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Senior Product Designer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lutra 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Senior Product Designer will play a key role in the design of core mobile and web experiences, focusing on user experience simplification and visual quality. They will collaborate closely with product managers and engineers to deliver refined, cohesive experiences.
Senior UX Designer (Freelance)
🌍 Remote
Mediacurrent 🌍 Remote
UX Designers will drive the experience strategy by analyzing client input, user research, and competitor data to uncover insights and opportunities. They will translate these objectives into tangible solutions using various mediums like sketches and prototypes, supporting ideas through successful project launch.
Senior Product Designer
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Home-in 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Design world-class human-centered experiences for new proof of concepts and x15 Ventures. Lead end-to-end product design, collaborating with various stakeholders to deliver scalable experiences.
Senior Product Designer
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Commonwealth Bank 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
The role involves designing world-class human-centered experiences for new proof of concepts and ventures, leading end-to-end product design from discovery through final UI implementation. Key tasks include conducting user research, prototyping, usability testing, and collaborating with stakeholders to deliver thoughtful, scalable solutions.
Senior Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Zoe 🌍 Remote
The Senior Product Designer will own ecommerce experiences end-to-end, from problem framing and discovery through to detailed UI and implementation, partnering closely with Product and Engineering to shape strategy and ship high-quality outcomes. They will design intuitive, conversion-aware journeys across web-based discovery and purchase flows while making complex concepts simple and trustworthy.
UI UX Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Welldoc Inc 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
The UI UX Designer will collaborate with senior designers to create wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups while assisting in the design of user interfaces for web and mobile applications. They will also work closely with developers to ensure accurate implementation of designs.
Staff/Senior Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 Sunnyvale, California, United States
Sonatus 🇺🇸 Sunnyvale, California, United States
The Staff/Senior Staff Product Designer will define, develop, and manage design projects within Sonatus’s automotive software ecosystem. This includes driving design strategy, execution, and user testing for innovative solutions to enhance vehicle capabilities and user experiences.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Redwood City, California, United States
Bluevine - Us 🇺🇸 Redwood City, California, United States
As a Senior Product Designer, you will design and maintain product feature enhancements and new product launches for web and native apps. You will collaborate with Product Management and Engineering to create a backlog and push features and design updates.
Senior UI/UX Designer - A26045
🇸🇬 Singapore, Singapore
Activate Interactive Pte Ltd 🇸🇬 Singapore, Singapore
Conduct user research and translate insights into user journeys and prototypes. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define problems and iterate solutions.
Senior Product Designer (UI/UX)
🌍 Remote
Littlelives 🌍 Remote
The Senior Product Designer will take ambiguous problems and break them down into solvable flows while ensuring pixel-perfect execution of designs. They will conduct user research and collaborate closely with the product team to define the scope of projects.
Senior UX Designer, Search
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Google 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
The role involves testing concepts for iteration, research, and validation while delivering innovative prototypes. Additionally, the designer will collaborate with various teams to ensure a holistic approach to user needs across platforms.
Senior Design Engineer - HDS Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Schenectady, New York, United States
Ge Vernova 🇺🇸 Schenectady, New York, United States
The Senior Design Engineer will execute the design, analysis, and evaluation of projects related to heavy-duty gas turbines. Responsibilities include collaborating with teams to improve product quality and drive cost productivity.
Senior Graphic Designer - Communications
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States
Hdr 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States
The role involves applying graphic design expertise to elevate visual outputs by interpreting architectural content and creating compelling visual narratives through graphics, layouts, and mixed media. Responsibilities include creating refined print and digital deliverables, developing diagrams for complex information, and collaborating with the communications team on campaigns and visual standards.
Senior Graphic Designer - Communications
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States
Hdr 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States
The Senior Graphic Designer will apply graphic design fundamentals to create compelling visual narratives and deliver high-quality visual outputs for various media. They will collaborate with the architecture communications team to develop new ideas and projects that support the architecture practice's business goals.
Senior Technical UI Designer
🇺🇸 Cary, North Carolina, United States
Epic Games 🇺🇸 Cary, North Carolina, United States
The Senior Technical UI Designer will implement UI systems design in Unreal Engine, build rapid prototypes, and collaborate with UX Designers, UI Artists, and UI Programmers. The role involves ensuring UI performance and assisting in the organization and documentation of workflows.
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.