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Senior Product Designer (UX/UI)
Lead UX/UI design across the full ecommerce funnel to drive conversion and optimize user flows for the Ü Snacks brand portfolio. Own and evolve the cross-brand design system while managing and mentoring a direct report.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Gifthealth 🇺🇸 United States of America
The Senior Product Designer leads the end-to-end design of complex digital products and features, ensuring alignment with business and customer outcomes. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to translate user needs into scalable design solutions.
Forward-Deployed Product Designer - FDPSD (US Remote)
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Tailor Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Lead product design for customer deployments and translate complex workflows into clear product experiences. Collaborate with engineers and product managers to ensure successful implementations and build reusable design patterns.
Project Design Manager
🇺🇸 Maryland Heights, Missouri, United States of America
Cushman & Wakefield 🇺🇸 Maryland Heights, Missouri, United States of America
The Project Design Manager leads and mentors a team of design professionals, overseeing design projects from initial sketch through construction. They ensure design deliverables meet safety, functionality, and aesthetic standards while managing timelines and budgets.
Senior UX Product Designer - Remote
Remote (🇺🇸 West Des Moines, Iowa, United States of America)
Unitedhealth Group Remote (🇺🇸 West Des Moines, Iowa, United States of America)
Lead end-to-end UX design for complex enterprise products, focusing on data-rich workflows and analytics dashboards. Partner with product, engineering, and research teams to align design decisions with business goals and technical constraints.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Underdog 🇺🇸 United States of America
As a Senior Graphic Designer, you will lead campaign design from brief through delivery, ensuring visual consistency across all channels. You will collaborate closely with Marketing and Product teams to bring the Underdog brand to life through exciting and energetic executions.
Senior UX Design Manager, Amazon Customer Service
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Lead and mentor a multi-disciplinary UX design team to deliver high-quality customer service experiences globally. Drive UX strategy and roadmaps in close partnership with product and tech leaders using qualitative and quantitative evidence.
Design Manager (industrial water/wastewater)
🇺🇸 United States of America
Brown And Caldwell 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead the planning and execution of design projects for industrial water and wastewater clients, coordinating with project managers to develop scope and timelines. Manage design resources and delivery teams to ensure high-quality outputs and adherence to project milestones.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Sweco 🇬🇧 Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
As Design Manager, you will lead a multi-disciplinary engineering team to deliver engineering design solutions for water non-infrastructure projects. You will manage project plans, ensure design quality, and collaborate with other functions to achieve project goals.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America
Cnx 🇺🇸 Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America
Lead the full UX lifecycle from discovery to delivery, creating wireframes, prototypes, and responsive designs. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement accessible digital experiences and mentor junior designers.
Sr Design Manager, Consumer
🇺🇸 Bellevue, Washington, United States of America
T-mobile 🇺🇸 Bellevue, Washington, United States of America
Leads the execution of store design initiatives, including new stores, remodels, and refreshes, from approved concepts through deployment. Manages design governance, vendor performance, and operational workflows to ensure consistency and quality across retail environments.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇮🇳 Yelahanka taluku, India
Gallagher 🇮🇳 Yelahanka taluku, India
Deliver high-quality visual materials and branding collateral while ensuring design integrity and alignment with templates. Lead and mentor junior designers, manage multiple projects simultaneously, and collaborate with stakeholders to meet client expectations.
Graphic Designer - PPT
🇮🇳 Yelahanka taluku, India
Gallagher 🇮🇳 Yelahanka taluku, India
The Senior Graphic Designer creates high-quality, visually compelling communication materials and business presentations using structured templates. They are also responsible for leading and mentoring a design team to ensure design integrity and adherence to client branding standards.
Senior Staff Product Designer, Risk
🇺🇸 United States of America
Stripe 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead the design strategy for Risk experiences, focusing on onboarding, compliance, and the creation of new AI-driven product surfaces. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to establish design standards and build trust through high-quality user interfaces.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
Maintainx Remote (🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
Lead the end-to-end design process for AI-powered maintenance and asset management surfaces across web and mobile platforms. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to simplify complex workflows and contribute to the scalability of the company's design system.
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.