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Senior Product Designer (Predictions)
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States
Crypto.com 🇺🇸 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.
Senior/Lead Product Designer (Contract)
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Waracle 🇬🇧 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 brand vision. They will lead multidisciplinary teams, collaborate with stakeholders, and mentor junior designers.
Senior UX Designer
🇪🇬 Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
Misr Technology Services 🇪🇬 Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
The Senior UX Designer will translate user research insights into design strategies and create complex user flows, wireframes, and prototypes. They will collaborate with product and engineering teams to ensure design feasibility and advocate for users throughout the design process.
Sr. Product Designer - Consumer
🌍 Remote
Kraken 🌍 Remote
The Senior Product Designer will take ownership of complex design challenges and lead the design and delivery of consumer-focused trading apps. They will collaborate closely with other designers, product managers, and engineers to craft exceptional user experiences.
Sr. Product Designer - Consumer
🌍 Remote
Kraken 🌍 Remote
The Senior Product Designer will take ownership of complex design challenges and lead the design and delivery of consumer-focused trading apps. They will craft exceptional user experiences by collaborating closely with other designers, product managers, and engineers.
Senior Product Designer
🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Rover.com 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
The Senior Product Designer will work closely with product managers and engineers to establish product requirements and user experiences. They will take ownership of projects, ensuring high-quality design and user-centered features are implemented effectively.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 United States
Agiloft 🇺🇸 United States
As a Senior UX Designer, you will lead UX for the enterprise Contract Lifecycle Management platform, focusing on transforming contracts into connected, data-driven experiences. You will collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Data Science teams to solve complex problems efficiently.
Senior Product Designer, B2B
🌍 Remote
Olo 🌍 Remote
As a Senior Product Designer, you will shape the dashboard experience for restaurant partners, transforming complex analytics into intuitive designs. You will collaborate with product and engineering teams to ensure designs meet user and business needs.
Team8 Cyber startup- Product Designer (Mid-Senior / Senior)
🇮🇱 Tel Aviv, Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Team8 🇮🇱 Tel Aviv, Tel-Aviv District, Israel
The Product Designer will own and drive product design from user flows to development-ready designs. They will work closely with Product Managers and Engineers to create intuitive user experiences.
Senior Product Designer - UX/UI Team
🇫🇷 Montpellier, Occitania, France
Teads 🇫🇷 Montpellier, Occitania, France
As a Senior Product Designer, you will own the entire user experience, transforming user insights into powerful products. You will design core flows, lead research, and mentor fellow designers.
Senior UX Designer
🇬🇧 Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Adp 🇬🇧 Bristol, England, United Kingdom
As a Senior UX Designer, you will lead the design process for features from discovery through delivery, creating intuitive experiences for client self-service and related workflows. You will champion user insights, facilitate alignment among stakeholders, and apply design system principles to ensure consistency and quality.
Senior Product Designer
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Dlthub 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Lead complex design initiatives and own the design of major product features from concept through launch. Collaborate with engineering and go-to-market teams to ensure design work drives measurable impact for users.
Senior Product Designer
🇩🇰 Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
Airtame 🇩🇰 Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
You will lead the design of the next-generation interface for the Airtame app, ensuring a seamless experience across various platforms. Additionally, you will improve error handling and manage the component library to enhance UI consistency.
Senior UX Designer
🌍 Remote
Specterops 🌍 Remote
The Senior UX Designer will translate complex cybersecurity concepts into user-centered designs and develop high-quality wireframes and prototypes. They will also contribute to UX research and testing to validate design decisions based on user feedback.
Senior UX Designer
🇵🇹 Portugal
Intermedia Intelligent Communications 🇵🇹 Portugal
As a Senior UX/UI Designer, you will own the design of product features from problem discovery to final delivery, ensuring high UX and UI quality. You will collaborate closely with product managers and engineering teams to deliver impactful design solutions.
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.