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Amazon Senior Graphic Designer
Remote (🇺🇦 Ukraine)
Trivium Remote (🇺🇦 Ukraine)
The role involves collaborating with the creative team to conceptualize and produce visually appealing graphic designs, focusing on creating modern infographics, product listings, and store fronts that enhance client brand messages and user experience.
Amazon Senior Graphic Designer
Remote (🇷🇴 Romania)
Trivium Remote (🇷🇴 Romania)
The role involves collaborating with the creative team to conceptualize and design visually appealing graphics, including modern infographics, product listings, and store fronts for clients. Designers must utilize industry-standard software to create high-quality designs that align with marketing objectives and brand messages.
Senior Product Designer
🇩🇪 Kleinmachnow, Brandenburg, Germany
Ebay 🇩🇪 Kleinmachnow, Brandenburg, Germany
The Senior Product Designer will create outstanding, user-centered designs by incorporating business requirements, product findings, and customer feedback, while designing end-to-end experiences for key information presentation across the buyer and seller experience. Responsibilities also include developing conceptual diagrams, wireframes, visual mockups, and prototypes, and collaborating with partner teams to co-create scalable experiences.
Senior UX Designer, Public Service Division (PSD)
🇸🇬 Singapore
Public Service Division 🇸🇬 Singapore
The Senior UX Designer will lead the end-to-end UX design process for a career development platform, including framing problems, conducting user research, mapping journeys, and facilitating co-creation workshops. This role also involves advocating for accessibility, partnering with product and engineering teams, contributing to the design system, and mentoring junior designers.
Senior Product Designer Website
🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Fairphone 🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
This high-level individual contributor is responsible for the end-to-end user experience of Fairphone's website, focusing on driving strategic growth by increasing conversion rates and elevating user satisfaction. Key duties include owning the full-funnel design, creating high-fidelity, developer-ready designs, and leading the expansion of the Design System.
Senior UX Designer, Finance Automation (FinAuto)
🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
Amazon 🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
The Senior UX Designer will drive cross-product design direction, influence roadmap decisions, and elevate design excellence across teams by defining long-term experience strategy while delivering tactical solutions for immediate product needs. This role involves partnering autonomously with Product, Engineering, UX Research, and business stakeholders to deliver solutions for complex, end-to-end enterprise workflows.
Product Designer Senior (F/H)
🇫🇷 44800 Saint-Herblain, France
Rca 🇫🇷 44800 Saint-Herblain, France
The role involves leading internal and external workshops for co-design and requirements gathering, as well as creating user journeys and interface prototypes for new needs. Responsibilities also include conducting user testing and maintaining/evolving the Design System.
Lead Product Designer (Web3 Creator Economy)
🇨🇳 Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
Hyphen Connect Limited 🇨🇳 Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
The role involves supporting business development activities by coordinating client meetings, preparing materials for senior stakeholders, and assisting with client onboarding logistics. The assistant will also coordinate internally between teams like Product, Legal, and Operations to support client requests and track the business development pipeline.
Senior Product Designer
🇩🇪 Dresden, Saxony, Germany
Staffbase 🇩🇪 Dresden, Saxony, Germany
The Senior Product Designer will take ownership of the mobile app experience within the Engagement stream, leading the design vision, strategy, and end-to-end execution from exploration to polished delivery. This involves deep collaboration with engineering, product management, and research teams while operating with speed and agility.
Senior Product Designer
🇩🇪 Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany
Staffbase 🇩🇪 Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany
The Senior Product Designer will take ownership of the app experience by leading the design vision, strategy, and execution for the Engagement stream, owning the end-to-end design process from exploration to polished delivery. This involves collaborating deeply with cross-functional partners, rapidly prototyping, testing, and iterating to uncover opportunities while championing customer insight.
Senior Product Designer
🇩🇪 Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
Staffbase 🇩🇪 Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
The Senior Product Designer will take ownership of the app experience by leading the design vision, strategy, and execution for the Engagement stream, owning the end-to-end design process from exploration to polished delivery. This involves collaborating deeply with cross-functional partners, rapidly prototyping, testing, and iterating designs based on customer insights.
Senior Product Designer
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Staffbase 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
The Senior Product Designer will take ownership of the app experience by leading the design vision, strategy, and execution for the Engagement stream, owning the end-to-end design process from exploration to polished delivery. This involves collaborating deeply with cross-functional partners, rapidly prototyping, testing, and iterating designs while championing customer insights.
Transaction Banking, Senior Product UX Designer, Vice President, London
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Goldman Sachs 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Produce polished, industry-leading design for Transaction Banking products by working alongside Product Managers and stakeholders to translate client needs into journey maps, flows, and specifications. Engage in proactive problem solving, utilize existing design systems, and collaborate with partners to maintain and evolve the design system.
Senior Staff Product Designer
Remote (🇳🇱 Amersfoort, Utrecht, Netherlands)
Remote Remote (🇳🇱 Amersfoort, Utrecht, Netherlands)
The Senior Staff Product Designer will lead by example through high-fidelity prototyping, integrating code and AI where beneficial, and bridging vision with feasibility. Key duties include building scalable systems, making AI useful in practical ways, setting design standards, influencing company direction, and raising the bar through mentorship and shaping design critique rituals.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America)
Loancrate Remote (🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America)
The Senior Product Designer will own the design process end-to-end for a core product area, from initial discovery through high-fidelity design, while partnering closely with Product Management and Engineering. Key tasks include leading customer discovery sessions, designing intuitive UX patterns for complex workflows, and designing for AI-native experiences.
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.