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Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Converge 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The Senior Product Designer will take SAAS products from inception to expansion, shaping insights into prototypes and bringing new experiences to life for the ConstructionDNA platform. Responsibilities include leading user research, running rapid experiments, collaborating cross-functionally, and running concept sprints to prototype high-fidelity solutions.
UX Designer Senior
🇵🇪 Lima, Lima Metropolitan Area, Peru
Encora 🇵🇪 Lima, Lima Metropolitan Area, Peru
The Senior UX Designer is responsible for designing user-centered digital experiences, ensuring intuitive and functional interfaces aligned with business needs. This involves creating wireframes, prototypes, and user flows while collaborating with product and development teams.
Senior Product Designer
The Senior Product Designer will lead end-to-end product design for major initiatives across LeafLink’s platforms, partnering with Product Managers and Engineers to define strategy and roadmap. Responsibilities include translating complex workflows into intuitive user experiences, rapid prototyping in code, and owning the full design process from UX flows to production-ready UI.
Sr. UX Designer , AWS Security, Search, Observability & Governance
🇺🇸 Santa Clara County, California, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Santa Clara County, California, United States of America
The Senior UX Designer will build critical product experiences across Security, Search, Observability, and Governance services, driving end-to-end ownership from problem framing through production delivery. Key tasks include designing AI-native and agentic workflows, creating cross-service operational workflows, and elevating interaction craft and quality across the portfolio.
Senior Product Designer, Home Lending
Remote (🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America)
Wealthfront Remote (🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America)
The Senior Product Designer will collaborate with cross-functional peers to develop the vision, strategy, and language for the product ecosystem, focusing on solving complex challenges within consumer financial technology products. This role involves shaping product experiences to meet holistic financial needs and advocating zealously for client outcomes aligned with the company mission.
UX Designer, One MHS Software Controls and Science
🇺🇸 Bellevue, Washington, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Bellevue, Washington, United States of America
The UX Designer will support the Senior UX Designer in delivering an integrated visualization platform combining robotic floor operations with material handling equipment data in a real-time interface. This role involves hands-on work across the full design lifecycle, including user research, prototyping, validation, and ensuring design alignment across the organization.
Product Designer Senior H/F
🇫🇷 Paris, France
Nexton 🇫🇷 Paris, France
The Senior Product Designer will be responsible for designing future multi-screen TV interfaces, leveraging a robust Design System, and creating TV user journeys by developing mockups. They will also collaborate with Product Managers and UX Strategists on product vision, document assets, and ensure quality assurance with developers.
Senior UX Designer - Remote
Remote (🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America)
Cedars-sinai Remote (🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America)
The Senior UX Designer creates satisfying and compelling digital product experiences by analyzing user research and workflow data, and collaborates with Product Managers to translate insights into product features. This role involves continuously revisiting design stages to ensure ongoing alignment with end-user needs even after product launch.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Fortune Brands 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will drive elegant user experiences spanning digital (mobile, web) and physical (devices) interfaces by leveraging a full range of design skills across the entire product lifecycle from concept to launch. This role involves collaborating closely with product managers and engineers, advocating for UX improvements using data, and mentoring junior designers.
Senior UI Designer - Design Systems (f/m/x)
🇩🇪 Hamburg, Germany
Exmox Gmbh 🇩🇪 Hamburg, Germany
The role involves leading the creation, evolution, and governance of the company's mobile Design System, ensuring visual consistency and scalability across B2C mobile apps and B2B products. This includes owning the component library, defining token-first architecture for theming, driving adoption, and collaborating closely with engineers for integration.
BETC Fullsix - UI Designer Senior (H/F/X) - CDI
🇫🇷 93500 Pantin, France
Betc 🇫🇷 93500 Pantin, France
The Senior UI Designer will be responsible for designing ambitious web interfaces for e-commerce, showcase, and corporate sites, ensuring high UI quality from mockup to integration. This involves translating brand intentions and territories into clear, coherent, and embodied interfaces while collaborating closely with development teams.
Senior UI Designer
🇷🇸 Belgrade, City of Belgrade, Serbia
Brainrocket 🇷🇸 Belgrade, City of Belgrade, Serbia
The primary responsibility is to create and implement new projects bordering on games alongside a team of designers and artists, which includes designing original pieces like illustrations and infographics. Additionally, the role involves maintaining brand consistency across marketing projects and reviewing the work of junior designers to ensure high quality.
Sr. Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 San Diego, California, United States of America
San Diego Padres 🇺🇸 San Diego, California, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer will be responsible for concepting and executing visually compelling design solutions supporting the San Diego Padres’ brand, marketing, and digital initiatives across various platforms like social media, campaigns, and game-day visuals. This role involves translating creative direction into on-brand designs while maintaining brand consistency and elevating design standards.
Senior product Designer
Remote (🇵🇭 Manila, Capital District, Philippines)
Hellofresh Remote (🇵🇭 Manila, Capital District, Philippines)
The role involves designing and maintaining Design System libraries, creating detailed documentation and guidelines to ensure consistency across the platform, and acting as the standard-bearer for UI excellence aligned with the brand. Key tasks include refining existing designs, translating designs into technical specifications, expanding the design system, mapping user journeys, creating interactive prototypes, and performing design QA.
Senior Product Designer
🇵🇱 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Shiftkey 🇵🇱 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
The Senior Product Designer will be responsible for the creation and execution of creative design deliverables, collaborating with stakeholders, engineering, product management, and other designers to understand requirements and create high-resolution user interface screens and assets. Key tasks include maintaining design integrity, conducting UX research, ensuring seamless handoff to engineering, and defining comprehensive UI design specifications.
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.