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Sr. Website UX Designer
🇺🇸 California, United States of America
Palo Alto Networks 🇺🇸 California, United States of America
This role involves hands-on UX and UI design to accelerate the refresh of the website design system, working cross-functionally to transform Figma designs into modular, reusable AEM components. Key duties include partnering with stakeholders to design scalable web experiences, leading the design system evolution, and utilizing AI to improve design operations and iteration speed.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Patchwork 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The role involves leading projects from brief to delivery, embedding design strategies, and providing technical design leadership within the Product Team. Responsibilities span technical leadership, design execution, user research planning, data analysis for UX recommendations, and cross-functional collaboration.
Graphic Designer - MGM Grand Detroit
🇺🇸 Detroit, Michigan, United States of America
Mgm Resorts International 🇺🇸 Detroit, Michigan, United States of America
The Graphic Designer will be responsible for designing and creating eye-catching marketing campaigns from concept through completion across various print and digital channels, including ads, direct mail, and web banners. This role requires collaboration with creative leadership and vendors to ensure all assets are delivered on time, on brand, and meet expectations.
Senior Product Designer | Growth
🇺🇸 United States of America
8am 🇺🇸 United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will lead growth initiatives across the customer lifecycle, partnering with Product to define the roadmap and translate strategies into measurable experiments and product experiences. This involves designing solutions for onboarding, activation, engagement, retention, and expansion while driving learning through experimentation and data analysis.
Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Golden Valley, Minnesota, United States of America
Ascentek 🇺🇸 Golden Valley, Minnesota, United States of America
The Graphic Designer will bring brand ideas to life through visual storytelling across print and digital formats, supporting various design requests from signage to marketing collateral. Key duties include designing brand-aligned collateral, leading branding for specific campaigns, owning design projects from concept to final assets, and liaising with vendors for production.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 California, United States of America
Zocdoc 🇺🇸 California, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will lead and successfully deliver design projects of significant scope, ambiguity, and complexity, ensuring high-quality outcomes while designing and iterating quickly to support product decisions. They will also communicate design rationale clearly and tackle complex, data-rich workflows, translating them into intuitive interfaces.
Senior Graphic Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 Colton, CA 92324, United States of America)
Ashley Furniture Industries Remote (🇺🇸 Colton, CA 92324, United States of America)
The Senior Graphic Designer will be responsible for creating sophisticated, on-brand designs across various digital and print platforms, leading the visual direction for campaigns and promotions. This role also involves mentoring other designers and transforming photography into engaging visual narratives.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Kearney, Nebraska, United States of America
The Buckle, Inc. 🇺🇸 Kearney, Nebraska, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer leads creative concepts and oversees design projects from inception to completion, collaborating with cross-functional teams to develop strategic and innovative design solutions. This role involves leading the design and execution of marketing materials while also supervising and mentoring junior designers.
Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Andela Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The Staff Product Designer will lead the design of complex, multi-sided marketplace flows, acting as the 'Source of Truth' for the design language and overseeing the evolution of the component library. This role involves strategic partnership with Product and Engineering to define roadmaps and elevating the design team's output through rigorous reviews and mentorship.
Product Designer, Instagram Private Sharing
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Meta 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The role involves taking broad, conceptual ideas and transforming them into useful and valuable products for over 2 billion users, driving product strategy and innovation across a large organization. Responsibilities include designing leading-edge concepts through end-to-end flows, driving design prioritization, and communicating strategic decisions regarding product direction.
Lead UX Designer
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Hd Supply 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
This role is responsible for building, executing, and measuring best-in-class user experience across the organization's website, mobile app, and tablet, focusing heavily on ecommerce functionality. Key tasks include designing and conducting usability tests, performing field research with end-users, and driving the execution of the user experience feature roadmap.
Lead Product Designer, Agentforce Platform
🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America
Salesforce 🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America
As a Lead Product Designer for Agentforce, you will shape how Employee Agents interact across Salesforce. You will define communication patterns and collaborate with various teams to create cohesive agent experiences.
Principal UX Designer, Amazon Customer Service Technology
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
The Principal UX Designer will shape the future of customer service experiences by leading the design of AI-powered tools. This role involves setting strategic direction while actively engaging in hands-on design work.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 West Valley City, Utah, United States of America
Ken Garff Automotive Group 🇺🇸 West Valley City, Utah, United States of America
The Product Designer will partner with leadership, product managers, and engineers to define product vision, strategy, and roadmap by understanding complex user needs. Key duties involve conducting user research, creating design artifacts like wireframes and prototypes, and collaborating with engineering to implement user-centric solutions.
Senior UX Designer — Discovery & Strategy Focus
Remote (🇦🇷 Argentina)
Cnx Remote (🇦🇷 Argentina)
The role centers on leading end-to-end discovery efforts using research, interviews, and mapping to uncover user needs and opportunities, translating insights into clear problem statements and experience principles. Responsibilities also include owning early-stage ideation, defining user journeys, and designing at the concept and structure level to explore and test ideas quickly.
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.