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Senior Product Designer - Subscriptions
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Spotify 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Lead the design of the subscriptions experience from early exploration through launch and iteration. Partner with cross-functional teams to translate complex user and business needs into intuitive digital experiences.
Insomniac - Senior Graphic Designer, Apparel
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States
Insomniac Events 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States
The Senior Graphic Designer will partner with the Creative Director to develop and execute visual identities across fashion, retail, and experiential activations. They will lead the creation of key design assets and provide art direction to designers and vendors to ensure brand consistency.
2026-2027 Design Leadership Development Program – Full Time and Summer Internship
🇺🇸 Columbus, Ohio, United States
Abercrombie & Fitch Co. 🇺🇸 Columbus, Ohio, United States
Designers are responsible for taking products from initial concept through production, including trend research and garment construction. Roles vary across apparel, technical, CAD, and graphic design to create high-quality products for lifestyle brands.
Design Manager
🇫🇷 Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Mercury 🇫🇷 Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Lead the architectural design development for data center buildings, ensuring compliance with client standards and local regulations. Coordinate multidisciplinary teams and manage the integration of architectural requirements into BIM models for construction.
Senior UX Researcher ID84743
🇧🇷 Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
Agileengine 🇧🇷 Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
Lead mixed-method research to evaluate AI-enabled self-service experiences and IT operations tooling. Maintain a jobs-to-be-done framework to provide actionable insights and decision-ready recommendations for stakeholders.
Senior Product Designer
🇨🇦 Canada
Blue J 🇨🇦 Canada
The Senior Product Designer will lead the creation and scaling of design systems and high-fidelity prototypes to simplify complex tax research. They will collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to translate user insights into intuitive, user-centered software experiences.
Principal Product Designer, Core Experience
🇺🇸 United States
Fetch 🇺🇸 United States
Lead the long-term experience direction for discovery and earning across Home, Search, Navigation, and Earnings surfaces. Establish design principles, architecture, and frameworks to ensure a consistent and rewarding user journey while partnering with Product and Engineering leaders.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Raydar 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Lead end-to-end product design for complex, data-heavy software and novel AI interactions. Partner with engineering to translate research findings into polished, functional product surfaces.
Principal Product Designer, Core Experience
🇺🇸 United States
Fetch 🇺🇸 United States
You will lead the long-term experience direction for discovery and earning surfaces, ensuring they function as a cohesive and rewarding system. You will partner with product and engineering leaders to define strategy, establish design frameworks, and drive measurable improvements in user engagement and retention.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States
Flatiron Construction Corp 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States
The Design Manager leads the design process between external firms and internal construction teams to ensure optimized, cost-effective, and constructible project designs. They are responsible for tracking design progress, managing contract change orders, and ensuring all design packages are submitted in compliance with project schedules and budgets.
Senior Product Designer
🇱🇻 Rīga, Latvia
Mintos 🇱🇻 Rīga, Latvia
The Senior Product Designer will own a product area across onboarding, investing, and reporting for web and mobile platforms. They will lead initiatives from discovery to launch, partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver polished, intuitive user experiences.
Graphic Designer (part time)
🌍 Remote
Hpo Outsourcing Professionals - Agency 🌍 Remote
Lead the creation of high-quality visual content for digital and print mediums to bring the brand to life. Collaborate with marketing teams to produce on-brand assets including logos, brand guides, and marketing campaigns.
Senior Product Designer - Subscriptions
🇸🇪 Stockholm, Sweden
Spotify 🇸🇪 Stockholm, Sweden
Lead the design process for subscription experiences from initial exploration through to launch and iteration. Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product, engineering, and research to translate complex user needs into intuitive product solutions.
Design Manager
🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Re/think 🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Lead the design management function from concept to completion for ultra-luxury developments, managing international consultants and ensuring design quality. Act as the client's technical representative to coordinate all disciplines, manage authority compliance, and oversee construction-phase technical submissions.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 Burbank, California, United States
Warner Bros. Discovery 🇺🇸 Burbank, California, United States
Lead complex, cross-functional design initiatives while driving product vision and strategy across multiple platforms. Collaborate with engineering, product, and research teams to deliver intuitive, customer-centered experiences that improve fan engagement.
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.