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Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Relay 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will own the design process end-to-end, from discovery and problem framing through to polished, production-ready designs that ship and deliver impact. Responsibilities also include raising the craft bar by creating elegant interfaces and acting as a design leader by communicating rationale through storytelling and mentoring peers.
Senior Product Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Razorpay Software Private Limited 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
The Senior Product Designer will drive user research, create detailed user journeys, and define design strategies by analyzing data models, while collaborating closely with cross-disciplinary teams to deliver customer experiences. Responsibilities also include strategizing, developing, and extending visual design systems and pattern libraries, and effectively mentoring the design team.
Senior Product Designer, Data Products
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Sony Music Global Job Board 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The Senior Product Designer will own the end-to-end design and UX for Data Products across web and mobile, focusing on simplifying complex music consumption data into actionable insights for artists and labels. This role involves leading discovery, partnering with Product Managers and Engineers, and guiding the work of contract designers.
Senior UX Researcher
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Sidley Austin Llp 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
The Senior UX Researcher will design and execute various research studies, including user interviews and observational research, to understand user workflows and pain points. This role involves supporting discovery workshops, documenting current-state journeys, and planning usability testing to validate product direction.
Senior UX Researcher
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Spring Health 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Senior UX Researcher will design and implement research throughout the product lifecycle, from discovery to post-launch measurement, while proactively collaborating with design, product, clinical, and commercial teams to define a research roadmap. They will also take ownership in defining the role of UX Research at the company, including building out processes and communications strategies for responsible scaling.
Senior UX Researcher (1‑Year Fixed‑Term Contract)
Remote (🇭🇺 Hungary)
Goto Remote (🇭🇺 Hungary)
The Senior UX Researcher will actively direct UX research activities, creating and executing research plans to deliver key insights that support the company strategy. This involves conducting discovery research, validating solutions, and partnering with cross-functional teams to drive user awareness and best practices.
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.
Middle/Senior Graphic Designer
🇦🇲 Yerevan, Armenia
Planner5d 🇦🇲 Yerevan, Armenia
The designer will create high-quality visual and motion assets for various marketing materials, including landing pages, paid ads, and social media campaigns, while actively utilizing AI tools to boost efficiency and creative output. Key tasks involve owning visual solutions from concept to delivery, optimizing designs for multiple platforms, and maintaining brand consistency across all materials.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇿🇦 Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa
Allied Talent Partners 🇿🇦 Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa
The Senior Graphic Designer will be responsible for producing executive-grade design outputs, including presentations, reports, and collateral, while also refreshing core corporate templates and developing a comprehensive template suite. This role also involves establishing and maintaining a structured asset library, refining brand QA workflows, and ensuring consistent, high-quality, brand-accurate design delivery.
Senior Graphic Designer - Relocation to Vienna, Austria
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Do & Co 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The Senior Graphic Designer will own the full design process, from concept to final artwork and print-ready files, leading the creative development of premium graphic assets like menus, posters, and packaging. They will champion and evolve the DO & CO retail brand, ensuring visual consistency across all products and services.
Senior UX / Digital Product Designer (Mensch)
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Taikonauten Gmbh 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
The role involves leading digital product developments with conceptual clarity, methodological certainty, and design excellence, taking responsibility for product quality and user-centricity from discovery through validation. Responsibilities include structuring unclear problems, developing UX concepts, creating necessary documentation like user journeys, conducting research, and setting quality standards in UX and visual design.
Senior Growth Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Naked Wines 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
This role involves leading the design and optimization of high-traffic acquisition channels, including landing pages and sign-up flows, while managing and mentoring 1-2 product designers to meet growth targets. The individual will own the end-to-end Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO) process, partnering cross-functionally to create persuasive user journeys.
Senior Product Designer
🇨🇾 Limassol, Limassol Municipality, Cyprus
Gepard Media 🇨🇾 Limassol, Limassol Municipality, Cyprus
The Senior Product Designer will own the design for a defined product area, guiding it from initial problem definition and discovery through to delivery, iteration, and measuring impact. This involves translating complex business and user problems into clear, functional, and user-friendly design solutions.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Deliveroo 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The role involves leading the end-to-end design process for complex features, from discovery through execution, while shaping the design vision for key product areas. Responsibilities also include collaborating with cross-functional teams, evolving design systems, and mentoring junior designers.
Staff Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Deliveroo 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The Staff Product Designer will define the product design strategy for high-level, ambiguous business challenges, ensuring alignment between user needs and long-term commercial goals. They will also partner with leadership to drive architectural decisions, set design standards, and mentor senior talent within the global design community.
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.