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Senior Product Designer (UX) [211360]
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Aquent 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Lead the full UX design lifecycle, creating intuitive experiences across desktop, mobile web, and native mobile platforms while aligning solutions with user needs and business goals. Collaborate with Agile teams, own design decisions and project outcomes, uphold and evolve design standards, and support the growth of less experienced designers.
Design Manager - Menswear
🇺🇸 Beverly Hills, California, United States of America
Fam Brands 🇺🇸 Beverly Hills, California, United States of America
The Design Manager will lead and mentor a team of designers to ensure cohesive brand vision and executional excellence across sportswear categories. They will partner with merchandising and production teams to drive innovation while meeting commercial goals and margin targets.
Head of Design & Product Development
🇧🇩 Dhaka, Dhaka Metropolitan, Bangladesh
Nextjobz 🇧🇩 Dhaka, Dhaka Metropolitan, Bangladesh
Lead seasonal design direction and product development for denim and woven/cotton collections, including trend forecasting, concepts, customer presentations, and product approvals. Manage customer strategy discussions, coordinate cross-functional execution, mentor the design team, identify growth opportunities, and travel internationally for customer visits and sourcing activities.
UX Designer 7+ years of experience
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Maarut Inc 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead user-centered design across discovery, alpha, beta, and live delivery phases, including research, prototyping, usability testing, and iterative design improvements. Collaborate with product owners, developers, business teams, and stakeholders to deliver accessible services, support Agile ceremonies, and monitor user behavior and performance indicators.
Principal Product Designer - Contract - Remote - Ontario
Remote (🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Robert Half Remote (🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Set and uphold design quality standards, guide design direction, build design credibility with product and engineering teams, and contribute to strategic framing and organizational challenges. Advance AI-enabled design practice, develop designers through feedback and critique, and lead case studies that demonstrate design’s value.
Project Design Manager (@one Alliance)
🇬🇧 Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Binnies 🇬🇧 Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Lead the design and technical delivery of clean water and water recycling projects, managing multidisciplinary teams and coordinating design scope, schedules, costs, risks, and resources. Champion safe, sustainable, low-carbon, digitally enabled design while integrating stakeholder and supplier inputs and delivering high-quality engineering outputs.
Staff Product Designer, Growth
🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Checkr, Inc. 🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Lead design for the Growth team, shaping its roadmap and vision while owning funnel optimization, onboarding, personalization, and guided customer flows. Use research, data, and experimentation to develop and ship clear, engaging experiences that improve acquisition, conversion, and product adoption.
Staff Product Designer, Growth
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Checkr, Inc. 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead design for growth initiatives spanning customer acquisition, conversion, onboarding, and product adoption, including funnel optimization, personalization, experiments, and new product features. Partner with cross-functional teams, conduct and apply user research, facilitate workshops, and deliver clear, polished experiences for small and medium-sized business users.
Product Design Manager
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Mirage 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Set the product design vision and quality bar, build and develop the design team, and partner with executive, Product, and Engineering leaders on product strategy and roadmap. Lead complex initiatives from exploration through launch, translating emerging AI capabilities into intuitive experiences while establishing effective design practices and culture.
Design Engineering Specialist – Motors & Generators
🇺🇸 Mossville, Peoria County, IL 61552, United States of America
Caterpillar Inc. 🇺🇸 Mossville, Peoria County, IL 61552, United States of America
Own the design of motors and generators, develop and optimize design concepts, and coordinate product development from concept through manufacturing. Lead supplier collaboration, quality processes including PPAP and APQP, current product improvements, supply chain and cost considerations, and coordination with Caterpillar business and subject-matter teams.
Sr. UI/UX Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
The Career Company | India 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Lead end-to-end UX/UI design for products and client engagements, including research, journey mapping, wireframing, prototyping, and usability testing. Build design systems, collaborate with cross-functional and client stakeholders, present concepts, facilitate workshops, mentor designers, and use AI-assisted tools to improve design efficiency.
PRODUCT DESIGNER SPECIALIST
🇧🇷 Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Inter 🇧🇷 Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Lead design initiatives for shared platform experiences in Inter’s SuperApp, providing technical leadership and establishing scalable standards, behaviors, and reusable solutions. Partner with Product, Technology, and Data teams to improve digital experiences, apply AI to design workflows, support squads on complex challenges, and advance the Design System and design culture.
Design Systems Lead (Remote, Brasilia)
Remote (🇧🇷 Brazil)
Blacksmith Agency Remote (🇧🇷 Brazil)
Build Figma design systems for multiple client brands, including token architecture, variables, modes, and reusable core components. Document systems clearly so developers and automated build pipelines can implement them reliably.
Design Manager - (@one Alliance)
🇬🇧 England, United Kingdom
Binnies 🇬🇧 England, United Kingdom
Lead engineering design delivery for a portfolio of water recycling and wastewater projects, managing multidisciplinary teams and project plans covering scope, schedule, cost, risk, and resources. Coordinate with alliance partners and suppliers, ensure safety and regulatory compliance, and promote affordable, sustainable, low-carbon solutions, digital engineering, and team development.
Project Design Manager (@one Alliance)
🇬🇧 East Hampshire, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
Binnies 🇬🇧 East Hampshire, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
Lead multidisciplinary design teams and manage the technical delivery of clean water and water recycling projects from concept through delivery. Develop project plans, coordinate engineering disciplines and stakeholders, and champion safe, sustainable, low-carbon, digitally enabled design.
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.