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Senior Product Designer, Agent Experience
🇺🇸 United States of America
Vanta 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead end-to-end design for agent-led experiences, defining how AI agents, skills, and tools are surfaced to help security teams. Collaborate with cross-functional partners to establish patterns for trustworthy, transparent, and scalable AI-powered workflows.
Senior Product Designer, Foundations
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Tremendous 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will raise the craft of the product by owning the design system and improving the dashboard and recipient experience. They will also partner with engineers to ship high-quality UI, motion, and information architecture across various product pods.
Senior Web Designer, Design Systems (Remote, Belo Horizonte)
🌍 Remote
Blacksmith Agency 🌍 Remote
The role involves building scalable design systems, including token architecture and core component libraries in Figma. You will document these systems to ensure seamless execution by developers and automated pipelines across multiple client brands.
Senior Analyst- BESS Design Engineering
🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Desri 🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Telangana, India
The role involves reviewing BESS engineering design packages to ensure compliance with safety standards and providing technical support for commissioning and QA/QC activities. You will also evaluate battery system architecture and support procurement technical evaluations for various storage project components.
Senior Product Designer, Design Systems (Remote, Temuco)
🌍 Remote
Blacksmith Agency 🌍 Remote
You will own the architecture of client design systems by building token structures, variables, and core component libraries in Figma. Additionally, you are responsible for documenting these systems to ensure they can be executed by developers or automated pipelines without further clarification.
Senior Graphic Designer, Board Games
🇺🇸 Roseville, Minnesota, United States
Asmodee 🇺🇸 Roseville, Minnesota, United States
The Senior Graphic Designer will design thematic game elements, packaging, and layouts while providing mentorship and technical direction to the design team. They are responsible for maintaining component templates, improving design processes, and collaborating across departments to meet project deadlines.
Senior Graphic Designer (Apparel)
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
24 Seven Talent 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Lead and mentor a team of two graphic designers while developing original concepts for apparel graphics, prints, and trims. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure creative concepts translate effectively from design to production-ready artwork.
Senior Product Designer, AI
🌍 Remote
Maintainx (an Autodesk Company) 🌍 Remote
You will lead end-to-end design for AI-powered product surfaces across web and mobile platforms. You will collaborate with product managers and engineers to translate complex AI workflows into intuitive tools for frontline workers.
Senior Product Designer, Enterprise
🌍 Remote
Clio 🌍 Remote
Design specialized, AI-driven workflows for legal domains while partnering with cross-functional stakeholders to define product direction. Conduct user research and usability testing to translate complex legal concepts into intuitive design solutions.
Senior UX Product Designer - Loyalty
🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Target 🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
You will lead the design of end-to-end experiences for Target's loyalty ecosystem, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver intuitive and impactful solutions. Responsibilities include managing the full design process from discovery to production while leveraging data and research to drive user-centric outcomes.
Senior HV Electrical Design Manager - Substations
🇬🇧 New Waltham, England, United Kingdom
Laing O'rourke 🇬🇧 New Waltham, England, United Kingdom
The Senior Electrical Design Manager will lead electrical design management for a complex EHV substation project, ensuring design assurance, compliance, and integration. They will act as a key interface with clients and stakeholders while providing technical leadership to internal teams and supply chain partners.
Senior Product Designer, Design Systems (Remote, San Luis Potosi)
🌍 Remote
Blacksmith Agency 🌍 Remote
You will own the creation of scalable design systems, including token architecture and core component libraries in Figma. You are responsible for documenting these systems to ensure they can be executed by developers or automated pipelines without further guidance.
Senior UX Researcher – 6 month contract
🌍 Remote
Pointclickcare 🌍 Remote
The Senior UX Researcher will lead end-to-end research activities, including planning, recruitment, facilitation, and synthesis of findings to drive product strategy. They will collaborate closely with Product and UX Design teams to translate customer insights into actionable design recommendations.
Senior UX Researcher – 6 month contract
🌍 Remote
Pointclickcare 🌍 Remote
The Senior UX Researcher will lead end-to-end research activities, including planning, facilitation, and synthesis of findings to drive product strategy. They will partner with Product and UX Design teams to translate customer insights into actionable design recommendations.
Senior Web Designer
🇺🇸 Arlington, Virginia, United States
Jctm 🇺🇸 Arlington, Virginia, United States
The Senior Web Designer will support the design and management of SharePoint sites, digital collaborative platforms, and data visualization dashboards. They are also responsible for ensuring all digital content meets Section 508 accessibility standards and supports CISA stakeholder communication needs.
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.