, Engineering, and Data Science to translate user problems into polished, production-ready solutions.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Shaker Recruitment Marketing 🇺🇸 Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end UX design of candidate-focused career websites from discovery to launch. Collaborate with creative directors and developers to build scalable, component-based design systems in Figma that align with employer brand directions.
Senior Digital Product Designer - Native Apps
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Charlotte Tilbury 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Create holistic digital experiences and aesthetics for native mobile apps across iOS and Android platforms. Collaborate with tech, product, and CRM teams to define human-centered design solutions and validate them through research and testing.
Senior Digital Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Maryland, United States of America
Total Wine & More 🇺🇸 Maryland, United States of America
The Senior Digital Graphic Designer will create captivating visual experiences across web and digital display channels to drive customer engagement. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional partners to translate briefs into strategic design solutions and maintaining brand consistency.
Senior Environmental Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Hlw International Llp 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead the research, concept development, and implementation of environmental graphic design and wayfinding projects for corporate and institutional clients. Manage the full design process from responding to RFPs through to installation oversight and client interaction.
Senior UX Designer
Remote (🇮🇳 Pune, Pune City Subdistrict, India)
Energy Exemplar Remote (🇮🇳 Pune, Pune City Subdistrict, India)
Own end-to-end UX for complex, data-intensive energy simulation features and design AI-native experiences including copilots and conversational interfaces. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate complex data into intuitive visualizations and maintain scalable design systems in Figma.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
Fitxr Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
The role involves using AI to accelerate the end-to-end design process from research and prototyping to validation and shipping. You will work closely with engineering to turn validated ideas into polished, production-ready fitness experiences.
Hiring || Senior UX Designer - Mumbai
🇮🇳 Mumbai, Mumbai Suburban District, India
2coms 🇮🇳 Mumbai, Mumbai Suburban District, India
Lead the design of large-scale web and mobile banking applications while building and scaling a bank-wide Design System. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate complex regulatory and business requirements into user-centered digital experiences.
Senior Product Designer - Casino
🇬🇧 Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
Leovegas Uk 🇬🇧 Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
Own the end-to-end design process for Casino and Live Casino experiences by aligning user needs with business strategy. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver intuitive, data-driven user interfaces and mentor other designers.
Senior Product Designer
🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain
Cabify 🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain
Design impactful user experiences across the Cabify ecosystem by partnering with Product, Engineering, and Data teams. The role involves solving complex mobility problems, evolving the design system, and validating solutions through research and data.
Senior Product Designer
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Qawafel 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Own the end-to-end design process for Qawafel's digital fintech products across web and mobile platforms. Collaborate with product and engineering teams to translate complex B2B financial workflows into intuitive user experiences.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lottie 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Own the end-to-end design experience for the Marketplace product, focusing on search, results, and enquiry flows. Partner with Product Managers and Engineers to shape problem definitions and contribute scalable patterns to the design system.
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.