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Remote Senior Artist (Graphic Designer)
Remote (🇹🇷 Turkey)
Turing Remote (🇹🇷 Turkey)
Create high-quality, character-driven visual assets and illustrations across various styles such as manga, pop art, and comics. Document artistic prompts and design workflows while collaborating with cross-functional teams to refine outputs.
Senior Product Designer, Ads
🇺🇸 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Kayak 🇺🇸 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Lead end-to-end design for web and mobile platforms focusing on Ads, SEO, and B2B dashboards. Collaborate with product managers and engineers to translate user needs into design decisions and conduct qualitative research to iterate on products.
Senior Product Designer, Trading
🇺🇸 Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States of America
Robinhood 🇺🇸 Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States of America
Lead the design strategy and execution for the core equities business line, focusing on intuitive and rapid trading interfaces. Collaborate with engineering, product, and legal teams to take projects from initial concept to final production.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Grainger Businesses 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
The Senior UX Designer will design user experiences for enterprise applications by collaborating with product managers, engineers, and other designers. They are responsible for conducting user research, creating wireframes, and developing design standards to support internal tools.
Senior Product Designer
🇫🇷 Paris, France
Alma 🇫🇷 Paris, France
Lead the design of internal tooling and B2B SaaS products for the Core Tribe, focusing on payment infrastructure and risk management. Own the end-to-end design process from discovery and research to delivering complete flows and tracking success metrics.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇭🇳 Honduras
Próspera 🇭🇳 Honduras
The role is responsible for transforming brand strategy into high-quality visual experiences across digital and physical touchpoints. This includes developing strategic design solutions for campaigns, social media, and print materials while maintaining visual consistency for luxury brands.
Senior Product Designer - Creator Analytics & Tools
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Soundcloud 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Design intuitive product experiences and dashboards that translate complex streaming analytics and financial metrics into actionable insights for creators. Lead the end-to-end design process, defining product scope and strategy while partnering with engineering to ensure technical feasibility.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Camber 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
You will lead the design of complex data-driven product experiences by translating messy workflows into intuitive, user-friendly interfaces. You will also act as an expert on internal user workflows to identify patterns and drive product improvements from conception to shipment.
Senior Staff Product Designer, Digital Assets
🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America
Nubank 🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America
You will serve as the lead design voice for digital assets, creating intuitive and accessible experiences for products like Bitcoin, stablecoins, and tokenized equities. You will be responsible for shaping the product strategy and designing invisible infrastructure that simplifies complex financial technology for a global customer base.
Senior Associate Product Designer | Titleist
🇺🇸 New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States of America
Acushnet Company 🇺🇸 New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States of America
The Senior Associate Product Designer creates and refines innovative product concepts for golf and travel gear using 2D/3D CAD and hands-on prototyping. This role collaborates with cross-functional teams to ensure designs are commercially viable and meet critical project timelines.
Senior Principal, HW Design Engineering (AI/ ML Architect )
🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Celestica International Lp 🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
The AI Architect will define and drive the AI strategy for Hardware Engineering to improve productivity, design quality, and development cycles. They will partner with various engineering teams to identify high-value AI opportunities and oversee the deployment of scalable solutions.
Sr UX Designer II (Remote)
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
American Specialty Health Incorporated Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The Senior UX Designer II will lead the evolution of the company's Design System and integrate AI-assisted workflows into product development. They will partner with cross-functional teams to ensure visual consistency, accessibility, and scalable design standards across all digital products.
Senior Design Manager - BLS
🇺🇸 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Exyte Gmbh 🇺🇸 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
The Senior Design Manager oversees a multidisciplinary team to deliver high-quality design outputs for Biopharma Life Sciences projects while ensuring compliance with budget and schedule. They serve as the single point of contact for design-related issues and manage project execution plans, coordination reviews, and resource allocation.
Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 McLean, VA 22101, United States of America
Saic 🇺🇸 McLean, VA 22101, United States of America
The Graphic Designer will create innovative production concepts and compelling visuals to support an Intelligence Community customer. Responsibilities include collaborating with senior management to produce logos, briefings, and other tailored communication products.
Senior Graphic Designer
Remote (🇺🇦 Ukraine)
Solidgate Remote (🇺🇦 Ukraine)
Create high-impact visual communications for acquisition, including marketing campaigns, sales decks, and social media content. Support the sales team with presentations and design brand presence for conferences and exhibitions.
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.