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Senior Product Designer - Cape Town
🇿🇦 Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Clearscore Technology Limited 🇿🇦 Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Lead end-to-end product design delivery while managing a small team of Product Designers. Collaborate closely with Product Managers and Engineers to ensure high-quality, scalable design solutions.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇮🇹 Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Ex Squared Latam 🇮🇹 Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
The Senior Graphic Designer is responsible for delivering high-quality creative solutions across digital and traditional media, balancing conceptual creativity with executional excellence and brand consistency.
Senior Graphic Designer – Product & Packaging
🇨🇳 Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China
Branch Furniture 🇨🇳 Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China
The Senior Graphic Designer will own the creation and maintenance of assembly guides and packaging artwork for the furniture portfolio. This role involves producing detailed instructions and collaborating with various teams to ensure accuracy and consistency in product documentation.
Senior UI Designer (Libra - Legal AI Assistant) (m/f/d)
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Wolters Kluwer 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
The Senior UI Designer will champion user-centered design across products, ensuring intuitive and accessible experiences, while owning and leading the end-to-end UI for Libra’s legal platform. This involves driving UI strategy from concept to high-fidelity prototypes, collaborating with experts, and maintaining the design system for scalable interactions.
Senior Graphic Designer & Creative Lead
🇬🇧 Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom
Potter Global Technologies 🇬🇧 Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom
The Senior Graphic Designer & Creative Lead will own creative execution across global marketing assets, acting as the primary creative authority to set visual standards and ensure brand consistency for international B2B audiences. This role involves translating complex, technical product content into clear, engaging visuals while partnering with marketing and regional teams on campaigns and launches.
Senior Technical UI Designer
🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Epic Games 🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
The Senior Technical UI Designer will implement UI systems design in Unreal Engine, build rapid prototypes, and enhance workflows. They will collaborate with UX Designers, UI Artists, and UI Programmers to deliver features to millions of users.
Senior Technical UI Designer
🇧🇷 Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Epic Games 🇧🇷 Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
The Senior Technical UI Designer will implement UI systems design in Unreal Engine, build rapid prototypes, and collaborate with UX Designers, UI Artists, and UI Programmers. They will also ensure UI performance and assist in debugging and workflow improvements.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇩🇪 Haar, Bavaria, Germany
Lore Group 🇩🇪 Haar, Bavaria, Germany
The Senior Graphic Designer will drive the design development of key assets across brand, digital, and hotel marketing. They will interpret briefs from concept to final artwork, ensuring all assets are delivered on time and on brand.
Senior UX UI Designer
🇧🇬 Sofia, Sofia-City, Bulgaria
Softwareone 🇧🇬 Sofia, Sofia-City, Bulgaria
The Senior UX/UI Designer will develop and execute a comprehensive UX/UI strategy for SWO SPI products and services, focusing on tooling consolidation and a unified interface. This role involves collaborating with various teams to ensure the user experience aligns with SWO goals and delivers maximum value.
Senior Graphic Designer AMM
🇯🇴 Amman, Amman, Jordan
Chain Reaction 🇯🇴 Amman, Amman, Jordan
The Senior Graphic Designer will lead the visual direction for campaigns and projects from concept through final execution, translating brand strategy into clear visual systems. Key duties include collaborating with the creative team, proposing art directions aligned with business goals, ensuring visual consistency, and reviewing the work of junior designers.
Senior Product Designer - Search
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Ebay 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The role involves leading the design and execution of end-to-end product experiences, from concept to polished UI, focusing on improving the search journey. This includes hands-on design work, prototyping using advanced tools, and partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative and intuitive solutions.
Sr UX Designer - Remote
🌍 Remote
Unitedhealth Group 🌍 Remote
The Senior User Experience Designer will work with product owners, users, and stakeholders to develop solutions that meet business objectives. Responsibilities include conducting user research, creating wireframes and prototypes, and delivering documentation for developers.
Senior Product Designer (Design Engineer)
🌍 Remote
Motion 🌍 Remote
The Senior Product Designer will plan and execute user research, own the end-to-end design process, and collaborate closely with engineers and product managers. They will also identify areas for refinement and maintain the component library for consistency.
Senior Product Designer, CRM & Industries
🌍 Remote
Servicenow 🌍 Remote
You will develop innovative design solutions and product experiences that transform how people work. You will drive user experiences from concept to delivery based on user needs and design principles.
Senior Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Medtrainer 🌍 Remote
The Senior Product Designer will lead the design of user-centered experiences across various platforms. Responsibilities include designing user flows, creating prototypes, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
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.