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Senior Graphic Designer (Web3)
🇨🇳 Hong Kong, China
Hyphen Connect Limited 🇨🇳 Hong Kong, China
The Senior Graphic Designer will lead the production of diverse creative assets and partner with the marketing department to execute creative concepts. They will oversee the end-to-end print process and ensure all deliverables are polished and on-brand.
Senior Graphic Designer (Web3)
🇨🇳 China
Hyphen Connect Limited 🇨🇳 China
The Senior Graphic Designer will lead the production of diverse creative assets and partner with the marketing department to execute creative concepts. They will oversee the end-to-end print process and ensure all deliverables are polished and on-brand.
Sr. Product Designer - AI Design Systems, Amazon Devices
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States
Amazon 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States
The Senior Product Designer will lead the creation of an AI-ready design system and agentic experiences for Amazon Devices. Responsibilities include designing scalable components, setting product requirements, and driving cross-functional alignment.
Vice President, Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Bny 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
The Vice President, Senior Product Designer will lead user-centered design efforts, ensuring that all design choices address user needs and behaviors. They will also map and analyze user journeys to identify pain points and opportunities for improvement.
Senior Vice President, Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Bny 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
The Senior Vice President, Product Designer will lead user-centered design efforts, ensuring that all design choices address user needs and behaviors. This role involves collaboration with cross-functional teams to transform complex requirements into clear design solutions.
Vice President, Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Bny 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
The Vice President, Product Designer will lead user-centered design efforts, ensuring that all design choices address user needs and behaviors. This role involves mapping user journeys, designing complex web interfaces, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to align design with business goals.
Vice President, Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Bny 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
The Vice President, Product Designer will lead user-centered design efforts, ensuring that all design choices address user needs and behaviors. They will also map user journeys to identify pain points and opportunities for improvement.
Senior Product Designer - Enterprise Readiness/Data Portability
🌍 Remote
Atlassian 🌍 Remote
As a Senior Product Designer, you will lead complex product design projects focused on improving features for Enterprise customers. You will collaborate with product management and engineering to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
Senior Principal AI Product Designer Senior Principal AI Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Bae 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Design intuitive AI-powered experiences and lead end-to-end design processes. Guide teams in creating user-centred design artefacts and represent the company in senior client engagements.
Sr. Principal Product Designer, Yahoo Sports
🇫🇷 Uz, Occitania, France
Yahoo 🇫🇷 Uz, Occitania, France
The Sr. Principal Product Designer will lead design initiatives that align with Yahoo Sports' strategy, creating impactful user experiences and collaborating across teams. They will also mentor teammates and contribute to a scalable design system.
Senior Product Designer - Branch Systems and Transformation
🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Wells Fargo & Company 🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
The Senior Product Designer will develop and execute employee experience solutions for online applications and manage the UX and UI design from concept to completion. They will also lead projects, analyze complex designs, and collaborate with teams to ensure quality deliverables.
Lead Product Designer, UX Research and Design
🇺🇸 Cheyenne County, Colorado, United States
Egym Se 🇺🇸 Cheyenne County, Colorado, United States
The Lead Product Designer will translate high-level objectives into actionable UX strategies and take full ownership of their domain. They will drive research to uncover user insights, design user experiences, and prototype and test solutions.
Senior Product Designer, AI Experiences on Platform
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Salesforce 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
The Senior Product Designer will collaborate with Lead Designers to design and scale AI-driven experiences across various platforms. They will also identify overlapping efforts and streamline user flows to improve design quality.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 Menlo Park, California, United States
Meta 🇺🇸 Menlo Park, California, United States
The product designer will lead and deliver design projects, transforming broad ideas into valuable user experiences for over 2 billion users. They will collaborate with product managers, engineers, and researchers to oversee the user experience from conception to launch.
Senior Product Designer, Design Systems
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Zip 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
The designer will lead the design systems, working closely with the frontend platform team to evolve design systems and patterns. They will also design best-in-class experiences for platform features and ensure high-quality user interfaces.
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.