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Senior Product Designer - Simplii Financial
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Cibc 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
You will lead the design of complex, customer-facing digital products and services while partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver intuitive solutions. Additionally, you will drive initiatives from discovery to delivery, leveraging research and data to influence product strategy and elevate design excellence.
Product Designer
🇨🇱 Santiago, Provincia de Santiago, Chile
Cencosud 🇨🇱 Santiago, Provincia de Santiago, Chile
The Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design of digital web and mobile products, focusing on user research and data-driven optimization. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure solutions align with business objectives and user needs.
Lead Product Designer
🇲🇽 Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City, Mexico
Smartly 🇲🇽 Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City, Mexico
You will lead the design process from discovery through delivery, translating complex customer workflows into intuitive product experiences. You will also partner with cross-functional teams to align on product direction and mentor other designers to strengthen team practices.
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.
Technical Design Manager
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Hatch Studios Llc 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Own fit consistency, construction standards, and technical execution across apparel categories from development through production, ensuring products meet design, quality, safety, and manufacturability requirements. Lead fit and product-performance improvements using customer feedback and root-cause analysis, partner with internal teams and suppliers, and manage and develop technical design support.
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.
Content Design Manager
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Common Wealth Retirement 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Content Design Manager will lead creative content development and visual storytelling to support marketing campaigns, member education, and advisor engagement. They will maintain and evolve the brand's visual identity while collaborating with cross-functional teams to produce high-quality digital and print assets.
Staff Product Designer, Enterprise
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Scale Ai 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
You will lead product design for the AI for Enterprise Data business unit by creating end-to-end user flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity prototypes. You will also collaborate with cross-functional teams including product managers, engineers, and data scientists to solve complex business challenges.
Senior AEC Graphic Designer and Team Leader
🇺🇸 Santa Ana, California, United States of America
Hntb 🇺🇸 Santa Ana, California, United States of America
Lead and develop a team of designers, assigning and prioritizing work, coaching staff, and contributing to recruitment, performance reviews, and retention. Direct and produce print and digital proposal, presentation, and communications materials, coordinate vendors and pursuit teams, and maintain high-quality creative standards.
Senior Graphic Designer (Digital & Social)
🇺🇸 Culver City, CA 90232, United States of America
Milani Cosmetics 🇺🇸 Culver City, CA 90232, United States of America
Develop campaign concepts, visual identities, and platform-native creative across social media, ecommerce, email, paid media, and other digital channels. Lead design execution for key initiatives, guide supporting designers and creative partners, and maintain high standards for brand consistency, craft, and performance.
Staff Product Designer, New Bets
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Doordash 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead design for Meals for Work within DoorDash for Business, shaping consumer and enterprise experiences for team ordering, catering, recurring company-paid meals, and grocery benefits. Improve team capacity through reusable workflows, tools, decision frameworks, high-fidelity designs, production-ready prototypes, cross-team influence, mentorship, and inclusive practices.
Staff Product Designer, New Bets
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Doordash 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead product design for Meals for Work, shaping consumer and enterprise experiences and taking key projects from concept through execution. Improve team capacity through reusable tools, workflows, decision frameworks, mentorship, and cross-team influence, while delivering measurable business outcomes.
Staff Product Designer, New Bets
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Doordash 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Lead design for Meals for Work, shaping consumer and enterprise experiences for workplace dining, catering, recurring meals, and grocery benefits. Clarify and prioritize cross-team work, deliver high-fidelity designs and production-ready prototypes, build reusable tools and workflows, and increase team capacity through mentorship and collaboration.
Sr. Design Engineering Specialist
🇺🇸 Sanford, North Carolina, United States of America
Caterpillar Inc. 🇺🇸 Sanford, North Carolina, United States of America
Lead technical and cross-functional projects for machine-control performance, tuning, calibration, and integration on Compact Track Loader and Skid Steer Loader products. Own system requirements and performance validation, support production testing and calibration, and mentor engineers while coordinating with engineering, product, commercial, and manufacturing teams.
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.