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Lead Product Designer (Web3 Creator Economy)
🇯🇵 Japan
Hyphen Connect Limited 🇯🇵 Japan
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.
Lead Product Designer (Web3 Creator Economy)
🇺🇸 Foxborough, MA 02035, United States of America
Hyphen Connect Limited 🇺🇸 Foxborough, MA 02035, United States of America
The Lead Product Designer will manage the design team to develop innovative solutions for the creator economy and implement UX strategies to improve user engagement and onboarding within the Web3 environment. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams and using user research insights to inform design decisions.
Lead Product Designer (Web3 Creator Economy)
🇺🇸 United States of America
Hyphen Connect Limited 🇺🇸 United States of America
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 using user research insights to inform design decisions.
Lead Product Designer (Web3 Creator Economy)
🇧🇷 São José da Laje, Região Geográfica Intermediária de Maceió, Brazil
Hyphen Connect Limited 🇧🇷 São José da Laje, Região Geográfica Intermediária de Maceió, Brazil
The Lead Product Designer will manage the design team to develop innovative solutions for the creator economy and spearhead UX strategy to improve user engagement and onboarding within the Web3 environment. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams and using user research insights to inform design decisions.
Lead/ Staff Product Designer - KICK
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Easygo 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
The Lead/Staff Product Designer will lead the entire design process from discovery through delivery, creating high-quality, scalable experiences for creators, viewers, and moderators on the live streaming platform. This role involves partnering with Product and Engineering to shape the roadmap, mentoring the design team, and championing human-centered solutions.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Dodgeville, Wisconsin, United States of America
Lands' End 🇺🇸 Dodgeville, Wisconsin, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer develops strong conceptual frameworks and delivers high-impact design across catalogs, ecommerce, and digital channels, leading the creation of pages that drive profitable sales growth. This role manages projects from concept through production and plays a key part in evolving the brand’s visual expression.
Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Anacortes, Washington, United States of America
Island Health 🇺🇸 Anacortes, Washington, United States of America
The Graphic Designer is responsible for creating various marketing materials such as advertisements, signage, brochures, and digital graphics to support the hospital's communication efforts and maintain brand identity. This role involves working closely with leadership to develop multi-channel marketing solutions through innovative print and digital designs.
Principal Product Designer: Travel & Conversion
🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Move Travel Sdn. Bhd. 🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
The Principal Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design of complex travel booking journeys for flights and hotels, focusing on UX architecture, flow optimization, and conversion rates. This role involves elevating design craft quality through high-fidelity motion design and mentoring junior designers by setting high standards for execution and strategic thinking.
Lead UX Designer
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Grainger Businesses 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
The Lead UX Designer is responsible for leading the design of intuitive, user-centered digital experiences for customer- and employee-facing products, applying advanced design thinking to translate needs into scalable digital solutions. This role involves partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality interaction design, creating strategic design artifacts, and mentoring other designers.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Converge 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The Senior Product Designer will take SAAS products from inception to expansion, shaping insights into prototypes and bringing new experiences to life for the ConstructionDNA platform. Responsibilities include leading user research, running rapid experiments, collaborating cross-functionally, and running concept sprints to prototype high-fidelity solutions.
Senior Product Designer
The Senior Product Designer will lead end-to-end product design for major initiatives across LeafLink’s platforms, partnering with Product Managers and Engineers to define strategy and roadmap. Responsibilities include translating complex workflows into intuitive user experiences, rapid prototyping in code, and owning the full design process from UX flows to production-ready UI.
Front End UX Designer
🇨🇦 Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Homes By Avi (canada) Inc. 🇨🇦 Calgary, Alberta, Canada
The role involves designing and developing responsive, user-friendly websites primarily using WordPress, customizing themes, and creating engaging landing pages to drive lead generation. Responsibilities also include creating digital assets using Adobe Creative Suite and translating UI/UX designs into clean, functional front-end code.
Lead Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America)
Sixfold Remote (🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America)
The Lead Product Designer will own the end-to-end design direction for the Property & Casualty underwriting AI product, driving product strategy alongside Product Managers through framing problems and running discovery. Key tasks include designing agentic workflows, defining human-in-the-loop interactions, and mentoring other designers on the team.
UX Designer - Remote
Remote (🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America)
Cedars-sinai Remote (🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America)
The UX Designer is responsible for creating satisfying and compelling experiences for digital products by drawing on user research and workflow analysis, including researching user needs and turning insights into product features. This role involves driving the innovation design process, leading UX research, design, and testing, and continuously improving products post-launch.
Graphic Designer - Marketing & Communications
🇺🇸 Saint George, Louisiana, United States of America
Woman's Hospital 🇺🇸 Saint George, Louisiana, United States of America
The Graphic Designer will support brand and marketing initiatives by creating visual materials for both internal and external communications, partnering with leadership and vendors to ensure high-quality, on-brand visual storytelling. Responsibilities include designing various materials like ads, brochures, and reports while consistently applying core graphic design principles and managing multiple projects to meet deadlines.
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.