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Senior Visual / Product Designer

🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Design engaging digital experiences for web and mobile products while enhancing existing designs based on established design systems. Collaborate with clients and team members to present design concepts and conduct competitive analyses.

Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer

🇺🇸 Cupertino, California, United States

As a Senior Product Designer, you will determine the user experience of clients' products and own areas of work from design through to completion. You will create digital experiences, conduct user research, and collaborate with team members to ensure quality and timely delivery.

Onsite$70 - $75ContractSenior
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Senior Product Designer

🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

As a Senior Product Designer, you will determine the user experience of clients' products and own areas of work from design through to completion. You will create digital experiences, develop UX strategies, and collaborate with team members to ensure quality and timely delivery.

Onsite$55 - $62ContractSenior
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Senior Product Designer

🇨🇦 Calgary, Alberta, Canada

As a Senior Product Designer, you will determine the user experience of clients' products and own areas of work from design through to completion. Your responsibilities include creating digital experiences, conducting user research, and collaborating with team members to enhance in-store experiences.

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Senior UX Designer (Consumer Cybersecurity)

🇹🇼 Taipei, Taiwan

The Senior UX Designer will design consumer cybersecurity experiences for primary markets, focusing on cross-market UX strategy and end-to-end experience design. The role involves collaboration with various teams to create intuitive and trustworthy products.

Onsite$1,200,000 - $1,800,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer

🇳🇿 Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

As a Senior Product Designer, you will take full ownership of large, complex product areas from discovery to delivery. You will design and ship high-quality experiences while collaborating closely with Product and Engineering teams.

Hybrid$100,000 - $150,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer

🌍 Remote

The Senior Product Designer will run Continuous Product Discovery to understand customer motivations and needs, and deliver visual yet functional design solutions. They will also design prototypes for rapid testing and validation while collaborating across functions to enhance user experience.

RemoteFull-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer

🌍 Remote

Take full ownership of the end-to-end product design process, collaborating closely with the Product Team. Translate concepts into high-fidelity designs while maintaining a scalable design system.

RemoteFull-timeMid-level
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Senior Product Designer

🇮🇳 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

The Senior Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design process, collaborating with product managers and engineers to create AI-enhanced user experiences. They will also mentor junior designers and contribute to evolving design processes and systems.

HybridFull-timeSenior
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Senior UI/UX Designer

🇺🇸 Sunnyvale, California, United States

The Senior UI/UX Designer will pioneer new interaction models for human-robot communication and design end-to-end experiences across various platforms. They will lead user research, build design systems, and collaborate with engineering and research teams to create seamless experiences.

$150,000 - $220,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer

🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

As a Senior AI Product Designer, you will lead the design of intuitive experiences that help users action insights and manage data. You will collaborate with engineers and product managers to ensure functionality and usability while elevating design quality.

Hybrid$120,000 - $180,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer

Lead end-to-end product design projects ensuring high-quality user experiences that align with business objectives. Conduct user research and collaborate with cross-functional teams to create design solutions.

Onsite$100,000 - $150,000Full-timeSenior
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(Senior) Product Designer

🇭🇰 Wan Chai, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong S.A.R.

The Senior Product Designer will be responsible for shipping innovative and user-centered digital experiences, focusing on customer acquisition. This includes collaborating with cross-functional teams to define and execute design strategies that drive business outcomes.

Hybrid$80,000 - $120,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer

🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States

The Senior Product Designer will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design digital interfaces for both internal and external applications. They will create wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity design specs while ensuring designs are ready for development.

Onsite$144,000 - $198,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer - Maternity Leave Cover (9 Months)

🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel-Aviv District, Israel

The Senior Product Designer will own end-to-end design processes across multiple product areas, leading design solutions for complex systems and workflows. They will collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to ensure high-quality, feasible designs and elevate design standards across the organization.

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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.