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Senior Product Designer - UI Focus (f/m/x)
🇩🇪 Hamburg, Germany
Exmox 🇩🇪 Hamburg, Germany
You will own the end-to-end design of features for a mobile-first B2C product, creating polished interfaces and visual assets. You will also collaborate with engineering and data teams to maintain the design system and ensure high-quality, data-informed implementations.
Senior Product Designer
🇪🇸 Spain
Olx 🇪🇸 Spain
Lead design strategy across product squads by translating business goals into coherent design directions and AI-native workflows. Establish high craft standards through the Nexus design system and mentor junior and mid-level designers to elevate team maturity.
2027 Graduate - Assistant Design Manager - High Voltage (Power)
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Bakerhicks 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
You will support the design management team by handling document control, RFI management, and design issue logs. You will also work closely with senior managers to drive design progress and ensure deliverables meet client requirements.
Senior UX Designer
🇲🇽 Mexico
Ness Digital Engineering 🇲🇽 Mexico
The Senior UX Designer is responsible for creating intuitive digital solutions by understanding customer journeys and identifying pain points. They collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end experiences and contribute to the maturity of the design system and practice.
Senior Design Manager - Data Center & Mission-Critical Projects
🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Arup 🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Lead the technical delivery and design strategy for complex data center and mission-critical projects from concept through construction. Coordinate multidisciplinary teams of architects and engineers while acting as the primary technical interface for clients and stakeholders.
Senior Product Designer
🇳🇱 Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands
Inspace 🇳🇱 Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands
Lead the redesign of the internal InSpace Hub and client-facing NOVA App by translating complex logic into clear user flows and interactions. Collaborate with product leads and engineers to ensure design choices are usable, buildable, and aligned with user value.
Senior Product Designer B2B SaaS
🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Haddock 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
The Senior Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design process, from discovery to shipping features for both the system of record and AI agents. They will also build the design system from scratch and collaborate closely with engineers to ensure high-quality implementation.
Senior Product Designer
🇳🇱 Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands
Inspace 🇳🇱 Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands
You will lead the redesign of the InSpace Hub and the client-facing NOVA App by translating complex product logic into clear user flows and interactions. You will collaborate closely with product leads and engineers to ensure design quality, usability, and buildability throughout the product lifecycle.
Senior Graphic Designer (4 Months)
🇺🇸 United States
Kinetix Health Group 🇺🇸 United States
You will own complex graphic design projects from initial concept through to final delivery, ensuring high-quality visual communications for healthcare audiences. Additionally, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams and mentor junior designers while maintaining brand and regulatory compliance.
Senior Product Designer, VGo Carrier Technology
🇱🇹 Vilnius, Vilnius County, Lithuania
Vinted 🇱🇹 Vilnius, Vilnius County, Lithuania
The role involves designing intuitive and accessible solutions for businesses and consumers across various channels for Vinted Go. You will collaborate with cross-functional partners to define problems, map flows, and conduct usability tests to validate design ideas.
Senior Product Designer, VGo Carrier Technology
🇱🇹 Kaunas, Kaunas County, Lithuania
Vinted 🇱🇹 Kaunas, Kaunas County, Lithuania
The Senior Product Designer will create intuitive and accessible design solutions for businesses and consumers across various channels for Vinted Go. Responsibilities include mapping flows, prototyping interactions, and conducting usability tests to validate design ideas.
Senior Product Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Aidash, Inc. 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
You will define the standard for AI-augmented design practice by integrating AI tools into research, prototyping, and production workflows. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver design solutions while mentoring the team on AI adoption and best practices.
Senior UI Designer – Stockholm
🇸🇪 Stockholm, Sweden
Sway Sourcing 🇸🇪 Stockholm, Sweden
The role involves designing scalable UI solutions and managing a robust design system to ensure consistency across platforms. You will collaborate closely with developers to implement design concepts and integrate accessibility standards throughout the development process.
Senior Product Designer — AI Startup
🇬🇷 Athens, Attica, Greece
-workethix 🇬🇷 Athens, Attica, Greece
Take end-to-end ownership of product design across a portfolio of AI products, from problem definition to shipping polished experiences. Collaborate with engineering and leadership to turn ambiguous ideas into intuitive products and evolve design systems.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States
Community Phone 🇺🇸 United States
Lead the end-to-end design strategy across physical unboxing, mobile apps, web dashboards, and AI voice interfaces. Drive adoption metrics and build the foundational design language and research habits for a growing organization.
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.