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Senior Product Designer
🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Hiive 🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
As a Senior Product Designer, you will lead the design and implementation of key product features, collaborating with engineers and stakeholders to optimize user experience. You will conduct user research and usability testing to iterate and improve UX solutions.
Design Systems Lead
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Perplexity 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Lead will bootstrap and own a semantic token system and the design system repository on GitHub to ensure product coherence across platforms. They will bridge the gap between design and engineering by managing contributions, documentation, and accessibility standards.
Lead Product Designer
🇺🇸 Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
Circle 🇺🇸 Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
You will audit existing workflows and unify them into a cohesive platform experience. Additionally, you will design systems for user roles, permissions, and a scalable billing infrastructure.
Lead Product Designer
🇺🇸 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America
Circle 🇺🇸 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America
The Lead Product Designer will architect the foundational systems for Circle, including Authentication, Roles & Permissions, and Billing. They will unify fragmented workflows into a cohesive platform experience while ensuring security does not compromise usability.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Gradial 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Lead design for complex product areas and turn enterprise marketing workflows into intuitive experiences. Partner with various teams to shape user journeys and raise the quality of the product through strong design fundamentals.
Brand & Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Tavus 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead the market-facing visual identity and high-fidelity web experiences while ensuring a cohesive user journey from marketing to product. Collaborate with the product team to enhance onboarding flows and maintain the overall design system.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Gradial 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Lead the design of complex, AI-native product areas for enterprise marketing teams from ambiguity to shipment. Define UX patterns for AI-assisted workflows and evolve the company's design system and interaction standards.
Product Design Lead - Design Systems
🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America
Pebl 🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America
Own and evolve the design system, including components, tokens, and documentation across web and mobile surfaces. Partner with engineering to ensure system decisions translate cleanly into code and maintain quality and consistency.
Visual Designer
🇺🇸 Martinsburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Wvu Medicine Berkeley And Jefferson Medical Centers 🇺🇸 Martinsburg, West Virginia, United States of America
The Visual Designer is responsible for creating publications, advertisements, and other visual materials that reflect the image of WVU Medicine. This role involves collaborating with staff and leaders to shape the visual image of the hospital and ensuring high-quality standards in all design outputs.
Marine Design Manager
🇺🇸 New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
Saronic Technologies 🇺🇸 New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
Lead and manage a team of marine designers and drafters to support autonomous surface vessel development. Oversee the development and enforcement of drawing standards and ensure marine regulatory compliance across all design documentation.
Interaction Designer Ion
🇺🇸 Sunnyvale, California, United States of America
Intuitive 🇺🇸 Sunnyvale, California, United States of America
Lead the interaction design and product innovation for minimally invasive lung care robotic systems. Drive the end-to-end design process from early concepting and user research to final production-ready UI specifications.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Duolingo 🇺🇸 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
You will work on the user experience across features within the Duolingo language app and play a leadership role on the product design team. Collaborating with designers, artists, engineers, and product managers, you will help define the long-term strategy and short-term tactics for our products.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 Plano, Texas, United States of America
The Whiting-turner Contracting Company 🇺🇸 Plano, Texas, United States of America
The Design Manager provides leadership for Comprehensive Design Services, ensuring design integration throughout project execution. They guide design decisions to meet program requirements, budget, and quality commitments while facilitating team coordination.
Lead Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Evolutioniq 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
You will own the design of new products and expand on existing products, from discovery through launch. Partner with Product and Engineering to shape strategy and drive execution.
Graphic Designer In Ski Town (on-site)
🇺🇸 Sun Valley, Idaho, United States
Crown Union 🇺🇸 Sun Valley, Idaho, United States
Design and produce print and digital materials that align with brand standards and strategy. Collaborate cross-functionally with creative, marketing, and leadership teams.
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.