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Lead UX_UI Designer
🇺🇸 Westminster, Colorado, United States
Caterpillar Inc. 🇺🇸 Westminster, Colorado, United States
This role involves leading the design vision and coordinating work across eCommerce product teams to ensure customer-centric design excellence by influencing product strategy and leading design workshops. The Lead UX/UI Designer will also serve as a design authority, guiding decisions, managing design intake, and contributing to foundational experience artifacts like journey mapping and component libraries.
Sr. Graphic Designer - Football
🇺🇸 Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States
University Of Arkansas System 🇺🇸 Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States
The Senior Graphic Designer is responsible for enhancing the visual identity of the Razorback Football program across various platforms. This includes serving as the lead graphic designer and photographer while supporting the Director of Creative Media in strategy and content planning.
Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
Delricht Research 🇺🇸 Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
The Graphic Designer will create engaging visual content and collaborate on thought leadership pieces to enhance the company's marketing strategies. This role is essential for driving brand visibility and ensuring success stories reach the appropriate audience.
Sr. Graphic Designer - Football
🇺🇸 Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States
University Of Arkansas 🇺🇸 Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States
The Senior Graphic Designer is responsible for enhancing the visual identity of the Razorback Football program across various platforms. This includes serving as the lead graphic designer and photographer while supporting the Director of Creative Media in strategy and content planning.
Graphic Designer - B2B Marketing
🇳🇿 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Nzme 🇳🇿 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
The Graphic Designer will create compelling design assets for various marketing campaigns and play a key role in shaping NZME's advertising presence. Responsibilities include working on pitch decks, brand campaigns, social ads, and thought-leadership content.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇵🇭 Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines
Arcadis 🇵🇭 Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines
The Senior Graphic Designer will manage a team of designers, oversee task delegation, and communicate effectively with clients and stakeholders. They will provide team leadership, support day-to-day operations, and ensure alignment with business needs.
Product Designer
🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel-Aviv District, Israel
365scores 🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel-Aviv District, Israel
As a Product Designer, you will lead end-to-end product design, collaborating with cross-functional teams to create user-centered solutions. You will also contribute to the design culture and advocate for user needs throughout the product lifecycle.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇵🇭 Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines
The Citco Group Limited 🇵🇭 Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines
The Senior Designer will lead and direct the design process for various products, including prototyping and iterating user interaction design. They will engage with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver elegant UX and advocate for design-centered changes.
UI/UX Designer - B2B experience
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States
Syncreon Consulting 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States
The User Experience and Design Team is responsible for software design across mobile, web, and desktop platforms. They lead design reviews, create design solutions, and maintain high standards while collaborating with various partners.
Senior Product Designer - DACH
🇦🇹 Vienna, Austria
Entain 🇦🇹 Vienna, Austria
The Senior Product Designer will drive the UI/UX vision for online casino, sports betting, and poker products, leading design projects from concept to implementation. They will also mentor a team of designers and ensure high standards of product design quality.
Lead Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Thoughtworks 🌍 Remote
Lead the design and development of digital products from ideation to iterative development while collaborating with cross-functional teams. Ensure quality across product touchpoints and champion continuous improvement of design practices.
Senior UX Designer (Advised - AJ Bell Investcentre)
🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Aj Bell 🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
The Senior UX Designer will provide senior-level design expertise for the Investcentre platform, helping to lead the strategic planning of design initiatives and shaping the overall design strategy in alignment with business goals. They will remain hands-on in design daily, leading by example, and advocating for UX across the wider business while mentoring team members.
Lead Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Follett Software, Llc 🌍 Remote
The Lead Product Designer will propose and drive the experience strategy for an entire product line, collaborating with product managers and designers to create cohesive and on-brand outcomes. They will conduct user research, synthesize data, and produce designs that conform to accessibility and brand requirements.
Senior Product Designer - Cape Town
🇿🇦 Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Clearscore Technology Limited 🇿🇦 Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Lead end-to-end product design delivery while managing a small team of Product Designers. Collaborate closely with Product Managers and Engineers to ensure high-quality, scalable design solutions.
Senior UI Designer (Libra - Legal AI Assistant) (m/f/d)
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Wolters Kluwer 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
The Senior UI Designer will champion user-centered design across products, ensuring intuitive and accessible experiences, while owning and leading the end-to-end UI for Libra’s legal platform. This involves driving UI strategy from concept to high-fidelity prototypes, collaborating with experts, and maintaining the design system for scalable interactions.
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.