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Sr. UX Designer, Alexa Enterprise and Emerging Design
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design process for complex Alexa Enterprise features, blending visual and voice interfaces. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop early-stage concepts, maintain Figma libraries, and validate designs through user research.
Design Manager - Critical Facilities
🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Gensler 🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Lead the design and delivery of high-tech critical facilities projects, including data centers and AI centers. Manage project lifecycles, budgets, staffing, and coordination between clients, consultants, and contractors.
Staff/ Lead Product Designer (App)
🇫🇮 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
Epassi 🇫🇮 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
You will own the end-to-end super app experience, driving the evolution of design guidelines and ensuring a consistent user experience across products. This role involves hands-on design work, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and coaching other app designers.
Senior Graphic Designer - 1 year FTC
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Kao Emea & Americas 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
The Senior Graphic Designer will lead the execution of visual design across various platforms, ensuring a seamless transition from concept to market-ready assets. Responsibilities include creating designs for packaging, promotional materials, and digital outputs.
Lead Visual Designer (Brand & Web)
Remote (🇫🇷 Paris, France)
The Mobile-first Company Remote (🇫🇷 Paris, France)
Own the brand's visual identity and ensure consistency across all platforms. Collaborate with product designers to enhance the user experience and deliver high-quality design assets.
Lead UX Product Designer – Design Systems
🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
Target 🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
Lead the evolution of Target's multi-platform design system by creating reusable, accessible components and patterns in Figma. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive adoption, maintain documentation, and mentor other designers to ensure high craft standards.
Senior Product Designer, Social Commerce
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Discord 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design of social commerce experiences for game developers and players across all Discord surfaces. Partner with cross-functional teams to create wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs while contributing to the global design system.
Senior Product Designer, Developer Success
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Discord 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end user experience for developer tools and player-facing integrations from concept to launch. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define product strategy and contribute to the organization's design system.
Lead Product Designer, Customer
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Realtor.com Careers 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Lead high-impact design work and influence the strategy for client-facing initiatives within a complex real estate ecosystem. Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to create cohesive design patterns and ensure their adoption across multiple product teams.
Electrical Design Technologist
🇨🇦 Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Awc Water Solutions 🇨🇦 Calgary, Alberta, Canada
The Electrical Design Technologist will lead the development and drafting of electrical and instrumentation project document packages. They will collaborate with engineering teams and ensure the accuracy and compliance of all drawings.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇦 Kamianskyi raion, Ukrainka, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, 52313, Ukraine
Tenengroup Ltd. 🇺🇦 Kamianskyi raion, Ukrainka, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, 52313, Ukraine
The Senior Graphic Designer will evolve the visual language of the brand and lead visual concepts for product launches and seasonal campaigns. They will design various digital assets including homepage banners, landing pages, and email newsletters.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇦 Kyiv, Ukraine
Tenengroup Ltd. 🇺🇦 Kyiv, Ukraine
The Senior Graphic Designer will evolve the visual language of the brand and lead visual concepts for product launches and seasonal campaigns. They will design various digital assets including homepage banners, landing pages, and email marketing newsletters.
Senior Product Designer
🇪🇪 Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia
Bolt 🇪🇪 Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia
Own and evolve the safety experience across both the Rider and Driver apps while leading design initiatives related to market expansion and regulatory compliance. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality execution of design solutions.
Staff/ Lead Product Designer (App)
🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain
Epassi 🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain
You will own the end-to-end super app experience, driving the evolution of design guidelines and ensuring a consistent user experience across products. You will also coach other app designers and collaborate closely with product managers and engineers.
Staff/ Lead Product Designer (App)
🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Epassi 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
You will own the end-to-end super app experience, driving the evolution of design guidelines and ensuring a consistent user experience across products. Additionally, you will coach other app designers and collaborate closely with product managers and engineers.
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.