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Lead UX Designer

🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

The Lead UX Designer will define the overall user experience for Project Sirius, focusing on creating an inclusive and immersive experience. This includes collaborating with various teams to develop UI screens, leading UX design efforts, and refining the user experience based on feedback.

Hybrid$149,500 - $205,600Full-timeSenior
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Lead Product Designer

🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Own the design vision for a core business area within the Tide platform, ensuring a cohesive customer experience. Collaborate cross-functionally to turn complex business problems into elegant design solutions.

HybridFull-timeLead
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Lead Product Designer

🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

Own the design vision for a core business area within the Tide platform, ensuring a cohesive customer experience. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to turn complex business problems into elegant design solutions.

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Lead Product Designer

🇮🇳 Delhi, India

The Lead Product Designer will own the design vision for a core business area within the Tide platform and collaborate cross-functionally to create seamless customer experiences. They will drive the end-to-end design process and advocate for user needs within the Product and Engineering teams.

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Lead Graphic Designer - Europe, Operations Internal Communications

🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom

Lead the visual design process for various communication campaigns and branding initiatives. Collaborate with the internal communications team to create visually-driven content that informs and inspires Amazon employees.

OnsiteFull-timeSenior
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Senior Graphic Designer (Libra - Legal AI Assistant) (m/f/d)

🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany

The Senior Graphic Designer will lead creative execution for Libra’s marketing output across various channels, ensuring a consistent brand presence. They will design campaign assets, email marketing materials, and print designs while collaborating closely with Marketing, Sales, and Product teams.

HybridFull-timeSenior
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Senior UI Designer

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 brand consistency.

Onsite$100,000 - $150,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior UI Designer

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.

Onsite$100,000 - $150,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior UI Designer

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 UI Designer

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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Owala: Senior Graphic Designer

🇺🇸 Lehi, Utah, United States

The Senior Graphic Designer will develop high-impact creative solutions across various platforms to enhance brand visibility and drive business growth. They will also lead art direction for video and photography shoots and oversee the development of e-commerce assets.

OnsiteFull-timeSenior
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Owala: Senior Graphic Designer

🇺🇸 Lehi, Utah, United States

The Senior Graphic Designer will develop high-impact creative solutions across various platforms to enhance brand visibility and drive business growth. They will also lead art direction for video and photography shoots and oversee the development of e-commerce assets.

Full-timeSenior
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Senior/Lead Product Designer (Permanent)

🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom

The Senior/Lead Product Designer will own end-to-end design for complex initiatives and ensure solutions align with business goals and technical feasibility. They will lead multidisciplinary teams, collaborate with stakeholders, and mentor junior designers.

HybridFull-timeSenior/lead
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Mid UX Designer

🇸🇪 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

As a Mid UX Designer, you will shape digital experiences and craft interfaces that resonate with the brand's voice. You will lead UX design processes and collaborate with various team roles to ensure designs meet user needs and brand objectives.

Full-timeMid-level
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Senior Product Designer (Predictions)

🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Lead the end-to-end design of complex features from concept to launch, ensuring alignment with user needs and business goals. Conduct user research and collaborate with product and engineering teams to influence product development.

Hybrid$100,000 - $120,000Full-timeSenior
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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.