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Staff Product Designer, New Business
🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Warner Bros. Discovery 🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, 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.
Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Plano, Texas, United States of America
Myfunded Futures 🇺🇸 Plano, Texas, United States of America
Create high-impact visual content across social media, email, and landing pages to define the brand's identity for a Gen Z trading audience. Collaborate with marketing leadership to translate complex trading concepts into engaging visuals and evolve the company's design system.
Lead Product Designer
🇺🇸 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America
Circle 🇺🇸 Charlotte, North Carolina, 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.
UX Designer
🇺🇸 Concord, MA 01742, United States of America
Cypress Hcm 🇺🇸 Concord, MA 01742, United States of America
Establish and implement the overall design strategy for digital products and websites while balancing multiple product needs. Lead UX design activities from beginning to end and work closely with cross-functional teams to define business and feature requirements.
Staff UX Designer
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Halo Investing Inc 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Lead the design vision for a structured notes platform by translating complex financial products into intuitive advisor experiences. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to conduct user discovery, manage analytics via Fullstory, and maintain a scalable design system in Figma.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Thrivent 🇺🇸 United States of America
The Staff Product Designer will lead design strategy and execution for Salesforce-based experiences, focusing on advisor and employee interactions. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive design efforts and influence experience decisions.
Lead Product Designer — Platform & Experience
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Futurefit Ai 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Lead Product Designer will own the visual language and design system of the FutureFit AI platform, ensuring coherence across various user personas. They will lead the design of complex feature initiatives and maintain high standards of accessibility and user experience.
Senior Graphic Designer (Branding Focus)
🇨🇴 Colombia
Osa Outsourcing Advantage 🇨🇴 Colombia
Lead end-to-end branding and graphic design projects, ensuring brand consistency across all materials. Collaborate directly with clients and manage multiple deliverables independently while maintaining high-quality output.
Principal Product Designer, Retail
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lightspeed Commerce 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Define new interaction patterns for agentic AI and lead design for the AI experience end-to-end. Raise the craft bar across the organization by contributing directly to various product areas and shaping the mobile strategy.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Tatari 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead the product design process from discovery to delivery, ensuring designs are user-focused and innovative. Collaborate with design and product leadership to communicate design ideas and improve the Tatari design culture.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Tatari 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Lead the product design process from discovery to delivery, ensuring designs are user-focused and innovative. Collaborate with design and product leadership to communicate design ideas and rationalize UX solutions with data.
Lead Product Designer — Platform & Experience
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Futurefit Ai 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Lead Product Designer will own the visual language and design system of the FutureFit AI platform, ensuring coherence across various user personas. They will lead the design of complex features and ensure accessibility standards are met throughout the design process.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Tatari 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead the product design process from discovery to delivery, focusing on translating complex TV advertising workflows into a seamless self-serve experience. The role involves a 60/40 split between core product design and owning the evolution of the company's design system.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Tatari 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead the product design process from discovery to delivery, focusing on translating complex TV advertising workflows into a seamless self-serve experience. The role involves a 60/40 split between true product design and owning the evolution of the company's design system.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Tatari 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Lead the product design process from discovery to delivery, focusing on translating complex TV advertising workflows into a seamless self-serve experience. The role involves a 60/40 split between true product design and owning and advancing the company's design system.
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.