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Senior UX / Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Hitachi Solutions 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The Senior UX Designer will translate user needs and business goals into intuitive digital experiences across the full product lifecycle, from exploration through to live service improvement. Key duties include creating design artifacts, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams, supporting usability testing, and contributing to design standards and practice improvement.
Senior UX Designer
🇮🇪 Ireland
Fixify 🇮🇪 Ireland
The Senior UX Designer will own UX design for assigned product areas, from problem definition through delivery, focusing on designing end-to-end workflows and high-fidelity interfaces to solve user problems. This involves partnering closely with Product Management during discovery and collaborating with Engineering to ensure designs are feasible and implemented correctly.
Senior Product Designer II - Design Systems
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Instacart Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
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 token strategy, establishing system governance, and partnering with engineering to ensure clean code implementation and design-to-code fidelity.
Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 West Haven, Weber County, Utah, United States of America
Enve Composites Llc 🇺🇸 West Haven, Weber County, Utah, United States of America
The role involves designing graphics for various materials including emails, social media, packaging, and promotional items, while also creating web banners and email assets. Responsibilities include collaborating with other designers, following senior designer direction, developing visual ideas for marketing campaigns, and ensuring all designs adhere to brand guidelines.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America)
Forward Financing Remote (🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America)
The role involves partnering closely with Product Managers to understand user needs and crafting every detail of new product features from ideation through production across all screen sizes. This includes evolving design systems, conducting user research, and sharing designs in regular reviews to gather stakeholder feedback.
Sr. UX Designer
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Monterey Technologies Inc 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
The Senior UX Designer will conduct user-centered research, create design artifacts like wireframes and style guides, and apply user-centered design processes to evaluate and develop solutions. This role involves leading tasks, supporting junior engineers, communicating findings to stakeholders, and managing complex tasks independently.
Senior Graphic Designer Officer
🇮🇶 Baghdad, Baghdad Governorate, Iraq
Zaincash 🇮🇶 Baghdad, Baghdad Governorate, Iraq
The Senior Graphic Designer Officer will lead and oversee all design initiatives for Zain Cash campaigns, ensuring high-quality creative output aligns with brand guidelines across various platforms. This role involves translating business objectives into compelling visual concepts and supervising junior designers to maintain creative standards.
Senior UX Designer
🇨🇭 Zurich, Switzerland
Elca Switzerland And Europe 🇨🇭 Zurich, Switzerland
The Senior UX Designer will actively shape digital solutions from discovery through implementation, connecting solid UX methodology with systemic design thinking to create consistent and scalable user experiences across products. Responsibilities include conceptualizing holistic user experiences for complex digital products, planning and conducting UX activities like user research and testing, and developing UX/Interaction design concepts for web and mobile.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Brahma 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
The Senior Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design for AI-powered creative tools, owning specifications in Figma and defining the user experience for complex generative AI features like digital humans and voice synthesis. This role requires prototyping and shipping functional React components quickly using AI-assisted coding tools while building and maintaining the React-based design system.
Senior Product Designer
🇨🇦 Canada
Moz Group 🇨🇦 Canada
The Senior Product Designer will lead the design direction and execution for the STAT platform, focusing on re-architecting how SEO professionals interact with high-density data to reduce cognitive load. Key duties involve transforming raw analytics into intuitive systems, owning end-to-end design for data-heavy workflows, and utilizing advanced prototyping to drive strategy.
Senior Product Designer
🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Sky Mavis 🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
The Senior Product Designer will contribute to product and design strategy by owning the end-to-end user journey, from ideation through testing and production. A key focus will be simplifying complex Web3 domains for Web2 users and contributing to design systems for consistency.
Senior Product Designer B2B
🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Edreams 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
The role involves crafting intuitive solutions for complex end-to-end processes, focusing on reducing cognitive load for agents and friction for customers in support and retention ecosystems. Responsibilities include leveraging research, designing with business impact, and leading the design of Voice AI and Chatbot flows.
Senior Product Designer (Fixed-Term)
Remote (🇵🇭 Biliran, Philippines)
Sinch Remote (🇵🇭 Biliran, Philippines)
The Senior Product Designer will drive UI/UX improvements for existing flows, design user flows for new self-serve features like discounts and cancellations, and lead discovery and research for upsell opportunities. They will collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Support, Sales, and Marketing teams from wireframing through final delivery.
Senior Product Designer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Brodie Rec League 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Senior Product Designer will own the design of Brodie's digital products, primarily focusing on the mobile application, including new features, user flows, and continuous improvement. This role also involves designing internal admin tools, optimizing web registration experiences, and maintaining the overall design system for brand consistency.
Senior Product Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Hinge Health 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
The Senior Product Designer will create intuitive workflows for operational excellence, designing tools to optimize care team utilization and simplify complex, fragmented systems across various platforms. They will also be responsible for designing efficient interfaces to support compliance requirements like managing licenses and credentials.
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.