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Senior Product Designer - Dressly
Design and develop key UX flows for AI recommendations, outfits, and wardrobe management. Lead product discovery through user research and usability testing to translate insights into design solutions from concept to release.
Senior UX Designer
🇵🇱 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Gft Technologies Se 🇵🇱 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Lead end-to-end UX projects to build a new digital banking and investment experience from scratch. Create user flows, wireframes, and prototypes while facilitating workshops to align business needs with product requirements.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Bcforward 🇺🇸 United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer will partner closely with internal stakeholders to solve complex marketing challenges through design and develop thoughtful creative concepts and solutions. They will maintain brand standards while introducing innovative ideas and collaborate effectively to meet deadlines.
Product Designer, Instagram Cross-Meta Growth
🇺🇸 Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States of America
Instagram 🇺🇸 Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States of America
The senior product designer will lead the IG Cross-Meta Growth Area, developing innovative design solutions to support cross-app growth on Instagram. This includes collaborating with leadership and creating design principles that enhance the Instagram experience.
Product Designer, Instagram Cross-Meta Growth
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Instagram 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The senior product designer will lead the IG Cross-Meta Growth Area, developing innovative design solutions to support cross-app growth on Instagram. Responsibilities include partnering with leadership to develop strategy and communicating design principles across the organization.
Senior Graphic Designer (Branding Focus)
🇿🇦 South Africa
Osa Outsourcing Advantage 🇿🇦 South Africa
Lead end-to-end branding and graphic design projects, ensuring brand consistency across all materials. Collaborate directly with clients and manage multiple deliverables independently.
Senior Creative Design Manager (12 month FTC)
🇬🇧 Bracknell, Bracknell Forest, England, United Kingdom
Propelis 🇬🇧 Bracknell, Bracknell Forest, England, United Kingdom
Set and direct the creative strategy for brand and packaging design while leading complex, high-profile design projects from concept to delivery. Influence senior stakeholders and evolve brand guidelines to champion creative excellence across all outputs.
Senior Product Designer - Talent Pool (m/f/d)
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Voy 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Own end-to-end design for high-impact dermatology journeys and optimize web funnels to drive conversion and retention. Partner with Product, BI, and Engineering teams to execute A/B tests and evolve the design system for rapid experimentation.
Manyone søker Senior UX designer / Produktdesigner
Lead design processes from user insight to implementation within multidisciplinary product teams for complex, society-critical projects. Act as a bridge between stakeholders, technology, and users while contributing to client development and strategy.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Newmark 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will conduct user research to identify pain points and create user flows, wireframes, and prototypes. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to refine designs and ensure an engaging user experience.
Senior Design Manager
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
The Highfield Company 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Lead and manage all aspects of design delivery across a major design-build infrastructure project. Ensure successful coordination and integration of multidisciplinary engineering and design activities throughout the project lifecycle.
Senior Product Designer
🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain
Photoroom 🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain
You will elevate Photoroom’s user experience across mobile, web, and API products by working on design end-to-end. Collaborating closely with engineers and cross-functional teams, you will adapt designs to meet platform requirements.
Senior UX Designer
🇵🇭 Makati, Southern Manila District, Philippines
Security Bank Corporation 🇵🇭 Makati, Southern Manila District, Philippines
As a Senior UX Designer, you will create better digital experiences through user research and usability testing. You will lead the design of intuitive digital products and collaborate with various stakeholders to co-create solutions.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇨🇷 Costa Rica
Jll 🇨🇷 Costa Rica
The Senior Graphic Designer will create and maintain high-quality visual content for the company's brand across digital and print communications. This includes collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure a consistent brand perception and managing multiple projects simultaneously.
Product Designer - Duomo
🇺🇦 Kyiv, Ukraine
Skelar 🇺🇦 Kyiv, Ukraine
The Senior Product Designer will own the entire design lifecycle for the Duomo app, from discovery and hypothesis formation to UI and handoff. They will be responsible for improving user engagement and retention through data-driven iterations and UX audits.
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.