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Senior Product Designer - remote
🌍 Remote
Jobgether 🌍 Remote
The role involves establishing and leading end-to-end product design processes, owning UX for multiple SaaS products, and creating and scaling the first design system. Responsibilities also include developing user research to gather actionable insights and mentoring two contract designers.
Senior UX Designer
🇵🇱 Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
Technipfmc 🇵🇱 Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
The role involves working closely with developers, data analysts, and other product team members to ensure technical feasibility and effectiveness of designs. This includes conducting design reviews, handling handover for implementation, and supervising the quality and compliance with established UX standards.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Redmond, Washington, United States
Blueprint Technologies 🇺🇸 Redmond, Washington, United States
The role involves shaping next-generation calendar and time-management experiences by integrating AI-powered assistance into daily workflows, designing intuitive, end-to-end solutions for planning, scheduling, and collaboration across devices. Responsibilities include executing the design vision for conversational interfaces, exploring AI as a thought partner, and setting a high bar for design craft and usability.
Senior Product Designer & Researcher
🌍 Remote
Explore Careers At Netlify 🌍 Remote
This role involves leading design projects from initial research through to fully realized features and flows, ensuring solutions meet both user and business needs. The individual will collaborate extensively with Product and Engineering teams to drive the user experience forward and contribute to the design system and research practices.
Senior Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Styleseat 🌍 Remote
As a Senior Product Designer, you will design high-quality experiences for Professionals and Clients on the StyleSeat platform, owning problem spaces from discovery to delivery. You will collaborate closely with Product and Engineering teams to create intuitive product experiences and contribute to the design system.
Senior Product Designer, Omnicommerce
🇲🇾 Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia
Grab 🇲🇾 Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia
As a Senior Product Designer, you will lead product design outcomes and ensure stakeholder alignment in creating user-centric experiences. You will apply design-thinking frameworks to guide exploration and document enhancements for the design system.
Senior Product Designer
🇷🇴 Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania
Endava 🇷🇴 Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania
Lead end-to-end UX activities and facilitate alignment across stakeholders. Create user flows, wireframes, and prototypes while collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Senior Product Designer
🇷🇴 Iași, Romania
Endava 🇷🇴 Iași, Romania
Lead end-to-end UX activities, from framing the problem space to delivering production-ready designs. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality, scalable solutions.
Senior Product Designer - Observability
🌍 Remote
Elastic 🌍 Remote
The Senior Product Designer will partner with cross-functional teams to understand user needs and create innovative design solutions. They will conduct user research and synthesize findings into actionable insights to enhance product experiences.
Senior UI/UX Designer Creative Consultant
🇳🇱 Nieuwegein, Utrecht, Netherlands
Sopra Steria 🇳🇱 Nieuwegein, Utrecht, Netherlands
The Senior UI/UX Designer will create intuitive and appealing user interfaces by collaborating with cross-functional teams and utilizing design tools. They will develop wireframes and prototypes, conduct user testing, and refine designs based on user feedback.
Senior UI/UX Designer (Product Designer)
🇷🇴 Bucharest, Romania
Segula Technologies 🇷🇴 Bucharest, Romania
The Senior UI/UX Designer will design and optimize digital user journeys across multiple platforms, ensuring customer-centric experiences. They will collaborate with various stakeholders to align design solutions with business and technical constraints.
Senior Graphic Designer
🌍 Remote
Little Words Project 🌍 Remote
The Senior Graphic Designer will lead design execution across various brand initiatives, including campaigns and product launches, while developing and maintaining strong visual systems aligned with brand guidelines. This role involves designing assets across multiple channels such as web, email, social, paid media, retail signage, packaging, and events.
Sr. Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Arlington, Texas, United States
Doskocil Mfg. 🇺🇸 Arlington, Texas, United States
The Senior Graphic Designer supports strategy and art direction, working directly with the Sr Associate Creative Director to develop concepts and prioritize design resources. This role involves hands-on creative design and production for various assets including digital graphics, packaging, displays, logos, and signage.
UI/UX Designer - US
🇺🇸 United States
Photon 🇺🇸 United States
The Senior UI/UX Designer will lead the entire design process from discovery and research through visual design and delivery, while collaborating with product managers and engineering teams to define product direction. Key duties include conducting advanced user research, establishing design standards, and providing mentorship to junior designers.
Senior UI/UX (Product) Designer -Toronto-Canada – Individual Contributor(FTE Only)
🇨🇦 Canada
Photon 🇨🇦 Canada
The Senior UI/UX Product Designer will own the end-to-end design for mobile and web applications, translating product requirements and user needs into high-quality design solutions. They will work closely with product managers, engineers, and client stakeholders to ensure strong visual consistency and attention to detail.
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.