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Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Symbiotic 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
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 to optimize the user journey.
Senior Product Design Manager & Collection Lead (H/F)
🇫🇷 Nice, Maritime Alps, France
French Tex By Uit 🇫🇷 Nice, Maritime Alps, France
Lead the artistic direction of seasonal collections for Road, Gravel, and Lifestyle ranges while ensuring brand consistency. Manage and mentor a junior designer and oversee the creative production of all clothing and accessories.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Formula 1 Las Vegas Grand Prix 🇺🇸 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer will lead the development and execution of high-impact visual identities and creative solutions across digital, social, and event platforms. They will serve as a brand expert, ensuring consistency across all touchpoints while collaborating with cross-functional teams to meet business objectives.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America
Petsafe Brands 🇺🇸 Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design for containment and tracking IoT products, managing the full experience from physical setup to in-app features. Collaborate closely with engineering and hardware teams to handle real-world hardware constraints and mentor junior designers.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Cosm 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
The role focuses on defining the design direction and information architecture for internal and B2B backend tools. The designer will lead features end-to-end, from strategy and conceptualization to polished, production-ready interfaces.
Product Designer (Senior, Lead)
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Maybern 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead the design for Core Workflows and User Engagement squads, creating 0-to-1 features and data visualizations. Partner with engineering and product teams to define a modern design vision and evolve the company's design standards.
Senior Product Designer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Daloopa 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead end-to-end product design for the Hub web workspace and DiamondGate internal platform, focusing on complex financial data organization. Partner with PMs and engineers to define product vision and create seamless interaction patterns for AI-assisted workflows across web and Excel surfaces.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Redwood Materials 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead the full design and engineering lifecycle for BESS infrastructure and equipment installation from concept to production. Coordinate with internal stakeholders and external partners to manage funding, schedules, and permitting for greenfield and brownfield projects.
Senior Product Designer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Daloopa 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead end-to-end product design for Hub and DiamondGate, focusing on organizing dense financial data and AI-powered workflows. Partner with PMs and engineers to define product vision and create scalable design patterns for web, Excel, and agent surfaces.
Senior Product Designer (Growth)
🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Whoop 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design of digital experiences focused on acquisition, conversion, and retention within ecommerce journeys. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement experimentation-driven improvements and scalable platform architecture.
Senior Product Design Manager
🇺🇸 Oakland, California, United States of America
Fivetran 🇺🇸 Oakland, California, United States of America
Lead and coach the dbt product design team while defining the UX strategy for technical data products. Drive the integration of Fivetran and dbt Labs design cultures and operationalize AI across the design lifecycle.
Product Designer | NordVPN Apps | Mid-Senior
🇱🇹 Kaunas, Kauno miesto savivaldybė, Lithuania
Nord Security 🇱🇹 Kaunas, Kauno miesto savivaldybė, Lithuania
Own the end-to-end design process for the NordVPN apps squad across multiple platforms including mobile, desktop, and browser extensions. Collaborate with product owners and engineers to challenge briefs, apply design systems, and ensure high-quality implementation through Design QA.
Product Designer | NordVPN Apps | Mid-Senior
🇱🇹 Vilnius, Vilnius city municipality, Lithuania
Nord Security 🇱🇹 Vilnius, Vilnius city municipality, Lithuania
Own the end-to-end design process for NordVPN apps across multiple platforms, including iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, and browser extensions. Collaborate with product owners and engineers to challenge briefs, apply and grow the design system, and ensure high-quality implementation through Design QA.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Fresha 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
The role involves designing and shipping features across the product ecosystem by collaborating with product managers, engineering, and senior leadership. The designer will conduct user research and create high-fidelity prototypes to simplify complex user problems into elegant solutions.
Design Manager - Senior
🇺🇸 Oakland, California, United States of America
Gensler 🇺🇸 Oakland, California, United States of America
Lead and manage design teams through conceptual development and technical execution for commercial and institutional projects. Coordinate directly with clients, consultants, and contractors to ensure project approvals and successful delivery.
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.