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Senior Product Designer
🇦🇺 Australia
Nexl 🇦🇺 Australia
The role involves owning the design of shared platform surfaces and stewarding the company's design system to ensure consistency and scalability. You will collaborate directly with engineering leadership to define problem spaces and translate complex workflows into intuitive user experiences.
Staff/Lead Product Designer (63362)
Remote (🇺🇸 California, United States of America)
Thistle Health Inc Remote (🇺🇸 California, United States of America)
Lead the creation of high-quality user experiences for consumers and internal users while developing scalable design systems. The role evolves from an individual contributor to a player-coach responsible for building and managing the product design team.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Reducto 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead end-to-end product design, owning everything from brand identity to the creation of user workflows and high-fidelity experiences. Develop and maintain the company's design system while collaborating directly with the CEO and engineers.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Weight Watchers 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead the design vision and strategy for major product areas, driving 0 to 1 initiatives and evolving a unified design system. Partner with cross-functional leadership to translate complex business requirements into intuitive user experiences and mentor other designers.
Senior Product Designer II, Professionals
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Trust & Will Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Lead the end-to-end design of complex B2B platform products for financial advisors, attorneys, and nonprofit partners. Collaborate with Product and Engineering squads to translate research and behavioral data into high-quality, AI-enhanced user experiences.
Roark Sr. Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Irvine, California, United States of America
Olukai-kaenon-melin-roark 🇺🇸 Irvine, California, United States of America
Develop and execute digital-first creative assets across social media, email, and e-commerce platforms to maintain brand consistency. Collaborate with creative leadership and marketing teams to translate brand strategy into compelling visual storytelling and seasonal campaigns.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇨🇷 Costa Rica)
Granicus Lac Remote (🇨🇷 Costa Rica)
Lead the end-to-end design process from concept to completion using a user-centered approach for complex SaaS products. Collaborate with cross-functional global teams to create intuitive user experiences and mentor junior designers.
Senior Product Designer, Drafting
🇨🇦 Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Clio 🇨🇦 Calgary, Alberta, Canada
As a Senior Product Designer, you will lead the end-to-end design process, from strategic discovery to development and launch. You will partner with Product and Engineering to define and execute experience design strategy and success metrics.
Staff Product Designer, Design Systems
🇨🇦 Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Clio 🇨🇦 Calgary, Alberta, Canada
As a Staff Product Designer, you'll own the vision and evolution of Clio's design system, driving frameworks, patterns, and standards for product experiences. You'll partner closely with Product and Engineering leaders to define experience strategy and success metrics based on customer insights.
Senior Product Designer
🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Maxa Ai 🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Lead the end-to-end design process to create intuitive client dashboards and complex data visualizations. Build and maintain the company's design system to ensure consistency and scalability across all products.
Senior Product Designer - Super
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Stake 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Lead the end-to-end design of mobile and web experiences for the Stake Super squad, from initial concept to final implementation. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate customer research into intuitive flows and high-fidelity prototypes that drive business growth.
Staff Product Designer, Ads
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Fetch Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Lead design efforts for the Ads platform to improve user experience and drive measurable results. Provide mentorship and thought leadership to level up user-centered practices across the organization.
Staff Product Designer, Ads
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Fetch Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Lead the design efforts for the Ads platform to improve user experience and business outcomes. Guide team culture through mentorship, thought leadership, and the implementation of user-centered practices across the organization.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Glossgenius 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead the design strategy and execution for the Core product area, focusing on scheduling, team management, and payment processing. Define and implement AI-powered experiences to reduce friction for small business owners.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, United States of America
Greenleaf Hospitality Group 🇺🇸 Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, United States of America
Conceptualize and execute high-quality design projects across various platforms while ensuring cohesive brand representation. Lead and mentor junior designers and collaborate with cross-functional teams to align designs with business goals.
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.