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Senior Product Designer
Lead the design of complex AI-driven beauty experiences and high-impact product journeys from concept to launch. Provide functional leadership by mentoring other designers and evolving the product design system to ensure scalability and consistency.
Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 Miami, Florida, United States of America)
Pairty Remote (🇺🇸 Miami, Florida, United States of America)
Design end-to-end user experiences and lead the visual direction for early-stage professional networking products. Collaborate with founders and engineers to translate complex social interactions into intuitive interfaces and scalable design systems.
Graphic Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lightspeed Commerce, Inc. 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
The role involves producing high-quality digital assets and ad creatives to maintain brand consistency across EMEA markets. Responsibilities include designing for social media, creating event collateral, and collaborating with the marketing team to position the platform as a leader in hospitality commerce.
Staff Web Designer
Remote (🇨🇷 Costa Rica)
Acquia Remote (🇨🇷 Costa Rica)
Lead the visual and experiential redesign of Acquia.com, focusing on AI-first audience experiences and a modern component-based design system. Own the end-to-end process from conceptual sketching to shipping code using Tailwind and React.
Product Designer, Disputes
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Chime Financial, Inc 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design of member-facing dispute experiences and high-trust flows within the Trust & Safety domain. Partner with cross-functional teams to optimize agent tooling and integrate AI and automation to improve operational efficiency.
Staff Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Oscilar Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Lead the end-to-end design of major product surfaces for an AI-driven risk decisioning platform, focusing on AI-native experiences like copilots and agentic workflows. Partner with PM and engineering leadership to set product direction, evolve the design system, and maintain a high bar for craft across the team.
Senior Product Designer - Dazn Bet
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Dazn 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead end-to-end design for Betting, Gaming, and Streaming products from discovery through to delivery. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create scalable user experiences, detailed wireframes, and research-grounded interfaces.
Staff Product Designer, Document Cloud GenAI
🇺🇸 Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Adobe 🇺🇸 Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Lead the design of generative AI experiences for Document Cloud products like Acrobat, Sign, and Scan. You will develop end-to-end flows and polished UI while collaborating cross-functionally to translate complex user needs into intuitive solutions.
Sr Staff Product Designer, Platform
🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Adobe 🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Lead the design of foundational platform experiences, focusing on storage and administrative workflows for Adobe products. Drive strategy and unify complex systems across various touchpoints to create cohesive end-to-end user experiences.
Staff Product Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Adobe 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Lead the design and scaling of AI-powered experiences within the Digital Advertising, Learning & Publishing team. Define long-term product strategy, mentor other designers, and integrate Generative AI into the content lifecycle.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Tekmetric 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design process for a SaaS platform, from problem framing and discovery to launch and iteration. Collaborate with product and engineering teams to manage design systems and ensure high visual quality and customer-centric experiences.
Staff Product Designer, Brokerage
🇺🇸 Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States of America
Robinhood 🇺🇸 Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States of America
Lead the design of new brokerage product experiences from early concept through launch. Collaborate with senior leadership, engineering, and legal teams to translate complex financial requirements into intuitive user experiences.
Lead Product Designer - Consumer Experience
Remote (🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America)
Rocket Companies Remote (🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America)
Lead the design of Redfin's core consumer products across desktop and mobile to drive growth and profitability. Collaborate with product managers and engineers to create intuitive, high-trust user journeys and evolve the company's design system.
Lead Product Designer
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Reply 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Define and drive the overall design vision and strategy while guiding the end-to-end design process. Lead client stakeholder sessions, document requirements, and provide mentorship to junior team members.
UX Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Super Payments 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead end-to-end design initiatives for specific workstreams, from problem definition to scaled rollout and optimization. Collaborate with cross-functional squads to translate user research and data metrics into high-fidelity prototypes and usable product experiences.
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.