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Product UX Designer

🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel

You will design intuitive user experiences and features by translating complex business goals and monetization strategies into engaging player journeys. Additionally, you will scale the company's Design System and integrate advanced AI tools to optimize the UX design workflow.

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Senior Manager, UX Design Systems

🇺🇸 Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America

Define and govern the enterprise UX design system across digital products, eCommerce experiences, and mobile applications. Lead the intersection of UX, UI, brand, and accessibility to ensure consistent and scalable customer experiences.

Full-timeSenior
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Lead UX Designer

🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom

The role involves creating intuitive and polished user interfaces and maintaining comprehensive design systems. You will collaborate with product designers and engineers to deliver pixel-perfect experiences for an AI-native smart assistant.

Full-timeLead
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Product Designer

🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

The Product Designer will translate complex business requirements into intuitive digital products and UX-optimized email campaigns. They will also collaborate with cross-functional teams to manage design systems and facilitate workshops to drive strategic solutions.

$35,000 - $45,000Full-time
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UX/UI Product Designer

🇨🇱 Chile

The designer will transform existing UX foundations into high-converting digital experiences and build scalable design systems in Figma. They will collaborate with Shopify developers to implement premium interfaces and optimize customer journeys for commercial performance.

$4,500 - $5,500Contract
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Senior Freelance Product Designer

🇬🇧 Leeds, LS7 1SN, United Kingdom

The Senior Product Designer will take full ownership of end-to-end UI and UX execution for major client initiatives across web and native mobile platforms. They will architect complex user journeys, maintain design system standards in Figma, and lead design rationales for executive stakeholders.

ContractSenior
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UX/UI Product Designer

🇲🇽 Mexico

The designer will transform existing UX foundations into high-converting digital experiences and build scalable design systems in Figma. They will collaborate closely with Shopify developers to implement premium interfaces and optimize customer journeys for commercial performance.

$4,500 - $5,500ContractMid-level
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Senior Product Designer

🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America

The Senior Product Designer will own the end-to-end design of the Avantos mobile app and the Journey Builder tool. They will collaborate with engineering to create native platform patterns and contribute to the overall design system.

Full-timeSenior
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Product Designer (Contract Role)

🇺🇸 El Segundo, CA 90245, United States of America

The Product Designer will collaborate with cross-functional teams to define problems, develop prototypes, and execute elegant interface designs for digital products. They are responsible for maintaining design systems, ensuring consistency across channels, and delivering pixel-perfect creative solutions that meet business goals.

Hybrid$73,150 - $107,744Full-timeMid-level
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Senior UI Designer

🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

The Senior UI Designer will own the evolution of the CORE UI design system, managing token architecture, component quality, and interaction standards. They will also build future-facing prototypes and collaborate with engineering to bridge the gap between design intent and production code.

$67,800 - $126,000Full-timeSenior
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UX/UI Product Designer

🇦🇷 Argentina

The Lead Product Designer will transform existing UX foundations into high-converting digital experiences across a multi-brand e-commerce portfolio. Responsibilities include building scalable design systems in Figma and collaborating with Shopify developers to implement premium, mobile-first interfaces.

$4,500 - $5,500ContractSenior
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Product Designer

🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom

The role involves designing intuitive B2B product experiences by simplifying complex business workflows into polished UI. You will collaborate with Product Managers and Engineers to create scalable design systems and use customer data to inform design decisions.

$50,000 - $80,000Full-time
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Head of Design

🇸🇪 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

The Head of Design will own Froda's full visual expression, ensuring consistency across brand and product touchpoints. They will lead the design strategy, manage the design system, and coach designers to drive business growth and high-quality user experiences.

Full-timeExecutive
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UX/UI Designer Senior o Product Designer Senior (Incorporación Inmediata)

🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain

The role involves managing client relationships, conducting UX research, and facilitating workshops to define information architecture and user flows. Additionally, the designer will create visual UI proposals and maintain design systems across multiple devices.

Full-timeSenior
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UX/UI Product Designer

🇲🇽 Mexico

You will critique existing UX and wireframes while designing premium high-fidelity interfaces in Figma to maximize conversion. You will also collaborate directly with developers to implement scalable design systems and elegant customer journeys.

$4,500 - $5,500Full-time
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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.