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Product Design Manager - Experience Design Team
🇺🇸 Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
Capital One 🇺🇸 Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
As a Product Designer, you will lead design projects and co-create innovative solutions to complex problems while influencing product strategy. You will also mentor junior team members and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders.
Product Design Manager - Experience Design Team
🇺🇸 McLean, VA 22101, United States of America
Capital One 🇺🇸 McLean, VA 22101, United States of America
As a Product Designer, you will lead design projects and co-create innovative solutions to complex problems while influencing product strategy. You will mentor junior team members and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to enhance the overall product design practice.
Graphic Designer
🇲🇹 Malta
Arrise 🇲🇹 Malta
Lead the creation of premium visual designs and branding assets for Live Casino games and digital products. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business objectives into engaging, high-quality player experiences.
Senior UX Designer (all genders)
🇩🇪 Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Starface Gmbh 🇩🇪 Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Lead the UX vision for the STARFACE Group across all digital platforms and provide technical guidance to the UX/UI team. Responsible for creating wireframes, prototypes, and maintaining a cross-product design system for PBX systems and mobile/desktop apps.
Web Designer
🇿🇦 Sandton, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa
Kerridge Commercial Systems Corp 🇿🇦 Sandton, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa
The Digital Web Designer will lead the migration of global websites onto a single platform and create visual assets across digital and print channels. This includes developing landing pages, mock-ups, and marketing materials while adhering to global brand guidelines.
Senior UX Designer (all genders)
🇩🇪 Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Starface Gmbh 🇩🇪 Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Lead the UX vision and guidance of the UX/UI team across all digital platforms for the STARFACE Group. Responsible for the conception, design, and continuous improvement of user interfaces for PBX systems, mobile/desktop apps, and web portals.
Senior UX Designer (all genders)
🇩🇪 Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Starface Gmbh 🇩🇪 Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Lead the UX vision and provide technical guidance for the UX/UI team across all digital platforms. Responsible for the conception, design, and continuous improvement of user interfaces for PBX systems, mobile/desktop apps, and web portals.
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Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Arlington County, Virginia, United States of America
[solidcore] 🇺🇸 Arlington County, Virginia, United States of America
Lead the UX/UI design for client-facing digital experiences across mobile apps and websites to improve client satisfaction and engagement. Establish and evolve the digital product design system while partnering with engineering to ensure high-quality implementation.
Principal, Design Engineering - Power
🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Celestica International Lp 🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Architect, implement, and support power system solutions for networking, storage, and server hardware platforms. Lead the design of DC-DC switch-mode power supplies and ensure they meet thermal, safety, and system specifications.
Lead Product Designer
🇺🇸 Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Circle 🇺🇸 Phoenix, Arizona, 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.
Lead Product Designer
🇺🇸 Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Circle 🇺🇸 Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
You will audit existing workflows and unify them into a cohesive platform experience. Additionally, you will design user experiences for roles, permissions, and billing systems.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Fieldguide 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead end-to-end design for complex, ambiguous audit workflows, from problem definition through shipped solutions. Partner closely with Product and Engineering to shape strategy, influence roadmaps, and deliver high-quality, scalable implementations.
Physical UX Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Design Observer 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The role involves collaborating with multidisciplinary teams and clients to identify opportunities and define requirements for design solutions. UX Designers lead the UX work on defined product areas, supporting the discovery, ideation, and execution of user experiences.
Product Designer | Senior
🇱🇹 Vilnius, Vilnius city municipality, Lithuania
Nexos.ai 🇱🇹 Vilnius, Vilnius city municipality, Lithuania
Work closely with Product Managers and Engineering to shape solutions and lead problem discovery. Design AI-native experiences while balancing speed and quality, continuously improving with user feedback.
Senior UI Designer
🇦🇹 Salzburg, Austria
Loop® 🇦🇹 Salzburg, Austria
Lead the visual design process to create polished, scalable, and user-centered interfaces for web and mobile platforms. Develop and maintain comprehensive design systems and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality digital product delivery.
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.