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Senior Product Designer – Enterprise Systems
Remote (🇺🇸 Richmond, Virginia, United States of America)
Hyper Solutions Inc Remote (🇺🇸 Richmond, Virginia, United States of America)
The Senior Product Designer partners with Product and Engineering leadership to define problems and shape solutions by translating complex operational workflows into intuitive, scalable product experiences. Core duties include leading end-to-end design execution, conducting research, developing prototypes, and collaborating with engineering to ship high-quality features.
GRAPHIC DESIGNER - Onsite
🇺🇸 Black Creek, Wilkinson County, Georgia, United States of America
Daniel Defense Llc 🇺🇸 Black Creek, Wilkinson County, Georgia, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer leads high-level creative execution across print, digital, product, and environmental touchpoints, taking full ownership of complex projects to drive elevated aesthetics and ensure brand consistency. This role involves hands-on design work while serving as a creative partner to leadership and collaborating across various internal and external teams.
Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Renton, Washington, United States of America
Hasbro 🇺🇸 Renton, Washington, United States of America
The Graphic Designer will concept, pitch, craft, and deliver creative solutions for Magic: The Gathering products while adhering to design industry standards. This involves creating multiple visual solutions based on direction, communicating ideas clearly, and making revisions based on feedback from creative leadership.
Senior UX Designer
🇭🇺 Budapest, Hungary
Clario 🇭🇺 Budapest, Hungary
This role involves leading user research, interaction design, and usability evaluation across digital and offline experiences to shape user behaviors and define experience requirements. Key duties include identifying user needs, leading iterative design processes, designing interactions, and refining designs based on user-centered evaluation and feedback.
Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Simplycook 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The role involves leading design across web and app platforms to ensure a cohesive user experience, while working within a cross-functional product squad to manage design creation and user testing from discovery through to final UI details. Responsibilities also include becoming an expert on users through regular interaction and collaborating with various team members to leverage their input throughout the design process.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Multiverse 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The role involves performing user research to identify pain points and owning the design vision for the new AI Adoption product. Responsibilities also include rapidly prototyping high-fidelity concepts, leading concept sprints, and designing/iterating on flows and visuals for AI-enabled features.
Senior Product Designer - Onchain Options Trading
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Kraken Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The role involves leading the delivery of entirely new product concepts for the Onchain space, setting industry benchmarks with innovative designs, and pushing stakeholders to maintain high standards. Designers will create exceptional user experiences by collaborating closely with cross-functional teams and balancing business objectives with customer needs and technical constraints.
Senior Product Designer - Onchain Options Trading
Remote (🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom)
Kraken Remote (🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom)
This role involves leading the delivery of entirely new product concepts for the Onchain space, setting industry benchmarks with innovative designs to enhance brand recognition. The designer will create exceptional user experiences by collaborating closely with cross-functional teams and balancing business objectives with customer needs.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 Brighton, Brighton and Hove, England, United Kingdom
Brightlocal 🇬🇧 Brighton, Brighton and Hove, England, United Kingdom
The Senior Product Designer will collaborate with Product Managers and stakeholders to identify high-value opportunities through strategic design and user research, leading discovery and design initiatives within the delivery framework. This role involves designing end-to-end experiences, from research to polished interfaces, while ensuring design requirements are met by front-end engineers.
Product Designer
Remote (🇵🇱 Poland)
Smartrecruiters Inc Remote (🇵🇱 Poland)
The Product Designer will collaborate closely with Product Managers, Engineers, and other Designers to translate complex problems into clear, thoughtful, user-centered experiences. Responsibilities include owning end-to-end design work, rapidly prototyping for validation, conducting user research, and presenting design rationale to leadership.
Senior Staff Product Designer, Agentic Commerce
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Stripe 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The role involves leading design for Agentic Commerce, shaping strategy, and building transformative products for merchants, agents, and consumers. Responsibilities include reimagining consumer checkout experiences and building tools for merchants to integrate across various surfaces.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Relay 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will own the design process end-to-end, from discovery and problem framing through to polished, production-ready designs that ship and deliver impact. Responsibilities also include raising the craft bar by creating elegant interfaces and acting as a design leader by communicating rationale through storytelling and mentoring peers.
Intermediate Graphic Designer (Print & Packaging)
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Canada Pooch 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
This role involves owning the end-to-end design and production of packaging, retail marketing assets, and sales materials, leading projects from creative brief to press-ready files. Responsibilities include designing packaging systems across numerous SKUs, creating retail displays, and adapting creative assets for specific retailers.
Lead CX & UX Designer
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Capita 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
The Lead CX & UX Designer will own the end-to-end customer experience and product design across pensions journeys, leading research, service design, and UI/UX to deliver accessible, GDS aligned outcomes at scale. This role involves leading the UX Design team, managing the full UX process from research to design handoff, and supporting member/employer facing communications.
Senior Product Designer, Data Products
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Sony Music Global Job Board 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The Senior Product Designer will own the end-to-end design and UX for Data Products across web and mobile, focusing on simplifying complex music consumption data into actionable insights for artists and labels. This role involves leading discovery, partnering with Product Managers and Engineers, and guiding the work of contract designers.
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.