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Staff Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Birdie 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The Staff Product Designer will help lead the evolution of Birdie's platform to be AI-first, focusing on building intelligent systems within the complex Care Management squad. This involves owning design for parts of this domain while contributing to the broader AI-first direction and raising the overall design bar through critique and mentorship.
Product Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Meta 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
The Product Designer will lead and ship large, critical projects, often in highly ambiguous spaces, driving end-to-end design across multiple workstreams and partner teams. They must shape product direction by applying broad context, framing decisions, and building senior consensus while maintaining high craft quality.
Product Designer
🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Yosh 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
The Product Designer will contribute to design-led projects, support the development of design thinking within educational programs, and provide design input across community and client-facing initiatives. Key duties include developing and prototyping design concepts, leading educational sessions, and advising on design feasibility and execution.
UX Designer, YouTube Live, TV Features
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Google 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
The designer will lead the definition of new features for viewers watching YouTube Livestreams on TV, including designing progressive AI-driven live experiences while prioritizing safety and transparency. Responsibilities also involve collaborating cross-functionally to build a user-centered product vision and driving product innovation through ideation and user testing.
Staff Product Designer - Finance Solutions
🇧🇷 Brazil
Blip Global 🇧🇷 Brazil
The role involves leading Discovery processes through research to understand user financial barriers and designing complex financial journeys, focusing on reducing friction and increasing conversion. Responsibilities also include facilitating workshops, creating hybrid visual/conversational flows, developing clear data visualizations, and evolving the Design System.
Sr. Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Dialpad 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The Senior Product Designer will lead complex, high-impact product initiatives from discovery through release, focusing on shipping regularly and prioritizing real-world impact over pixel-perfect mockups. Responsibilities include designing intuitive, trustworthy, and valuable AI-powered features, collaborating with engineering on implementation, and strengthening the scalable design system, Dialtone.
Principal Product Designer. - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Pagerduty 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Principal Product Designer will define and drive the design vision for PagerDuty's AI and automation capabilities, including AI agents, while leading cross-functional collaboration to translate complex AI features into intuitive and trustworthy user experiences. This role involves establishing design principles for AI transparency and mentoring other designers on AI-UX best practices.
Lead Product Designer (Enterprise Web)
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
New Era Technology 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The Lead Product Designer will guide the day-to-day design execution for Out of US (OUS) and EMEA enterprise web initiatives, ensuring digital experiences are high-quality, compliant, and brand-aligned with the Lilly Direct ecosystem. This role involves translating enterprise brand strategy into scalable design solutions, upholding design systems, and mentoring designers while acting as a quality gate for delivery.
Sr. UX Designer
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Monterey Technologies Inc 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
The Senior UX Designer will conduct user-centered research, create design artifacts like wireframes and style guides, and apply user-centered design processes to evaluate and develop solutions. This role involves leading tasks, supporting junior engineers, communicating findings to stakeholders, and managing complex tasks independently.
Lead UX Designer
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Flightstory 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
The Lead UX Designer will be responsible for redesigning and evolving the product experience to make publishing, managing, and analyzing content intuitive and frictionless for various user types. Key outcomes include improving core user journeys, reducing user confusion with data, increasing onboarding success, and designing for multiple personas.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America
Constant Contact 🇺🇸 Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America
The Principal Product Designer defines the long-term UX vision and design strategy for a major product pillar, owning the end-to-end design lifecycle for the most ambiguous and technically challenging product areas. This role acts as the highest-level design authority, influencing stakeholders across Product, Engineering, and Executive Leadership, and serving as a core leader for the Design System.
UX / Product Designer, onsite in Prague
The role involves designing user-centered experiences for mobile and web platforms, optimizing self-service processes, and leading the end-to-end design process from requirements gathering to final visual outputs. Responsibilities also include collaborating with cross-functional teams and analyzing product performance using digital analytics tools.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Brahma 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
The Senior Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design for AI-powered creative tools, owning specifications in Figma and defining the user experience for complex generative AI features like digital humans and voice synthesis. This role requires prototyping and shipping functional React components quickly using AI-assisted coding tools while building and maintaining the React-based design system.
Senior Product Designer
🇨🇦 Canada
Moz Group 🇨🇦 Canada
The Senior Product Designer will lead the design direction and execution for the STAT platform, focusing on re-architecting how SEO professionals interact with high-density data to reduce cognitive load. Key duties involve transforming raw analytics into intuitive systems, owning end-to-end design for data-heavy workflows, and utilizing advanced prototyping to drive strategy.
ALTERNANCE - UX Designer H/F
🇫🇷 Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Tf1 🇫🇷 Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France
The Junior UX Designer will be responsible for defining new features in collaboration with design teams, organizing and leading necessary UX workshops, and creating mockups, prototypes, and conducting tests. They will also support development teams in implementing proposed designs and maintain a constant watch on related UX/UI domains.
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.