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Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 Bentonville, Arkansas, United States
Walmart 🇺🇸 Bentonville, Arkansas, United States
Lead the development and enhancement of user experience strategies through comprehensive research, interaction design, and prototyping. Collaborate with stakeholders to align business goals with user needs while driving informed design decisions across digital and physical platforms.
Senior Product Designer- Haircare
🇨🇳 Jinjiang City, Fujian, China
飞利浦 🇨🇳 Jinjiang City, Fujian, China
Lead the front-end innovation and industrial design for handheld consumer electronics, focusing on user-centered design and ergonomics. Drive projects from conceptual ideation through to mass production while ensuring brand consistency and hardware-software integration.
Senior Design Manager
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Parsons Corporation 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
The Senior Design Manager will lead and manage complex, multidisciplinary design programs, ensuring delivery within scope, schedule, and budget. They are responsible for establishing design vision, coordinating technical interfaces, and managing stakeholder relationships throughout the project lifecycle.
(Senior) UI/UX Designer (m/w/d) - App Design / fluege.de
🇩🇪 Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
Fluege.de 🇩🇪 Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
Responsible for the conception and design of user-centric experiences for native iOS and Android apps, from wireframes to final UI. This includes conducting qualitative and quantitative research, maintaining the design system, and collaborating with product and development teams for seamless handoffs.
Product Designer Senior IA-first
🇫🇷 Fresnes, Ile-de-France, France
La Grande Ourse - Agence Ux/ui 🇫🇷 Fresnes, Ile-de-France, France
Lead the end-to-end product cycle by integrating AI functionalities into digital interfaces while managing UX/UI design and design systems. Facilitate product strategy workshops and mentor junior designers to align business, tech, and user needs.
Senior Engineer, Systems Design – Systems Integration & Test, Flow Cytometry
🇸🇬 Singapore, Singapore
Thermo Fisher Scientific 🇸🇬 Singapore, Singapore
The Senior Engineer will lead systems integration activities for the Flow Cytometry platform, coordinating interfaces across various subsystems including microfluidics, optics, and electronics. They are responsible for planning and executing engineering tests, troubleshooting cross-functional issues, and assessing technical risks to ensure product performance.
Senior Engineer, Systems Design – Systems Integration & Test
🇸🇬 Singapore, Singapore
Thermo Fisher Scientific 🇸🇬 Singapore, Singapore
Lead and execute system integration activities by bringing together multidisciplinary subsystems into controlled configurations. Perform hands-on engineering testing, troubleshooting, and root-cause investigations to ensure system stability and performance.
Senior Product Designer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Loblaw Digital 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Senior Product Designer will partner with Product, Tech, and Research teams to optimize eCommerce web and app journeys for various grocery and beauty banners. Responsibilities include leading problem discovery, creating high-fidelity interfaces, and ensuring accessibility and scalability through design systems.
Senior Product Designer
🇳🇿 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Halter 🇳🇿 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Lead the design vision and strategy for farmer-facing product experiences, owning the process from discovery to launch. Partner with Product and Engineering teams to translate complex agricultural problems into intuitive, high-quality digital interfaces.
Senior Product Designer - Design Systems
🇳🇿 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Halter 🇳🇿 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Lead the design and evolution of design foundations across mobile and web platforms to ensure high craft and consistency. Collaborate with engineers to shape technical architecture and treat the design system as a product for internal users.
Senior Product Designer (Haircare)
🇨🇳 Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China
Philips 🇨🇳 Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China
Lead the end-to-end industrial and product design process for handheld consumer electronics, from initial concept to mass production. Conduct user research and usability testing to ensure design solutions are user-centered, consistent, and aligned with brand standards.
Senior Visual Designer
🇨🇴 Colombia
Huge 🇨🇴 Colombia
Create high-quality digital experiences across web and mobile platforms by translating abstract concepts into cohesive visual designs. Develop and maintain scalable design systems and prototypes while collaborating with UX, Product, and Development teams.
Senior Product Designer
🇳🇿 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Halter 🇳🇿 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Lead the design vision and strategy for a significant area of the farmer-facing product experience. Partner with product and engineering teams to define, prototype, and launch intuitive solutions for complex agricultural challenges.
Senior Product Designer - Design Systems
🇳🇿 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Halter 🇳🇿 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
You will own and advance design foundations across mobile and web while shaping the technical architecture and system structure. You will also mentor other designers and champion the design system across product, engineering, and design leadership.
Senior Product Designer, Ads Platform
🇺🇸 Los Gatos, California, United States
Netflix 🇺🇸 Los Gatos, California, United States
The Senior Product Designer will lead the design and execution of critical advertising platform features and functionality for global brands and internal teams. They will partner with cross-functional teams to develop design systems and influence ads business strategy through specialized domain expertise.
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.