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Staff Product Designer - Metrics
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Datadog 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead the design of the Metrics platform, focusing on 0-to-1 problems and translating complex technical subject matter into simple user experiences. Partner with engineering and product teams to define how customers troubleshoot and govern high-volume observability data sets.
Graphic Designer
🇨🇦 Richmond, British Columbia, Canada
Whitewater West- 🇨🇦 Richmond, British Columbia, Canada
The Graphic Designer is responsible for creating compelling proposal books, presentations, and sales materials while ensuring alignment with brand identity standards. This includes leading the production of sales newsletters and maintaining contract and presentation templates.
Senior Lead Product Designer
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
The Allen Institute For Artificial Intelligence 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design process for complex AI products, transforming technical research into intuitive user experiences. Develop and evolve scalable design systems and frameworks while collaborating with cross-functional teams to align product strategy.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Cleo (us) 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead the design of AI-driven enterprise experiences for complex supply chain workflows, translating ambiguity into clear interaction models and high-fidelity UI. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate intelligent capabilities like recommendation systems and automation into scalable product strategies.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Litify 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design for Docrio and Matters & Intakes products, managing everything from problem framing to high-fidelity design and release QA. Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, and customers to conduct research and ensure designs are feasible and performant.
Staff Product Designer - Enterprise Access
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Okta 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead the UX strategy and execution for the Okta Research & Development business unit, focusing on secure identity use cases. Collaborate with cross-functional partners to design end-to-end journeys and mentor junior designers to maintain high quality standards.
Staff Growth Product Designer, Cross Activation
Remote (🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America)
Superhuman Remote (🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America)
Lead the strategy and execution of activation, onboarding, and early lifecycle experiences across the Superhuman AI productivity suite. Partner with cross-functional teams to design experiments and interaction patterns that drive user adoption and engagement.
Senior Product Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Apna 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
The role involves owning the end-to-end design of high-traffic consumer products, including funnels and core user journeys. The designer will lead design efforts as the team grows and focus on growth surfaces.
Senior UX Designer
🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Nacar Careers 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Lead the end-to-end UX design for large-scale digital experiences, focusing on subscription services for a global technology client. This includes defining user flows, creating high-quality UX artifacts, and aligning design decisions with measurable business outcomes.
Lead UX Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Glance 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Drive the visual strategy and design excellence for Glance platforms to ensure consistent, high-quality interfaces for millions of users. Lead and mentor a team of UI designers while collaborating with UX, product, and engineering teams to align visuals with business goals.
Senior UX Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Trainline 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the end-to-end design process for B2B and B2B2C product areas, focusing on external rail operator platforms and internal operational tooling. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to conduct discovery, define problems, and deliver high-quality, developer-ready design specifications.
Senior/Staff Product Designer
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Alphasense 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Lead the strategic design of AI-native workflows and data-rich experiences to help customers move from information to decision-making. Partner with Product and Engineering teams to deliver high-fidelity prototypes and evolve the company's design system.
Senior/Staff Product Designer
🇫🇮 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
Alphasense 🇫🇮 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
Lead the strategic design of AI-native workflows and data-rich experiences to help customers move from information to decision. Partner with Product and Engineering teams to deliver high-fidelity prototypes and evolve the company's design system.
Senior UX Designer (m/w/d)
🇩🇪 Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Pixum 🇩🇪 Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Drive the strategic UX development of the website and touchpoints from customer insight to conversion. Lead UX projects, develop design systems, and collaborate with Product, Tech, and Business teams to optimize the user experience.
Graphic Designer (SAS/Print Final Art)
🇻🇳 Đà Nẵng, Vietnam
Lovepop 🇻🇳 Đà Nẵng, Vietnam
Produce print-ready final art for physical touchpoints including insert cards, catalogs, and packaging. Lead visual production for the Design Sentiment Card line and manage Photoshop-automated galleries for the website.
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.