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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.
Lead UI & UX Designer
🇺🇸 Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Ukg 🇺🇸 Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Design and evolve AI behavior systems, including conversation response patterns and structured content models for the Bryte AI platform. Define agentic experiences and interaction strategies while ensuring trust, safety, and compliance within HCM environments.
Senior Product Designer
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Flipdish 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Own end-to-end design for core product areas, translating complex problems into simple, high-quality user experiences. Lead the improvement of the design system and UI/UX for client-facing surfaces while partnering with Product and Engineering teams.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Coveo 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the end-to-end design process from discovery and research to prototyping for AI-powered products. Collaborate with product managers and engineers to transform customer insights into impactful, user-centric solutions.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇬🇮 Gibraltar)
Bullfinch Recruitment Remote (🇬🇮 Gibraltar)
Lead AI-powered design workflows to create high-performing player experience surfaces and monetization flows. Collaborate with Product and CRM teams to deliver production-ready specs and interactive prototypes that drive revenue.
UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Webfx.com 🇺🇸 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end UX process to create high-quality creative solutions, wireframes, and prototypes for complex problems. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including developers and researchers, to influence the product roadmap and advocate for the user.
Jr. UI Designer
🇺🇸 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Webfx.com 🇺🇸 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Lead the UX process to create high-quality creative solutions, including user flows, wireframes, and prototypes. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including developers and researchers, to build and ship designs that advocate for the user.
Jr. UX Designer
🇺🇸 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Webfx.com 🇺🇸 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Lead the UX process to create high-quality creative solutions, user flows, wireframes, and prototypes for user interfaces. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including UI developers and UX researchers, to build and ship designs that advocate for the user.
Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America)
Knotch Remote (🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America)
Lead the end-to-end design of Knotch's platform and a new AI-powered tool from research to implementation. Collaborate with leadership and engineering teams to translate complex requirements into intuitive user experiences.
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.