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Senior Product Designer - Customer (B2B)
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Zoopla 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
You will own the end-to-end design of the commercial marketplace, including tools and workflows for agents and developers. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate customer insights into intuitive, high-impact product experiences.
Senior Design Systems Engineer II
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States
Blinkrx 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States
Build and evolve standardized UI components and maintain a centralized design system library to ensure consistency across digital products. Partner with design and engineering teams to integrate shared UI infrastructure and create live prototypes for new patterns.
Senior Product Designer, Search and Conversational AI
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Linkedin 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Lead the end-to-end design of conversational AI, content discovery, and search interfaces to transform LinkedIn Search into an AI-powered partner. Partner with engineering and AI research scientists to turn complex technical architectures into intuitive and transformative user experiences.
Sr. Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Achieve 🇺🇸 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
You will lead design for consumer acquisition and zero-to-one product innovation, shaping the future of the company's prequalification platform and new product bets. You will collaborate with cross-functional Agile teams and senior executives to deliver high-impact, data-driven design solutions.
Senior Design Systems Engineer II
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States
Blink Health 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States
You will build and evolve standardized UI components to ensure high-quality, accessible, and consistent design across the company's digital ecosystem. Additionally, you will partner with cross-functional teams to integrate these components and mentor other engineers on best practices.
Senior Product Designer, Search and Conversational AI
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Linkedin 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Lead the end-to-end design of conversational AI, content discovery, and search interfaces while bridging the gap between design, engineering, and AI research. Drive vision through systems thinking and rapid interactive prototyping to transform complex AI capabilities into intuitive user experiences.
Senior Web Designer
🇺🇸 Canada, Kentucky, United States
Polyai 🇺🇸 Canada, Kentucky, United States
The Senior Web Designer will own and evolve the website design system while leading end-to-end design initiatives across all web-facing surfaces. They will collaborate with engineers and marketing stakeholders to deliver high-performing, accessible web experiences that drive engagement and pipeline.
Senior UX Researcher ID84743
🇨🇴 Perímetro Urbano Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia
Agileengine 🇨🇴 Perímetro Urbano Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia
The Senior UX Researcher will independently scope and execute mixed-method studies to evaluate AI-enabled self-service experiences and enterprise tooling. They will also maintain a jobs-to-be-done framework and partner with cross-functional teams to validate research findings for operational decisions.
Senior UX Researcher ID84743
🇦🇷 Departamento Los Lagos, Neuquén, Argentina
Agileengine 🇦🇷 Departamento Los Lagos, Neuquén, Argentina
The Senior UX Researcher will independently scope and execute mixed-method studies to evaluate AI-enabled self-service experiences and enterprise tooling. They will maintain a jobs-to-be-done framework and partner with cross-functional teams to deliver actionable, decision-ready research insights.
Senior UX Researcher ID84743
🇦🇷 Cordoba, Córdoba, Argentina
Agileengine 🇦🇷 Cordoba, Córdoba, Argentina
The Senior UX Researcher will independently scope and execute mixed-method studies to evaluate AI-enabled self-service experiences and enterprise tooling. They will maintain a jobs-to-be-done framework and partner with cross-functional teams to deliver actionable insights that inform product and operational decisions.
Senior/Staff Product Designer
🇦🇷 Argentina
Ryz Labs 🇦🇷 Argentina
You will collaborate with engineers to design complex, data-heavy AI-powered tools by conducting user research and creating detailed specifications. You will work directly with customers to observe their workflows and iterate on designs based on real-world feedback.
Senior Product Designer — Growth & Activation | Credit & Cards, Europe (Remote)
🌍 Remote
Finom 🌍 Remote
You will own the end-to-end design process from discovery to delivery, creating simple and trustworthy financial workflows. You will collaborate closely with product, engineering, and analytics teams to optimize user experiences through research and data-driven decisions.
Sr. UX Researcher
🇺🇸 Irvine, California, United States
Yum! 🇺🇸 Irvine, California, United States
The Senior Usability Researcher will plan and execute user research across digital guest channels and internal restaurant operations tools. This role generates actionable insights to drive design decisions, product requirements, and operational efficiency for cross-functional teams.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇪 Tbilisi, Georgia
Tbcbank 🇬🇪 Tbilisi, Georgia
Own product features from start to finish, including problem identification, solution design, and implementation. Collaborate with cross-functional teams such as product managers, engineers, and researchers to deliver data-driven design solutions.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Microsoft 🇬🇧 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Own end-to-end design execution for product areas, from problem definition to high-fidelity delivery and prototyping. Collaborate with Product Management and Engineering to integrate frontier AI tools and translate research insights into actionable design improvements.
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.