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Senior Product Designer

🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States

Drive end-to-end product design from discovery to launch, ensuring that user and business goals are met. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate complex workflows into intuitive experiences.

Hybrid$137,400 - $165,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer

🌍 Remote

Design and iterate on high-fidelity product experiences that help homeowners understand the company's offerings. Collaborate with product managers and engineers to translate requirements into shippable designs.

Remote$136,000 - $188,000Full-timeSenior
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Product Designer - Senior Associate

🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States

Lead and execute end-to-end design initiatives to align with product deadlines while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams. Communicate complex information using various design tools and iterate designs based on user feedback.

Full-timeSenior
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Product Designer - Senior Associate

🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States

Lead and execute end-to-end design initiatives while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams. Communicate complex information using various design tools and iterate designs based on user research findings.

Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer, Lifecycle

🌍 Remote

As a Senior Product Designer, you will design exceptional end-to-end customer experiences and rapidly prototype innovative concepts. You will partner with Product Management and Engineering to explore complex customer journeys and leverage AI developments.

Remote$132,100 - $188,100Full-timeSenior
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Senior UX Designer

🇺🇸 Watertown, Wisconsin, United States

Lead the end-to-end UI design process for web and mobile applications, ensuring high-quality designs and prototypes. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define product direction and maintain design consistency across platforms.

Full-timeSenior
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Senior UX Designer

🇺🇸 Watertown, Wisconsin, United States

Lead the end-to-end UI design process for web and mobile applications, ensuring high-quality designs and prototypes. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define product direction and maintain design consistency across platforms.

Full-timeSenior
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Senior UX Designer

🇺🇸 United States

Lead the end-to-end UI design process for web and mobile applications, ensuring high-quality designs and prototypes. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define product direction and maintain design consistency across platforms.

Full-timeSenior
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Senior UX Designer

🇺🇸 Watertown, Wisconsin, United States

Lead the end-to-end UI design process for web and mobile applications, ensuring high-quality designs and prototypes. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define product direction and maintain design consistency across platforms.

Full-timeSenior
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Senior UX Designer

🇺🇸 United States

Lead the end-to-end UI design process for web and mobile applications, ensuring high-quality designs and prototypes. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define product direction and maintain design consistency across platforms.

Full-timeSenior
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Senior UX Designer

🇺🇸 United States

Lead the end-to-end UI design process for web and mobile applications, ensuring high-quality designs and prototypes. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define product direction and maintain design consistency across platforms.

Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer

🇦🇺 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

The Senior Product Designer will own and evolve core mobile workflows for property teams, ensuring they are effective under real-world constraints. They will also co-author a clear mobile product experience vision and drive improvements across product boundaries.

HybridFull-timeSenior
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Senior UX Designer

🇨🇦 Ontario, Canada

You will lead design initiatives by creating user experiences for the platform and making strategic design decisions based on user research. Collaborating closely with product managers and engineers, you will translate concepts into wireframes and high-quality design deliverables.

Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer (Dublin)

🌍 Remote

The Senior Product Designer will conduct user research and usability testing to inform design decisions while collaborating with various teams. They will also design high-quality interfaces and maintain the design system for scalability and consistency.

RemoteFull-time
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Senior Product Designer (Singapore)

🌍 Remote

The Senior Product Designer will conduct user research and usability testing to inform design decisions while collaborating with various teams to ensure strategic alignment. They will also maintain and enhance the design system and mentor future designers.

RemoteFull-time
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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.