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Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Ashby 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The role involves taking ownership of large product features and building a best-in-class design system from the ground up. You will consult for engineers, write detailed specification documents, and use heuristics to improve the product's information architecture and UI patterns.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Ashby 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
The role involves taking ownership of large product features and building a best-in-class design system from the ground up. You will consult for engineers, write detailed specification documents, and use heuristics to improve the overall user experience.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Portland, Oregon, United States of America
Ashby 🇺🇸 Portland, Oregon, United States of America
The role involves taking ownership of large product features and building a best-in-class design system from the ground up. You will consult for engineers, write detailed specification documents, and use heuristics to improve the product's information architecture and UI patterns.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Ashby 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
You will own product features from conception to execution, acting as a designer, product manager, and consultant to solve complex user problems. You will also contribute to the design system and help equip the broader product team to make informed design decisions.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Ashby 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
The role involves taking ownership of large product features and building a best-in-class design system from the ground up. You will consult for engineers, write detailed specification documents, and use heuristics to improve information architecture and UI patterns.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Ashby 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
The role involves taking ownership of large product features and building a best-in-class design system from the ground up. You will consult for engineers, write detailed specification documents, and use heuristics to improve the overall user experience.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Ashby 🇺🇸 United States of America
The role involves taking ownership of large product features and building a best-in-class design system from the ground up. You will consult with engineers, write detailed specification documents, and use heuristics to improve the overall user experience.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Grid Dynamics 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design of complex enterprise applications and data visualization platforms for desktop and mobile. Collaborate with engineering and customers to translate large datasets into intuitive dashboards and reporting tools.
Senior UI/UX Designer - Shopify
🇺🇸 United States of America
Fireclay Tile 🇺🇸 United States of America
The Senior UI/UX Designer will own the end-to-end design for fireclaytile.com, including Shopify Plus configuration and custom development projects. They will collaborate with the internal development team and Growth Marketing to optimize site performance, conversion rates, and user experience.
Senior Staff Product Designer, Data & AI
🇨🇦 Canada
Stripe 🇨🇦 Canada
You will lead complex product design initiatives at the intersection of data, AI, and platform infrastructure. This role involves shaping both shared systems and net-new products while driving clarity across cross-functional teams.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
Jacobs 🇬🇧 Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
Lead multidisciplinary design teams to deliver coordinated and buildable infrastructure for major UK water and wastewater programmes. Manage design scope, technical interfaces, and client relationships while ensuring technical soundness and commercial deliverability.
Senior Design Manager
🇮🇪 Cork, County Cork, Ireland
Jacobs 🇮🇪 Cork, County Cork, Ireland
Lead multidisciplinary detailed design teams for major water and wastewater infrastructure programs to ensure buildable and effective outcomes. Manage design scope, technical interfaces, and assurance while fostering trusted client relationships and mentoring staff.
Senior Product Designer
🇨🇦 Ontario, Canada
Legend 🇨🇦 Ontario, Canada
Lead end-to-end product design for the Covers experience across web and mobile platforms. Partner with product managers and engineers to simplify complex betting data into intuitive user interfaces while mentoring other designers.
Sr. Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Analytic Partners 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer is responsible for the visual interface design and user experience of the company's product suite. This includes translating business concepts into high-fidelity wireframes and maintaining the overall design system.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Miami, Florida, United States of America
Nubank 🇺🇸 Miami, Florida, United States of America
Lead the design strategy and execution for adapting Nubank's lending products for the US market. Partner with cross-functional teams to conduct discovery and research while building scalable frameworks for global expansion.
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.