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Senior Product Designer
🇧🇷 Brazil
Contabilizei 🇧🇷 Brazil
Design polished digital experiences, end-to-end user flows, and reusable components, while evolving the Design System and using AI to accelerate prototyping and hypothesis validation. Lead discovery, analyze product metrics, and optimize landing pages and acquisition flows through A/B testing in collaboration with Growth teams.
Staff Product Designer
🇧🇷 Brazil
Benup 🇧🇷 Brazil
Lead end-to-end product design, from understanding user and business problems through discovery, prototyping, validation, delivery, and post-launch iteration. Map complex user journeys, maintain the design system, support rollout and go-to-market activities, use AI to accelerate design work, and provide technical leadership to the design team.
Lead Product Designer
🇬🇧 Bournemouth, BH2 6EG, United Kingdom
Vitality 🇬🇧 Bournemouth, BH2 6EG, United Kingdom
Lead the design and evolution of customer-focused digital experiences across web and native app platforms, including creating design artefacts and improving the design system. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, use research and analytics to guide decisions, facilitate workshops, and champion design quality, accessibility, and usability while mentoring other designers.
Senior AI Product Designer (m/w/d)
🇩🇪 Germany
Recare 🇩🇪 Germany
Own end-to-end design for a core product area, from ambiguous problem definition through production, creating AI-native interfaces and human-in-the-loop controls for healthcare users. Contribute to the design system, shape product and technical direction with product and engineering partners, and maintain a coherent, high-quality experience across the platform.
Senior UI Designer- Freelance
🇺🇸 Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Vml Health 🇺🇸 Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Lead visual design direction and create polished interfaces for CRM and other digital platforms, while defining and scaling design systems and modular asset libraries. Collaborate across disciplines, contribute UX and UI expertise, and use AI tools to improve design quality, consistency, and production efficiency, including for healthcare and pharmaceutical clients.
Head of Design, Product Design
🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America
Tempoatlas 🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America
Lead and mentor the design team while remaining hands-on in product design, owning retail mobile experiences and the design system. Represent design in strategy and roadmap decisions, improve cross-functional UX practices, and establish scalable systems and processes that raise product quality.
Staff UI Designer (R6055)
🇺🇸 San Diego, California, United States of America
Shield Ai 🇺🇸 San Diego, California, United States of America
Lead the UI design evolution of the Shield AI website by establishing foundational design systems and visual standards. Partner with cross-functional teams to translate complex defense technology into intuitive, scalable, and accessible digital experiences.
Design Systems Engineer (Remote, Medellin)
🇨🇴 Colombia
Blacksmith Agency 🇨🇴 Colombia
Build Figma-based design systems for multiple client brands, including token architecture, variables, modes, and reusable core components. Document systems so developers and automated build pipelines can implement them predictably.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Rockstar 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Own product design from research and problem definition through flows, wireframes, prototypes, and polished UI, and follow the work through launch. Design and improve experiences for play, self-expression, and friendship; strengthen the design system; and iterate based on player feedback and usage data.
Design Technologist
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Imbue 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Own the end-to-end product user experience, shaping product strategy and direction while collaborating closely with engineers and the product team. Conduct user research, create and iterate on flows, prototypes, and visual designs, and develop the design system and component library.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Stable 🇺🇸 United States of America
You will own the end-to-end product design process, from discovery to delivery, while collaborating with engineering to bridge digital software and physical mail operations. You will also leverage data and AI tools to make impactful product decisions and contribute to the company's design system.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
S R International Inc 🇺🇸 Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
The consultant will design intuitive, user-centered interfaces for complex, workflow-heavy applications while collaborating with stakeholders and development teams. They are responsible for conducting user research, maintaining design systems, and ensuring all designs meet accessibility and security standards.
Product Designer
🇦🇷 Buenos Aires, Comuna 1, Argentina
Artax 🇦🇷 Buenos Aires, Comuna 1, Argentina
Design user-centered experiences for financial products, creating wireframes, prototypes, and interaction flows to validate ideas and improve usability. Collaborate with development, product, and business teams, apply research insights, maintain scalable design systems, and work through continuous agile iteration.
UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Tri-force Consulting Services, Inc. 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Develop and maintain design systems while collaborating with product managers and engineers to ensure consistent user experiences. Present design concepts to senior leadership and implement quality control measures including user testing.
Lead Visual Designer
🇮🇳 Pune, Pune City Subdistrict, India
Dentsu Global Services 🇮🇳 Pune, Pune City Subdistrict, India
Lead the creation of high-fidelity UI designs, design systems, component libraries, and interactions, ensuring consistent and scalable experiences across desktop, web, and mobile. Mentor designers, collaborate with UX, product, development, and business teams, and lead design reviews and stakeholder presentations.
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.