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Sr. Product Designer - RCM (Remote)
🌍 Remote
Rula 🌍 Remote
The Senior Product Designer will lead end-to-end design for complex billing and financial workflows in mental health care. This role involves collaborating with various teams to create user-centered experiences that improve financial transparency and operational efficiency.
Principal Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Devoted Health 🌍 Remote
This role will own the interaction design for the Member Portal across desktop, mobile web, iPhone, and Android platforms, leading cross-functional teams to define implementable solutions that meet user, business, and regulatory needs in a hyper-compliant healthcare environment. The designer will independently identify opportunities to drive business results and member satisfaction, focusing on AI-first and conversation-forward interactions.
Sr Product Designer, Revenue & Growth
🇫🇷 Uz, Occitania, France
Yahoo 🇫🇷 Uz, Occitania, France
The Senior Product Designer will lead the design strategy for Yahoo Mail ads monetization and own the end-to-end design process for complex monetization features. They will collaborate with cross-functional partners to define the vision for new features while ensuring solutions are scalable and user-centered.
Lead Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Dave 🌍 Remote
You will lead design for new products and feature iterations, transforming ambiguous problems into clear, shippable experiences. Your work will help define the future product portfolio and determine which ideas make it to market.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 California, United States
Cast & Crew 🇺🇸 California, United States
The Senior UX Designer will lead the design of user experiences for various payroll processes and collaborate with product managers, developers, and researchers to create actionable designs. They will also contribute to the design system and ensure designs adhere to accessibility standards.
Senior/Staff Product Designer
🌍 Remote
N8n 🌍 Remote
Lead end-to-end product design on complex workflows that elevate n8n’s user experience. Collaborate closely with PMs and engineers to ensure high-quality, visually cohesive designs are consistently shipped.
Principal UX Designer
🇺🇸 Georgetown, Massachusetts, United States
Boston Scientific 🇺🇸 Georgetown, Massachusetts, United States
The Principal UX Designer will lead the design of enterprise workforce planning platforms and talent analytics experiences, shaping the end-to-end user experience. This role involves defining UX vision, translating complex concepts into intuitive experiences, and advocating for human-centered design practices.
Lead Product Designer (P4)
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Upwork 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead end-to-end product design from discovery to launch, delivering high-quality wireframes and prototypes. Collaborate with cross-functional partners to shape product direction and improve workflows.
Senior UX Designer
As a Senior UX Designer, you will deliver innovative experiences tailored to user needs and collaborate closely with Product Management, Engineering, and User Research teams. You will lead design critiques and contribute to the Payment UX strategy while mentoring less experienced designers.
Senior UX Designer
As a Senior UX Designer, you will deliver innovative experiences tailored to user needs in Oracle Payments products and collaborate closely with Product Management, Engineering, and User Research teams. You will lead design critiques and contribute to the Redwood Design System while mentoring less experienced designers.
Product Designer II
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States
Pitchbook Data 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States
Product Designers lead the user-centered design process for projects and features, creating impactful experiences that meet business and user objectives. They collaborate with product management and engineering to ensure successful product releases.
Sr. Product Designer, Provider Experience
🌍 Remote
Octave 🌍 Remote
The Senior Product Designer will lead design work for tools used by clinicians and clinical operations teams, focusing on provider-facing workflows. Responsibilities include owning product areas from problem framing to measured outcomes and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Senior Product Designer
🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Ryt Bank 🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
As a Senior Product Designer, you will deliver high-quality user interfaces and experiences while collaborating with product managers and engineers. You will also lead design workshops and user research activities to validate design concepts.
Lead UX Designer
🇺🇸 Menlo Park, California, United States
Billiontoone 🇺🇸 Menlo Park, California, United States
The Lead UX Designer will own the complete UX vision and strategy for the Unity platform, partnering with product leadership to shape roadmaps and translating complex molecular diagnostics into intuitive digital experiences. They will lead the entire design process from discovery through final production, creating high-quality artifacts and driving the evolution of the design system.
Mobile Product Designer
🇺🇸 Dearborn, Michigan, United States
Ford Motor Company 🇺🇸 Dearborn, Michigan, United States
The Mobile Product Designer will lead the design of features and improvements for the Ford mobile app, ensuring alignment with business objectives and user needs. They will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to create intuitive and engaging mobile experiences.
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.