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Senior Product Designer, Design Systems
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Ōura 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
The Senior Product Designer will contribute to the strategy and evolution of Oura's design system, ensuring consistency and quality across all product surfaces. They will collaborate with various teams to build and maintain a shared library of components and refine core system elements.
Senior Product Designer, Picnic - New York
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Picnic Delivery 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
The Senior Product Designer will lead design on the Delivery Team, focusing on creating an intuitive courier app and tools for delivery management. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to build products that enhance user experience and operational efficiency.
Senior Product Designer, Motion
🌍 Remote
Underdog Sports 🌍 Remote
The Senior Product Designer will lead motion design across the product, defining principles and guidelines for interaction and UI motion. They will collaborate with various teams to ensure motion enhances usability and communicates effectively.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Good Inside 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
The Senior Product Designer will own product design end to end for their product area, creating intuitive and visually appealing designs for the mobile app. They will collaborate with product, engineering, and content teams to maximize impact and drive habitual user engagement.
Senior Product Designer, Banking
🇺🇸 Menlo Park, California, United States
Robinhood 🇺🇸 Menlo Park, California, United States
Drive end-to-end design of key features across banking tools and experiences. Create visually compelling, cohesive designs that elevate user experience.
Senior Product Designer (UX & UI focus)
🌍 Remote
Next League, Llc 🌍 Remote
The Senior Product Designer will lead design work end-to-end, collaborating with various teams to translate product strategy into actionable designs. Responsibilities include creating wireframes, prototypes, and ensuring design feasibility through collaboration with developers.
Sr UX Designer
🌍 Remote
Natera 🌍 Remote
The Senior UX Designer is responsible for conducting customer research and driving UX design across various digital experiences at Natera. This includes creating prototypes, wireframes, and conducting usability tests to improve digital products.
Senior UX Designer, YouTube Creator Ads
🇨🇭 Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Google 🇨🇭 Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Design the app's core experience, focusing on information architecture and foundational interactions. Collaborate with a global UX organization to execute and iterate on design solutions.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Ivo 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
The Senior Product Designer will guide the vision, strategy, and execution of Ivo’s design system while managing a small team of designers. They will work closely with Product and Engineering to build a coherent and scalable design system that enhances product teams.
Senior UX Designer
🇸🇬 Singapore, Singapore
Thermo Fisher Scientific 🇸🇬 Singapore, Singapore
Lead the end-to-end UX development process, collaborating with product managers and engineers to identify user requirements. Conduct user research and usability testing to inform development decisions and create intuitive software designs.
Senior UX Designer
🇸🇬 Singapore, Singapore
Thermo Fisher Scientific 🇸🇬 Singapore, Singapore
The Senior UX Designer will lead the end-to-end UX development process, collaborating with product managers and engineers to create user-centered software designs. They will conduct user research and usability testing to inform development decisions and advocate for accessibility guidelines.
Senior Product Designer, Growth
🇮🇳 India
Quillbot 🇮🇳 India
Lead end-to-end design strategy for growth initiatives, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver refined solutions. Champion a holistic understanding of user behavior to drive impactful design improvements.
Senior Product Designer
🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel-Aviv District, Israel
One Zero Digital Bank 🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Design end-to-end user experiences from early prototypes to final implementation and testing. Collaborate closely with Product, Marketing, Development, and other cross-functional teams.
Senior Product Designer (UX/UI)
🇭🇺 Budapest, Central Hungary, Hungary
Diligent Corporation 🇭🇺 Budapest, Central Hungary, Hungary
Lead the end-to-end design process, collaborating with teams to transform complex problems into elegant solutions. Advocate for design excellence and mentor junior designers while ensuring alignment with strategic goals.
Senior Product Designer, Gaming & Rewards
🇬🇷 Athens, Attica, Greece
Kaizen Gaming 🇬🇷 Athens, Attica, Greece
The Senior Product Designer will lead design projects, collaborating with various stakeholders to create user-centered designs for web and mobile applications. They will also contribute to the design system and ensure consistency across products.
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.