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Senior UX Designer REQ_97
🇷🇴 Romania
3pillar 🇷🇴 Romania
Lead UX design engagements for client-facing digital products, aligning design decisions with business objectives and user needs while partnering with product, engineering, and program teams. Guide and mentor UX designers, facilitate design and Agile activities, communicate recommendations and project status, and contribute to internal training and UX thought leadership.
Senior UX Designer (Helsinki, Tampere)
🇫🇮 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
Elisa 🇫🇮 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
Design customer-focused digital products and self-service experiences from research through testing and implementation, using customer insights and qualitative and quantitative data. Collaborate with product managers, developers, marketers, and other stakeholders to integrate designs, present and defend design decisions, and deliver high-quality work.
Senior Principal UX Designer (6 month FTC)
🇸🇪 Malmö, Skåne County, Sweden
King 🇸🇪 Malmö, Skåne County, Sweden
Lead research into existing CI workflows to identify pain points and unmet needs for developer teams. Design, prototype, and evaluate efficient CI workflows while facilitating workshops to align cross-functional teams.
Senior Product Designer, Growth and Conversion
The Senior Product Designer will lead end-to-end design experiences and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to define product vision and audience engagement strategies. They are responsible for creating and maintaining design systems, conducting user research, and working closely with developers to build and refine digital products.
Senior Product Designer (Growth & User Experience)
🇺🇸 Minnesota, United States of America
Straive 🇺🇸 Minnesota, United States of America
Lead end-to-end product design, from research and journey analysis through interaction design, prototyping, testing, and implementation collaboration. Improve activation, engagement, conversion, and long-term product value by using product analytics, instrumentation, experiments, and user insights to optimize the customer experience.
Visual Designer (Studio + Tech client)
🇨🇦 Canada
Creative Circle 🇨🇦 Canada
Create visual assets for digital channels and print collateral, prepare production-ready files, and ensure all work follows brand guidelines. Collaborate with copywriters, project managers, and senior creatives to develop campaign concepts, incorporate stakeholder feedback, and deliver designs on tight deadlines.
Senior Graphic Designer (Amazon)
Remote (🇨🇴 Colombia)
Lago Remote (🇨🇴 Colombia)
Create brand-aligned graphics and content for Amazon product listings, A+ Content, storefronts, advertisements, and marketing materials. Collaborate with writers, content managers, and marketing teams while researching trends, maintaining asset libraries, and ensuring designs support customer engagement and conversions.
Senior Product Designer, New Ventures & Consumer UX (f/m/x)
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Hellofresh 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Lead end-to-end consumer experience design from early problem framing through launch, maintaining a high standard across visual, interaction, motion, and UX writing. Bring evidence-based customer insights into squad planning, influence product priorities, and use AI tools throughout research, synthesis, prototyping, and design-to-code workflows.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Zapp 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead end-to-end design for Zapp’s customer-facing mobile app and internal operations and commercial tools, partnering with Product, Engineering, Operations, and Commercial teams. Conduct research and testing, design workflows and interfaces for fulfillment systems, and evolve the design system, processes, and documentation.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇪🇬 Cairo, Egypt
Worood 🇪🇬 Cairo, Egypt
Create refined visual content and campaign assets for Worood’s digital platforms, maintaining consistency with its brand identity and visual guidelines. Collaborate with marketing and content teams on creative concepts, brainstorming, storytelling, and social media content, including simple motion-based assets.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Irving, Texas, United States of America
Kforce Inc 🇺🇸 Irving, Texas, United States of America
Lead complex design initiatives from problem identification through implementation, establishing standards, processes, and governance that improve consistency and scalability. Develop workflows, interaction patterns, prototypes, documentation, and testing approaches, partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver practical, accessible solutions.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Herndon, Virginia, United States of America
Unissant 🇺🇸 Herndon, Virginia, United States of America
Lead discovery with stakeholders and users, then translate complex business processes into accessible user journeys, workflows, prototypes, and implementation-ready designs. Collaborate with analysts and engineers, validate designs through usability feedback, and support accessibility conformance, user acceptance testing, training materials, and ongoing product improvement.
Senior Product Designer
🇨🇦 Quinte West, Ontario, Canada
Blink Ux 🇨🇦 Quinte West, Ontario, Canada
The Senior Product Designer will own end-to-end design for key product flows, translating complex requirements into intuitive, human-centered digital experiences. They will collaborate closely with product, engineering, and cross-functional partners to deliver scalable solutions while maintaining high standards for craft and accessibility.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Scentbird Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The posting does not specify the Senior Product Designer’s responsibilities. It describes Scentbird and its brands, which offer fragrance discovery and related products through digital and consumer experiences.
Senior Womenswear Design Manager KUWAIT
🇪🇸 Spain
The Global Search Company 🇪🇸 Spain
Develop commercially successful seasonal womenswear collections from concept through final product, using trend research and customer insight to shape designs. Collaborate with buying, merchandising, technical, production, and supplier teams to maintain quality and brand direction and deliver collections on time and within budget.
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.