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Senior Web Designer
Remote (🇧🇷 Brasília, Federal District, Brazil)
Dotyeti Design Remote (🇧🇷 Brasília, Federal District, Brazil)
Lead the creation of visually stunning web and app designs, including landing pages and email templates. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize user experience and drive customer growth through strategic design.
Senior Web Designer
Remote (🇳🇬 Lagos, Lagos Island, Nigeria)
Dotyeti Design Remote (🇳🇬 Lagos, Lagos Island, Nigeria)
Lead the creation of visually stunning web and app designs, including landing pages and email templates. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize user experience and drive customer growth through strategic design.
UX Designer - VIC
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Nexigen Digital 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
The UX Designer will lead end-to-end user research and design a unified customer control panel for a shared hosting platform. They will collaborate with engineers and product managers to translate research insights into high-fidelity designs and prototypes.
Experience Designer Lead Senior - Design Systems
🇺🇸 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Pnc 🇺🇸 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Lead and mentor a pod of designers to maintain and evolve enterprise design systems, ensuring consistency and scalability across digital experiences. Drive the design system strategy, roadmap, and governance while coordinating with engineering and accessibility partners.
Principal Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
True Link Financial Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Lead end-to-end product design for the Card Platform and support the Trust & Invest business line. Drive customer research and synthesize insights to shape product requirements and improve user experience.
Senior Engineering Manager, Advanced Product Designer (APD)
🇨🇦 Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Guidewire Software 🇨🇦 Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Lead multiple engineering teams to evolve the Advanced Product Designer (APD) capability on App Platform 2.0. Drive technical strategy, architectural maturity, and cross-functional execution to scale product-modeling capabilities and AI-enabled configurations.
Staff Design Technologist
🇺🇸 United States of America
Kong 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead the intersection of product design and frontend implementation by building AI-enabled design workflows and maintaining design systems. Act as a bridge between design and engineering to reduce implementation drift and ensure UI cohesion across technical products.
Founding Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Sandstone 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design of core product features and establish the company's design systems and standards. Collaborate with founders and engineering to build an AI-native platform for legal departments and scale the design culture.
Principal Product Designer - Customer Lifecycle
🇺🇸 Lehi, Utah, United States of America
Ancestry 🇺🇸 Lehi, Utah, United States of America
Lead design initiatives across multiple product areas to ensure a cohesive and high-quality end-to-end customer journey. Partner with Product Marketing and cross-functional teams to align product experiences with value communication and broader business strategy.
Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Arlington County, Virginia, United States of America
Plus Communications 🇺🇸 Arlington County, Virginia, United States of America
Lead creative strategy and branding guidelines in collaboration with the Creative Director. Develop a variety of visual assets including infographics, social media content, and professional presentations for clients.
Senior Design Manager - Natural Environment
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Heathrow 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Manage the development of integrated blue and green infrastructure solutions to ensure high-quality, coordinated delivery across multiple work packages. Lead the delivery of tranche package documentation aligned with the Long Term Growth Programme's strategic objectives.
Senior Admin Assistant- Design Engineering and Process Design & Innovation
🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
Target 🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
Provide high-level administrative support to multiple leaders within the Design Engineering and Process Design & Innovation teams. Manage multiple priorities, anticipate leader needs, and ensure smooth operational execution in a fast-paced retail environment.
Product Designer I
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Icon 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Lead end-to-end UX work for the BuildOS platform, from conducting discovery research and customer interviews to delivering developer-ready specs. Collaborate with engineers and product leadership to map complex construction workflows and build tested prototypes.
Sr. Product Designer
🇬🇧 Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Pendo 🇬🇧 Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Own end-to-end design execution for assigned product areas, translating customer insights into high-fidelity UI and prototypes. Partner with product and engineering leaders to prioritize backlogs and ensure cohesive customer experiences across the platform.
Senior UI/UX Designer
Remote (🇨🇷 Ulloa, Heredia, Costa Rica)
Transunion Remote (🇨🇷 Ulloa, Heredia, Costa Rica)
The role involves leading UX/UI design efforts for multiple products, translating business goals into high-fidelity designs and interactive prototypes. You will collaborate with product managers and engineers to maintain design systems and optimize user experiences for a highly visible web application.
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.