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Staff Product Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Okta 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Own the end-to-end design for Auth0's dashboard, login, and developer experiences while leading strategic initiatives to define product roadmaps. You will create pixel-perfect interfaces, mentor designers, and represent user needs within a security-focused domain.
Senior Product Designer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Okta 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Drive and execute an ambitious product design strategy while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver user-centric solutions. Lead design efforts across the product portfolio, ensuring scalable patterns and seamless experiences that enhance security and usability.
Sr. Product Designer - Hybrid/Atlanta
🇺🇸 Roswell, Georgia, United States of America
Siteone Landscape Supply 🇺🇸 Roswell, Georgia, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will lead end-to-end digital experience design, translating complex workflows into intuitive solutions for customers and internal teams. This role involves conducting user research, developing design artifacts, and collaborating with product and engineering teams to deliver scalable, high-quality products.
Physical Security Engineer, Data Center Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
Lead the physical security design for data center facilities across the Americas region, including the development of construction drawings and security specifications. Collaborate with internal security teams and external consultants to ensure resilient, cost-effective, and safe infrastructure standards.
Senior Graphic Designer: Where Design Excellence Meets Brand Innovation
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Hospitality Confidential 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer will lead the execution of high-impact visual design across digital, web, and physical product packaging. They will partner with marketing leadership to elevate the brand's visual identity while managing multiple projects and supporting junior team members.
Design Engineering Architect
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Cadence Design Systems 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
The Design Engineering Architect will lead a team of RTL design engineers to define microarchitectural features and ensure successful delivery of complex digital logic. This role involves overseeing pre-silicon verification activities and collaborating with cross-functional teams including physical design and firmware engineering.
Lead Graphic Designer
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Kpler 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
You will lead the graphic design practice by setting creative direction and ensuring high-quality visual communication across all company channels. Additionally, you will mentor the design team and collaborate with marketing and data visualization departments to drive innovation in storytelling.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇦🇲 Yerevan, Armenia
Buymie 🇦🇲 Yerevan, Armenia
Lead end-to-end design processes and the evolution of the design system to ensure consistent UI across web and mobile platforms. Collaborate with product, engineering, and data teams to conduct user research and drive data-informed design decisions.
Lead Product Designer – Vice President
🇬🇧 London, City of London, United Kingdom
Jpmorgan Chase & Co. 🇬🇧 London, City of London, United Kingdom
The Lead Product Designer will drive product design excellence within a dedicated squad, balancing craft with business impact. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate complex requirements into intuitive, customer-focused digital experiences.
Lead Product Designer, UX Design (Catalyst)
🇺🇸 Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
Onemain Financial 🇺🇸 Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
The Lead Product Designer will shape end-to-end user experiences for complex operational workflows within the Catalyst platform. They will partner with cross-functional teams to simplify integrated systems into intuitive, scalable designs while ensuring compliance and accessibility standards.
Senior UX Designer
🇬🇧 Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom
Atkinsréalis 🇬🇧 Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom
The Senior UX Designer will provide expert UX guidance across the full design lifecycle and lead design contributions for bids and proposals. They will also manage client relationships, ensure design assurance, and provide technical leadership to multidisciplinary teams.
Lead UX Designer
🇺🇸 Needham, Massachusetts, United States of America
Sharkninja 🇺🇸 Needham, Massachusetts, United States of America
Lead end-to-end UX design for connected mobile app experiences while setting design direction and quality standards. Mentor junior designers and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure intuitive and integrated product experiences.
Lead Design Engineering
🇷🇴 Codlea, Brașov, Romania
D-career 🇷🇴 Codlea, Brașov, Romania
The Lead Design Engineer manages and coordinates sub-projects, ensuring product development from concept to series production. They act as the key technical contact for clients, organizing design reviews and ensuring project objectives, deadlines, and costs are met.
Khyaal- Graphic Designer
🇮🇳 Mumbai City District, India
Nexthire 🇮🇳 Mumbai City District, India
The Senior Graphic Designer will own and execute end-to-end design for marketing campaigns, social media, and digital products. They will also collaborate with cross-functional teams to maintain brand consistency and lead visual direction for creative projects.
Sr. SW UX Designer
🇨🇳 Suzhou, Anhui, China
Logitech 🇨🇳 Suzhou, Anhui, China
Lead design initiatives for software experiences with hardware connections while coordinating with multidisciplinary teams. Communicate design thinking to senior leadership and engineering partners through wireframes, prototypes, and specifications.
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.