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Senior Product Designer
🇵🇹 Portugal
Bitsight 🇵🇹 Portugal
The Senior Product Designer will own the end-to-end design process for product areas, focusing on integrating innovative AI solutions into the user experience. They will lead research, contribute to the design system, and collaborate closely with product teams to deliver usable and credible data intelligence.
Graphic Designer (Remote)
🌍 Remote
Hire Feed 🌍 Remote
Design and develop high-impact presentation decks for leadership and client-facing communications. Translate complex data and strategic concepts into visually compelling narratives while maintaining brand guidelines.
Senior Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States
Apollo Graphql 🇺🇸 United States
You will assess product surfaces to identify high-leverage design opportunities and lead the modernization of core developer experiences. You will partner with engineering to drive end-to-end solutions and set design standards that improve product usability and developer workflows.
Design Manager - Construction
🇺🇸 Rossmoor, California, United States
Erickson-hall Construction Co. 🇺🇸 Rossmoor, California, United States
The Design Manager leads the entire design-build process from concept through construction, ensuring projects meet schedule, budget, and technical requirements. They coordinate between design teams, subcontractors, and construction staff to optimize constructability and manage contractual obligations.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Discover International 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Lead end-to-end product experiences for a nonprofit research institute, focusing on customer journeys from discovery to launch. Collaborate with engineering, data, and marketing teams to implement UX guidelines and evolve the digital design system.
Product Designer
🇫🇷 Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Alan 🇫🇷 Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Lead the end-to-end design process from inception to completion, collaborating with product managers and engineers to create human-centric healthcare experiences. Responsibilities include developing product visions, mentoring junior designers, and maintaining a high-quality UI consistent with the brand.
WEB DESIGNER / GRAPHIC DESIGNER & MARKETING
🇮🇹 Giugliano in Campania, Campania, Italy
Integraa Holding Srl 🇮🇹 Giugliano in Campania, Campania, Italy
The role involves designing and developing websites, landing pages, and graphic materials while managing the company's brand identity. The candidate will also create and manage lead generation campaigns and digital communication across social channels.
Lead Product Designer
🇦🇹 Vienna, Austria
Clera 🇦🇹 Vienna, Austria
You will lead product design, branding, and team direction while working directly with founders and engineering to ship daily. The role involves hands-on design work, conducting customer interviews, and maintaining design systems across three core product areas.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇮🇳 Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
Morphogenesis 🇮🇳 Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
The Visual Communications Manager will lead the design language across digital, print, and internal communication touchpoints. Responsibilities include managing website UI/UX, creating social media content, and developing visual narratives for architectural projects and award submissions.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States
Perry Weather 🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States
Lead end-to-end product design from concept to shipment, including conducting user research and defining success metrics. Maintain a scalable design system and ensure platform coherence across multiple industries and personas.
Lead Design Manager
🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Wasael Property Management 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Lead the end-to-end design management process for major projects, ensuring technical compliance and commercial viability from concept to handover. Coordinate multidisciplinary teams, manage external consultants, and ensure design solutions align with project objectives and regulatory requirements.
Head of Design, AI-First
🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Puffy 🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Lead the design function to transform web design into an AI-native operation, owning the design system, toolchain, and roadmap. Partner with the CRO team to implement high-volume, high-quality design variants that drive conversion lift.
Head of Design, AI-First
🇵🇱 Warszawa, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
Puffy 🇵🇱 Warszawa, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
Lead the design function to transform web design into an AI-native operation, owning the design system, toolchain, and roadmap. You will manage a team of three as a player-coach to increase delivery speed and conversion lift for a billion-dollar D2C brand.
Digital Product Designer [AQ-16995]
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Aquent 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead the conceptualization and deployment of an industry-leading business banking portal by translating complex requirements into user-centric experiences. Collaborate with cross-functional teams and mentor design peers to ensure consistency and design integrity throughout implementation.
Senior Interaction Designer [AQ-16994]
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Aquent 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead the design of intuitive and inclusive digital experiences from strategy to execution. Drive user comprehension through the creation of complex artifacts, interactive prototypes, and the application of interaction design theory.
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.