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Graphic Designer
๐บ๐ธ Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America
Childrenโs National Hospital ๐บ๐ธ Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America
The Graphic Designer will lead high-impact creative projects, providing strategic design solutions and mentorship while taking ownership of complex design campaigns. This involves developing innovative visual concepts in collaboration with stakeholders and ensuring timely delivery while maintaining brand integrity.
Senior Product Designer - M&S Money
๐ฌ๐ง London, United Kingdom
Marks & Spencer ๐ฌ๐ง London, United Kingdom
The role involves leading the visual expression of the product by creating high-quality UI, interaction patterns, and motion guidelines, while translating user insights into actionable design decisions using research and testing. The designer will shape end-to-end journeys and partner closely with product, engineering, and research teams to influence product direction.
Lead Web Designer
Remote (๐บ๐ธ New York, New York, United States of America)
Verb Interactive Remote (๐บ๐ธ New York, New York, United States of America)
The Lead Web Designer will direct web initiatives, ensuring alignment with brand identity, user goals, and business objectives while architecting concepts that blend narrative design with high usability. This role involves championing UX principles, collaborating closely with development teams to maintain design integrity, and presenting creative rationale confidently.
Lead Web Designer
Remote (๐บ๐ธ California City, California, United States of America)
Verb Interactive Remote (๐บ๐ธ California City, California, United States of America)
The Lead Web Designer will direct web initiatives, ensuring alignment with brand identity, user goals, business objectives, and client vision while architecting concepts that blend narrative design with usability. This role involves championing UX principles, collaborating with development teams to maintain design integrity, and presenting creative concepts clearly and confidently.
(NEW GRAD ONLY) Engineer, Product Design Engineering (Head Disk Interface Integration)
๐น๐ญ Si Maha Phot, Si Maha Phot District, Thailand
Western Digital ๐น๐ญ Si Maha Phot, Si Maha Phot District, Thailand
The role is responsible for Head-Disk-Interface Integration work focused on product improvement across yield, quality, and test time, which includes leading integration efforts and supporting tribology improvement initiatives for sustaining products. Responsibilities also involve extensive data analysis of test results, conducting failure analysis, and collaborating with various engineering teams to enhance product cleanliness and optimize manufacturing processes.
Sr UX Designer
๐ฆ๐บ Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Motorola Solutions ๐ฆ๐บ Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
The Senior UX Designer will be responsible for delivering high-quality, pixel-perfect designs backed by UX research while spearheading the creation of scalable, human-centered design strategies to meet user needs and business goals. This role involves leading customer discovery sessions, rapidly prototyping concepts using AI tools, and collaborating across Product, Engineering, and Research teams.
Senior Product Designer- Money Movement / Payments
๐ฆ๐บ Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Commonwealth Bank ๐ฆ๐บ Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
The Senior Product Designer will lead design efforts for payment experiences, focusing on international money transfers by conducting discovery work, translating insights into concepts and prototypes, and creating high-fidelity UX/UI designs.
Lead Product Designer
๐บ๐ธ San Francisco, California, United States of America
Search Atlas ๐บ๐ธ San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Lead Product Designer will serve as the senior design leader, overseeing the design team, driving design strategy and execution, and mentoring designers. Key duties include managing team processes, prioritizing projects, and contributing hands-on design work including prototyping in Figma.
Product Designer - UI/UX - IL
๐บ๐ธ Illinois, United States of America
Photon ๐บ๐ธ Illinois, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will lead end-to-end product design for digital platforms and connected in-store experiences, focusing on creating intuitive user flows for key journeys like purchasing and service interactions. Responsibilities also include translating complex requirements, creating design specifications, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and evolving design systems.
Staff Product Designer
๐บ๐ธ Palo Alto, California, United States of America
Jerry.ai ๐บ๐ธ Palo Alto, California, United States of America
The Staff Product Designer will lead design initiatives from inception to launch across core offerings like insurance, safety, and repairs, focusing on modernizing car care for everyday drivers. This role involves partnering with research, product, and data teams to translate insights into impactful designs and evolving the company's design system for consistency and scalability.
Design Engineering Lead
๐บ๐ธ Carson, California, United States of America
Ducommun ๐บ๐ธ Carson, California, United States of America
The Design Engineering Lead is responsible for providing technical leadership, overseeing system-level mechanical design, and executing projects from concept through production. This involves leading design reviews, ensuring timely task execution, mentoring engineers, and driving mechanical development across the entire product lifecycle.
Senior Graphic Designer, Paid Media, DTC
๐บ๐ธ San Diego, California, United States of America
Front Row ๐บ๐ธ San Diego, California, United States of America
This role involves leading the creative direction for paid media campaigns across all key platforms, designing high-converting static and motion assets, and translating performance data into creative testing roadmaps. Responsibilities also include building scalable Figma systems, leading motion design execution in After Effects, integrating AI tools, and managing/mentoring a Paid Ad Graphic Designer.
Lead Product Designer
๐บ๐ธ San Francisco, California, United States of America
Docusign ๐บ๐ธ San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Lead Product Designer will craft elegant, customer-focused web applications for millions of global users, delivering end-to-end designs for new features across the Intelligent Agreement Management platform using artificial intelligence. Responsibilities include defining product direction, owning design execution, and partnering with cross-functional teams to define features with minimal management guidance.
Senior Product Designer
๐บ๐ธ Arlington County, Virginia, United States of America
Rune Technologies ๐บ๐ธ Arlington County, Virginia, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will lead the design of critical workflows and interfaces for TyrOS, Runeโs logistics command platform, by conducting user research and translating field needs into clean, usable UI patterns. This involves developing detailed specifications, partnering with engineering for high-fidelity implementation, and helping to establish and evolve the product's design system.
UI/UX Designer (part-time 28 hrs/week)
๐บ๐ธ Provo, Utah, United States of America
Brigham Young University ๐บ๐ธ Provo, Utah, United States of America
The UI/UX Researcher and Designer will work with the User Experience Team of the BYU Office of Information Technology to impact thousands of students, faculty, and staff daily using leading-edge technology. Responsibilities include applying UI/UX design principles to redesign websites and applications for campus departments based on user testing data.
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 8โ15+ years of design experience with 3โ5+ 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 $160kโ$240k, VPs of Design $220kโ$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.