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Principal UX Designer
🇨🇦 Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Upshop 🇨🇦 Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
As a Principal UX Designer, you will lead the evolution of the Design Platform and System while mentoring junior designers. You will create high-fidelity prototypes and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure design consistency and quality across products.
Product Designer UX/UI (Remote- based in EMEA)
🌍 Remote
Visit.org 🌍 Remote
The Product Designer will advocate for exceptional, customer-centric experiences, owning large portions of complex products and leading UX/UI design for new and existing initiatives. Responsibilities include defining requirements, designing interactions, partnering with engineering for implementation, and owning/maintaining the design system.
Product Designer UX/UI (Remote- based in EMEA)
🌍 Remote
Visit.org 🌍 Remote
The Product Designer will advocate for exceptional, customer-centric experiences, owning large portions of complex products and leading UX/UI design for new and existing initiatives. Responsibilities include defining requirements, designing detailed interactions, partnering with engineering for implementation, and owning/maintaining the design system.
Staff Product Designer, Aurora Ops Experience
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States
Aurora Innovation 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States
Own the end-to-end design for the Command Center overseer experience, ensuring supervisors have the clarity and tools needed to monitor real-time truck activity safely and efficiently. Identify and solve the highest priority pain points for operations leads in their monitoring and intervention workflows.
Lead Product Designer - Design System Frameworks
🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States
Rivian 🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States
The role involves designing and evolving scalable UI frameworks that power Rivian's digital experiences across in-vehicle, mobile, and web platforms, while creating cross-platform patterns that balance flexibility with brand integrity. Responsibilities also include collaborating with technical teams, documenting patterns in tools like Figma and Zeroheight, and championing accessibility and performance standards.
Senior Principal UX Designer, AI-forward Design Systems
Own and evolve foundational systems including design systems and AI workflows. Lead complex initiatives end-to-end, framing problems and driving execution.
Senior Principal UX Designer, AI-forward Design Systems
Own and evolve foundational systems such as design systems and AI workflows while leading complex initiatives end-to-end. Partner with product, engineering, and research leaders to shape product vision and act as a mentor to other designers.
Senior Principal UX Designer, AI-forward Design Systems
Own and evolve foundational systems including design systems and AI workflows. Lead complex initiatives end-to-end, framing problems and driving execution.
Staff Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Airwallex 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
The Staff Product Designer will partner with cross-functional teams to define problems, map user flows, and launch new products. They will also lead the work of a team and build strong relationships with stakeholders.
Senior Product Designer(Fixed Term Contract)
🇦🇲 Yerevan, Armenia
Servicetitan 🇦🇲 Yerevan, Armenia
The Senior Product Designer will lead the user experience strategy for Intelligent Support Automation and Identity/User Management, translating complex technical needs into intuitive and secure user experiences. Key tasks include architecting scalable workflows for SSO/MFA and leading the UX for AI-driven support tools like chatbots.
Lead Product Designer, Growth
🌍 Remote
Jobgether 🌍 Remote
Lead the design strategy for growth across key product surfaces, including sign-up, onboarding, activation, and revenue flows. Own end-to-end flows for user acquisition, conversion, and monetization, ensuring seamless experiences.
Lead Product Designer, Growth
🌍 Remote
Jobgether 🌍 Remote
Lead the design strategy for growth across key product surfaces, including sign-up, onboarding, activation, and revenue flows. Own end-to-end flows for user acquisition, conversion, and monetization, ensuring seamless experiences.
Lead Product Designer, Growth
🌍 Remote
Jobgether 🌍 Remote
Lead the design strategy for growth across key product surfaces, including sign-up, onboarding, activation, and revenue flows. Own end-to-end flows for user acquisition, conversion, and monetization, ensuring seamless experiences.
Lead Product Designer, Growth
🌍 Remote
Jobgether 🌍 Remote
Lead the design strategy for growth across key product surfaces, including sign-up and onboarding. Own end-to-end flows for user acquisition and monetization, ensuring seamless experiences.
Lead Product Designer, Growth
🌍 Remote
Jobgether 🌍 Remote
Lead the design strategy for growth across key product surfaces, including sign-up, onboarding, activation, and revenue flows. Own end-to-end flows for user acquisition, conversion, and monetization, ensuring seamless 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.