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Senior UI/UX Designer (Enterprise Products)
🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico
Applaudo Studios 🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico
Applaudo is seeking a Senior UX/UI Designer to create intuitive, user-centered digital experiences for complex enterprise applications. The ideal candidate will have experience leading the end-to-end design process and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Product Designer | NordVPN Apps | Mid-Senior
🇵🇱 Warszawa, 83-433 Nowe Polaszki, Poland
Nord Security 🇵🇱 Warszawa, 83-433 Nowe Polaszki, Poland
Own the end-to-end design process for NordVPN apps across multiple platforms including iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows. Collaborate with product owners and engineers to challenge briefs and implement scalable components within the design system.
Senior Product Designer - Embed
🇮🇪 Ireland
Kota 🇮🇪 Ireland
Lead the design quality for Kota Embed, focusing on complex B2B surfaces where data models directly constrain the user interface. Establish design patterns and primitives while facilitating collaboration between engineering and stakeholders to ensure high-quality product delivery.
Senior Product Designer (Design System)
🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Olx 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
The role involves designing and evolving reusable components, patterns, and foundations for a scalable design system across Real Estate products. You will manage the contribution model and collaborate with engineers to integrate AI-assisted workflows and token strategies into production code.
Product Designer | NordVPN Apps | Mid-Senior
🇵🇱 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Nord Security 🇵🇱 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Own the end-to-end design process for the NordVPN apps across multiple platforms, ensuring native experiences while maintaining brand consistency. Collaborate with product owners and engineers to challenge briefs, validate designs with evidence, and manage Design QA.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Artemis 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The role involves owning the end-to-end product design for the Artemis platform, from research and discovery to visual polish and hand-off. You will partner with leadership to translate complex security workflows into intuitive interfaces and evolve the company's design system.
Senior Product Designer
🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
Newcore 🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
Own the design of admin and end-user experiences for an agentic identity platform across web and mobile. Define new interaction patterns for AI agent behavior and build the company's design system from the ground up.
Senior Product Designer
🇻🇳 Hà Nội, Vietnam
Aimexy 🇻🇳 Hà Nội, Vietnam
The Product Designer will apply human-centered design principles to create purpose-driven user experiences and manage the design system. They will conduct extensive user research and data analysis to drive evidence-based design decisions and optimize product accessibility.
Senior Design Manager, Product Design
🇯🇵 Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
Vf Corporation 🇯🇵 Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
Responsible for ensuring product concepts and art direction align with brand strategy to create innovative and commercially viable apparel for Japan, Asia, and global markets. The role involves overseeing the creative process from 2D and 3D digital design to retail execution while collaborating with merchandising and development teams.
Design Manager - Healthcare - Senior
🇺🇸 Oakland, California, United States of America
Gensler 🇺🇸 Oakland, California, United States of America
Lead and deliver a variety of healthcare project types through all phases while serving as the primary point of contact for clients. Manage cross-functional teams, project budgets, and consultant coordination to ensure high-quality design and client satisfaction.
Design Manager - Healthcare - Senior
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Gensler 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Design Manager will lead complex healthcare projects from design through construction administration, acting as the primary liaison between clients and the project team. They are responsible for managing resources, budgets, and financial performance while mentoring staff and developing client engagements.
Senior UX Designer - Online Team
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
The Home Depot 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
The role involves driving product strategy and alignment by combining user research with business goals and leading stakeholder meetings. Additionally, the designer will execute end-to-end UX artifacts, conduct usability testing, and mentor junior team members.
Senior Product Designer
🇨🇭 Zurich, Switzerland
Symbiotic 🇨🇭 Zurich, Switzerland
Lead the product design function by collaborating with leadership and engineering to create clean user flows for on-chain complexity. Conduct user research and partner with engineering to define problems and design within protocol constraints.
Senior Product Designer
🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal
Symbiotic 🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal
Symbiotic is a company that provides infrastructure for collateral markets, enabling new categories of on-chain finance applications. They are looking for a product designer to lead the product design function and collaborate with leadership, engineering, and marketing teams.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Symbiotic 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the product design function by collaborating with leadership and engineering to create clean user flows for on-chain financial products. Conduct user research and translate findings into concrete feature scopes while managing the full user journey.
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.