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Senior UX Researcher - Enterprise & AI‑Driven Workflows
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Linda Werner & Associates Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The role involves planning and conducting qualitative studies, such as interviews and usability testing, focused on complex enterprise financial and operational systems like budgeting and procurement. Key duties include synthesizing findings into actionable insights and presenting them to product, engineering, and leadership stakeholders.
Senior UX Researcher
🇺🇸 United States of America
Tria Federal 🇺🇸 United States of America
The Senior UX Researcher will lead and execute end-to-end human-centered research across the product lifecycle, planning and facilitating various qualitative and quantitative methods to drive evidence-based design decisions for federal digital services. This role involves synthesizing complex findings into actionable deliverables and partnering with multidisciplinary teams to ensure products are usable, accessible, and aligned with real-world workflows.
Staff AI Product Designer, Gemini Universal Assistant, GeminiApp
🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Deepmind 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
This role involves leading the technical and design vision for Gemini's Small Business experiences, building foundational 0-to-1 features from scratch and defining business strategies to improve model response quality. Key duties include architecting intuitive AI interfaces, shaping LLM behavior through quality standards, and crafting visually compelling, fluid user experiences.
UI/UX Designer
🇮🇳 Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Bigstep Technologies Pvt Ltd 🇮🇳 Gurgaon, Haryana, India
The role involves deeply understanding user needs to create intuitive designs, collaborating with product and engineering teams, and delivering consistent, visually appealing UI solutions across platforms. Responsibilities also include leading usability testing, ensuring design consistency with development teams, and championing user-centered design principles.
Senior Product Designer (Design System)
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Heliosx 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The Senior Product Designer will own and lead the end-to-end design process for complex product initiatives, translating intricate healthcare and regulatory needs into accessible user experiences across global contexts. This role involves championing the Design System, partnering with cross-functional teams to shape roadmaps, and mentoring other designers.
Sr. Principal, Product Designer
🇺🇸 Irvine, California, United States of America
Ingram Micro 🇺🇸 Irvine, California, United States of America
The Senior Principal Product Designer will lead design strategy and execution for the Cart & Checkout domain, focusing on improving how customers review, manage, and complete complex B2B transactions. This involves partnering with Product Managers and Engineers to translate complex challenges into clear, effective, and scalable user experiences.
Staff Product Designer, Clio Manage
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Clio 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Staff Product Designer will partner with Design, Product, and Engineering leaders to define experience strategy, success metrics, and priorities, leading end-to-end design across complex product areas from discovery through execution. They will shape a long-term experience vision, raise the quality bar across the product ecosystem, and drive consistency through pattern strengthening and design system evolution.
Principal Product Designer: Prisma Browser (UX/NetSec)
🇺🇸 Santa Clara County, California, United States of America
Palo Alto Networks 🇺🇸 Santa Clara County, California, United States of America
The Principal Product Designer will lead the global design strategy for the Prisma Browser, orchestrating the core user experience across the end-user browser and admin management platforms. This involves championing executive reviews, analyzing customer problems, and translating requirements into high-fidelity interactive designs.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Fetch Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The Senior Product Designer will lead efforts within a focused team to measurably improve people’s lives by taking ownership and significantly impacting the final product experience within the Fetch app. Responsibilities include leading design critiques, influencing team decisions, exploring new opportunities, and launching features into production within the first year.
Associate Product Designer (Research & Design)
🇺🇸 United States of America
Tria Federal 🇺🇸 United States of America
The Associate Product Designer will lead research and discovery activities such as interviews and usability testing, translating insights into product opportunities, personas, and design recommendations. They will also lead the design of user flows, wireframes, and prototypes while collaborating with product managers and engineers to shape product requirements.
Sr. UX Designer - Canada
Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)
Novoed, Inc. Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)
The Senior UX Designer will own 1-2 major projects, leading design from initial problem exploration through final implementation, while partnering closely with product management to define scope and recommendations. Responsibilities also include conducting user research, providing production-ready assets to engineers, and contributing to product strategy and roadmap discussions.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Tria Federal 🇺🇸 United States of America
The Senior UX Designer will lead end-to-end UX design efforts across the product lifecycle, translating complex requirements into intuitive workflows, interaction models, and scalable experience patterns for a large-scale federal healthcare initiative. This includes creating various design artifacts, partnering with researchers, and ensuring design fidelity throughout implementation.
Lead Product Designer
Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)
Alpaca Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)
The Lead Product Designer will own the end-to-end design process for complex web and mobile applications, spanning from user research through execution, while championing user needs across global B2B, B2C, and internal teams. This role also involves shaping design processes, proactively collaborating with stakeholders, and consistently executing to raise the overall design quality of product and feature launches.
(Sr.) Product Designer - Gamification web
🇹🇼 Taipei, Taiwan
Btse 🇹🇼 Taipei, Taiwan
The role involves collaborating with product managers to design user-centered web experiences incorporating strong gaming and gamification elements for features like trading, rewards, and leaderboards. Responsibilities also include creating engagement loops, ensuring high-quality developer implementation, and maintaining the web design system.
Specialist CX and UX Designer
🇿🇦 City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa
Sabenza It & Recruitment 🇿🇦 City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa
The specialist will shape and guide customer and user experience strategies to solve complex problems by creating seamless, user-centered products, driving user satisfaction and engagement. Key duties include collaborating with engineering and stakeholders, ensuring service structure meets customer/employee needs, and leading research initiatives.
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.