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Senior Graphic Designer – Signage & Wayfinding
🇺🇸 Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Populous 🇺🇸 Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
This role involves leading the creation of impactful signage and wayfinding systems for major national and international brands across various markets, conceptualizing designs that elevate typography, brand expression, and 3D form for clear communication. The designer will also collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, oversee construction documents from concept through installation, and represent the firm in client meetings.
Senior Product Designer (Mobile App)
🇺🇸 Miami, Florida, United States of America
Boats Group 🇺🇸 Miami, Florida, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will own the end-to-end design process for major mobile initiatives across iOS and Android, focusing on creating intuitive, high-quality native app experiences. This involves crafting seamless user journeys for search, lead generation, and account management while ensuring cohesion across web and app ecosystems.
Director I, Design Engineering - Control Systems/Telecom
🇺🇸 Greenville, South Carolina, United States of America
Fluor 🇺🇸 Greenville, South Carolina, United States of America
This position provides essential administrative processes, technical knowledge, and direction, acting as a representative of the department to ensure technical accuracy across all project phases. The role involves translating global strategic initiatives into implementable procedures and leading efforts to develop cost-effective total project solutions for discipline engineering work.
Senior Design Engineering Manager
Nammo Defense Systems, Inc
This role involves leading a team of Design Engineers in maintaining, troubleshooting, and enhancing automated and semi-automated production equipment to meet quality and safety standards. Key duties include leading special projects for equipment design and fabrication, optimizing existing systems, and collaborating cross-functionally to define new equipment requirements.
Lead Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America
Corgan 🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America
The Lead Graphic Designer will serve as a brand advocate, leading concept development and execution for high-quality design across print and digital platforms, translating complex ideas into clear visual narratives. This role involves designing various materials, providing creative direction, maintaining brand standards, and collaborating with internal teams to shape strategic visual communications.
Product designer - nezajištěné úvěry
🇨🇿 Prague, Hlavní město Praha, Czech Republic
Erstegro01p2 🇨🇿 Prague, Hlavní město Praha, Czech Republic
The role is for a Product Designer focusing on unsecured loans within a large Czech bank. The description emphasizes joining a diverse team where employees can learn from industry leaders and work in an inspiring, friendly environment.
Lead UX Designer
🇮🇳 Mumbai, Mumbai Suburban District, India
Dentsu 🇮🇳 Mumbai, Mumbai Suburban District, India
The Lead UX Designer will be pivotal in shaping seamless digital product experiences by applying user-centered design principles to create artifacts like personas, journey maps, and prototypes. This role involves planning and conducting usability studies, developing elegant solutions for complex projects, and leading design execution.
Senior Product Designer - Apps
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Marks & Spencer 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The role involves creating user-focused brand experiences through deliverables ranging from information architecture diagrams and wireframes to visual design and animations. Responsibilities also include iterating on designs using research and testing, building relationships with cross-functional teams, and leading design collaboration sessions.
Senior Product Designer
🇪🇬 Cairo, Egypt
Mylo 🇪🇬 Cairo, Egypt
The Senior Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design strategy, creating intuitive, elegant, and user-centric experiences that impact product success and customer satisfaction. This involves owning the full design lifecycle from discovery and ideation through to final delivery, while continuously exploring product improvements.
Technical Lead, UX Designer - RMJ
🇨🇦 Ontario, Canada
Redwood Software 🇨🇦 Ontario, Canada
The Senior UX Designer will own the end-to-end design of features and workflows for the RunMyJobs enterprise automation platform, focusing on creating intuitive experiences for complex automation scenarios. Key duties include planning and conducting user research, synthesizing findings, and actively contributing to building a scalable new design system from the ground up.
Principal Product Designer, Hotels.com
Remote (🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom)
Expedia Group Remote (🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom)
The Principal Product Designer will shape world-class user experiences for Hotels.com, leading collaboration with cross-functional teams to evolve the product experience. Responsibilities include defining problem framing best practices, leading customer experience vision, and owning end-to-end experiences from discovery through iteration.
Senior Product Designer (Student Loans)
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Nerdwallet Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The Senior Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design for private student loan and refinance experiences, focusing on creating user journeys that increase engagement and conversion across NerdWallet, CollegeFinance.com, and RefiRate.com. This involves driving experimentation across high-intent funnels, defining research strategies, and designing clear, compliant financial workflows.
Senior Product Designer (Student Loans) - Canada
Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)
Nerdwallet Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)
The Senior Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design for private student loan and refinance experiences, focusing on creating user journeys that increase engagement and trust across various platforms. This role involves driving experimentation across marketing funnels and defining research strategies to inform product decisions at scale.
UX Researcher
🇺🇸 Newark, New Jersey, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Newark, New Jersey, United States of America
The UX Researcher will lead all phases of user research, including study design, execution, and reporting, making decisions on appropriate methodologies with limited guidance. They will design and conduct a wide spectrum of studies, from quick usability tests to foundational interviews, and integrate AI technologies throughout the research process.
Senior UX Researcher
🇳🇬 Lagos, Lagos Island, Nigeria
Moniepoint 🇳🇬 Lagos, Lagos Island, Nigeria
The Senior UX Researcher will lead and execute end-to-end qualitative and quantitative research across the product lifecycle, focusing heavily on the Nigerian context using various methodologies. Key duties include synthesizing complex data into actionable frameworks and acting as the subject matter expert on Nigerian user needs to guide regional growth.
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.