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🇩🇪 Germany
Ecomtrade Ltd 🇩🇪 Germany
The Senior Product Designer will own the end-to-end product pipeline, from initial research and concept generation through to creating detailed specifications and ensuring production readiness for launch. Key duties include running ongoing category research, maintaining a live product roadmap, and developing a repeatable, scalable product development system.
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🇳🇱 Netherlands
Ecomtrade Ltd 🇳🇱 Netherlands
The Senior Product Designer will own the end-to-end product pipeline, running category research, converting insights into product opportunities, and maintaining a live roadmap. Key tasks include hands-on design, writing detailed specifications, managing sampling, diagnosing issues, and ensuring production readiness.
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🇫🇷 France
Ecomtrade Ltd 🇫🇷 France
The Senior Product Designer will own the end-to-end product pipeline, from initial research and concept generation through to final handoff for launch execution, while also building a repeatable and scalable product development system.
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🇮🇹 Italy
Ecomtrade Ltd 🇮🇹 Italy
The Senior Product Designer will own the end-to-end product pipeline, from initial research and concept generation through to final handoff for launch execution, while building a repeatable product development system. Key duties include hands-on design, creating detailed specifications, managing sampling, ensuring cost targets are met, and defining quality control plans for physical products.
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🇸🇪 Sweden
Ecomtrade Ltd 🇸🇪 Sweden
The Senior Product Designer will own the end-to-end product pipeline, from initial research and concept generation through to creating detailed specifications and ensuring production readiness for launch. Key duties include running ongoing category research, maintaining a live product roadmap, and defining the necessary handoff packs for execution teams.
Senior UX Designer
Remote (🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia)
Mx51 Remote (🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia)
The Senior UX Designer will lead UX design across key product areas, balancing user needs with business objectives, and will be responsible for planning and conducting research and discovery initiatives to inform design recommendations. They will collaborate closely with Product Managers and engineers across the full product lifecycle while actively contributing to and maintaining the design system.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
Amtrust Financial Services, Inc. 🇺🇸 Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
This role involves leading the design and execution of creative assets across various channels, including digital, social media, web, and print materials, while translating brand strategy into compelling visual solutions. The designer will also maintain brand guidelines, manage multiple projects, present concepts, and ensure all creative work meets legal and regulatory standards typical of the insurance industry.
Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Tampa, Florida, United States of America
Tria Federal 🇺🇸 Tampa, Florida, United States of America
The role involves creating, designing, and finalizing daily intelligence products for senior decision-makers, ensuring visual polish and accuracy, and developing sophisticated layouts for various briefing materials and collateral. Responsibilities also include translating complex data into compelling visuals and providing rapid-turn support during high-priority events.
Sr. Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Innomark Communications 🇺🇸 Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer will concept, design, and execute creative assets for all in-store initiatives across various platforms, ensuring all work adheres to PetSmart's brand identity and guidelines. They must collaborate effectively with team members and clients to produce sound creative solutions while managing multiple projects under tight deadlines.
Senior Product Designer
🇿🇦 Cape Town, City of Cape Town, South Africa
Collinson 🇿🇦 Cape Town, City of Cape Town, South Africa
The Senior Product Designer will lead customer-centric product design across web and mobile platforms, driving end-to-end feature design from research through high-fidelity execution. Key duties include contributing to the design system, mentoring junior designers, and influencing product direction by collaborating with executive-level stakeholders.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Maple Plain, Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States of America
Protolabs 🇺🇸 Maple Plain, Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will lead the design of customer-focused digital experiences across web, mobile, and emerging platforms, translating insights into polished prototypes and cohesive end-to-end journeys. This involves leading research, synthesizing insights, designing complex workflows, and actively contributing to and evolving the design system.
Senior Product Designer
🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Intact Fc 🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
The Senior Product Designer will craft human-centered experiences for native mobile applications across multiple brands, collaborating with research teams to synthesize data and drive product strategy. They will also drive the product roadmap alongside a product manager and multidisciplinary agile team, generating final assets and validating specifications with developers.
Product Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Meta 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
The Product Designer will lead and ship large, critical projects, often in highly ambiguous spaces, driving end-to-end design across multiple workstreams and partner teams. They must shape product direction by applying broad context, framing decisions, and building senior consensus while maintaining high craft quality.
Sr. Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Dialpad 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The Senior Product Designer will lead complex, high-impact product initiatives from discovery through release, focusing on shipping regularly and prioritizing real-world impact over pixel-perfect mockups. Responsibilities include designing intuitive, trustworthy, and valuable AI-powered features, collaborating with engineering on implementation, and strengthening the scalable design system, Dialtone.
Senior Product Designer II - Design Systems
Remote (🇨🇦 Wasaga Beach, Ontario, Canada)
Instacart Remote (🇨🇦 Wasaga Beach, Ontario, Canada)
The role involves owning the design system as a product, driving its roadmap based on product needs and system health, and defining the UX for components and patterns, including interaction states and accessibility defaults. Responsibilities also include leading the token strategy, establishing system governance, and partnering with engineering to ensure clean code implementation and design-to-code fidelity.
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.