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Senior Product Designer (Web & App) – Gaspedaal.nl (m/f/d)
🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Autoscout24 🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
The Senior Product Designer will drive the end-to-end product experience, from defining customer problems to designing, validating, and launching impactful solutions for the web and mobile applications. This involves working closely with Product and Engineering in a trio structure to continuously discover and solve the right customer problems.
Senior Manager, Hardware Design Engineering Thermal
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Celestica International Lp 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
This role involves leading a team in developing cutting-edge cooling solutions for AI servers, switches, and accelerators, partnering with cross-functional architects to define best-in-class products. Responsibilities include leading the design, development, and implementation of technical solutions, managing project planning, financials, and setting departmental goals and performance evaluations.
Senior Principal, Design Engineering
🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Celestica International Lp 🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
This role involves leading the hands-on design and coding of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures and agentic workflows to allow hardware engineers to query complex design data accurately. Key duties include writing custom Python scripts for data extraction, fine-tuning foundation models for domain expertise, and developing multimodal analysis capabilities for visual engineering data.
Graphic Designer - Senior
🇺🇸 Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
Leidos 🇺🇸 Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
The core responsibilities involve performing graphic design tasks associated with the role of a Senior Graphic Designer. Further details on specific duties are not provided in the description snippet.
Senior Web Designer
🌍 Remote
Upstart 13 🌍 Remote
This role will lead the creation of a premium digital presence, including the website and logo, crafting a cohesive and elevated brand experience that supports high-stakes fundraising initiatives. The designer will translate brand strategy into refined, responsive, and emotionally compelling web journeys that inspire trust, engagement, and action.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Benicia, CA 94510, United States of America
Dunlop Manufacturing, Inc. 🇺🇸 Benicia, CA 94510, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer will be responsible for conceiving and developing core creative ideas for Dunlop’s global marketing campaigns across print and digital media. This role involves designing award-winning packaging, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and maintaining brand consistency across a large product catalog.
Senior Web Designer & Project Manager, Federal Digital Services
🇺🇸 Dulles, VA 20102, United States of America
Edj Associates, 🇺🇸 Dulles, VA 20102, United States of America
This role involves leading senior-level web design and development efforts for both external and internal NSF websites while managing associated projects, priorities, and schedules. The individual will also advise staff on best practices regarding web design, accessibility, and usability.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇫🇷 Paris, France)
Photoroom Remote (🇫🇷 Paris, France)
The Senior Product Designer will elevate the user experience across mobile, web, and API products, handling design end-to-end from research and UX to UI and design systems while collaborating with engineers and cross-functional teams. Responsibilities include shaping the best possible user experience, balancing speed and polish, and leveraging AI tools to accelerate production.
Senior UX Designer
🇷🇴 Bucharest, Romania
Lseg 🇷🇴 Bucharest, Romania
The role involves leading the entire design process for a responsive web application, from creating low-fidelity wireframes to pixel-perfect designs and clickable prototypes, while owning and improving the Issuer Services Design System in collaboration with developers. Key duties also include guiding implementation decisions, performing testing, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and documenting business rules related to designs.
Senior Specialist, Product Experience Design (UX Designer / Researcher)
🇮🇳 Pune, Pune City, India
Mastercard 🇮🇳 Pune, Pune City, India
The Senior Specialist will lead end-to-end design for complex domains, owning delivery from discovery through production assets, and creating advanced artifacts like journey maps and high-fidelity UI designs. They will champion customer-centric thinking by advocating for user needs and challenging assumptions in collaboration with product owners and engineers.
Senior UX Designer (m/f/d)
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Azeti Gmbh 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
The UX Designer will collaborate with key users to translate requirements into intuitive solutions, leading the end-to-end UX design from discovery through delivery. This includes conducting research, mapping user journeys, optimizing processes, supporting the design system development, and ensuring smooth implementation of the UX strategy with cross-functional teams.
Senior UX designer -Data Visualization
🇦🇷 Mar del Plata, Partido de General Pueyrredón, Argentina
Accenture 🇦🇷 Mar del Plata, Partido de General Pueyrredón, Argentina
The role involves transforming data into actionable knowledge by designing and implementing high-quality solutions in Applied Intelligence, focusing on data science projects. Responsibilities include proposing data and AI-based solutions, participating in the design and development of dashboards and applications, and ensuring their implementation alongside a multidisciplinary team.
Senior AI UX Product Designer
🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico
Thomson Reuters 🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico
The role involves leading the end-to-end design of AI-powered features, translating complex model capabilities into intuitive UX patterns that build user trust and adoption. Responsibilities include mapping user-AI collaboration patterns, creating flows with transparency and safety guardrails, and partnering with data science and engineering to shape model requirements.
Sr. UX Designer (US Core)
🇨🇦 Canada
Applied Systems, Inc. 🇨🇦 Canada
The Senior UX Designer will be accountable for the delivery, quality, and success of the product’s user experience throughout the entire product lifecycle across multiple workstreams. This involves strategically collaborating with Product Management to create solutions through generative user research, ideation, designs, and prototypes to simplify complex workflows.
Senior Product Designer, Incentives
🇪🇪 Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia
Bolt Technology 🇪🇪 Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia
The role involves owning and evolving the campaign and incentives communication system across the consumer app, turning complex campaign logic into simple, intuitive user experiences. Responsibilities include collaborating with various teams and ensuring consistency across all user touchpoints like listing, checkout, and post-order states.
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.