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Senior Vice President, Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Hackajob 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Senior Vice President, Product Designer will provide guidance and technical expertise for complex user experience activities, including user research, interactive design, and visual design. They will also mentor junior designers and advocate for user experience across the firm.
Senior Technical Advisor / Senior Water Facilities Design Engineering / Hydraulics / Conveyance Systems / Pump Stations
🇺🇸 United States of America
Bge, Inc. 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead the design and engineering efforts of water engineering design needs for major client projects. Serve as the technical expert for complex water infrastructure projects, mentoring emerging talent and establishing BGE as a leader in hydraulic facilities.
Freelance Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Akqa 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Senior UX Designers lead the design of complex systems of interactions and develop high-fidelity wireframes and prototypes. They also support and guide other designers while contributing to thought leadership in the UX discipline.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 South San Francisco, California, United States of America
Veracyte, Inc. 🇺🇸 South San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Senior UX Designer will design end-to-end user experiences across internal systems and customer-facing portals, ensuring consistency across multiple products and personas. This role involves transforming complex workflows into intuitive interfaces and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Mycareer - Nsw Government 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Lead end-to-end UI/UX design from discovery to delivery for high-priority digital initiatives. Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business and user needs into intuitive, accessible, and high-fidelity design solutions.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Mycareer - Nsw Government 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Lead end-to-end UI/UX design from discovery to delivery for high-priority digital initiatives. Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business and user needs into intuitive, accessible, and practical design solutions.
Senior Product Designer
The Senior Product Designer will create intuitive end-to-end workflows for responsive web and native mobile platforms, focusing on complex operator systems. They will collaborate with product, engineering, and research teams to evolve platform-level experiences and AI-driven tools.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Layer Health 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Own the end-to-end design process to create intuitive interfaces that distill complex healthcare data for professionals. Collaborate with engineering, product, and clinical teams to shape the company's design culture and AI-driven user experiences.
Senior Retoucher & Graphic Designer (FTC)
🇿🇦 Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa
Publicis Groupe Africa 🇿🇦 Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa
The Senior Retoucher & Graphic Designer is responsible for high-quality image retouching and overseeing the creative visual direction of projects. This role ensures brand consistency and quality across multiple media platforms while collaborating with various teams.
Senior UX Researcher
🇿🇦 Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa
Camunda 🇿🇦 Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa
The Senior UX Researcher will run structured customer discovery conversations and translate findings into opportunity maps that shape product direction. They will work closely with strategic PMs to ensure research findings inform product investment decisions.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Nsw Department Of Customer Service 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Lead end-to-end UI/UX design for high priority initiatives, creating user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs. Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business and user needs into practical design solutions.
Freelance Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Akqa 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
The Senior UX Designer will design and execute digital experiences for a leading quick-serve restaurant brand, impacting millions of customers. This role involves understanding problems, conducting research, and ensuring customer experiences are intuitive and on brand.
Senior Product Designer (Figma + Cloud Cursor) - Remote - Latin America
Remote (🇨🇷 Liberia, Costa Rica)
Fullstack Remote (🇨🇷 Liberia, Costa Rica)
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 Product Designer II, AI Native
🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brazil
Life360 🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brazil
Design high-quality features for Latin American members, ensuring experiences are safe, intuitive, and genuinely useful for families. Collaborate closely with product managers and engineers to turn complex user problems into elegant design solutions.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇲🇾 Malaysia
Pivot Search 🇲🇾 Malaysia
The Senior Graphic Designer will design digital and print materials, ensuring adherence to brand identity and standards. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to align on visual direction and manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.
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.