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Product Designer
🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
Harvest Group 🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
The Product Designer leads product design initiatives from ideation through commercialization, ensuring alignment with retailer standards and brand vision. This role involves creating product concepts, renderings, and packaging while managing multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Mateo, California, United States of America
Parspec 🇺🇸 San Mateo, California, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will own the end-to-end design of product features, translating complex B2B workflows into intuitive interfaces and clear user flows while collaborating closely with Product and Engineering to iterate quickly. Key duties include producing high-quality interaction and visual design, contributing to the design system, and leading user research initiatives to reduce cognitive load.
Founding Product Designer - Decentralized Identity
Remote (🇸🇬 Singapore)
Hyphen Connect Limited Remote (🇸🇬 Singapore)
The Founding Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design processes, from concept to execution, and be responsible for establishing and maintaining a cohesive visual language for the brand. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to create intuitive user experiences and developing specifications for new features.
Founding Product Designer - Decentralized Identity
Remote (🇦🇺 Australia)
Hyphen Connect Limited Remote (🇦🇺 Australia)
The Founding Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design processes, from concept to execution, while establishing and maintaining a cohesive visual language for the brand. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to create intuitive user experiences and developing specifications for new features.
Founding Product Designer - Decentralized Identity
🇹🇼 Taiwan
Hyphen Connect Limited 🇹🇼 Taiwan
The Founding Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design processes, from concept to execution, while establishing and maintaining a cohesive visual language for the brand. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to create intuitive user experiences and iterating designs based on feedback.
Founding Product Designer - Decentralized Identity
Remote (🇨🇳 Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, China)
Hyphen Connect Limited Remote (🇨🇳 Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, China)
The Founding Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design processes, from concept to execution, and be responsible for establishing and maintaining a cohesive visual language for the brand. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to create intuitive user experiences and developing specifications for new features.
Founding Product Designer - Decentralized Identity
Remote (🇦🇪 Dubai, United Arab Emirates)
Hyphen Connect Limited Remote (🇦🇪 Dubai, United Arab Emirates)
The Founding Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design processes, from concept to execution, while establishing and maintaining a cohesive visual language for the brand. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to create intuitive user experiences and developing specifications for new features.
Founding Product Designer - Decentralized Identity
Remote (🇯🇵 Japan)
Hyphen Connect Limited Remote (🇯🇵 Japan)
The Founding Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design processes from concept to execution and establish a cohesive visual language for the brand. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to create intuitive user experiences and developing specifications for new features.
Founding Product Designer - Decentralized Identity
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Hyphen Connect Limited Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The Founding Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design processes, from concept to execution, and be responsible for establishing and maintaining a cohesive visual language for the brand. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to create intuitive user experiences and developing specifications for new features.
Founding Product Designer - Decentralized Identity
Remote (🇺🇸 Foxborough, MA 02035, United States of America)
Hyphen Connect Limited Remote (🇺🇸 Foxborough, MA 02035, United States of America)
The Founding Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design processes, from concept to execution, while establishing and maintaining a cohesive visual language for the brand. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to create intuitive user experiences and developing specifications for new features.
Founding Product Designer - Decentralized Identity
Remote (🇧🇷 São José da Laje, Região Geográfica Intermediária de Maceió, Brazil)
Hyphen Connect Limited Remote (🇧🇷 São José da Laje, Região Geográfica Intermediária de Maceió, Brazil)
The Founding Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design processes, from concept to execution, while establishing and maintaining a cohesive visual language for the brand. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to create intuitive user experiences and developing specifications for new features.
Lead Product Designer (Web3 Creator Economy)
🇸🇬 Singapore
Hyphen Connect Limited 🇸🇬 Singapore
The Lead Product Designer will manage the design team to develop innovative solutions for the creator economy and spearhead UX strategy to enhance user engagement and onboarding within the Web3 environment. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams and utilizing user research to inform design decisions.
Lead Product Designer (Web3 Creator Economy)
🇹🇼 Taiwan
Hyphen Connect Limited 🇹🇼 Taiwan
The Lead Product Designer will manage the design team to develop innovative solutions for the creator economy and implement UX strategies to boost user engagement and onboarding within the Web3 environment. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams and using user research insights to guide design decisions.
Lead Product Designer (Web3 Creator Economy)
🇦🇺 Australia
Hyphen Connect Limited 🇦🇺 Australia
The Lead Product Designer will manage the design team to develop innovative solutions for the creator economy and spearhead UX strategy to enhance user engagement and onboarding within the Web3 environment. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams and utilizing user research to inform design decisions.
Lead Product Designer (Web3 Creator Economy)
🇦🇪 Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Hyphen Connect Limited 🇦🇪 Dubai, United Arab Emirates
The Lead Product Designer will manage the design team to develop innovative solutions for the creator economy and implement UX strategies to boost user engagement and onboarding within the Web3 environment. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams and utilizing user research to guide design decisions.
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.