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Senior Staff UX Designer, Shopping Cart and Checkout
🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Google 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Lead design strategy and innovative solutions for cohesive shopping experiences across Google products, collaborating with leaders and teams across areas including Search, Gemini, Ads, YouTube, Google Pay, and Photos. Own design processes and priorities, improve designs using UX testing and stakeholder input, and contribute primarily as an individual designer while also managing a small team.
Hardware Design Manager
🇬🇧 Southampton, England, United Kingdom
Spectrum It Recruitment 🇬🇧 Southampton, England, United Kingdom
Lead and grow the RTL and digital hardware engineering organisation, providing technical direction across ASIC and FPGA development while recruiting, mentoring, and developing engineers. Improve engineering processes and design flows, introduce automation and AI-assisted tools, collaborate with architects and senior stakeholders, and ensure high-quality hardware delivery aligned with the technology and product roadmap.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Strabag 🇬🇧 Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Lead and manage the design process from pre-construction through project completion, ensuring safe, compliant, buildable, sustainable, and commercially effective solutions. Coordinate design teams and stakeholders, maintain design registers and assurance processes, monitor progress, manage risks, and support tendering and project delivery.
Graphic Designer
🇮🇳 Mumbai City District, India
Chronicle Ventures 🇮🇳 Mumbai City District, India
Create social media graphics, campaign visuals, brand assets, and other digital content, while supporting senior designers with creative concepts and visual direction. Experiment with distinctive design styles, follow emerging trends and digital culture, and contribute to brainstorming and marketing communications on quick turnarounds.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Tennr 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Own end-to-end design for Validate and Workspace management, improving operational speed and accuracy, and later take ownership of Patient Hub. Lead customer discovery, create scalable patterns for complex workflows, prototype and ship solutions with product and engineering, and iterate based on user feedback.
Senior Web Designer
🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico
Amply 🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico
Own web design projects from kickoff through launch, including creative direction, design systems, production-ready execution, developer handoff, and design quality assurance. Present and explain design decisions to clients, collaborate with developers, manage scope and timelines, use AI throughout the design process, and contribute to team standards and knowledge sharing.
Senior UI Designer
🇨🇦 Ontario, Canada
Havas Cx Canada 🇨🇦 Ontario, Canada
Collaborate with clients and cross-functional teams to define design direction and turn complex requirements into engaging, user-friendly web and mobile interfaces. Document design systems, explain and validate design decisions with stakeholders, gather feedback, and stay current with design trends and best practices.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇿🇦 Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa
Eduvos 🇿🇦 Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa
Provide graphic design services to the Eduvos Marketing Team. The posting does not specify further responsibilities.
Senior UX Designer / Frontendutvecklare
🇸🇪 Malmö, Skåne County, Sweden
Knowit Sweden 🇸🇪 Malmö, Skåne County, Sweden
Combine UX design and frontend development to create engaging, effective digital experiences, working closely with creative colleagues and developers. Lead client engagements and delivery, build trusted client relationships, guide creative processes, and identify opportunities to improve solutions and grow the business.
Senior Product Designer (UI/UX)
🇺🇸 United States of America
Nysonian 🇺🇸 United States of America
Own end-to-end design for web, app, subscription, and connected-hardware experiences across NOBL and Flo Pilates, from research and concept development through implementation and iteration. Maintain the design system, partner with engineering and product management, balance the brands’ distinct identities, and provide design direction as the team grows.
Senior Product Designer (Discovery + AI)
🇦🇷 Buenos Aires, Comuna 1, Argentina
Dynamo 🇦🇷 Buenos Aires, Comuna 1, Argentina
Lead discovery with current and prospective customers, validate needs and hypotheses, and turn findings into navigable prototypes and end-to-end product experiences. Partner with Engineering, Data, and company leadership to bring designs to the platform, advance AI-enabled product experiences, and inform the product roadmap.
Product Designer UX/UI Senior F/H
🇫🇷 France
Ikivia 🇫🇷 France
Define and structure the design strategy for high-impact B2B and B2E portals, conducting user research and testing, facilitating ideation, and creating UX/UI designs and prototypes in Figma. Coordinate design across two to three teams, collaborate with product managers and front-end developers, integrate AI tools into the design process, and establish design methods through production.
Senior Design Manager
🇫🇷 69160 Tassin-la-Demi-Lune, France
Lumapps 🇫🇷 69160 Tassin-la-Demi-Lune, France
Lead and develop a team of eight product designers, setting individual growth objectives and guiding their work across product tribes. Own and communicate the vision for AI-native Employee Hub experiences, and lead the team’s transition in both product design practices and adoption of AI tools.
Senior Campaign Graphic Designer- 12 month FTC
🇬🇧 Enderby, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom
Next Plc 🇬🇧 Enderby, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom
Develop and deliver original campaign concepts and multi-channel creative assets, from initial ideation and storyboarding through production, while managing projects to meet quality and deadline expectations. Mentor junior designers, collaborate with marketing and design stakeholders, and assess competitor activity and industry trends to strengthen the brand's campaigns.
Senior Manager, Process Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Texas, United States of America
Gxo Logistics, Inc. 🇺🇸 Texas, United States of America
Lead the design and optimization of logistics processes, facilities, and technology solutions, translating customer requirements into scalable and financially viable operational designs. Coordinate cross-functional reviews, analyze operational and financial impacts, resolve implementation gaps, and support site launches and operational teams.
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.