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Senior Product Designer / Senior Strategic Product Manager
🇨🇳 Nanjing City, Jiangsu, China
南京金斯瑞生物科技有限公司 🇨🇳 Nanjing City, Jiangsu, China
Define the long-term strategic product portfolio and roadmaps for life science reagents over a 3-5 year horizon. Translate customer insights and emerging technology trends into high-impact product specifications and business cases for executive leadership.
Engineering Design Manager
🇨🇳 Jinjiang City, Fujian, China
Sharkninja 🇨🇳 Jinjiang City, Fujian, China
Lead the development of reliable designs for high-volume consumer products, ensuring they meet performance, compliance, and aesthetic requirements. Manage factory design teams and collaborate with global cross-functional departments to oversee prototyping and product integrity.
Design Technologist II, Prime Video
🇺🇸 Culver City, California, United States
Amazon 🇺🇸 Culver City, California, United States
Build high-quality, functional prototypes to advance the vision of future products across web, mobile, and TV platforms. Collaborate with design leadership, researchers, and engineers to drive concepts from initial idea to final implementation.
Lead Graphic Designer
🇯🇵 Japan
Bjak 🇯🇵 Japan
Lead the creation of visual assets for marketing campaigns, social media, and digital advertising across static and motion formats. Collaborate with performance teams to optimize visuals based on data and utilize AI tools to enhance production speed.
Lead Graphic Designer
🇰🇷 South Korea
Bjak 🇰🇷 South Korea
Lead the creation of high-conversion visual assets for marketing campaigns, social media, and digital advertising across static and motion formats. Collaborate with performance teams to iterate on designs based on data and maintain brand consistency using AI tools and visual systems.
Interior Design Manager
🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Han Spaces 🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Lead the design team in delivering high-quality workplace and commercial interior projects from concept to construction. Manage client requirements, oversee internal design workflows, and support business development strategies.
Lead Graphic Designer
🇨🇭 Switzerland
Bjak 🇨🇭 Switzerland
Lead the creation of high-conversion visual assets for marketing campaigns, social media, and digital advertising. Collaborate with performance teams to iterate on visuals based on data and integrate AI tools to optimize production speed.
Lead Graphic Designer
🇸🇪 Sweden
Bjak 🇸🇪 Sweden
Lead the creation of high-conversion visual assets and motion content across marketing, social, and digital channels. Collaborate with performance teams to iterate on designs based on data and maintain brand consistency using AI tools and visual systems.
Product Designer ($90k-$150k + Equity) at Aios Medical
🇩🇪 Germany
Jack & Jill 🇩🇪 Germany
Lead the end-to-end design of customer-facing mobile apps for GLP-1 treatments and optimize internal clinical tools. Collaborate with engineering and product leadership to balance user needs with regulatory and commercial constraints.
Web Designer
🌍 Remote
Amazing Life 🌍 Remote
The Senior Web Designer will lead the design, maintenance, and improvement of Amazing Life's digital ecosystem, specifically focusing on the joinamazing.com site. This involves turning high-level goals into polished digital experiences using Figma and managing the existing WordPress presence.
Product Designer Sênior
🇧🇷 São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Itaú Unibanco 🇧🇷 São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Lead complex design initiatives by connecting user experience, product, technology, and business goals to create high-impact digital solutions. Act as a technical reference for junior and mid-level designers while influencing strategic product roadmaps and prioritization.
Product Designer | Presencial | Blumenau/SC
🇧🇷 Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brazil
Premiersoft 🇧🇷 Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brazil
Lead the end-to-end digital product design process from discovery to delivery, translating business needs into intuitive and scalable interfaces. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to evolve products based on user research, data, and the maintenance of Design Systems.
Product Designer (UX/UI) (Remote Full Time - Peru)
🌍 Remote
Class2class 🌍 Remote
The Product Designer will analyze user flows and conduct research to identify friction points for teachers and students. They will collaborate with the Tech Lead to create wireframes, prototypes, and a consistent design system for new features.
UI/UX Designer - AI-Powered Applications & Digital Experiences
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Seneca Resources Company, Llc 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
The role involves designing intuitive user experiences and interfaces for AI-powered applications and digital workplace solutions. Key tasks include creating wireframes, prototypes, and reusable UI components while collaborating with GenAI technology leads.
Design Technologist
🇺🇸 United States
Elation Health 🇺🇸 United States
Own the architecture, strategy, and evolution of Elation's design system, specifically leading an AI-agent-first rearchitecting. Collaborate with designers, engineers, and clinicians to define AI-native interaction patterns and visual language.
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.