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Lead UI/UX Product Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Cloud Software Group 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
The Lead Product Designer will drive key design initiatives, build strong stakeholder relationships, and champion user-centered design throughout the product lifecycle from ideation to implementation. They will also explore future product visions, contribute to the design system, and mentor other designers.
UX/UI Product Designer
🇦🇹 Vienna, Austria
Loop® 🇦🇹 Vienna, Austria
The role involves defining user journeys and interface systems, ensuring mobile experiences balance usability, product goals, and visual storytelling. Key tasks include developing information architecture, creating high-quality interfaces in Figma, and leading the design process from concept through execution.
Senior Product Designer - Design Systems
Remote (🇪🇸 Spain)
Feverup Remote (🇪🇸 Spain)
The Senior Product Designer will lead the evolution of the design system into a robust, scalable foundation supporting product velocity, consistency, and accessibility across platforms. This involves owning the full lifecycle from audit and definition to building, documenting, and maintaining components, while acting as the key bridge between Design, Engineering, and Product.
Senior Mobile Product Designer (Pre-sale/Product)
Remote (🇵🇱 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland)
Trinetix Remote (🇵🇱 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland)
The role involves participating in presales activities, shaping proposals, and leading discovery and UX architecture before requirements are fully defined. Responsibilities also include creating high-fidelity mockups, conducting user testing, and collaborating with development teams on various service projects.
Senior Mobile Product Designer (Pre-sale/Product)
Remote (🇧🇬 Sofia, Sredec, Bulgaria)
Trinetix Remote (🇧🇬 Sofia, Sredec, Bulgaria)
The role involves participating in presales activities, shaping proposals, and visualizing concepts for prospective clients. Responsibilities also include leading discovery, research, UX architecture, and creating high-fidelity mockups using Figma.
Senior Mobile Product Designer (Pre-sale/Product)
Remote (🇷🇴 Bucharest, Romania)
Trinetix Remote (🇷🇴 Bucharest, Romania)
The role involves participating in presales activities, shaping proposals, and leading discovery, research, and UX architecture before requirements are fully defined. Responsibilities also include creating high-fidelity mockups, conducting usability testing, and collaborating with development teams to present design decisions to clients.
Senior Mobile Product Designer (Pre-sale/Product)
🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain
Trinetix 🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain
The role involves participating in presales activities, shaping proposals, and leading discovery, research, and UX architecture for projects across various domains like Professional Services and HR. Responsibilities also include creating high-fidelity mockups in Figma, conducting usability testing, and collaborating with development teams to present design decisions to clients.
Senior Mobile Product Designer (Pre-sale/Product)
🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal
Trinetix 🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal
The role involves participating in presales activities, shaping proposals, and leading discovery, research, and UX architecture before requirements are fully defined. Responsibilities also include creating high-fidelity mockups, conducting usability testing, and collaborating with development teams to present design decisions to clients.
Senior Mobile Product Designer (Pre-sale/Product)
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Trinetix 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
The role involves participating in presales activities, shaping proposals, and leading discovery, research, and UX architecture before requirements are fully defined. Responsibilities also include creating high-fidelity mockups, conducting usability testing, and collaborating with development teams to present design decisions to clients.
UX Designer Sénior H/F
🇫🇷 Montpellier, Hérault, France
Nexton 🇫🇷 Montpellier, Hérault, France
The Senior UX Designer will pilot all stages of Design Thinking, from user research to tested prototype delivery, while leading user research activities including qualitative and quantitative studies, interviews, and usability testing. They will also be responsible for defining needs, animating co-design workshops, producing UX deliverables like wireframes, and coordinating with UI designers and other UX team members.
Senior Product Designer
🇷🇸 Belgrade, City of Belgrade, Serbia
Greencastle Digital 🇷🇸 Belgrade, City of Belgrade, Serbia
The Senior Product Designer will conduct user research, usability testing, and data analysis to guide design decisions, while also leading the evolution of the design system for consistency and scalability. They will collaborate cross-functionally to ensure designs are practical, elegant, and evidence-based, iterating based on feedback and insights.
Lead Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Fanatics 🇺🇸 United States of America
This role leads the design and creative execution of CRM and lifecycle marketing communications, including designing responsive email templates and developing scalable CRM design systems. The Lead Designer collaborates closely with marketing, product, and engineering teams to translate strategies into high-performing visual solutions that drive engagement and conversion.
Game Graphic Designer
🇸🇬 Singapore
Dynamite Games 🇸🇬 Singapore
The Game Graphic Designer will lead marketing efforts by designing visually appealing marketing banners and adapting visual styles to maintain game branding consistency. Key duties include producing raw visuals from scratch, such as illustrations and icons, and enhancing existing visuals to meet marketing requirements.
Sr. Product Designer II
🇺🇸 California, United States of America
Iherb 🇺🇸 California, United States of America
The role involves leading the end-to-end design for complex shopping initiatives on a global e-commerce platform, ensuring experiences are intuitive and align with business objectives. Responsibilities include conducting user research, creating high-quality design artifacts, and partnering closely with engineering and product teams through final delivery.
Senior Product Designer - KICK
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Easygo 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
The Senior Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design process for their product area, transforming complex requirements into intuitive, scalable, and engaging user solutions. This role involves close collaboration with Product and Engineering teams, mentoring junior designers, and actively contributing to the evolution of KICK’s design systems.
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.