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Senior UX Designer (12-Month FTC)
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lloyds Banking Group 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
The Senior UX Designer will craft end-to-end user experiences by collaborating with design teams and utilizing central design systems. They are responsible for balancing business requirements with user needs through research and presenting designs to stakeholders.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America
Milford 🇺🇸 Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America
You will lead the end-to-end product design for Milford, translating business goals into intuitive mobile-first experiences. This involves collaborating with engineering and product teams to build scalable design systems and ensure high-quality implementation.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Irving, Texas, United States of America
Precision Technologies 🇺🇸 Irving, Texas, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will evolve shared foundations for enterprise products by turning recurring experience problems into reusable patterns and codifying design intent. They will partner with engineering and design leadership to define machine-readable standards and prototype complex agentic behaviors.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Intersystems 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
You will design, prototype, and test intuitive experiences for complex, data-rich enterprise systems across healthcare and finance. Additionally, you will drive innovation by integrating AI into workflows while collaborating with cross-functional teams to solve challenging UX problems.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Irving, Texas, United States of America
Motion Recruitment 🇺🇸 Irving, Texas, United States of America
You will turn complex product problems into durable system standards and own initiatives from definition through implementation. You will also partner with engineering to define machine-readable contracts and prototype stateful interactions for agentic products.
Senior Manager, Process Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Perry County, Ohio, United States of America
Gxo Logistics 🇺🇸 Perry County, Ohio, United States of America
The Senior Manager will lead the development and optimization of operational processes, facility designs, and technology solutions to support customer implementations. They will partner cross-functionally to translate requirements into scalable designs and ensure operational excellence across logistics sites.
Senior Design Technologist, Design Systems, CNN
🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Warner Bros. Discovery 🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
The Senior Design Technologist will bridge design and engineering by integrating AI into design system workflows to automate tasks and improve efficiency. They are responsible for building scalable UI components and ensuring consistency across CNN's digital platforms.
Senior Product Designer, Cybersecurity
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Clever 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
You will lead the design direction for authentication across human login, AI agent access, and device-level identity. This involves working horizontally with product and engineering teams to ensure a coherent and consistent user experience.
Sr. Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 West Des Moines, Iowa, United States of America
Ita Group Inc 🇺🇸 West Des Moines, Iowa, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer creates and produces high-quality print and electronic communication solutions for complex projects. They are also responsible for mentoring team members and managing project workflows to meet deadlines.
Product Designer Senior
🇨🇱 188 0000 Monte Patria, Chile
Cocha 🇨🇱 188 0000 Monte Patria, Chile
Lead the end-to-end design of digital experiences by integrating research, strategy, and data-driven decision-making. Collaborate closely with development teams to ensure effective implementation of product designs.
Senior UI Designer (Figma) - Remote Work
Remote (🇲🇽 Puebla, Saltillo, Mexico)
Bairesdev Remote (🇲🇽 Puebla, Saltillo, Mexico)
Lead UI design initiatives from concept to final delivery while creating high-fidelity mockups and prototypes in Figma. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define scalable design systems and ensure visual consistency across platforms.
Senior Visual Designer
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Trilyon, Inc. 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
The role focuses on delivering high-polish visual work across product surfaces and marketing assets while contributing to the design system. You will collaborate with product and UX teams to ensure visual consistency and high-quality storytelling in product experiences.
Senior UX Researcher, Learning Frontiers, LearnX
🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Google 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Drive an impactful research agenda for new product initiatives and identify emerging opportunities by understanding user needs. Partner with cross-functional teams to inform product decisions and advocate for a user-focused perspective throughout the development lifecycle.
Senior UX Researcher, Learning Frontiers, LearnX
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Google 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead a continuous research program to identify product opportunities and inform product-market fit for educational initiatives. Partner with cross-functional teams including engineering and product management to advocate for user-focused perspectives in strategic planning.
Senior Product Designer (Systems & Typography)
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Altide Inc 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Design and maintain a cohesive design system that balances technical precision with editorial warmth. Create clear and intuitive interfaces for developer-focused tools.
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.