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Senior UI/UX Designer II
🇺🇸 Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
Contact Government Services, Llc 🇺🇸 Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
The Senior UI/UX Designer II will lead full-scale UX design efforts, encompassing research, blueprinting, and evaluation of existing systems, while managing the design and implementation of multiple sites and applications simultaneously for various clients. This role involves collaborating with engineers and federal clients to define and implement innovative, intuitive solutions, and creating necessary design artifacts like wireframes and site maps.
Senior UI/UX Designer II
🇺🇸 City of Albany, New York, United States of America
Contact Government Services, Llc 🇺🇸 City of Albany, New York, United States of America
The Senior UI/UX Designer II will lead full-scale UX design efforts, encompassing research, blueprinting, and evaluation of existing systems, while managing the planning and implementation of multiple sites and applications simultaneously for various clients. This role involves leading user research phases to create highly usable web pages and application interfaces, collaborating with engineers and clients to define innovative solutions, and creating scalable design resources.
Senior Product Designer, Developer Platform - Observability
🇵🇦 Panama City, Distrito de Panamá, Panama
Netflix 🇵🇦 Panama City, Distrito de Panamá, Panama
The Senior Product Designer will define the end-to-end design vision for mission-critical telemetry tools, focusing on creating intuitive workflows that simplify complex system data for engineers. Key activities include leading the creation of scalable design patterns, simplifying technical concepts, and designing guided experiences to accelerate troubleshooting and promote paved observability paths.
SM/M, Senior UX Designer
🇸🇬 Singapore
Public Service Division 🇸🇬 Singapore
The Senior UX Designer will own and lead UX strategy and design across the VMP and CTOaaS product portfolio, ensuring exceptional, user-centered experiences. This includes collaborating with Product Managers and Engineers, mentoring designers, and aligning user research with business goals.
Senior Full Stack AI Product Designer
🇺🇸 Tempe, Arizona, United States of America
Trainual 🇺🇸 Tempe, Arizona, United States of America
The role involves owning product design problems from discovery through execution within a product squad, translating research and insights into polished user experiences, and collaborating closely with product managers and engineers to deliver solutions. Additionally, the designer will contribute to evolving the design system and ensuring design intent is preserved through implementation.
Senior Product Designer – Enterprise Systems
Remote (🇺🇸 Richmond, Virginia, United States of America)
Hyper Solutions Inc Remote (🇺🇸 Richmond, Virginia, United States of America)
The Senior Product Designer partners with Product and Engineering leadership to define problems and shape solutions by translating complex operational workflows into intuitive, scalable product experiences. Core duties include leading end-to-end design execution, conducting research, developing prototypes, and collaborating with engineering to ship high-quality features.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America
Cellular Sales Verizon Authorized Retailer 🇺🇸 Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America
This role involves leading the visual conceptualization and execution of creative campaigns across digital, print, and video channels, ensuring brand compliance for various brands including Verizon, Apple, Samsung, and Google. The designer will collaborate with various internal teams, present concepts, and mentor junior staff while managing project timelines.
GRAPHIC DESIGNER - Onsite
🇺🇸 Black Creek, Wilkinson County, Georgia, United States of America
Daniel Defense Llc 🇺🇸 Black Creek, Wilkinson County, Georgia, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer leads high-level creative execution across print, digital, product, and environmental touchpoints, taking full ownership of complex projects to drive elevated aesthetics and ensure brand consistency. This role involves hands-on design work while serving as a creative partner to leadership and collaborating across various internal and external teams.
Senior UX Designer
🇭🇺 Budapest, Hungary
Clario 🇭🇺 Budapest, Hungary
This role involves leading user research, interaction design, and usability evaluation across digital and offline experiences to shape user behaviors and define experience requirements. Key duties include identifying user needs, leading iterative design processes, designing interactions, and refining designs based on user-centered evaluation and feedback.
Senior Product/UI UX Designer
🇺🇦 Lviv, Lviv Raion, Ukraine
Lasoft 🇺🇦 Lviv, Lviv Raion, Ukraine
The role involves forming and implementing design solutions for key products and features, from concept through to production-ready, focusing on designing interfaces for commercial scenarios aimed at engagement, retention, and conversion. Responsibilities also include participating in user research activities and maintaining high operational reliability with predictable deadlines and proactive risk communication.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Multiverse 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The role involves performing user research to identify pain points and owning the design vision for the new AI Adoption product. Responsibilities also include rapidly prototyping high-fidelity concepts, leading concept sprints, and designing/iterating on flows and visuals for AI-enabled features.
Senior Product Designer - Onchain Options Trading
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Kraken Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The role involves leading the delivery of entirely new product concepts for the Onchain space, setting industry benchmarks with innovative designs, and pushing stakeholders to maintain high standards. Designers will create exceptional user experiences by collaborating closely with cross-functional teams and balancing business objectives with customer needs and technical constraints.
Senior Product Designer - Onchain Options Trading
Remote (🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom)
Kraken Remote (🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom)
This role involves leading the delivery of entirely new product concepts for the Onchain space, setting industry benchmarks with innovative designs to enhance brand recognition. The designer will create exceptional user experiences by collaborating closely with cross-functional teams and balancing business objectives with customer needs.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 Brighton, Brighton and Hove, England, United Kingdom
Brightlocal 🇬🇧 Brighton, Brighton and Hove, England, United Kingdom
The Senior Product Designer will collaborate with Product Managers and stakeholders to identify high-value opportunities through strategic design and user research, leading discovery and design initiatives within the delivery framework. This role involves designing end-to-end experiences, from research to polished interfaces, while ensuring design requirements are met by front-end engineers.
Senior Staff Product Designer, Agentic Commerce
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Stripe 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The role involves leading design for Agentic Commerce, shaping strategy, and building transformative products for merchants, agents, and consumers. Responsibilities include reimagining consumer checkout experiences and building tools for merchants to integrate across various surfaces.
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.