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Head of Design
🇺🇸 Miami, Florida, United States of America
Bob 🇺🇸 Miami, Florida, United States of America
As the first design leader, you will own the end-to-end product experience, from onboarding to high-trust financial workflows. You will create prototypes, conduct user research, and define the interaction model for an AI finance employee across web, mobile, and conversational surfaces.
Founding Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Usebridge.com 🇺🇸 United States of America
Establish the company's design foundations and design system while leading the creation of complex clinical and operational workflows. Partner with the CTO and engineering team to translate complex problems into practical user experiences and maintain quality through implementation and UX QA.
Head of Design
🇸🇪 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
4c Strategies 🇸🇪 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Lead and develop a distributed design team while maintaining a hands-on role in designing key Defence product areas. You will establish design processes, ensure quality and consistency across products, and collaborate with product and engineering teams to align user needs with business goals.
Senior/Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Sydecar 🇺🇸 New York, New York, 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 manage design systems, conduct user research to inform product strategy, and mentor junior designers.
Staff Product Designer, Agentic Experiences
Remote (🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America)
Affirm Remote (🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, 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 and roadmap for Affirm's future AI-driven interactions.
Staff Product Designer, Agentic Experiences
Remote (🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America)
Affirm Remote (🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, 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.
Staff Product Designer, Agentic Experiences
Remote (🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America)
Affirm Remote (🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, 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 hybrid search and discovery interfaces.
Staff Product Designer, Agentic Experiences
Remote (🇺🇸 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America)
Affirm Remote (🇺🇸 Salt Lake City, Utah, 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 and roadmap for Affirm's future AI-driven interactions.
Staff Product Designer, Agentic Experiences
Remote (🇺🇸 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America)
Affirm Remote (🇺🇸 Raleigh, North Carolina, 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.
Principal Product Designer, Games Discovery
🇺🇸 United States of America
Yahoo 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead the discovery and acquisition experience for Yahoo Games by designing entry points and surfaces that convert casual visitors into engaged players. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize promotional surfaces and integrate AI tools into the design workflow.
Product Designer, AVP
🇺🇸 Burlington, Massachusetts, United States of America
State Street 🇺🇸 Burlington, Massachusetts, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end user-centered design process from concept to release and iteration to create impactful product experiences. Partner with product and engineering teams to define problem spaces, maintain design systems, and engage directly with customers through workshops.
Product Designer, AVP
🇺🇸 Clifton, New Jersey, United States of America
State Street 🇺🇸 Clifton, New Jersey, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end user-centered design process from concept to release and iteration to create impactful product experiences. Partner with product and engineering teams to define problem spaces, maintain design systems, and engage directly with customers through workshops.
Full Stack Web Designer
🇺🇸 Pasadena, California, United States of America
Imperial Health Plan Of California, Inc. 🇺🇸 Pasadena, California, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design process for healthcare applications, from user research and wireframing to high-fidelity prototyping. Translate approved designs into production-ready, reusable Angular components and maintain scalable design systems.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Unify 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead the design strategy and end-to-end execution for core product areas of an AI-native outbound platform. Transform complex technical primitives into intuitive workflows and mentor a small design team to raise the overall quality bar.
Sr Product Designer, Adobe Express
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Adobe 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead the redesign of content submission and discovery experiences for Adobe Express using an agentic-first approach. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create scalable frameworks for how content is prioritized and displayed in conversational interfaces.
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.