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Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
Patterson Companies, Inc. 🇺🇸 Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
Lead the UX strategy and end-to-end redesign of three major e-commerce sites during a platform and CMS transition. Develop and maintain a scalable multi-site design system while collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure high-fidelity implementation.
Product Designer
🇮🇹 Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Mdotm 🇮🇹 Milan, Lombardy, Italy
The Product Designer will lead features from ideation and UX research to final production, focusing on translating complex AI data into simple interfaces. They will maintain the Design System and collaborate with developers and PMs to ensure technical feasibility and scalability.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇺🇦 Ukraine
Zenkraft 🇺🇦 Ukraine
Lead the end-to-end redesign of a Salesforce application's front end, transitioning from legacy UI to Lightning Web Components. Collaborate with engineers and product managers to create scalable UI components and design patterns that support AI workflows.
Senior UX Designer
🇲🇽 Mexico
Ness Digital Engineering 🇲🇽 Mexico
The Senior UX Designer will lead the end-to-end design process, from discovery to delivery, while creating intuitive solutions that address complex user needs. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure design consistency, accessibility, and alignment with business goals.
Senior Service & UX Designer Consultant
🇨🇦 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Veracity Ventures Inc. 🇨🇦 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
The consultant will lead human-centered service design and user research projects to drive digital transformation. They will also oversee the development of enterprise digital products, focusing on complex workflows and modernizing service delivery.
Senior UX Designer
🇬🇧 Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Native Design 🇬🇧 Greater London, England, United Kingdom
You will lead the definition of interaction models, information architecture, and user flows for diverse digital products across multiple sectors. You will manage UX workstreams from brief to delivery while collaborating with a multidisciplinary team to create boundary-pushing experiences.
Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, England, United Kingdom
Ivc Evidensia 🇬🇧 City of London, England, United Kingdom
Lead and develop a team of Product Designers while partnering with Product and Engineering leadership to deliver high-quality digital experiences. Act as a player-coach by managing team health and delivery while remaining hands-on with design tools when necessary.
Sketch-Brahma-Lead Product Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Nexthire 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
You will lead the design of mission-critical supply-side experiences and build scalable systems to improve operational efficiency. This involves conducting user research, simplifying complex workflows, and partnering cross-functionally to deliver impactful product solutions.
Senior UI Designer - Contract UK
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Vml 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
You will design pixel-perfect responsive interfaces for consumer-facing brands while working within a cross-functional creative team. Your role involves collaborating with UX, UI, and service design leads to improve user experience and drive conversion rates.
Lead UI Designer
🇬🇧 Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Native Design 🇬🇧 Greater London, England, United Kingdom
You will set the visual design direction for multi-modal digital and AI experiences while leading and mentoring a team of designers. Additionally, you will manage client relationships, contribute to new business pitches, and ensure high-quality output from concept to reality.
Head of Design, Wealth Services, Vice President
🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
State Street 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
You will lead the design of new wealth management and retirement planning applications, shaping AI-enabled experiences and interaction models. You will partner with business and engineering teams to define product vision while mentoring designers and maintaining a high standard of craft.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States
Netspend 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States
The Senior Product Designer will lead complex, multi-phase projects from inception to launch while collaborating with product, data, and engineering teams. They are responsible for defining user journeys, creating design concepts, and ensuring high-quality visual and UX execution.
Webflow Lead & Web Design Manager (m/f/d)
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Mistura Software Technologies 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Lead the design and technical implementation of high-quality, responsive websites using Webflow and Figma. Manage and mentor a team of UX designers in Bengaluru while reporting project status and risks to European management.
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🌍 Remote
Gaidoor Recruit 🌍 Remote
Lead the improvement of user experience and product growth for one of Japan's largest digital services. Responsibilities include the entire design lifecycle from user research and hypothesis verification to the construction and operation of design systems.
Lead Product Designer, London, UK
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Eucalyptus 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
The Lead Product Designer will own complex problem areas end-to-end, from research and definition to delivery and measurement. They are responsible for driving commercial outcomes like activation and retention while maintaining high visual craft and clinical safety in a regulated market.
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.