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UI Designer - Product

🇬🇧 United Kingdom

The UI Designer will be responsible for translating defined ideas, requirements, sketches, and wireframes into polished, build-ready UI designs, working under the guidance of the Senior UX Designer. Key tasks include building and maintaining reusable UI components in Figma and ensuring design consistency across established products and new initiatives.

OnsiteContractMid-level
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Senior Graphic Designer for DTC Company (US-Based, Remote)

Remote (🇲🇽 Mexico)

The Senior Graphic Designer will be responsible for the development and execution of brand identities across multiple touchpoints, ensuring visual excellence and consistency. Key duties include creating and evaluating brand identities, developing comprehensive brand guidelines, and designing high-quality visual assets for various channels.

Remote$60,000 - $80,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior Graphic Designer for DTC Company (US-Based, Remote)

Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)

The Senior Graphic Designer will be responsible for the development and execution of brand identities across multiple touchpoints, ensuring visual excellence and consistency. Key duties include creating and evaluating brand identities, developing comprehensive brand guidelines, and designing high-quality visual assets for various channels.

Remote$60,000 - $80,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer II, Platform UX

🇺🇸 United States of America

The role involves defining, designing, and stewarding cohesive experiences that span the entire platform, while shaping, evolving, and contributing to the design systems to ensure consistency and scalability. Responsibilities also include leveraging and shaping AI features, collaborating across functions, measuring impact, and fostering an inclusive culture.

Hybrid$161,500 - $258,400Full-timeSenior
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UX Researcher SR

🇧🇷 Osasco, Região Metropolitana de São Paulo, Brazil

The Senior UX Researcher will create and conduct end-to-end UX research to guide product and business decisions, connecting user voice with strategy and ensuring methodological quality. Key activities include planning and executing research from briefing to reporting, mapping market behavior, creating executive reports, and negotiating scope/deadlines with internal departments.

HybridFull-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer

🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The role involves leading the design of end-to-end product experiences, from initial concept through polished execution, while also building upon existing design foundations by refining patterns and contributing to the design system's evolution. Responsibilities include collaborating with cross-functional partners to shape solutions and translating user insights into elegant visual and interaction designs.

Onsite$100,000 - $150,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior UX Designer

🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The role involves designing end-to-end CRM experiences to help Investor Relations professionals manage workflows and engage with investors, while also shaping the platform's roadmap through prototyping and pitching new ideas. Responsibilities include upholding design quality via the design system and collaborating closely with product managers, engineers, and content designers for seamless, user-centric solution delivery.

Onsite$100,000 - $130,000Full-timeMid-level
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AP - Senior Graphic Designer - South Africa (Remote)

Remote (🇿🇦 Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa)

The Senior Graphic Designer will be responsible for creating and adapting visually compelling graphics and assets across POS, print, digital, and social platforms to promote the brand, products, and services. Key duties include producing high-quality finished art, performing advanced retouching, developing distinctive brand assets, and contributing conceptually to design direction.

Remote$50,000 - $90,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior Video Editor & Graphic Designer- A337

Remote (🇵🇭 Manila, Capital District, Philippines)

The role involves owning the end-to-end video production process, focusing heavily on video storytelling, motion graphics, and delivering polished outputs for digital platforms. Core tasks include editing high-quality video content, executing professional color correction and audio mixing, and creating 2D motion graphics and visual elements.

Remote$60,000 - $100,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior Video Editor & Graphic Designer- A337

Remote (🇵🇭 Philippines)

The role involves owning the end-to-end video production process, focusing heavily on video storytelling, motion graphics, and delivering polished outputs for digital platforms. Responsibilities include professional video editing, color correction, audio mixing, creating 2D motion graphics, and developing supporting graphic assets.

Remote$60,000 - $100,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior Video Editor & Graphic Designer- A337

Remote (🇧🇷 São Paulo, Região Metropolitana de São Paulo, Brazil)

The role involves owning the end-to-end video production process, heavily focused on video storytelling, motion graphics, and delivering polished outputs across digital platforms. Core duties include editing high-quality video content, executing professional color correction and audio mixing, and creating 2D motion graphics and visual elements.

Remote$60,000 - $100,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior Video Editor & Graphic Designer- A337

Remote (🇿🇦 Cape Town, City of Cape Town, South Africa)

The role involves owning the end-to-end video production and post-production process, heavily focused on video storytelling, motion graphics, and delivering polished outputs across digital platforms. Core duties include editing high-quality video content, executing professional color correction and audio mixing, and creating 2D motion graphics and visual elements.

Remote$80,000 - $110,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior Video Editor & Graphic Designer- A337

Remote (🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico)

The role involves owning the end-to-end video production process, heavily focused on video storytelling, motion graphics, and delivering polished outputs across digital platforms, including editing, color grading, audio mixing, and creating 2D motion graphics.

Remote$80,000 - $110,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer

🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel

The Senior Product Designer will be responsible for rapidly creating impactful and elegant solutions while solving complex UX challenges and transforming them into simple, user-friendly experiences. This role involves taking full ownership from prototyping to final implementation, partnering with Product Managers and UX Researchers, and collaborating closely with engineers.

$100,000 - $140,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior UX Designer (Intelligent Mobility & Cockpit)

🇸🇪 Lund, Skåne County, Sweden

Drive innovation and concept development for intelligent mobility and cockpit products, enhancing storytelling to communicate creative concepts for automotive digital experiences. Collaborate globally to lead design projects from research through concept design, focusing on the digital experience and human-computer interaction of cockpit central control screens and instrument panels.

OnsiteFull-timeSenior
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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.