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Sr. Product Designer (Milan)
🇮🇹 Milan, Italy
Eight Sleep 🇮🇹 Milan, Italy
Lead the end-to-end design of the Eight Sleep app and product UI, focusing on interaction architecture and visual polish. Own and evolve the product design system while translating complex biometric data into premium user interfaces.
Product ( UX ) Designer
🇮🇳 Pune, Pune City Subdistrict, India
Cyberu 🇮🇳 Pune, Pune City Subdistrict, India
The role focuses on designing intuitive, scalable user experiences and AI-powered workflows using Lovable. The designer will collaborate with Product Managers and Engineering teams to standardize UX through reusable templates and design systems.
UI Designer (contractor)
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Partnur 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Design and optimize customer-facing web experiences and ecommerce journeys to improve usability and conversion. Support CRO initiatives through A/B testing and contribute to the evolution of a scalable design system.
UI/UX Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Joola 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
The designer will own the end-to-end design process, from user research and wireframing to creating high-fidelity interfaces and interactive prototypes. They will also maintain scalable design systems and collaborate with product and engineering teams to ship polished digital products.
UI/UX Designer
🇮🇳 Maharashtra, India
Celoxis 🇮🇳 Maharashtra, India
Design intuitive, user-centric experiences and high-fidelity interfaces for a complex B2B SaaS product. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into scalable design systems and interactive prototypes.
Product Designer
🇵🇱 Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
Motorola Solutions 🇵🇱 Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
The Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design process, bridging user research and high-fidelity UI to create AI-driven experiences for public safety and enterprise users. Responsibilities include maintaining the global design system and facilitating design sprints to drive the long-term product vision.
Product Designer
🇯🇵 Tokyo, Japan
Cybereason 🇯🇵 Tokyo, Japan
The Product Designer will lead the UX and visual layout for complex security operations workflows, including alert triage and incident timelines. They will also design AI-driven interfaces and maintain a component-driven Figma design system while collaborating with Product and Engineering teams.
Product Designer | NordVPN Apps | Mid-Senior
🇵🇱 Warszawa, 83-433 Nowe Polaszki, Poland
Nord Security 🇵🇱 Warszawa, 83-433 Nowe Polaszki, Poland
Own the end-to-end design process for NordVPN apps across multiple platforms including iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows. Collaborate with product owners and engineers to challenge briefs and implement scalable components within the design system.
Tamheer (Product Designer)
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Gathern.co 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
The role focuses on designing intuitive, user-centered digital experiences and interfaces to enhance usability and engagement. Key tasks include conducting user research, developing prototypes, and maintaining design systems in collaboration with product managers and engineers.
Product Designer
The Product Designer will create high-fidelity UI screens, flows, and prototypes while maintaining and contributing to the RegASK design system. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver features on a three-month release cadence and ensure high-quality engineering handoff.
Senior Product Designer (Design System)
🇵🇹 Porto, Portugal
Olx 🇵🇹 Porto, Portugal
The role involves designing and evolving reusable components and patterns within a design system to ensure consistency across Real Estate products. You will manage the contribution model and collaborate with engineers on token strategies and AI-integrated workflows.
Senior Product Designer (Design System)
🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Olx 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
The role involves designing and evolving reusable components, patterns, and foundations for a scalable design system across Real Estate products. You will manage the contribution model and collaborate with engineers to integrate AI-assisted workflows and token strategies into production code.
Tamheer (Product Designer)
🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Gathern 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Design intuitive, user-centered digital experiences and interfaces that align with strategic business objectives. This includes conducting user research, developing prototypes, and maintaining design systems to optimize user journeys.
Product Design Manager
🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Propertyguru Group 🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Lead and coach a team of senior product designers while establishing design operations and scaling processes. Drive product design strategy from problem framing through to measurable outcomes and own the design system and visual language.
Senior Design Systems Engineer (UK SAAS, Hybrid)
🇵🇭 Mandaluyong, Eastern Manila District, Philippines
Connectos 🇵🇭 Mandaluyong, Eastern Manila District, Philippines
Own and evolve a code-first design system using Stencil and Web Components with integrations for React and Angular. Collaborate with UX and engineering teams to deliver accessible, high-quality UI components and technical documentation.
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.