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Sonar Mental Health - Senior Product Designer ( Part-time)
Remote (🇵🇱 Poland)
Jobrack Remote (🇵🇱 Poland)
You will lead end-to-end product design for student-facing chat experiences, administrator dashboards, and internal care workflows. This includes running discovery research, rapid prototyping, and partnering with engineering to ship high-quality, scalable design systems.
Sonar Mental Health - Senior Product Designer ( Part-time)
Remote (🇿🇦 South Africa)
Jobrack Remote (🇿🇦 South Africa)
You will lead end-to-end product design for youth mental health initiatives, ranging from student-facing chat experiences to internal care workflows. Additionally, you will partner with engineering and product management to shape roadmaps, evolve design systems, and conduct discovery research.
Senior Digital Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Pentland Brands 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
You will lead the end-to-end digital product design lifecycle, from discovery and UX strategy to visual design and delivery across seven iconic brands. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to define problems, validate solutions, and integrate AI tools to enhance design quality and efficiency.
Director of Silicon Design Engineering
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
The Director of Silicon Design Engineering is responsible for end-to-end silicon performance, design execution, and technical leadership of a global engineering team. They drive cross-functional alignment across architecture, validation, and software teams to ensure product targets are met.
Lead Product Designer, Spark
Remote (🇺🇸 Culver City, CA 90232, United States of America)
Lightspark Remote (🇺🇸 Culver City, CA 90232, United States of America)
You will lead the design of Spark's developer-facing tools, dashboards, and wallet experiences to make complex L2 infrastructure feel simple. Additionally, you will build high-fidelity functional prototypes and create marketing assets to communicate the platform's capabilities to the crypto ecosystem.
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Lead Product Designer @ AI-powered Personal Growth Startup
Remote (🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America)
Conscious Talent Remote (🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America)
The Lead Product Designer will own the end-to-end design vision and strategy, focusing on creating novel AI-native UX patterns. They will collaborate with engineers and founders to build functional prototypes and maintain a rigorous design process from ideation to shipping.
Senior Product Designer (SaaS)
🇺🇸 United States of America
Yassi 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead end-to-end UX strategy and execution for the SaaS platform, from discovery through delivery. Collaborate with product, engineering, and sales teams to define requirements, prioritize features, and maintain design integrity.
Senior Product Designer (SaaS)
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Yassi 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Lead end-to-end UX strategy and execution for the SaaS platform, from initial discovery through final delivery. Collaborate with product, engineering, and operations teams to define requirements, prioritize features, and ensure high-quality design implementation.
Senior Product Designer, Core
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Bubble 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
You will lead end-to-end product design for the core Bubble editor, defining goals and shaping the user experience for complex features. You will partner with engineering and product management to translate ambiguous problems into intuitive, scalable design solutions.
Lead UX Designer
🇲🇽 Guadalajara, Mexico
Wizeline 🇲🇽 Guadalajara, Mexico
Lead the design of end-to-end digital experiences that elevate customer engagement and support business objectives. Collaborate cross-functionally to deliver accessible, ADA-compliant designs while contributing to the evolution of the design system.
E-commerce Graphic Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Hadley Designs Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The designer will create high-quality, error-free marketing assets and maintain brand consistency across various platforms including Amazon and Shopify. They will collaborate with leadership to execute design projects for product launches and advertising campaigns while meeting strict deadlines.
E-commerce Graphic Designer
Remote (🇯🇵 Japan)
Hadley Designs Remote (🇯🇵 Japan)
The designer will create high-quality, error-free marketing assets and maintain brand consistency across various platforms including Amazon and Shopify. They will collaborate with leadership to execute design projects for product launches and advertising campaigns.
E-commerce Graphic Designer
Remote (🇮🇹 Italy)
Hadley Designs Remote (🇮🇹 Italy)
The designer will create high-quality marketing and advertising assets while maintaining brand consistency across platforms like Amazon and Shopify. They will collaborate with leadership to execute design projects, manage product launch materials, and ensure all deadlines are met.
E-commerce Graphic Designer
Remote (🇸🇬 Singapore)
Hadley Designs Remote (🇸🇬 Singapore)
The designer will create high-quality, error-free visual assets for marketing campaigns and e-commerce platforms like Amazon and Shopify. They will collaborate with leadership to ensure brand consistency across all platforms while meeting project deadlines.
E-commerce Graphic Designer
Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)
Hadley Designs Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)
The designer will create high-quality, error-free visual assets for marketing campaigns and storefronts across platforms like Amazon and Shopify. They will collaborate with leadership to ensure brand consistency and meet project deadlines for product launches.
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.