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Senior Product Designer
🇵🇱 Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
Netwrix Corporation 🇵🇱 Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
The Senior Product Designer will own the end-to-end design for Access Analyzer, translating complex workflows into intuitive user experiences. They will collaborate closely with product managers and engineers throughout the design process.
Senior Product Designer (UX Specialist) - Media Company
🇨🇴 Colombia
Truelogic Software 🇨🇴 Colombia
Lead end-to-end product design initiatives, transforming complex workflows into intuitive user-centered experiences. Establish and evolve design systems while collaborating closely with Product Managers and Engineers.
Senior Design Engineering Manager
🇺🇸 Simi Valley, California, United States of America
Trimas Corporation 🇺🇸 Simi Valley, California, United States of America
Lead the Design Engineering department by planning and controlling R&D, design, and manufacturing activities to meet customer specifications and business goals. Manage the full project lifecycle from RFP and detailed design through certification and initial production.
Senior Product Designer (UX Specialist) - Media Company
🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brazil
Truelogic Software 🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brazil
Lead end-to-end product design initiatives, transforming complex workflows into intuitive user-centered experiences. Establish and evolve design systems while collaborating closely with Product Managers and Engineers.
Senior UX Designer
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Expel 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
In this role, you'll improve the core product, Workbench, by conducting user and market research to understand personas and use cases. You'll collaborate with engineers and product partners to guide product vision and ensure the right problems are addressed with effective solutions.
Senior Product Designer
🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brazil
Phizchat 🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brazil
The Senior Product Designer will lead the design of screens and flows from concept to delivery, focusing on UI and visual finish. They will collaborate with Product and Engineering teams, ensuring a coherent user experience throughout the app.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
Sanofi 🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
The Senior Graphic Designer is responsible for delivering high-quality designs from ideation to completion, ensuring that all materials meet stakeholder requirements. This includes working on business-critical deliverables such as scientific posters, slide decks, and digital content.
Senior Graphic Designer & Multimedia Content Creator
🇺🇸 Westborough, MA 01581, United States of America
Detectogether 🇺🇸 Westborough, MA 01581, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer & Multimedia Content Creator will lead the organization’s visual storytelling and brand expression across all channels. This includes developing compelling visual experiences that increase awareness, engagement, fundraising success, and program participation.
Senior UX Product Designer
🇺🇸 Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
Optomi 🇺🇸 Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
The Senior UX Product Designer will collaborate with stakeholders to deliver exceptional digital experiences and create accessible wireframes and prototypes. They will also contribute to the evolution of the enterprise design system and advocate for user needs throughout the design process.
Senior Graphic Designer - Boys/Girls
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
24 Seven Talent 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer will create original graphics, prints, and artwork for boys' and girls' apparel collections. They will collaborate with various teams to bring seasonal concepts from ideation through production.
Senior Product Designer (Contract - AI & Design Systems)
🇺🇸 United States of America
Pinecrest Group 🇺🇸 United States of America
The role involves building reusable Figma components and creating templates for various internal tools and dashboards. Additionally, the designer will develop AI-ready design standards and help establish a scalable design system.
Senior Product Designer
🇨🇦 British Columbia, Canada
Swiftly, Inc. 🇨🇦 British Columbia, Canada
Lead the end-to-end design process for transit agency software, focusing on either real-time passenger information or ridership analysis. Partner with product and engineering teams to translate complex data into intuitive, high-fidelity interfaces and strategic product directions.
Senior Product Designer, Point of Sale
🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Toast 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Lead end-to-end design for Point of Sale experiences, focusing on complex operational workflows across terminal and handheld surfaces. Partner with product and engineering leadership to shape the roadmap and mentor other designers to raise the collective quality of craft.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇵🇱 Warszawa, 83-433 Nowe Polaszki, Poland
Tenengroup Ltd. 🇵🇱 Warszawa, 83-433 Nowe Polaszki, Poland
The Senior Graphic Designer will evolve the visual language of the brand and lead visual concepts for product launches and seasonal campaigns. They will design various digital assets including homepage banners, landing pages, and email marketing newsletters.
Senior Product Designer - Engagement & Retention
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Brodie Sports Group 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Senior Product Designer will design the engagement and retention layer of the Brodie app, focusing on gamification elements such as XP, levels, badges, and challenges. This role involves working closely with the Product Design Director and engineering team to iterate on features based on player behavior.
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.