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Product Designer Senior (F/H)
🇫🇷 44800 Saint-Herblain, France
Rca 🇫🇷 44800 Saint-Herblain, France
The role involves leading internal and external workshops for co-design and requirements gathering, as well as creating user journeys and interface prototypes for new needs. Responsibilities also include conducting user testing and maintaining/evolving the Design System.
Lead Product Designer (Web3 Creator Economy)
🇭🇰 999077 China, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island
Hyphen Connect Limited 🇭🇰 999077 China, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island
The Lead Product Designer will manage the design team to develop innovative solutions for the creator economy and implement UX strategies to boost user engagement and onboarding within the Web3 environment. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams and using user research insights to guide design decisions.
Lead Product Designer (Web3 Creator Economy)
🇨🇳 Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
Hyphen Connect Limited 🇨🇳 Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
The role involves supporting business development activities by coordinating client meetings, preparing materials for senior stakeholders, and assisting with client onboarding logistics. The assistant will also coordinate internally between teams like Product, Legal, and Operations to support client requests and track the business development pipeline.
Founding Product Designer - Decentralized Identity
Remote ( 999077 China, Hong Kong, Southern District, Sassoon Road 6A, R.C. Lee Hall)
Hyphen Connect Limited Remote ( 999077 China, Hong Kong, Southern District, Sassoon Road 6A, R.C. Lee Hall)
The Founding Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design processes, from concept to execution, while establishing and maintaining a cohesive visual language for the brand. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to create intuitive user experiences and developing specifications for new features.
Transaction Banking, Senior Product UX Designer, Vice President, London
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Goldman Sachs 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Produce polished, industry-leading design for Transaction Banking products by working alongside Product Managers and stakeholders to translate client needs into journey maps, flows, and specifications. Engage in proactive problem solving, utilize existing design systems, and collaborate with partners to maintain and evolve the design system.
Senior Staff Product Designer
Remote (🇳🇱 Amersfoort, Utrecht, Netherlands)
Remote Remote (🇳🇱 Amersfoort, Utrecht, Netherlands)
The Senior Staff Product Designer will lead by example through high-fidelity prototyping, integrating code and AI where beneficial, and bridging vision with feasibility. Key duties include building scalable systems, making AI useful in practical ways, setting design standards, influencing company direction, and raising the bar through mentorship and shaping design critique rituals.
UI/UX Designer
🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Evismart 🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
The role involves leading independent discovery by engaging directly with users to map workflows and surface requirements across two distinct product areas: one mobile-first and one desktop-first. The designer will also be responsible for building and owning the entire design system from scratch and ensuring seamless UX integration between the two product surfaces.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America)
Loancrate Remote (🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America)
The Senior Product Designer will own the design process end-to-end for a core product area, from initial discovery through high-fidelity design, while partnering closely with Product Management and Engineering. Key tasks include leading customer discovery sessions, designing intuitive UX patterns for complex workflows, and designing for AI-native experiences.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 City of Industry, CA 91715, United States of America
Bentley Mills 🇺🇸 City of Industry, CA 91715, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will develop innovative carpet patterns and product concepts for commercial soft surface environments, translating conceptual ideas into commercially viable flooring designs. This role also involves leading color development, exploring material innovation, and conducting trend research to inform product strategy.
Product Designer - H/F
🇫🇷 Paris, France
Dayuse 🇫🇷 Paris, France
The role involves transforming the existing Design System into an intelligent, modular, and scalable internal product, while pioneering the integration of generative and predictive AI for personalized customer experiences. The designer will also be central to user research, leading interviews and testing across different countries, and structuring a global insights repository.
Senior UX Designer (Advised - AJ Bell Investcentre)
🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Aj Bell 🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
The Senior UX Designer will provide senior-level design expertise for the Investcentre platform, helping to lead the strategic planning of design initiatives and shaping the overall design strategy. They must remain hands-on in design daily, contributing extensively to design guidelines and component libraries while advocating for UX across the business.
Graphic Designer
Remote (🇿🇦 Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa)
The Global Talent Co. Remote (🇿🇦 Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa)
The Graphic Designer will be the creative lead, responsible for transforming complex ideas into high-performing visuals across various touchpoints like marketing campaigns, social media, and sales decks. Key duties include designing impactful assets, owning and evolving the company's visual identity, and collaborating with marketing and sales teams to maximize performance.
Graphic Designer, Video
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Staffbase 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The role involves leading the end-to-end production of complete video assets and product walkthroughs, from rough cuts to final mastering, while innovating new visualizations of software using After Effects. The designer will also act as a technical consultant on production aspects like lighting and animation styles.
Senior UI Designer - Design Systems (f/m/x)
🇩🇪 Hamburg, Germany
Exmox Gmbh 🇩🇪 Hamburg, Germany
The Senior UI Designer will lead the creation, evolution, and governance of the company's mobile Design System, ensuring visual consistency and scalability across B2C and B2B products. This involves owning the component library, defining scalable token-first architecture, driving adoption, and collaborating closely with engineering partners.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 South Carolina, United States of America
Stahls' 🇺🇸 South Carolina, United States of America
The Senior UX Designer will own the end-to-end user experience across key product areas, leading user research, defining information architecture, establishing design patterns, and building prototypes. This role involves partnering closely with Product Management and Engineering to bring intuitive, scalable solutions to life within an Agile environment.
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.