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IN_Senior Associate_Graphic Designer_Customer Consulting_Advisory_Bangalore
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Pwc 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Lead the end-to-end design process to create high-impact visual assets for branding, digital platforms, and corporate communications. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate briefs into innovative designs while mentoring junior designers.
IN_Senior Associate_Graphic Designer_Customer Consulting_Advisory_Bangalore
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Pwc 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Lead the end-to-end design process to create high-impact visual assets for branding, digital platforms, and corporate communications. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate briefs into innovative designs while mentoring junior designers.
Director, Product Designer, Consumer Experience
🇺🇸 El Segundo, CA 90245, United States of America
Prodege 🇺🇸 El Segundo, CA 90245, United States of America
Lead design for Prodege's Core Product portfolio, focusing on both consumer and business products. Shape the design vision and strategy while mentoring a high-performing design team.
UX Designer, AI App
Remote (🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America)
Bjak Remote (🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America)
Lead the end-to-end design of AI product surfaces, focusing on creating intuitive user flows and interaction models for complex AI workflows. Collaborate with engineering and ML teams to prototype, test, and evolve the design system for a proactive AI chat app.
Product Designer (UX)
Remote (🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America)
Bjak Remote (🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America)
Lead the end-to-end design of AI product surfaces, creating intuitive user flows and interaction models for a proactive AI chat app. Collaborate with engineering and ML teams to translate complex AI capabilities into usable, high-fidelity web and mobile experiences.
Principal Product Designer, Container Platform
Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)
Docker Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)
Own the end-to-end design of the container platform, distilling complex developer workflows into elegant solutions. Collaborate with cross-functional teams and senior leadership to define product strategy and mentor other designers.
Growth Product Designer
🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
Guardio 🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
Lead the design of seamless user journeys and high-scale growth experiments within a high-velocity squad. Collaborate with Product Managers to deliver data-driven UI/UX solutions and establish design best practices for the team.
Sr. Mixed Methods UX Researcher
🇺🇸 Lone Tree, Colorado, United States of America
Blink Ux 🇺🇸 Lone Tree, Colorado, United States of America
Lead end-to-end research projects to define and improve the experience for call center representatives. Deliver actionable insights through qualitative and quantitative data to help stakeholders create intuitive and accessible products.
UX Designer
🇺🇸 Arlington County, Virginia, United States of America
Ecs Tech Inc 🇺🇸 Arlington County, Virginia, United States of America
The UX Designer leads the design and engineering of user interfaces for the War Data Platform across various security classification levels. This includes creating high-fidelity prototypes, maintaining enterprise design systems, and collaborating with engineers to reduce user friction for warfighters and decision-makers.
Staff Product Designer, Design Systems
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Betterup 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Own the end-to-end strategy and evolution of the design system across web and mobile platforms. Lead the integration of AI-powered workflows and tools to improve design-to-development velocity and consistency.
Graphic Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Karsh Hagan + Madden Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The graphic designer will lead assigned accounts and projects, collaborating with the Creative team to deliver high-quality designs. They will create impactful visuals that communicate complex concepts and elevate clients' brands.
UX Researcher
🇺🇸 United States of America
Slingshot Aerospace 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead end-to-end research studies to uncover user needs and validate workflows in high-stakes aerospace environments. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate research insights into actionable product roadmaps and design decisions.
UX Designer
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Smarsh 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Lead end-to-end UX research by executing generative and evaluative studies to shape product direction. Translate findings into actionable design artifacts and make light technical contributions to the design system via HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Lead Product Designer
Remote (🇦🇹 Vienna, Austria)
Fonio Remote (🇦🇹 Vienna, Austria)
Lead the overall design, branding, and design team while remaining hands-on with product design and customer interviews. You will set the design standards across the product, website, and brand in close collaboration with engineering and founders.
Senior Product Designer
🇸🇪 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Volumental 🇸🇪 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Lead end-to-end product design from discovery and research to final visual detail. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to shape product direction and evolve the company's design system.
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.