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Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Unily 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Elevate the visual quality and interaction craft of the AI-native employee experience platform through high-fidelity prototyping and UI design. Lead discovery and user research initiatives to validate ideas and align product direction with user needs and business goals.
Senior Integrated Design Manager
🇺🇸 Ohio, United States of America
Aligned Data Centers 🇺🇸 Ohio, United States of America
Lead integrated design management across multiple complex projects, ensuring alignment between schedule, cost, and constructability. Provide technical authority and mentorship to junior design managers while coordinating with construction teams to meet business objectives.
Senior Product Designer, Direct to Consumer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Zynga 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead the design of high-impact mobile commerce experiences, from initial discovery and prototyping to post-launch iteration. Collaborate with product and engineering teams to build scalable design systems and champion UX excellence across the organization.
Experiential Graphic Designer IV
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Cannondesign 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead conceptual and design development across multiple projects while mentoring junior team members on technical skills and storytelling. Manage diverse project teams and coordinate with vendors, fabricators, and consultants to deliver high-quality experiential design solutions.
Staff Product Designer, Customer & Partner Experience (CPEX)
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Servicenow 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
You will lead the design of complex information architectures and content navigation systems across diverse platforms. The role involves collaborating with engineering and product management to create cohesive, AI-native user experiences.
Senior Integrated Design Manager
🇺🇸 Ohio, United States of America
Aligned Data Centers 🇺🇸 Ohio, United States of America
The Senior Integrated Design Manager provides technical leadership across multiple projects, integrating schedule, cost, and constructability early in the design process. They are responsible for mentoring staff, maintaining accountability for third-party design teams, and ensuring design decisions align with long-term business objectives.
Sr. UX Designer, People Engagement Experience (PEX)
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
The Senior UX Designer will lead the end-to-end design of employee-facing products and features while driving the long-term design vision for the PEX organization. They will collaborate with cross-functional partners to transform fragmented systems into intuitive, cohesive user journeys.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Opensea 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead design initiatives from concept through launch while collaborating with engineers to deliver high-quality user experiences. Evolve design systems and AI-powered workflows to improve team effectiveness and product consistency.
Product Designer, Defense
🇺🇸 Sunnyvale, California, United States of America
Applied Intuition 🇺🇸 Sunnyvale, California, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design process for sophisticated software platforms, including user research, prototyping, and visual design. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate complex operational requirements into intuitive interfaces for autonomy and defense applications.
Turbomachinery Aerodynamic Design Manager
🇺🇸 Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Air Products 🇺🇸 Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States of America
The Aerodynamics Domain Owner will provide technical leadership for aerodynamic design strategy, performance prediction methodologies, and engineering tool improvements. They will also lead and mentor a team of four Aero Engineers while actively contributing to the design and execution of customer projects.
Product Designer, Trust & Safety
🇺🇸 United States of America
Meta 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead the design vision and strategy for trust and safety experiences across Instagram, focusing on youth safety and creator protections. Drive alignment across cross-functional teams including Product, Policy, Engineering, and Legal to deliver intuitive, human-centered experiences.
Senior UX Designer, Design Systems, People Engagement Experience (PEX)
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
The Senior UX Designer will lead the strategy and creation of scalable design system components, patterns, and templates for employee-facing products. They will collaborate closely with engineers and designers to integrate AI-powered tools and ensure a unified, high-quality user experience across platforms.
UX Designer, People Engagement Experience (PEX)
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Define and drive the UX vision for AI-first internal products to improve employee efficiency and experience. Lead the end-to-end design process, including research, wireframing, and prototyping, while collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Senior Product Designer
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Cloudfactory 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
The Senior Product Designer will shape end-to-end user experiences by transforming complex needs into scalable design solutions. They will lead user research, create high-fidelity prototypes, and mentor junior designers while collaborating with Engineering and Product Management.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States of America
Gitwit 🇺🇸 Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States of America
Lead zero-to-one product design for new AI-native ventures, owning the product experience from early concept through prototype and first launch. Collaborate closely with engineering, strategy, and research teams to set design standards and iterate based on user signals.
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.