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Senior to Staff Product Designer
🇩🇰 Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
Getwhy 🇩🇰 Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
You will drive design across a strategically important product area, developing a world-class consumption experience of qualitative insights. You will lead projects end-to-end, from discovery through execution, optimization, and scaling, partnering closely with engineering.
Sr. UX Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Levi Strauss & Co. 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
The Senior UX Designer will collaborate with various teams to deliver engaging user experiences across web and mobile platforms. They will advocate for end-users and lead internal design initiatives to improve the shopping experience.
Senior Product Designer - Digital Lending
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Oaknorth 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
The Senior Product Designer will lead design work across key lending journeys and contribute to both discovery and delivery phases. They will translate complex financial and regulatory requirements into clear, usable experiences that support user outcomes and business performance.
Senior UX Designer
🌍 Remote
Availity 🌍 Remote
The Senior UX Designer will act as a primary user advocate, evangelizing a user-centered design process and providing oversight and mentoring for junior designers on mission-critical projects. Responsibilities include creating deliverables like prototypes and journey maps to improve product usability based on business goals and research insights.
Senior Product Designer, Reconciliation (Sydney, Hybrid)
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Gtreasury 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
As a Senior Product Designer, you will own the design strategy, partnering with product managers and engineers to define product vision and translate business goals into user experiences. You will also drive consistency by evolving the design system and championing user needs through research and data.
Sr. Product Designer
The Senior Product Designer will take ambiguous product problems and frame them into clear design solutions while owning the quality standard for design across the product. They will collaborate with PMs and Engineers, ensuring high-quality designs are consistently shipped.
Senior UX Designer – HRSD Knowledge Base (ServiceNow)
🇸🇪 Stockholm Municipality, Sweden
Co-worker Technology 🇸🇪 Stockholm Municipality, Sweden
The Senior UX Designer will transform the ServiceNow HRSD Knowledge Base into a self-service experience, focusing on intuitive information architecture and efficient search. They will also define the knowledge base architecture to support automation and AI integration.
Senior Product Designer (Remote)
🌍 Remote
Pricelabs 🌍 Remote
The Senior Product UX Designer will create user-centric experiences for web and mobile platforms while collaborating with internal stakeholders and development teams. They will also contribute to the design system and ensure a consistent user experience across all products.
Senior Product Designer
Own end-to-end product design for the iOS app, from discovery to implementation. Define the visual identity and create a design system to ensure consistency and enable rapid iteration.
Senior UX Designer – HRSD Knowledge Base (ServiceNow)
🌍 Remote
Nexer Group 🌍 Remote
The Senior UX Designer will be responsible for applying UX best practices to structure content for intuitive self-service employee journeys and designing a scalable knowledge architecture optimized for AI, automation, and chatbot enablement. This role involves close collaboration with HR subject-matter experts, ServiceNow developers, and the AI enablement team while establishing governance frameworks and content guidelines.
Senior Product Designer, New Bets
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Doordash Usa 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
This Senior Product Designer will lead the design of transformative admin and enterprise experiences within DoorDash for Business, focusing on tools for team lunch ordering, catering, and company benefits. The role involves exploring complex problem spaces and refining design solutions through various fidelity levels to shape the future of the service.
Senior Product Designer - App
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Frasers Group 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Lead the design lifecycle for key app projects, from research to implementation. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create user-centered design solutions that meet business objectives.
Senior Product Designer, Commerce
🌍 Remote
Ōura 🌍 Remote
The Senior Product Designer will be responsible for optimizing consumer-facing eCommerce experiences and supporting product launches. This includes UX and UI design enhancements, collaborating with product managers and developers, and conducting user research.
Senior Product Designer, Retention
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Doordash Usa 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
As a Senior Product Designer, you will design intuitive experiences that enhance customer retention and engagement. You will work on ongoing communications, retention programs, and leverage AI for personalization.
Senior UI-UX Designer
🇺🇸 Arlington, Texas, United States
Saic 🇺🇸 Arlington, Texas, United States
As a UI/UX Designer, you will design user-centric interfaces and create seamless user experiences. You will collaborate with various stakeholders to translate project requirements into effective design concepts.
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.