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Lead Product Designer - AirHelp Mobile App
🇵🇱 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Airhelp 🇵🇱 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
You will own the end-to-end product design for the AirHelp mobile app, defining its evolution from a reactive tool to a proactive travel assistant. You will collaborate with product and engineering teams to build, test, and iterate on features using a hypothesis-driven approach.
UX Designer, Selling Partner UX
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Lead end-to-end UX design for AI-powered seller growth experiences, ensuring trust, transparency, and effective human-in-the-loop workflows. Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and applied scientists to translate research and telemetry into intuitive, scalable design solutions.
Physical Security Engineer, Data Center Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
Lead physical security designs 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.
Lead UX Designer, Systems & Experience
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Mcgraw Hill Llc. Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The Lead UX Designer will maintain and evolve the enterprise design system while delivering hands-on UX design for key initiatives. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure scalable, accessible, and consistent user experiences across digital platforms.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Blank Street 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design process for the consumer app and internal tools, ensuring intuitive and scalable user experiences. Conduct user research and collaborate with product and engineering teams to align design strategies with business goals.
Lead Product Designer
🌍 Remote
B.well Connected Health 🌍 Remote
The Lead Product Designer will own and elevate the end-to-end user experience across the product ecosystem, focusing on AI-driven health data and consumer-grade interfaces. They will lead design strategy, mentor team members, and partner with product and engineering leadership to ensure high-quality, data-backed product delivery.
Senior Product Designer
🇨🇦 Ontario, Canada
Anvil 🇨🇦 Ontario, Canada
Lead the end-to-end UX/UI design process for mission-critical features, collaborating with engineering teams from discovery through implementation. Translate complex client requirements into intuitive interfaces, wireframes, and high-fidelity prototypes while maintaining the company's design system.
Lead Technical UI Designer
🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Epic Games 🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Lead and manage a team of technical UI designers to implement UI systems and workflows within Unreal Engine for Rocket League. Collaborate across departments to ensure design consistency while hands-on developing features and debugging technical issues.
Senior Product Designer
🇫🇷 Paris, France
Cafeyn 🇫🇷 Paris, France
You will lead the product design vision and strategy, bridging the gap between user discovery and technical delivery. Your role involves mentoring designers, maintaining design systems, and ensuring high-quality, data-informed user experiences across all platforms.
11 - Senior Manager, Hardware Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Celestica International Lp 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Lead a team in the design and development of thermal cooling solutions for AI servers, switches, and accelerators. Manage project planning, financials, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure robust product manufacturing.
Lead UX Designer
🇺🇸 Richardson, Texas, United States of America
Lennox International 🇺🇸 Richardson, Texas, United States of America
The Lead UX Designer will shape the user experience for digital products by leading high-priority projects from concept to execution. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to create intuitive, brand-aligned designs while advocating for user-centered outcomes through research and data.
Freelance Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Greensboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Cogent Talent Solutions 🇺🇸 Greensboro, North Carolina, United States of America
The Graphic Designer will develop original visual concepts and design a wide range of assets including branding materials, website graphics, and marketing collateral. They will collaborate with leadership and marketing teams to ensure all creative output aligns with brand guidelines and meets project deadlines.
Senior Product designer Convert F/H/X
🇫🇷 92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
Accorcorpo 🇫🇷 92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
You will design and optimize e-commerce booking experiences on ALL.com to improve conversion rates and user trust. You will work within a multidisciplinary team to lead discovery, prototyping, and data-driven testing to enhance product performance.
Senior Product designer Convert F/H/X
🇫🇷 92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
Accorcorpo 🇫🇷 92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
You will design and optimize e-commerce booking experiences to maximize conversion rates on the ALL.com platform. This involves leading discovery processes, prototyping solutions, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to measure and improve product performance.
Contract Product Designer (Staff-level), 6 months
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Linktree 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
You will lead end-to-end product design projects, translating briefs into high-impact user experiences while collaborating with engineering and product teams. Additionally, you will contribute to the design system and drive design quality across the product organization.
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.