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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.
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, ensuring designs are user-focused and innovative. Collaborate with design and product leadership to communicate design ideas and rationalize UX solutions with data.
Senior Product Designer, US & Canada Regional Experience
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Remitly 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design process for the US and Canada regional experience, from discovery and wireframing to high-fidelity prototypes. Collaborate with product, engineering, and data teams to drive strategic design direction and create cohesive, customer-centric interfaces.
Sr Interaction Designer
🇺🇸 Sunnyvale, California, United States of America
Intuitive 🇺🇸 Sunnyvale, California, United States of America
Lead the design of digital interfaces and ecosystems for the Ion robotic platform, ensuring solutions are safe and effective. Collaborate with Human Factors, Clinical, and Engineering teams to translate complex medical needs into functional user interfaces.
Lead Electrical Design Manager
🇬🇧 Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
Streamline Search Ltd 🇬🇧 Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
The Lead Electrical Design Manager will deliver detailed electrical designs and coordinated construction information across various projects. This role includes producing high-quality design documentation and mentoring junior engineers while managing workflows and deadlines.
Product Designer
🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brazil
Syngenta Group 🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brazil
Lead user research and design end-to-end experiences for AI-driven decision support tools for global users. Develop a cohesive design system and collaborate with data scientists and engineers to translate complex AI outputs into actionable visual interfaces.
Staff Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Deliveroo 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the design strategy for critical product areas and drive architectural improvements across the Deliveroo ecosystem. Mentor senior designers and collaborate with Product and Engineering leadership to align user needs with commercial goals.
Lead Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Diego, California, United States of America
Circle 🇺🇸 San Diego, 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.
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.