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Lead UX Designer H/F
🇫🇷 Montpellier, Hérault, France
Nexton 🇫🇷 Montpellier, Hérault, France
The Lead UX Designer will oversee the overall UX vision for digital products and manage a team of UX Senior designers. They will ensure the quality of user journeys from research to prototype validation.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Pendo 🇺🇸 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Lead end-to-end design across the platform, from problem framing to shipping, while partnering with product and engineering. Integrate AI-assisted workflows into the design process and evolve the company's design systems and principles.
Senior E-commerce Design Manager
🇬🇧 Guildford, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Goliath 🇬🇧 Guildford, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Lead the creation of high-quality product imagery and digital assets for e-commerce platforms, ensuring compliance and strong visual presence. Collaborate with various teams to align creative output with brand and sales objectives while managing projects from concept to delivery.
Lead UX Designer H/F
🇫🇷 Montpellier, Hérault, France
Nexton 🇫🇷 Montpellier, Hérault, France
Lead the global UX vision for digital products and manage a team of three senior UX designers. Orchestrate the design of fluid and accessible user journeys for a major French bank.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Later 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design of data-intensive B2B products, including dashboards and analytics interfaces, within the marketing ecosystem. Partner with product management and engineering to translate business goals into scalable, intuitive user experiences.
Junior Mechanical Product Designer
🇹🇼 Taiwan
Ubiquiti Inc. 🇹🇼 Taiwan
The role involves collaborating with Industrial Design to create manufacturable mechanical designs and leading the mechanical design and development process. You will also validate prototypes and work cross-functionally to resolve integration issues and drive product development.
Senior Design Manager – Landscape
🇸🇦 Al-Qassim Province, Saudi Arabia
Hintel Middle East 🇸🇦 Al-Qassim Province, Saudi Arabia
Lead landscape masterplanning and public realm design activities from concept through detailed design and implementation. Collaborate with internal stakeholders and external consultants to ensure successful project delivery and design excellence.
Senior Product Designer, User Growth
🇸🇬 Singapore
Okx 🇸🇬 Singapore
Lead the complete product design process from inception to execution, creating intuitive and aesthetically pleasing user experiences. Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to transform ideas into design-driven solutions that resonate with users globally.
Principal UX Designer, Alexa for Shopping
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Amazon 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the design of new AI-driven shopping features for Alexa, translating customer needs into high-level strategy and detailed interaction flows. Collaborate with cross-functional teams and science experts to train LLMs and deliver world-class user experiences.
Product Designer (UI / Visual Craft)
🇮🇳 Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Lyearn 🇮🇳 Gurgaon, Haryana, India
You will own the visual craft of the product, turning workflows and intents into pixel-precise UI. You will report directly to leadership and work within a small team.
Senior UI Engineer - Design Systems Team Lead
🇨🇿 Capital Apartments, Wenceslas Square 36, 110 00 Prague, Czechia
Barclays 🇨🇿 Capital Apartments, Wenceslas Square 36, 110 00 Prague, Czechia
Lead a team of UI engineers to develop a comprehensive React-based component library and design system. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure components are accessible, performant, and well-documented.
Senior Digital Design Manager – Paid Media (All Genders)
🇪🇸 National Library of Spain, Paseo de Recoletos, 20-22, 28071 Madrid, Spain
Zooplus Se 🇪🇸 National Library of Spain, Paseo de Recoletos, 20-22, 28071 Madrid, Spain
Lead the conceptual development and execution of high-performance creative assets for paid media channels including Meta and Google Ads. Manage creative automation workflows via Smartly.io and optimize assets based on performance data and A/B testing.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 Emeryville, CA 94608, United States of America
Zuma ⚡ 🇺🇸 Emeryville, CA 94608, United States of America
As a Principal Product Designer, you will lead product excellence and user experience across the platform, collaborating with the executive team to define product strategy. You will design for multiple user personas and drive user-centric thinking while scaling the design function.
Experienced UX Designer (m/f/n)
🇸🇰 Bratislava, Bratislava II, Slovakia
Eset 🇸🇰 Bratislava, Bratislava II, Slovakia
As a senior member of the User Experience team, you will lead and own the design of user experiences across multiple products or complex touchpoints. You will collaborate with various stakeholders to define the best possible experience for users.
Experienced Product Designer - Design System (m/f/n)
🇸🇰 Bratislava, Bratislava II, Slovakia
Eset 🇸🇰 Bratislava, Bratislava II, Slovakia
As an Experienced Product Designer, you will lead areas of the Design System and advocate for best practices across the organization. You will design and evolve the Design System, ensuring it scales effectively and remains consistent with product and business needs.
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.