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Senior Product Designer (UX Specialist)
🇧🇷 Brazil
Jobgether 🇧🇷 Brazil
Lead end-to-end product design initiatives, shaping user experiences from discovery through delivery. Collaborate closely with Product Managers and Engineers to define and deliver impactful product solutions.
Senior Data Centre Design Manager (Building Services)
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Wsp 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Lead the design of data centre critical infrastructure by coordinating MEP disciplines, architects, and external consultants from concept to handover. Manage capital design budgets, drive process improvements, and ensure strict adherence to quality, safety, and environmental compliance.
Senior Product Designer (Fixed-Term)
🇺🇸 United States of America
Rewiring America 🇺🇸 United States of America
Own the end-to-end design of the digital and service experience for home upgrades. Collaborate with various teams to improve program design and drive post-launch iterations based on user feedback.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Spot & Tango 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Collaborate with product and engineering teams to design engaging digital experiences and conduct UX research to inform feature designs. Maintain the design system and create polished UI designs ready for engineering handoff.
Senior Product Designer - Mobile
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Ōura 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Design UX & UI for the Oura mobile app features and the overall design system. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create and iterate on mobile features that enhance user engagement and improve outcomes.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Kikoff 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Own your product area like a business owner, tracking key metrics and proactively surfacing product gaps. Lead design end-to-end, from problem framing to pixel-perfect delivery, while collaborating closely with cross-functional teams.
Sr Product Manager, Design Systems
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Salesforce 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
As a Senior Product Manager for SLDS, you will shape the product roadmap for UI customization and the Design Systems website, ensuring high-quality increments and platform health. You will collaborate with engineering, design, and accessibility specialists to maintain backward compatibility and support a global base of developers and designers.
Senior Mixed Methods UX Researcher, Google Lens
🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Google 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Influence stakeholders across organizations to gain support for research-based, user-centric solutions. Drive ideas to improve products and services through research-driven insights and recommendations.
Senior Mixed Methods UX Researcher, Google Lens
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Google 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Influence stakeholders across organizations to gain support for research-based, user-centric solutions. Drive ideas to improve products and services through research-driven insights and recommendations.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Vernon, Oneida County, New York, United States of America
Otis Elevator Co. 🇺🇸 Vernon, Oneida County, New York, United States of America
Lead end-to-end product design activities from discovery through delivery while partnering closely with Product Managers and Engineering teams. Conduct user research and translate complex business requirements into intuitive user experiences.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 Warrington, England, United Kingdom
Morgan Sindall Infrastructure 🇬🇧 Warrington, England, United Kingdom
Lead and manage the design process from bid stage through to project delivery, ensuring appropriate resources and governance structures are in place. Oversee the coordination of multidisciplinary design teams and ensure compliance with relevant legislation and industry standards.
Senior UX Researcher
🇦🇹 Austria
Camunda 🇦🇹 Austria
The Senior UX Researcher will conduct 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 Product Designer
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Nsw Department Of Customer Service 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
As a Senior Product Designer, you will conduct research to understand user needs and advocate for a customer-centric approach throughout the product design life cycle. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure design solutions align with project goals and conduct usability testing to refine designs.
SENIOR PRODUCT DESIGNER
🇦🇷 Argentina
Svitla Systems, Inc. 🇦🇷 Argentina
Own the payments experience across web and mobile, from discovery through shipped features. Partner with PM and Engineering to unify fragmented billing, invoicing, payments, and trust accounting surfaces into a coherent experience.
Senior Product Designer
🇦🇺 Lithgow NSW 2790, Australia
Mycareer - Nsw Government 🇦🇺 Lithgow NSW 2790, Australia
The role involves shaping the design strategy and vision to modernize legacy systems while ensuring customer needs and business objectives are met. Key tasks include conducting user research, creating prototypes, and collaborating with cross-functional teams throughout the product design lifecycle.
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.