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Senior Product Designer
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
The Citco Group Limited 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Lead the design process for a bespoke business process automation platform, translating enterprise strategy into high-quality user experiences. Orchestrate design activities including discovery, co-creation, and testing within a multi-disciplinary agile team.
Product Designer
Lead the end-to-end user experience for System1's product suite as part of a product trio. Focus on continuous discovery, AI-powered prototyping, and maintaining a coherent design system to drive business outcomes.
Staff User Experience (UX) Researcher (Hybrid-Acton, MA or San Diego, CA)
🇺🇸 San Diego, California, United States of America
Insulet Corporation 🇺🇸 San Diego, California, United States of America
Lead the global digital and service-based customer experience (DSCX) research roadmap to identify opportunity areas and inform product strategy. Conduct complex qualitative and quantitative studies while mentoring other researchers and collaborating with cross-functional partners.
Senior/Lead UX Researcher
🇵🇱 Wrocław, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Spyrosoft 🇵🇱 Wrocław, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Drive end-to-end UX research initiatives to improve digital products for customers and internal users. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate research findings into actionable product recommendations.
Principal UX Researcher
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Autodesk 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead complex, system-level research to define future personas and map operational workflows across interconnected platforms. Translate research insights into actionable recommendations to influence product strategy and drive long-term customer value.
Principal Design Engineering Specialist Piping
🇺🇸 Houston, Texas, United States of America
Fluor 🇺🇸 Houston, Texas, United States of America
Provide technical leadership and administrative oversight for piping engineering across all project phases. Responsibilities include developing estimates, reviewing specifications, and mentoring less experienced engineers to ensure technical accuracy.
UX UI Designer
🇺🇸 Sacramento, California, United States of America
Sbm Offshore 🇺🇸 Sacramento, California, United States of America
Drive UX strategy and own design decisions to create impactful digital products for facilities management. Lead visuals, set brand design standards, and mentor other designers while influencing product direction.
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.
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.