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Web & Graphic Designer - Entry Level - $45,000/Year - Austin, TX
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Wander 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Transform AI-generated website templates into polished, premium sites for luxury short-term rental managers. Collaborate with the team to refine design systems and customize layouts, typography, and imagery to align with client brands.
Senior Web Designer
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Tuck Software Group 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
The Senior Web Designer is responsible for creating custom, high-fidelity website designs in Figma and translating them into production-ready, responsive Webflow websites. This includes managing the full lifecycle from wireframing and design systems to QA, SEO optimization, and final launch.
Lead AI UX Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Epam Systems 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead a design pod to create end-to-end AI-augmented enterprise solutions and agentic interfaces for a global financial services client. Establish design systems and interaction patterns while collaborating with engineering to ensure technical feasibility.
Lead AI UX Designer
🇺🇸 Wilmington, Delaware, United States of America
Epam Systems 🇺🇸 Wilmington, Delaware, United States of America
Lead a design pod to create end-to-end AI-augmented enterprise solutions and agentic interfaces for a global financial services client. Establish design systems and interaction patterns while collaborating with engineering to ensure technical feasibility of multi-state designs.
Lead AI UX Designer
🇺🇸 Bellevue, Washington, United States of America
Epam Systems 🇺🇸 Bellevue, Washington, United States of America
Lead a design pod to create end-to-end AI-augmented enterprise solutions and agentic interfaces for a global financial services client. Establish design systems and interaction patterns while collaborating with engineering to ensure technical feasibility.
Senior UI/UX Designer:in (m/w/d)
🇩🇪 Hamburg, Germany
Melting Elements Gmbh 🇩🇪 Hamburg, Germany
You will be responsible for the design of complex digital products, ranging from exploration to final screen implementation. You will also maintain design systems and collaborate closely with the development team to ensure high-quality, accessible user experiences.
UI / UX Designer
🇪🇬 Cairo, Egypt
Migrationit 🇪🇬 Cairo, Egypt
The designer will manage the end-to-end product design process, from discovery and wireframing to high-fidelity prototyping and evaluative research. They will also maintain design systems, ensure accessibility compliance, and collaborate with product teams to iterate based on UX metrics and user feedback.
Senior Product Designer
🇫🇮 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
Syncle 🇫🇮 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
You will serve as the founding designer, owning the end-to-end product experience and building the design function from the ground up. This involves managing the design system, conducting user research, and ensuring seamless collaboration between design and engineering.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 Philomath, OR 97370, United States of America
Active911 🇺🇸 Philomath, OR 97370, United States of America
The Product Designer will craft intuitive, user-centered designs for SaaS tools to support first responders in critical moments. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to produce wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups while maintaining design systems and accessibility standards.
UI/UX Designer
🇮🇳 Ahmedabad, India
Kaizenith Technologies 🇮🇳 Ahmedabad, India
The designer will create user interfaces for enterprise products, ranging from wireframes to high-fidelity mockups. They will also build and maintain a scalable design system and conduct user research to validate design decisions.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Cyberstaff 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
You will own the end-to-end product design process, from initial user research to final pixel-perfect implementation. You will be responsible for building the design system from scratch and translating complex AI workflows into intuitive user interfaces.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Hipp Health 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead design initiatives across the platform by translating customer needs and business strategy into intuitive product features. Collaborate closely with founders, product managers, and engineers to define problems, build design systems, and ship well-scoped solutions.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
General Intuition & Medal 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
You will own end-to-end product design for consumer-facing experiences, focusing on core user flows and maintaining a scalable design system. You will collaborate closely with engineers to ensure high-quality implementation across both desktop and mobile platforms.
Senior UX Designer
🇬🇧 Chipping Norton, West Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Vocovo 🇬🇧 Chipping Norton, West Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
You will research user needs and design intuitive experiences across hardware and SaaS products while collaborating with cross-functional teams. You will also translate insights into user-centered designs and maintain the design system to ensure consistency across all touch-points.
UX Designer
🇺🇸 Leawood, Kansas, United States of America
Ascend Learning 🇺🇸 Leawood, Kansas, United States of America
The UX Designer will create intuitive, user-centered digital experiences by leveraging AI-assisted workflows to rapidly concept and iterate designs. They will collaborate with product managers and engineers to translate business goals into high-fidelity prototypes and maintain a scalable design system.
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.