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Lead Graphic Designer
Remote (🇬🇪 Tbilisi, Georgia)
Social Discovery Group Remote (🇬🇪 Tbilisi, Georgia)
Lead the graphic design team to ensure high creative quality and implement AI-powered production workflows to increase scalability. Oversee the creation of high-volume performance creatives for paid acquisition campaigns and maintain consistent brand standards across all digital assets.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Skygrid 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Lead the UX strategy for the design system for software products and develop design artifacts to support the product lifecycle. Collaborate with product managers and human factors to define product requirements and ensure the final user experience meets expectations.
Lead UX Researcher
🇬🇧 Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Asda 🇬🇧 Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Lead and develop a team of researchers to deliver high-impact insights that shape Asda's digital and ecommerce experiences. Establish research standards and partner with product, design, and engineering teams to embed customer insight into business decisions.
Lead UX Designer
🇬🇧 Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Asda 🇬🇧 Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Lead a multi-disciplinary design team to improve the digital experiences of Asda Groceries and George.com across web and app. This hands-on leadership role involves setting design standards, managing direct reports, and partnering with product and engineering teams to deliver end-to-end customer journeys.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 Westminster, Colorado, United States of America
Vantor 🇺🇸 Westminster, Colorado, United States of America
Own high-impact problem spaces to define cross-product design frameworks and interaction models for spatial and data-heavy workflows. Partner with Product and Engineering teams to lead alignment, establish reusable standards, and mentor senior designers.
Lead Product Designer, BNPL (Dave Flex)
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Dave Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Lead the end-to-end design of the Dave Flex BNPL product, evolving it from an MVP to a mature, scaled offering. Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Research teams to define product direction, success metrics, and design narratives.
Principal Product Designer - Group Guidelines & Finder
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Frontify 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the design direction for foundational platform areas including Guidelines, Finder, and Developer Experience to turn complexity into clarity. Define scalable UX/UI patterns and contribute to the design system to ensure a polished, consistent, and brand-aligned product experience.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
3commas Remote (🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
Own the end-to-end product experience for the QuantPilot AI trading platform, covering UX, UI, and design strategy. Lead other product designers and collaborate with engineering to simplify complex trading workflows and data presentation.
Senior Product Designer
🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
Vega 🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
The role involves designing complex, AI-native interfaces that transform security data into actionable insights for SOC analysts. Responsibilities include building a scalable design system, leading user research, and collaborating with product and engineering teams.
Leader Data & AI Product Designer & Architect - F/H
🇫🇷 Paris, France
Wepoint 🇫🇷 Paris, France
Design and structure scalable data products and modern data platforms that align technical architecture with business value. Lead the implementation of agentic AI solutions and manage cross-functional teams to drive large-scale digital transformations.
Leader Data & AI Product Designer & Architect - F/H
🇫🇷 Paris, France
Onepoint 🇫🇷 Paris, France
Design and structure scalable data products and modern data platforms while integrating agentic AI solutions to transform business processes. Lead cross-functional teams to align technical architecture, governance, and product management with business value creation.
Leader Data & AI Product Designer & Architect - F/H
🇫🇷 Paris, France
Wepoint 🇫🇷 Paris, France
Design and structure scalable Data and AI products, ensuring alignment between technical architecture, governance, and business value. Lead multidisciplinary teams to transform operational processes through the implementation of modern data platforms and agentic AI solutions.
[Coupang Pay] Staff Product Designer (FinTech UX)
South Korea, Seoul
Coupang Internal South Korea, Seoul
Lead end-to-end design projects for innovative financial services for consumers and sellers, collaborating with product, business, and engineering teams. Contribute to product vision and roadmaps while analyzing existing services to improve user experience.
UX designer
🇮🇳 Pune, Bajirao Road, Kasba Peth, - 411001, Maharashtra, India
Weekday Ai 🇮🇳 Pune, Bajirao Road, Kasba Peth, - 411001, Maharashtra, India
Lead the design strategy for a digital product suite by creating user-centered interfaces, interaction models, and prototypes. Collaborate with stakeholders and engineering teams to ensure high-quality implementation and a seamless customer journey.
Product Designer Senior H/F
🇫🇷 Bordeaux, Gironde, France
Nexton 🇫🇷 Bordeaux, Gironde, France
Lead and mentor a team of UX/UI designers to deliver optimized e-commerce solutions. Manage user research, define the design roadmap with Product Managers, and ensure overall graphic and ergonomic consistency.
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.