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Global Implementation and Solution Design Manager
🇺🇸 Union City, Georgia, United States of America
Ait Worldwide Logistics, Inc. 🇺🇸 Union City, Georgia, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end implementation of global logistics solutions for key customers, ensuring seamless onboarding and operational excellence. Design scalable logistics frameworks and collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize technology integrations and process efficiency.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Melio 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end product design and user experience for a B2B payment platform, from prioritization to launch. Collaborate with cross-functional leads and external financial institution design teams to ensure a cohesive user experience.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Mooresville, NC 28115, United States of America
Petscreening 🇺🇸 Mooresville, NC 28115, United States of America
Own end-to-end product design for a dedicated area, collaborating with Product Managers and Engineers to translate insights into intuitive experiences. Lead the integration of AI capabilities into customer workflows while mentoring junior designers and evolving the design system.
Lead UX Designer
🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Vybs 🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Own the end-to-end user experience from initial user engagement to final transaction, connecting all design decisions to key performance indicators. You will lead research, prototyping, and experimentation while collaborating with product and engineering teams to scale the design function.
Senior UX Researcher (H/F)
🇫🇷 Lyon, Métropole de Lyon, France
Once For All France 🇫🇷 Lyon, Métropole de Lyon, France
Lead user research for the French market to guide product decisions and improve the B2B SaaS platform experience. Conduct qualitative and quantitative studies to identify user needs and collaborate with product and design teams to implement insights.
Senior/Staff UX Researcher
🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain
Nexthink 🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain
Define and lead a strategic research agenda to uncover customer mindsets and build durable frameworks like journey maps and mental models. Partner with cross-functional teams to translate qualitative and quantitative signals into actionable product and business strategies.
Head of Design
🇸🇪 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
4c Strategies 🇸🇪 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Lead and develop a distributed team of designers while remaining hands-on in designing for Defence products. Establish design processes, governance, and quality standards to align user experience with business priorities and product strategy.
Senior UX Designer
🇮🇳 Chennai, India
Cube84 🇮🇳 Chennai, India
The Senior UX Designer is responsible for conducting UX audits and translating complex problems into structured user journeys, sitemaps, and wireframes. They lead stakeholder discussions and collaborate with UI designers to ensure a seamless transition from structure to visual design.
Senior/Staff UX Researcher
🇨🇭 Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
Nexthink 🇨🇭 Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
Define and lead a strategic research agenda to uncover customer mindsets and motivations that shape product and business strategy. Build durable frameworks like journey maps and segmentations while mentoring the organization to increase research fluency.
Senior/Staff UX Researcher
🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain
Nexthink 🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain
Lead a strategic research agenda to uncover customer mindsets and motivations, translating these into durable frameworks for the company. Partner with cross-functional teams to triangulate data and influence product and executive leadership on strategic direction.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Casa 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead the design process for iOS applications to ensure a seamless experience for members and vendors. Prototype new features and collaborate with engineers to build intuitive and functional user interfaces.
Principal Product Designer, Commerce Acquisition
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Dow Jones 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Define the long-term design strategy for subscriber acquisition across Dow Jones' portfolio of brands. Lead complex initiatives spanning paywalls, checkout, and identity while mentoring senior designers to elevate overall craft.
Senior Graphic Designer - Product Marketing & Brand Strategy
🇺🇸 Bridgewater, Main Street, Bridgewater Township, NJ 08805, United States of America
Signify 🇺🇸 Bridgewater, Main Street, Bridgewater Township, NJ 08805, United States of America
Lead the creative direction and visual execution for high-profile product launches and integrated marketing campaigns. Collaborate with Product Management and Channel Marketing teams to develop impactful digital and print assets that enhance brand awareness.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Atlanta Housing 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end creative process for brand, campaigns, and event branding to elevate the organization's visual narrative. Collaborate with cross-functional teams and external agencies to deliver high-quality creative deliverables and present strategies to executive leadership.
Staff Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Fonoa 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the end-to-end design of AI-powered products and complex tax workflows for Fonoa's Tax Operating System. Develop and scale a new design system while collaborating with cross-functional teams to raise the overall quality bar of the platform.
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.