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Senior Product Designer – MLB App, Web and Streaming
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Major League Baseball 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead the design of live game experiences across MLB's app, web, and streaming platforms, focusing on real-time data and storytelling. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to evolve the Basepath design system and mentor other designers.
Senior Product Designer (App)
🇩🇪 Hamburg, Germany
Epassi 🇩🇪 Hamburg, Germany
You will own and elevate the end-user app experience for a functional domain across all markets, actively designing UX concepts and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Your role includes contributing to app design guidelines and ensuring a consistent user experience.
Senior Product Designer (Figma + Cloud Cursor) - Remote - Latin America
Remote (🇩🇴 San Cristóbal, Dominican Republic)
Fullstack Remote (🇩🇴 San Cristóbal, Dominican Republic)
As a Senior Product Designer, you will integrate directly into the client's team and collaborate with existing designers and engineers. Your role will involve designing complex digital products from concept to delivery.
Senior Engineering Manager, Advanced Product Designer (APD)
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Guidewire Software 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead multiple APD engineering teams, fostering a high-accountability culture while driving the architecture and delivery of APD on App Platform 2.0. Collaborate with various stakeholders to ensure APD meets customer and compliance expectations.
Senior UX Researcher (m/f/d)
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Maxon 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Own the research strategy for Cinema 4D across the full product lifecycle, selecting appropriate methods for various design questions. Deliver findings that drive product decisions and mentor other researchers within the team.
Graphic Designer (5 Month Contract)
🇨🇦 Canada
Clio 🇨🇦 Canada
Develop and execute branded creative content across all marketing channels, including advertisements, social posts, and website graphics. Collaborate with the Senior Art Director and marketers to ensure brand integrity and implement campaign feedback.
Senior Technology Design Manager - White Space Fit Out
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Coreweave 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Senior Technology Design Manager will lead and manage the design process for Data Center Fit Outs, ensuring designs meet CoreWeave project requirements. This role involves coordinating with internal teams and external consultants to ensure high-quality execution of designs.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Trust In Soda 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
As a Senior Product Designer, you'll define the overall user experience vision across multiple products and platforms. You'll collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to create intuitive experiences that simplify complex workflows.
Lead Design Manager, Resilient
🇺🇸 LaGrange, Georgia, United States of America
Interface 🇺🇸 LaGrange, Georgia, United States of America
The Lead Design Manager, Resilient is responsible for leading the design strategy and creating innovative designs for Interface’s resilient product portfolio. This role involves collaboration with a global design team and guiding the Senior Designer on projects to ensure alignment with company values.
Senior Product Designer, Marketplace Global App
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Ticketmaster 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design process for the global mobile app, focusing on fan experiences for searching, buying, and entering events. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate strategic business goals into pixel-perfect mobile deliverables.
Senior Product Designer, Incentives, Merchants
🇪🇪 Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia
Bolt 🇪🇪 Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia
The Senior Product Designer will own the user experience and design aspects of the Incentives domain within the Merchants team, focusing on campaigns, discounts, and ads. This role involves collaborating with various teams to enhance the merchant platform and improve user experiences.
Senior Product Designer
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Deputy 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
As a Senior Product Designer, you will lead the design of innovative solutions that simplify and enhance the work experience for shift workers. You will collaborate with product managers and engineers to shape the product roadmap and ensure impactful execution.
Senior UX Researcher
🇬🇧 England, United Kingdom
Tata Consultancy Services 🇬🇧 England, United Kingdom
The Senior UX Researcher leads user research activities for digital pensions products, ensuring user insights inform design decisions. They collaborate with stakeholders and delivery teams to embed user-centred design practices throughout the project lifecycle.
Senior Product Designer (UX Specialist) - Media Company
🇧🇷 Brazil
Jobgether 🇧🇷 Brazil
Lead end-to-end product design initiatives for a complex digital platform, translating workflows into user-centered experiences. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to shape solutions that align with user needs and business goals.
Senior Product Designer
🇵🇭 Parañaque, Southern Manila District, Philippines
Solana Foundation 🇵🇭 Parañaque, Southern Manila District, Philippines
Own end-to-end UX design for Solana Foundation web products, focusing on research, information architecture, and interaction patterns for complex interfaces. Collaborate with product managers and engineers to maintain design systems and ship high-quality, data-intensive B2B experiences.
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.