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Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Costa Mesa, California, United States of America
Anduril Industries 🇺🇸 Costa Mesa, California, United States of America
Drive the end-to-end user experience for platform and product investments, balancing short-term experiments with long-term strategy. Lead the definition of high-impact product experiences through discovery, prototyping, and high-fidelity design delivery.
Staff Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 Santa Ana, California, United States of America)
Scale To Win, Inc Remote (🇺🇸 Santa Ana, California, United States of America)
Lead end-to-end product design and UX vision for high-impact initiatives, translating complex customer problems into scalable systems. Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to define design strategy and elevate the overall product design craft.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Tessera Labs 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead the full design lifecycle to create intuitive interfaces for multi-agent AI systems and complex enterprise workflows. Partner with product and engineering teams to build a consistent design system and ensure governance and trust in AI-driven processes.
Senior Manager, Hardware Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Richardson, Texas, United States of America
Celestica International Lp 🇺🇸 Richardson, Texas, United States of America
Leads cross-functional collaboration to deliver high-quality hardware products by integrating feedback from manufacturing, supply chain, and reliability teams. Directs the development of complex electrical and mechanical systems from initial research through to manufacturing lifecycle support.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
The Washington Post 🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Lead the design of emerging human interaction initiatives focusing on AI and user trust across The Washington Post's digital platforms. Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and the newsroom to create transparent, reliable, and accessible journalistic experiences.
Senior Product Designer, Native and AI Experiences
🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
The Washington Post 🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Lead the design of human interaction initiatives for The Washington Post's digital products, including native apps and web experiences. Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and the newsroom to create accessible, personalized, and AI-enhanced journalistic experiences.
Sr. Product Designer
🇺🇸 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America
Suralink Inc 🇺🇸 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America
Lead end-to-end design for major product areas, translating complex workflows into intuitive user experiences. Collaborate with product and engineering teams to drive discovery, problem definition, and high-quality execution.
Staff Product Designer, Document Cloud Growth
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Adobe 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead the design strategy for PDF Spaces growth, focusing on user activation, engagement, and sharing. You will analyze funnel data to identify friction points and run experiments to optimize the end-to-end user journey.
Senior Mobile UX Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Wisecode 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design of mobile engagement systems and progression models for iOS and Android. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create intuitive, family-oriented health experiences using AI-driven workflows.
Lead UX Designer
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Brahma 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Own the unified design language and user experience for the BRAHMA AI platform, integrating Core and Studio. Lead the design of generative AI tooling and maintain a high consistency bar across multiple product teams.
Senior Product Designer - B2B Platform
🇩🇰 1357 København K, Denmark
Too Good To Go 🇩🇰 1357 København K, Denmark
Lead the design strategy for the MyStore partner platform's transition to a self-service model. Drive end-to-end product design from discovery to shipment, focusing on reducing cognitive load for store owners.
Lead UI/UX Designer
🌍 Remote
Rxbenefits, Inc. 🌍 Remote
Lead and coach a team of designers to improve B2B digital products while collaborating with cross-functional teams. Responsible for the end-to-end design process from conceptual frameworks and wireframes to final visual mockups and prototypes.
Principal UX Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Seeq Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Set the UX vision and strategy for complex industrial analytics and AI capabilities within the Seeq platform. Lead the design of AI-powered workflows and ensure a unified, coherent user experience across all product areas.
Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Kensho 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the end-to-end design strategy and execution for Spark Assist, an enterprise GenAI tool for financial professionals. Partner with leadership to shape the product roadmap and define interaction patterns for conversational and agentic AI.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Saint Louis Park, Minnesota, United States of America
Hdr 🇺🇸 Saint Louis Park, Minnesota, United States of America
Lead the design and execution of high-quality branded marketing materials across print, digital, and presentation platforms to elevate HDR's market perception. Collaborate with marketing managers to create compelling visual storytelling and maintain scalable design systems and branded templates.
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.