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Staff Product Designer, Agentic Experiences
Remote (🇺🇸 Houston, Texas, United States of America)
Affirm Remote (🇺🇸 Houston, Texas, United States of America)
Lead the design of AI and agentic initiatives to create proactive, conversational, and intuitive consumer experiences. Partner with cross-functional teams to define the design language for AI-driven interactions and build a hybrid search and discovery interface.
Engineering Design Manager - Data Center
🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
Salas O'brien 🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
Lead design teams by managing schedules, budgets, and technical scopes for large-scale data center and mission-critical infrastructure projects. Coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure high-reliability designs meet client requirements for uptime, energy efficiency, and rapid deployment.
Senior Product Designer, Insights and Reporting
🇺🇸 United States of America
Clio 🇺🇸 United States of America
Define and execute the experience strategy for real-time insights, complex reporting, and analytics within the legal practice management domain. Lead the end-to-end design process from strategic discovery and prototyping to development and launch.
Principal UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 Bellevue, Washington, United States of America
Salesforce 🇺🇸 Bellevue, Washington, United States of America
Set the design vision for the Agentforce for Service domain by connecting complex workstreams into a coherent direction. Establish high standards for craft and drive the evolution of the Salesforce Design System through mentorship and leadership.
Principal AI Design Technologist
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
The Onset 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Build and scale an AI-native design practice by designing production work and developing tooling to improve team workflows. Shape the design-technology strategy across the organization through hands-on leadership and system-level thinking.
System Co-Design Manager
🇨🇳 Shanghai, China
英伟达 🇨🇳 Shanghai, China
Lead and motivate a team to oversee power noise, circuit margin, performance, and manufacturing quality system design and validation. Establish closed-loop methodologies and coordinate cross-functional execution to accelerate product development and ensure high-quality silicon delivery.
Senior/Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Sydecar 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end evolution of the user experience for investors and internal teams while driving high-impact design initiatives from discovery to delivery. You will also establish design systems, conduct user research to inform product strategy, and mentor junior designers.
Staff Product Designer, Agentic Experiences
🇺🇸 Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
Affirm 🇺🇸 Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
Lead the design of AI and agentic initiatives to create proactive, conversational consumer experiences. Partner with cross-functional teams to define the design language and roadmap for Affirm's future AI-driven interactions.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Bridge 🇺🇸 United States of America
Establish the company's design foundations by building a design system and leading the design of complex clinical and operational workflows. Partner with the CTO and engineering teams to oversee the design process from initial problem definition through implementation and UX QA.
Design Manager - Kraemer Design + Production
🇺🇸 Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Playcore 🇺🇸 Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Lead the day-to-day design management of exhibit and visitor experience projects from concept through installation. Guide multidisciplinary teams to translate client content into engaging, hands-on, and educational physical and digital experiences.
Senior UX Researcher & Designer
🇺🇸 Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America
Addison Group 🇺🇸 Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America
Lead end-to-end quantitative UX research projects and manage Qualtrics infrastructure to drive business decisions. Partner with leadership to establish research governance, standardized methodologies, and service design strategies.
Senior UX Designer, AWS Applied AI Solutions
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Amazon Web Services (aws) 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead the design of AI-native business applications and end-to-end customer experiences by defining experience strategies and interaction models. Partner cross-functionally with engineering and science teams to shape product roadmaps and drive high-quality design standards.
Senior UX Designer, AWS Applied AI Solutions
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Amazon Web Services (aws) 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Lead the design of AI-native business applications and end-to-end customer experiences by defining experience strategy and product direction. Partner cross-functionally with engineering and science teams to establish scalable interaction models for human-AI collaboration.
Senior UX Designer, AWS Applied AI Solutions
🇺🇸 Sunnyvale, California, United States of America
Amazon Web Services (aws) 🇺🇸 Sunnyvale, California, United States of America
Lead the design of AI-native business applications and end-to-end customer experiences by defining experience strategy and interaction models. Partner cross-functionally with product, engineering, and science teams to shape product roadmaps and drive design quality through rapid prototyping.
Sr UX Designer, Data AI, Amazon Customer Service
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Lead end-to-end design for new customer service tools by transforming raw data into actionable, intuitive user experiences. Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful solutions and present design decisions to senior leadership.
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.