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Graphic Designer
Stream Companies
The role involves developing and creating visually appealing marketing materials across various mediums, including print, digital, and signage, while ensuring all projects align with client brand strategies and expectations. Essential duties include assisting the Senior Designer, developing proactive concepts, adhering to creative processes, and utilizing specific software like Workfront and Adobe Experience Manager.

Senior Product Designer, Design Foundations
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The New York Times 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The role involves co-owning the platform-focused design systems roadmap, contributing to and maintaining Figma libraries and engineering documentation, and auditing existing experiences to find opportunities for consolidation and systemization. Responsibilities also include championing system-first design practices, providing guidance to other designers, and producing production-ready design deliverables.

Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Check 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will own the end-to-end design of major product enhancements within Check Console, translating complex payroll systems into intuitive user experiences by shaping interaction models and product architecture. This involves partnering closely with engineering and product leaders to simplify complex payroll operations and identifying opportunities to improve existing product patterns.

Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Check 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will own the end-to-end design of major product enhancements within Check Console, translating complex payroll systems into intuitive user experiences by shaping interaction models and product architecture. This involves partnering closely with engineering and product leaders to simplify payroll operations and conducting user research to validate design decisions.


Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇦🇺 Australia)
Long Angle Remote (🇦🇺 Australia)
The role involves implementing a new brand system across product and marketing, leading the design of a new marketing website, and designing polished, production-ready UI for web and mobile applications. Responsibilities also include shaping end-to-end product experiences, gathering member feedback, and evolving the design system.

Senior Product Designer, Design Systems
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Hinge Health 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
The Senior Product Designer will shape enterprise tooling for the Design System team, focusing on building the engine that powers product development to ensure consistent, accessible, and meaningful member interactions. Key accomplishments include auditing the component library, shipping refined components, leading the rollout of new patterns, refining governance processes, and evolving design tokens to support new platforms.

Senior UX Designer
🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
Amazon 🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
The Senior UX Designer will facilitate and define product requirements and technical feasibility, guiding stakeholders through design exercises to shape and prioritize user stories before designing solutions. This role is key in generating design documents that communicate recommendations, limitations, trade-offs, and product direction, while helping to inform and shape product roadmaps and business goals.
Senior Product Designer
🇮🇩 South Jakarta, Java, Indonesia
Amartha 🇮🇩 South Jakarta, Java, Indonesia
The Senior Product Designer will define design requirements for high-impact projects, facilitate problem-solving sessions, and oversee the design process from concept through to engineering implementation. Responsibilities also include designing user interfaces across products, conducting usability studies, and providing guidance to junior designers.

Senior Manager, Product Designer - UX/UI
🇰🇷 South Korea
Makro Pro 🇰🇷 South Korea
The Senior Manager, Product Designer sets the standard for creating rigorous, research-backed, end-to-end product experiences, collaborating closely with business, technical, and product leaders to achieve customer-centered outcomes. This role involves hands-on execution of research, synthesis, and design, while leading and mentoring a team of product designers to ensure high-quality, consistent visual and UX deliverables.

Senior Product Designer - Gifting & Lifestyle
🇬🇧 Cherwell District, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Joma Jewellery And Katie Loxton 🇬🇧 Cherwell District, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
The Senior Product Designer will lead the development of gifting and lifestyle products, ensuring collections are commercially strong and aligned with the brand's affordable luxury positioning while shaping the creative direction for seasonal collections. Responsibilities also include supporting the creation of visuals, technical specifications, and managing the end-to-end delivery process, including sample checks and documentation accuracy.


Senior Graphic Designer – Signage & Wayfinding
🇺🇸 Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Populous 🇺🇸 Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
This role involves leading the creation of impactful signage and wayfinding systems for major national and international brands across various markets, conceptualizing designs that elevate typography, brand expression, and 3D form for clear communication. The designer will also collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, oversee construction documents from concept through installation, and represent the firm in client meetings.


Senior Product Designer (Mobile App)
🇺🇸 Miami, Florida, United States of America
Boats Group 🇺🇸 Miami, Florida, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will own the end-to-end design process for major mobile initiatives across iOS and Android, focusing on creating intuitive, high-quality native app experiences. This involves crafting seamless user journeys for search, lead generation, and account management while ensuring cohesion across web and app ecosystems.


Senior Design Engineering Manager
Nammo Defense Systems, Inc
This role involves leading a team of Design Engineers in maintaining, troubleshooting, and enhancing automated and semi-automated production equipment to meet quality and safety standards. Key duties include leading special projects for equipment design and fabrication, optimizing existing systems, and collaborating cross-functionally to define new equipment requirements.

Roadway Design Engineering Specialist
🇺🇸 Lawrence Township, New Jersey, United States of America
Stv 🇺🇸 Lawrence Township, New Jersey, United States of America
The specialist will support roadway design tasks for NJDOT transportation projects across Concept Development, Preliminary Engineering, and Final Design phases, assisting with the development of alignments, profiles, and plan production using Bentley’s OpenRoads Designer. Key duties include applying relevant design standards and coordinating with various engineering disciplines under senior guidance.

Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Alice + Olivia 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The role involves assisting in creating design assets for various digital and print campaigns while ensuring all work adheres strictly to the brand's visual identity and guidelines. Responsibilities also include collaborating with senior designers and other departments while project managing design requests and developing graphics for multiple channels.
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.