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Lead Product Designer, Slack Productivity
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Salesforce 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
The Lead Product Designer will be responsible for leading design for complex, high-impact productivity features within Slack, turning ambiguous problems into clear, simple solutions. This involves close partnership with Product and Engineering to shape strategy and execution while creating flows, prototypes, and high-quality designs using Slack’s design system.
Senior UX Designer - Digital Experience Team
🇺🇸 San Diego, California, United States
Qualcomm 🇺🇸 San Diego, California, United States
Own projects through their full lifecycle, from initial research and discovery through final UAT and launch. Ensure design consistency across the global ecosystem via the Qualcomm Design System.
Associate Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Life360 🌍 Remote
The Associate Product Designer will partner closely with product designers to support active projects through design iteration and refinement. They will create high-fidelity mockups and interactive prototypes while ensuring designs align with Life360’s design system.
Product Designer II, Design Systems
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States
Pitchbook Data 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States
The Product Designer II will support the maintenance, organization, and ongoing improvement of the PitchBook Product Design System, focusing on Figma component libraries and ensuring consistency across the platform. This involves executing day-to-day updates, partnering with engineering on the UI Kit, assisting with documentation, and participating in governance processes.
Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Pagefreezer 🌍 Remote
As a Product Designer, you will contribute to the user experience of the SaaS platform by creating user-centered solutions and maintaining the design system. You will also lead usability testing sessions and collaborate with developers and stakeholders to ensure alignment with organizational goals.
Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Splitmetrics 🌍 Remote
The Product Designer will design end-to-end product experiences and collaborate with product and engineering teams to create effective design solutions. They will also conduct user research and maintain the design system for consistency across products.
UI/UX Designer
🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Omrt 🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
The UI/UX Designer will own the end-to-end user journey and translate complex business needs into intuitive user experiences. This role involves maintaining a robust design system and shaping a high-impact product for major real estate clients globally.
Product Designer - (Design System / Product)
🌍 Remote
Filigran 🌍 Remote
The Product Designer will own UX/UI topics for Filigran's Hub and design features from problem to delivery. They will also contribute to the Design System and collaborate closely with Product Managers and Engineers.
Senior Product Designer - UX
🇷🇸 Belgrade, Central Serbia, Serbia
Arcadis 🇷🇸 Belgrade, Central Serbia, Serbia
As a Senior Product Designer, you will lead UX/UI design across applications within the Enterprise Decision Analytics suite, simplifying complex data into intuitive user experiences. You will collaborate with product managers, data scientists, and engineers to ensure high-quality design work and contribute to the Arcadis Design System.
UX Designer
🇳🇴 Oslo, Norway
Dnv 🇳🇴 Oslo, Norway
The UX Designer will convert the digital customer experience strategic direction into end-to-end designs and lead the digital design process at the Group level. They will also establish a group-wide digital design system and champion user-centered design principles across the organization.
UX Designer - UXD/Digital Design System (DDS)
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States
Syncreon Consulting 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States
The UX Designer will focus on creating digital and email design patterns and components, as well as interactive digital experiences. This role involves collaborating with various teams to enhance user experiences across multiple channels.
Senior Product Designer - Software Platform
🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Tive 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
The Senior Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design process for complex product areas, translating user needs and business goals into intuitive experiences for customer-facing products, mobile applications, and underlying design systems. This involves designing and optimizing workflows for data-heavy use cases like alerts, dashboards, and configuration flows while ensuring technical feasibility and accessibility.
Senior Product Designer (Reviews and core)
🇬🇧 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Trustpilot 🇬🇧 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
The role involves leading design strategy and execution for high-impact features, taking ownership from problem framing through delivery, and optimizing user experiences, including leveraging AI-powered features for tools like inboxes. This person will also partner closely with cross-functional teams to shape product strategy and drive contributions to the design system.
UI Designer (She/He/They)
🇵🇱 Poland
Capco 🇵🇱 Poland
The UI Designer will be responsible for crafting user-centric and visually engaging interfaces for digital products, collaborating with Product Owners, Engineers, and UX Designers. Key tasks include designing wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, interactive prototypes, and contributing to design systems and UI guidelines.
Product Designer (Optimization & Conversion) (Cuauhtémoc, Ciudad de México)
🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico
Bbva 🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico
Define appropriate tools, methodology, and channels for design projects while optimizing funnels using agile methodologies to improve the end-to-end user journey and meet business objectives. Responsibilities include studying data behavior to develop product iteration proposals aligned with business goals and customer needs, while adhering to 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.