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UX Designer
🇺🇸 201 Nelson District Road, York County, VA 23692, United States of America
Software Finder 🇺🇸 201 Nelson District Road, York County, VA 23692, United States of America
The UX Designer will lead efforts to understand real user needs, validate design assumptions, and design intuitive experiences that solve complex problems while balancing speed and quality. Responsibilities include conducting user research, creating design artifacts, and performing expert reviews.
Product Designer, Data Products (SF)
🇺🇸 United States of America
Persona 🇺🇸 United States of America
The Product Designer will lead the design process from ideation to execution for data products, ensuring they are user-friendly and visually compelling. This involves collaborating cross-functionally, conducting user research, creating innovative data visualizations, and iterating on designs based on feedback.
Senior Staff Product Designer
Remote (🇵🇪 Iberia, Madre de Dios, Peru)
Remote - Referral Board Remote (🇵🇪 Iberia, Madre de Dios, Peru)
The Senior Staff Product Designer will lead by demonstrating through high-fidelity prototypes, functional flows, and code when necessary, bridging vision and feasibility while building scalable, reusable design systems. They will also be responsible for making AI useful in practical ways for faster exploration and tighter workflows, and influencing direction across the company.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Prizepicks 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design process for the Rewards domain, establishing the vision for how members utilize promotions and rewards to create the most exciting experience in the industry. This involves translating complex mechanics into intuitive, visually compelling interfaces while championing design excellence and mentoring other designers.
Technical Lead Product Designer - Crypto
🇦🇷 Buenos Aires, Comuna 1, Argentina
Nubank 🇦🇷 Buenos Aires, Comuna 1, Argentina
The Lead Product Designer will act as a technical reference for the team, implementing best market practices to raise the team's quality bar. They will also build organizational relationships to influence business decisions by advocating for user-centered design.
Staff Product Designer, Closeup
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Pinterest 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Staff Product Designer will own the end-to-end design for key Closeup experiences across iOS, Android, and web, driving product outcomes by partnering with cross-functional leads to define goals and metrics. This role involves simplifying complex, modular experiences, raising the craft bar, and ensuring designs are accessible and inclusive.
Staff Product Designer
Remote (🇨🇦 British Columbia, Canada)
Webflow Remote (🇨🇦 British Columbia, Canada)
The Staff Product Designer will define, design, and launch new products while ensuring seamless integration with existing platform capabilities. This role involves proactively collaborating across teams to resolve complex dependencies and presenting work to senior leadership to drive alignment on vision and strategy.
Senior Product Designer (all genders)
🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Hrs Group 🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
The Senior Product Designer will lead continuous discovery and rapid iteration to transform complex VAT and payment workflows into seamless mobile experiences for the Pay-to-Reclaim application. This involves owning the end-to-end mobile journey, ensuring clarity and trust in high-stakes financial interactions for travelers.
Senior Product Designer (all genders)
🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Hrs Group 🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
The Senior Product Designer will lead continuous discovery and rapid iteration to transform complex VAT and payment workflows into seamless mobile experiences for the Pay-to-Reclaim application. This involves owning the end-to-end mobile journey, ensuring clarity and high trust in financial interactions for travelers.
UX Designer Senior
🇮🇳 Pune City, India
Cognyte 🇮🇳 Pune City, India
The Senior UX/UI Designer will own the end-to-end design for complex Network Intelligence products, focusing on mission-critical investigative and analytical workflows. This involves leading problem framing, driving UX quality, and designing scalable, data-dense interfaces in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
Senior UX Designer
Remote (🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia)
Mx51 Remote (🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia)
The Senior UX Designer will lead UX design across key product areas, balancing user needs with business objectives, and will be responsible for planning and conducting research and discovery initiatives to inform design recommendations. They will collaborate closely with Product Managers and engineers across the full product lifecycle while actively contributing to and maintaining the design system.
Lead Product Designer
🇧🇬 Bulgaria
Careers At Tide 🇧🇬 Bulgaria
The role involves owning the design vision for a core business area, ensuring a cohesive customer experience that integrates with the broader ecosystem. This includes driving the end-to-end design process from discovery and research to executing high-fidelity designs while collaborating cross-functionally.
Lead Product Designer
🇷🇸 Serbia
Careers At Tide 🇷🇸 Serbia
The Lead Product Designer will own the design vision for a core business area, ensuring a cohesive customer experience that integrates with the broader ecosystem. This involves driving the end-to-end design process from discovery and research through to high-fidelity execution.
Lead Product Designer
🇱🇹 Lithuania
Careers At Tide 🇱🇹 Lithuania
The role involves owning the design vision for a core business area, ensuring a cohesive customer experience, and collaborating cross-functionally to transform complex business problems into elegant design solutions. This includes driving the end-to-end design process from discovery through high-fidelity execution and championing a user-centric culture.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Maple Plain, Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States of America
Protolabs 🇺🇸 Maple Plain, Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will lead the design of customer-focused digital experiences across web, mobile, and emerging platforms, translating insights into polished prototypes and cohesive end-to-end journeys. This involves leading research, synthesizing insights, designing complex workflows, and actively contributing to and evolving the design system.
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.