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Senior UX Researcher
🇺🇸 United States of America
Ssi People 🇺🇸 United States of America
The Senior UX Researcher will lead quantitative survey design and integrate qualitative research to enhance user experience understanding. They will synthesize complex data into clear recommendations and utilize statistical software for effective presentation of findings.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Armada 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
As a Senior UI/UX Designer, you will create engaging user interfaces and experiences for Armada’s digital products. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design user-centered solutions that enhance user engagement and understanding of Armada’s offerings.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 Bellevue, Washington, United States of America
Armada 🇺🇸 Bellevue, Washington, United States of America
As a Senior UI/UX Designer, you will create intuitive and visually compelling user interfaces across Armada’s digital products. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design user-centered solutions that enhance user engagement and understanding of Armada’s offerings.
Freelance Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Akqa 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Senior UX Designers lead the design of complex systems of interactions and deliver high-fidelity wireframes and prototypes. They also support and guide other designers while contributing to thought leadership in the UX discipline.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America
Insight Global 🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America
The Senior Design Manager will oversee restaurant concept design and innovation, focusing on the evolution of a global restaurant chain's formats. This role involves partnering with global design leaders to advance asset strategies and operational modernization.
Senior Product Designer – MLB App, Web and Streaming
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Major League Baseball (mlb) 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will focus on shaping the live game experience across MLB’s app, web, and streaming platforms. This includes creating engaging features and experiences that enhance how fans interact with baseball in real time.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Philadelphia Eagles 🇺🇸 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer is responsible for leading creative strategy and executing the visual identity of the organization. This role involves collaborating with various departments to create impactful visual assets and maintaining brand integrity across all communications.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
R37 Lab, R1 Rcm 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The role involves shaping and scaling a critical enterprise revenue cycle management platform, focusing on both existing production systems and a new AI-enabled offering. You will partner with Product and Engineering to define complex workflows and influence design patterns at scale.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Glenview, Illinois, United States of America
Uline 🇺🇸 Glenview, Illinois, United States of America
Lead the conceptualization and design of layouts for catalogs, direct mail, and digital marketing while ensuring brand integrity. Collaborate with photography teams and mentor junior designers and interns to maintain high-quality creative standards.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Armada 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Create intuitive and visually compelling user interfaces for the Armada website and Growth products. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate complex technical concepts into accessible digital experiences.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 Bellevue, Washington, United States of America
Armada 🇺🇸 Bellevue, Washington, United States of America
Create intuitive and visually compelling user interfaces for the Armada website and Growth products. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate complex technical concepts into accessible digital experiences.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States of America
United States Space Foundation 🇺🇸 Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States of America
Lead creative development and brand stewardship across print, digital, and experiential channels for Space Foundation. The role involves creating visual narratives for executive presentations and annual reports while managing production vendors.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇨🇿 okres Plzeň-město, Czechia
Ubiquiti Inc. 🇨🇿 okres Plzeň-město, Czechia
Actively participate in various projects and voice your ideas and solutions. Maintain and create new design systems for Ubiquiti Inc. products and design high-quality, user-friendly interfaces for web and mobile.
Senior Product Designer
🇨🇷 Costa Rica
Svitla Systems, Inc. 🇨🇷 Costa Rica
Own the payments experience across web and mobile, from discovery through shipped features. Partner with PM and Engineering to unify fragmented billing, invoicing, payments, and trust accounting surfaces into a single, coherent experience.
Graphic Designer (5 Month Contract)
🇨🇦 Canada
Clio 🇨🇦 Canada
The Graphic Designer will design branded assets across various marketing channels for the Clio brand. They will work closely with the Senior Art Director and marketers to ensure design integrity and brand alignment.
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.