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Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇨🇦 Kitchener, Ontario, Canada)
Ground News Remote (🇨🇦 Kitchener, Ontario, Canada)
The Senior Product Designer will own features end-to-end, from initial concept through shipping, encompassing research, interaction design, visual design, and prototyping across web and mobile platforms. Key duties include leading visual and motion design efforts and managing/evolving the Figma component library and design system during a full product redesign.
Sr UI Designer (Mobile UI/Visual)
🇺🇸 San Diego, California, United States of America
Dexcom 🇺🇸 San Diego, California, United States of America
Drive aesthetically strong execution of mobile products by utilizing and contributing to Dexcom’s Design System, while shaping the UI design strategy to elevate the quality bar across the portfolio. Collaborate closely with multidisciplinary teams to ensure designs are implemented as intended across various platforms and devices, and mentor other designers through craft feedback.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Promise 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Product Designer will lead the transformation of ambiguous problems into intuitive, scalable product experiences, acting as a strategic partner to Engineering, Product, and Deployment Strategists from discovery through shipping. Key duties include shaping design strategy, creating end-to-end designs, rapid prototyping for validation, evolving the design system, and raising the overall quality bar through leadership and mentorship.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Linkedin 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
This role focuses on building and accelerating Trust & Safety systems, requiring the designer to operate as a leader with strong engineering depth to support end-to-end experience strategy and drive high-fidelity, implementation-quality design and front-end code. Responsibilities include partnering with designers to co-create interaction models, building and maintaining frontend components for Trust & Safety experiences, and evolving shared design systems.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Draper, UT 84020, United States of America
Amh 🇺🇸 Draper, UT 84020, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will lead the design strategy for assigned product lines, owning the end-to-end design vision from discovery through delivery, and partnering with Product Management to define problems and success metrics. Responsibilities also include conducting user research, designing high-quality interactive and visual assets, driving the evolution of the design system, and mentoring other designers.
Product Designer
Remote (🇿🇦 South Africa)
Pavago Remote (🇿🇦 South Africa)
The Product Designer will lead end-to-end digital product experience by conducting user research, creating prototypes, establishing design systems, and collaborating with engineering and product management. Key tasks include translating insights into functional designs, ensuring accessibility, and maintaining component libraries for consistency.
UX Designer
🇺🇸 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America
Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores 🇺🇸 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America
The designer will own design work for features within the Love's mobile app (iOS and Android), contributing to visual, interaction, and experience design while collaborating with cross-functional teams throughout the process. Key functions include designing intuitive experiences, contributing to the component library/design system, creating design artifacts across fidelity levels, and building prototypes for validation.
Product Designer
Remote (🇰🇪 Kenya)
Pavago Remote (🇰🇪 Kenya)
The Product Designer will lead end-to-end product experience design, encompassing user research, prototyping, and establishing design systems to meet user needs and business objectives. Key duties involve collaborating closely with engineering and product management to deliver functional, intuitive, and scalable digital products.
Product Designer
🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico
Palo It 🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico
The Lead Design Ops will be responsible for defining, scaling, and governing the Design Operations practice across multidisciplinary teams to ensure consistency, efficiency, and high-quality design delivery within an AI-first environment. This includes establishing design systems operations, optimizing workflows, managing tooling architecture, and leveraging AI to automate processes and enhance productivity.
UX Designer
🇺🇸 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America
Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores 🇺🇸 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America
The UX Designer will own design work for features within the Love's mobile app (iOS and Android), contributing to visual, interaction, and experience design while collaborating with cross-functional teams throughout the process. Responsibilities also include contributing to the component library/design system and creating design artifacts from wireframes to polished specifications.
Sr UI Designer (Mobile UI/Visual)
🇺🇸 San Diego, California, United States of America
Dexcom 🇺🇸 San Diego, California, United States of America
Drive aesthetically strong execution of mobile products by utilizing and contributing to Dexcom’s Design System, while shaping the UI design strategy to elevate the quality bar across the portfolio. Collaborate closely with multidisciplinary teams to ensure designs are implemented as intended across various platforms and devices.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Arlington County, Virginia, United States of America
Govini 🇺🇸 Arlington County, Virginia, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate user needs into product features, concepts, and user experiences, while designing and documenting user flows, wireframes, and interactive prototypes for data visualization and exploration within the Ark platform. Responsibilities also include presenting designs to stakeholders, contributing to the design system, and leading/mentoring other product designers.
Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Chess.com 🌍 Remote
The role involves collaborating closely with Product, Engineering, and Design teams to define problems and deliver intuitive, consistent interfaces for web and mobile platforms. Responsibilities include owning projects from concept through implementation, utilizing and contributing to the design system, and iterating based on feedback and user insights.
Senior Product Designer (Ecommerce/Growth)
🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Cover Genius 🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
The Senior Product Designer will lead the design and optimization of embedded purchase flows, sales panels, and product discovery experiences that drive conversion within partner retail and banking platforms. This role involves designing for diverse partner contexts, leading rapid experimentation, and driving the evolution of the design system.
UI/UX Product Designer
🇵🇭 Manila, Capital District, Philippines
Avepoint 🇵🇭 Manila, Capital District, Philippines
The Product Designer will be responsible for architecting solutions by translating complex business requirements into logical user flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity prototypes. This role involves iterating designs based on user data, maintaining the global design system, and collaborating closely with Product Managers and developers.
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.