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Senior Product Designer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Mycroft 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
You will own the design of complex, expert-facing workflows for an AI-native security and compliance platform. This includes maintaining high design-to-build fidelity, managing the design system, and mentoring junior team members.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Jam City 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The designer will create wireframes, interactive prototypes, and high-quality UI assets for a new mobile narrative game. They will collaborate with Game Design, Art, and Engineering teams to ensure a cohesive and scalable user experience across various devices.
Sr. UX Researcher, AFT - Experience Design
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
The Senior UX Researcher will lead research programs to improve fulfillment center operations by partnering with product, design, and engineering teams. They will build repeatable research infrastructure and mentor team members to drive actionable insights across the global fulfillment network.
Senior Product Designer
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Eucalyptus 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Own a problem area end-to-end across connected surfaces, from initial research and definition to delivery and measurement. Drive commercial outcomes such as activation and retention while ensuring designs meet regulatory standards in the healthcare market.
Sr. UI/UX Designer (m/f/d)
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Holy 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
The Senior UI/UX Designer will own the design quality and customer journey for the HOLY Shop, building and governing the design system while collaborating with cross-functional teams. They are responsible for translating brand narrative into high-converting experiences and ensuring technical accuracy through design handoffs and QA.
Senior Product Designer (UI/UX) – Engineering Simulation
🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Maya Htt 🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Define the UI/UX strategy, wireframes, and interaction patterns for a modern thermal simulation engineering application. Collaborate with Product Owners and developers to create a scalable design system and improve complex engineering workflows.
Senior Product Designer | Bankrate
🇺🇸 United States of America
Bankrate 🇺🇸 United States of America
Own the end-to-end design process for the Brand Product squad, from initial customer discovery and research to production-ready delivery. Collaborate closely with engineers to implement high-fidelity specs and evolve the brand's experience standards.
Senior Graphic Designer - AI, Adobe Creative Suite, Enviornments
🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America
Creative Circle 🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America
The role involves conceptualizing and designing physical retail spaces, brand activations, and environmental graphics from initial idea to final installation. Additionally, the designer will create core brand collateral and prepare production-ready art files for print and fabrication.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇮🇳 Mumbai, Mumbai Suburban District, India
Hktservice 🇮🇳 Mumbai, Mumbai Suburban District, India
The Senior Graphic Designer will conceptualize and create high-quality visual assets including logos, illustrations, and thumbnails while utilizing AI-driven tools. They will collaborate with global teams and creative directors to ensure all designs align with brand standards and project requirements.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Rebuild 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The first designer will lead the end-to-end product design process, from field research with contractors to high-fidelity UI execution. They will establish and maintain the company's design system and set the quality bar for the entire user experience.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Rebuild.work 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
You will lead end-to-end product design, including field research with contractors and the development of the company's design system. You are responsible for defining the product's look and feel while ensuring high-quality standards across the platform.
Senior Product Designer
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Careers At Eucalyptus 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
You will own a problem area end-to-end, from research and definition to delivery and measurement. You will drive commercial outcomes while ensuring designs are user-centered, accessible, and compliant within a regulated healthcare market.
Senior Product Designer (UI/UX)
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Uniti Ai 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
You will design core product workflows and high-quality AI interaction experiences for the Uniti platform. This involves conducting user research, prototyping in Figma, and collaborating with engineering to implement intuitive interfaces.
Senior Product Designer (UI/UX) – Engineering Simulation
🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Maya Htt 🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
The consultant will define the UI/UX strategy, wireframes, and interaction patterns for a thermal simulation application in collaboration with the Product Owner and engineering team. They will also establish a scalable design system and conduct usability reviews to ensure the software is intuitive for expert users.
Senior Product Designer | Bankrate
🇺🇸 United States of America
Red Ventures 🇺🇸 United States of America
You will be the sole designer on the squad responsible for the full arc of design work from customer discovery through production-ready delivery. You will partner with engineers to build user-facing product experiences while maintaining brand and experience standards.
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.