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Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Easyllama 🇺🇸 United States of America
Own the design and optimization of the core multi-product platform experience, focusing on onboarding, discovery, and AI-driven automation. Partner with senior leadership to translate complex platform architecture into intuitive user experiences that drive growth metrics.
Senior Graphic Designer (Branding Focus)
🇪🇬 Egypt
Osa Outsourcing Advantage 🇪🇬 Egypt
Lead end-to-end branding and graphic design projects, ensuring brand consistency across all materials. Collaborate directly with clients and manage multiple deliverables independently.
Lead Product Designer — Platform & Experience
Remote (🇬🇧 East Riding of Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom)
Futurefit Ai Remote (🇬🇧 East Riding of Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom)
The Lead Product Designer will own the visual language and design system of the FutureFit AI platform, ensuring coherence across various user surfaces. They will lead the design of complex feature initiatives and maintain high design standards throughout the product development lifecycle.
Staff Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Fieldguide Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Lead end-to-end design for complex audit workflows and partner closely with Product and Engineering teams. Advocate for users while balancing technical, regulatory, and business constraints.
Principal Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America)
True Link Financial Remote (🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America)
Lead end-to-end product design for the Card Platform and support design needs for the Trust & Invest business. Drive customer insight and research while advocating for user perspectives in cross-functional discussions.
Lead Product Designer
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Circle 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
The Lead Product Designer will audit existing workflows and unify them into a cohesive platform experience. They will design systems for Authentication, Roles & Permissions, and Billing that other product teams will rely on.
Lead Product Designer - Design Systems
🇺🇸 Michigan, United States of America
Rocket Companies 🇺🇸 Michigan, United States of America
Lead the evolution and scaling of the company's design system across web and mobile platforms. Partner with engineering and product teams to create scalable components, patterns, and documentation while mentoring other designers.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Owais Construction Group 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Lead the design activities for the School Upgrade Program, ensuring projects meet functional, budgetary, and legal requirements. Coordinate with architects, consultants, and the Division of State Architects to oversee the building design process from conception to handoff.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America
Summit Sothebys International Realty 🇺🇸 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America
The role involves balancing high-volume production design with strategic creative initiatives to elevate the Summit Sotheby’s brand. Responsibilities include leading brand identity development, managing multiple advisor requests, and mentoring junior designers.
Senior Graphic Designer (Branding Focus)
Remote (🇺🇦 Ukraine)
Osa Outsourcing Advantage Remote (🇺🇦 Ukraine)
Lead end-to-end branding and graphic design projects, ensuring brand consistency across all materials. Collaborate directly with clients and manage multiple deliverables independently.
Graphic Designer
🇨🇴 Colombia
Hook + Ladder Digital 🇨🇴 Colombia
You will lead the visual direction for client projects and 360° campaigns, collaborating closely with strategists to produce high-impact creatives. Your role includes designing various digital and print assets that align with brand identities and campaign objectives.
Lead Product Designer
🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
Circle 🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
The Lead Product Designer will architect the foundational systems for Circle, focusing on user experience for Authentication, Roles & Permissions, and Billing. They will unify fragmented workflows into a cohesive platform experience.
Lead Product Designer
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Circle 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
You will audit existing workflows and unify them into a cohesive platform experience. Additionally, you will design user experiences for roles, permissions, and billing systems.
Staff Product Designer, New Business
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Warner Bros. Discovery 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead the design vision and execution of original experiences for emerging products. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create best-in-class product experiences.
Staff Product Designer, New Business
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Warner Bros. Discovery 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Lead the design vision and execution of original experiences for emerging products. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create best-in-class product experiences.
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.