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Senior Vice President, Product Designer

🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States

The Senior Vice President, Product Designer will provide guidance and technical expertise for complex user experience activities, including user research, interactive design, and visual design. They will also mentor junior designers and advocate for user experience across the firm.

Onsite$112,000 - $190,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior UX Designer

As a Senior UX Designer, you will deliver innovative experiences tailored to user needs and collaborate closely with Product Management, Engineering, and User Research teams. You will lead design critiques and contribute to the Payment UX strategy while mentoring less experienced designers.

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Senior UX Designer

As a Senior UX Designer, you will deliver innovative experiences tailored to user needs in Oracle Payments products and collaborate closely with Product Management, Engineering, and User Research teams. You will lead design critiques and contribute to the Redwood Design System while mentoring less experienced designers.

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Sr. Product Designer, Provider Experience

🌍 Remote

The Senior Product Designer will lead design work for tools used by clinicians and clinical operations teams, focusing on provider-facing workflows. Responsibilities include owning product areas from problem framing to measured outcomes and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Remote$142,600 - $165,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer, Identity

🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States

The Senior Product Designer will drive the creation of seamless user experiences for signing up, personalizing, and managing identity and settings across Tubi, owning the end-to-end design of user flows for account creation, switching, and management. This role also involves defining and evolving Tubi’s identity framework, managing the full lifecycle of features from concept through implementation, and shaping the future of identity at the company.

Hybrid$175,800 - $251,100Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer

🇺🇸 Redmond, Washington, United States

Support and extend a unified design strategy for the CISO Organization while delivering compelling narratives that explain the organization's services. Drive design standards and high-quality content creation to inspire alignment and executive confidence.

Onsite$119,800 - $234,700Full-timeSenior
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Senior UX Designer, Prime Video

🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom

The Senior UX Designer will analyze customer problems and design solutions with measurable impact while collaborating with product teams to develop use cases. They will also present design recommendations to stakeholders and ensure the core experience principles are upheld.

Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer

🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

As a Senior Product Designer, you will deliver high-quality user interfaces and experiences while collaborating with product managers and engineers. You will also lead design workshops and user research activities to validate design concepts.

Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer - Design Systems

🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Develop and refine eBay's design system by integrating various design disciplines to create user-friendly guidelines and patterns. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure consistent application of the design system and improve user experience.

HybridFull-timeSenior
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Senior UX Designer

🇮🇳 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

The Senior UX Designer will identify user-centered problems and conduct discovery to understand user needs and behaviors. They will create wireframes and prototypes, collaborating with product and engineering teams to ensure design quality and meet user expectations.

Hybrid$100,000 - $140,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer (H/F)

🇫🇷 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

As a Senior Product Designer, you will be central to designing future solutions, both tangible and digital, while collaborating closely with Product and Tech teams. You will also define design methodologies and processes to establish a strong foundation for design at Tessan.

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Senior UX Designer

🇺🇸 San Mateo, California, United States

The Senior UX Designer will partner with leads and directors to design complex wireframes and iterate on user flows to enhance the user experience. They will also steward UX design efforts through leadership approvals and cross-functional implementation.

Hybrid$100,200 - $148,320Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer

🇮🇳 India

The Senior Product Designer will lead design for the Payments pillar, focusing on how wellness businesses accept payments and manage money. This includes owning the design strategy for various payment-related experiences and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Hybrid$83,280 - $190,500Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer (Remote)

🌍 Remote

The Senior Product Designer will build a deep understanding of users to design user-centric experiences for web and mobile platforms. They will collaborate with internal stakeholders and development teams to create intuitive design solutions and contribute to the design system.

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Senior Product Designer

🌍 Remote

As a Senior Product Designer, you will lead the end-to-end design process for complex product initiatives and ensure alignment with business strategy. You will also collaborate with cross-functional teams to create safe and culturally relevant user experiences.

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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.