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Staff Product Designer / B2B GTM / NYC
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Motion Recruitment 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
You will own the core product experience for an AI-native GTM platform, defining interaction models and creative standards for AI agents. You will partner with founders and engineering to shape product strategy and establish design systems for complex revenue workflows.
Senior Interaction Designer, Google Meet
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Google 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Drive product strategy and design systems through cross-functional alignment while collaborating with engineers and product managers to create intuitive user experiences. Develop user journeys, mockups, and prototypes to communicate design ideas and implement them to specification.
Senior Interaction Designer, Google Meet
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Google 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Drive product strategy and design systems for Google Meet, focusing on Workspace and third-party app integrations. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create user journeys, mockups, and prototypes that balance business and user needs.
Senior Interaction Designer, Google Meet
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Google 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Drive product strategy and design systems through cross-functional alignment while collaborating with engineers and product managers to create intuitive user experiences. Develop user journeys, mockups, and prototypes to communicate design ideas and implement them to specification.
Senior Product Designer, Design Systems
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
One North 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Lead the creation and evolution of enterprise-grade design systems that scale across products and platforms. Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure system adoption, usability, and parity between design and code.
Product Designer II, Growth - Acquisition
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Cnn 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
The role involves evolving CNN's advertising products across web, mobile, and video surfaces by creating user flows, mockups, and prototypes. The designer will collaborate with cross-functional teams to brainstorm and validate new monetization footprints and maintain the design system.
Product Designer II, Growth - Acquisition
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Cnn 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Product Designer will evolve CNN's advertising products by creating user flows, mockups, and prototypes across multiple digital platforms. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to validate new ad formats and maintain the design system to ensure a premium user experience.
Product Designer II, Growth - Acquisition
🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Warner Bros. Discovery 🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
The Product Designer will evolve CNN's advertising products by creating user flows, mockups, and interactive prototypes across various digital platforms. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to conduct user research and maintain design system components to ensure a premium ad experience.
Senior Interaction Designer, Google Meet
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Google 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Drive product strategy and design systems through cross-functional collaboration with engineering and product management teams. Develop user journeys, mockups, and prototypes to create intuitive experiences for Google Meet and Workspace integrations.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Real Chemistry 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
The Product Designer will own the user experience and interface design for an enterprise omnichannel orchestration platform, collaborating with engineering and product teams. Responsibilities include maintaining the design system, conducting user research, and designing intuitive interfaces for complex, data-heavy workflows.
Senior Product Designer
Design end-to-end product experiences that simplify complex healthcare data and foster informed decision-making. Own and evolve the product's visual language and design system while collaborating with cross-functional teams to integrate AI into design workflows.
Senior Visual Designer
The Senior Visual Designer will create high-fidelity digital banking interfaces for mobile and web while ensuring consistency across enterprise design systems. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver accessible, developer-ready designs and mentor junior team members.
Middle UI/UX Designer
🇧🇾 Minsk, Belarus
Idt 🇧🇾 Minsk, Belarus
You will own the design direction of the retailer portal, partnering with cross-functional teams to execute the product roadmap. This involves creating cohesive customer journeys, maintaining a design system, and developing high-fidelity prototypes based on user research.
Senior Technical Program Manager, Network Planning and Design Systems
🇺🇸 Addison, Texas, United States of America
Google 🇺🇸 Addison, Texas, United States of America
Lead the software strategy and portfolio for Google's physical network planning systems, including capacity allocation and demand planning tools. Define the long-term vision for these platforms and integrate AI capabilities into planning workflows.
UI/UX web designer
🇺🇸 Alexandria, Virginia, United States of America
Breeze End Technology, Llc 🇺🇸 Alexandria, Virginia, United States of America
Design modern, responsive, and user-friendly websites and web applications by creating wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity UI designs. Collaborate with developers and stakeholders to ensure accurate implementation of design specifications and maintain consistent design systems.
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.