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Retirement & Wealth - Sr. Product Designer (Remote)
Remote (🇺🇸 Oak Brook, DuPage County, IL 60523, United States of America)
Inspira Financial Remote (🇺🇸 Oak Brook, DuPage County, IL 60523, United States of America)
The Senior Product Designer will lead design initiatives from discovery through delivery, creating intuitive experiences for Retirement & Wealth digital products. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams including Product, Engineering, and Content to ensure cohesive design-to-development handoffs.
UI/UX Designer
🇩🇰 1357 København K, Denmark
Skatteguiden 🇩🇰 1357 København K, Denmark
Lead discovery and user research, using behavioral data and experiments to identify meaningful problems and inform product direction. Design and test end-to-end user journeys, flows, and interfaces, collaborating with Product and Engineering from early concepts through finished products.
Senior UI/UX Designer II
🇺🇸 Arlington, Washington, United States of America
Cgs Federal (contact Government Services) 🇺🇸 Arlington, Washington, United States of America
Lead UX research, analysis, and design across multiple websites and applications, from evaluating existing systems and defining user needs through wireframes and final high-fidelity mockups. Collaborate with federal clients and engineering teams to deliver accessible, intuitive solutions, create reusable design resources, and mentor junior designers.
Interaction Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Zof Ai 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Design and test the review experience for engineers evaluating code changes proposed by autonomous agents, including how evidence, validation, uncertainty, and failure states are presented. Conduct research with engineers and QA leads, translate findings into buildable flows and interaction patterns, extend the design system, and collaborate with product and engineering through launch.
Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Tampa, Florida, United States of America
People, Technology & Processes, Llc 🇺🇸 Tampa, Florida, United States of America
Create visual content for print and digital platforms, including presentations, exhibits, infographics, marketing materials, and briefings. Collaborate with editors, subject matter experts, and leadership to develop mission-aligned designs, and support urgent operational requirements.
Engineering Manager – Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Columbia, Maryland, United States of America
Tate 🇺🇸 Columbia, Maryland, United States of America
Lead the day-to-day delivery of design engineering across multiple projects, managing team workload, schedules, design reviews, customer submittals, drawings, and engineering BOMs. Ensure technical quality and manufacturing readiness while coordinating with customers and cross-functional teams, resolving delivery issues, and improving engineering processes.
Senior UX Product Designer
🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America
Coforge 🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America
Lead user-centered design initiatives, facilitate discovery and problem-framing sessions, and shape UX vision and strategy across product portfolios. Create wireframes, user flows, mockups, and prototypes in Figma while collaborating with product, engineering, and business stakeholders throughout the product lifecycle.
Product Innovation & Design Manager
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Atlas Coffee Club 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
The Product Innovation & Design Manager will lead the development of new physical products from concept to launch, managing consumer research, design, and supplier relationships. They will also coordinate with growth and operations teams to execute product launches, manage inventory forecasts, and iterate on products based on performance data.
Senior UX / UI Designer
🇵🇱 Łódź, Łódź Voivodeship, Poland
Htd Health 🇵🇱 Łódź, Łódź Voivodeship, Poland
Lead the full design lifecycle, from discovery, research, and wireframing through high-fidelity UI and post-launch improvements, serving as the primary design contact. Collaborate with product owners and engineers to deliver intuitive medical solutions, use AI tools to improve workflows, and mentor designers while maintaining high design, regulatory, and usability standards.
Head of Design
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Entain 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Set the creative vision and act as brand guardian for global design outputs, while leading and inspiring a multidisciplinary team delivering integrated campaigns across UK brands. Champion AI adoption, develop strategically grounded design concepts, partner with stakeholders to improve creative impact, and establish processes that scale design delivery.
Senior UX Designer REQ_97
🇷🇴 Romania
3pillar 🇷🇴 Romania
Lead UX design engagements for client-facing digital products, aligning design decisions with business objectives and user needs while partnering with product, engineering, and program teams. Guide and mentor UX designers, facilitate design and Agile activities, communicate recommendations and project status, and contribute to internal training and UX thought leadership.
Senior Principal UX Designer (6 month FTC)
🇸🇪 Malmö, Skåne County, Sweden
King 🇸🇪 Malmö, Skåne County, Sweden
Lead research into existing CI workflows to identify pain points and unmet needs for developer teams. Design, prototype, and evaluate efficient CI workflows while facilitating workshops to align cross-functional teams.
Senior Product Designer, Growth and Conversion
The Senior Product Designer will lead end-to-end design experiences and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to define product vision and audience engagement strategies. They are responsible for creating and maintaining design systems, conducting user research, and working closely with developers to build and refine digital products.
Senior Product Designer (Growth & User Experience)
🇺🇸 Minnesota, United States of America
Straive 🇺🇸 Minnesota, United States of America
Lead end-to-end product design, from research and journey analysis through interaction design, prototyping, testing, and implementation collaboration. Improve activation, engagement, conversion, and long-term product value by using product analytics, instrumentation, experiments, and user insights to optimize the customer experience.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 Los Angeles County, CA 91608, United States of America
Nbcuniversal 🇺🇸 Los Angeles County, CA 91608, United States of America
Lead end-to-end product design for consumer-facing web platforms and a B2B application, creating user flows, prototypes, and responsive interfaces. Collaborate with product, engineering, research, and other stakeholders to validate and refine designs, support implementation, and contribute to design systems.
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.