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Hardware Design Engineering, Senior Director - Active Electric Cable / Smart Cable Module Business
🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Astera Labs 🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Lead and scale the hardware design engineering organization at Astera Labs, overseeing the development of products from concept through production. Drive technology roadmaps and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure successful integration of silicon into customer designs.
Senior Product Designer, Core UX & Mobile
🇵🇱 Warszawa, 83-433 Nowe Polaszki, Poland
Pandadoc 🇵🇱 Warszawa, 83-433 Nowe Polaszki, Poland
The Senior Product Designer will manage the end-to-end design process, ensuring a cohesive user experience across mobile and web platforms. This includes developing information architecture, establishing core experience patterns, and collaborating with various teams to foster innovation.
Senior Product Designer - Agent+
🇧🇷 Brazil
Tempo (yc S23) 🇧🇷 Brazil
Lead the design vision for Agent+ engagements with high-profile clients and advocate for design engineering. Collaborate with founders, clients, and engineers to create user-centric solutions and elevate design culture within the company.
Senior Product Designer, Core UX & Mobile
🇺🇦 Kyiv, Ukraine
Pandadoc 🇺🇦 Kyiv, Ukraine
The Senior Product Designer will manage the end-to-end design process, ensuring a cohesive user experience across mobile and web platforms. This includes developing information architecture, establishing core experience patterns, and collaborating with various teams to foster innovation.
Senior Product Designer, Core UX & Mobile
🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain
Pandadoc 🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain
The Senior Product Designer will manage the end-to-end design process, ensuring a cohesive user experience across mobile and web platforms. This role involves collaborating with various teams to establish core experience patterns and frameworks that support product scalability and consistency.
Senior Product Designer, Core UX & Mobile
🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal
Pandadoc 🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal
The Senior Product Designer will manage the end-to-end design process, ensuring a seamless user experience across mobile and web platforms. This role involves collaborating with various teams to establish core experience patterns and frameworks that support product scalability and consistency.
Senior UI Engineer - Design Systems Team Lead
🇨🇿 Prague Castle, Jiřská, 118 01 Prague, Czechia
Barclays 🇨🇿 Prague Castle, Jiřská, 118 01 Prague, Czechia
Lead a team of UI engineers to design and develop a scalable, accessible React-based component library and design system. Collaborate with designers and product managers to translate design tokens into production-ready components while ensuring high engineering velocity.
Senior Product Designer, Core UX & Mobile
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Pandadoc 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
The Senior Product Designer will manage end-to-end design processes, ensuring a cohesive user experience across mobile and web platforms. This role involves collaborating with various teams to establish core experience patterns and frameworks that support product scalability and consistency.
Senior Product Designer
🇮🇳 Pune, Pune City Subdistrict, India
Hsbc 🇮🇳 Pune, Pune City Subdistrict, India
Lead the end-to-end design of intuitive and accessible digital experiences by translating customer needs into effective product solutions. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive the evolution of design systems and maintain global brand standards.
Senior Product Designer
🇮🇳 Pune, Pune City Subdistrict, India
Hsbc 🇮🇳 Pune, Pune City Subdistrict, India
Lead the end-to-end design of intuitive and accessible digital experiences by translating customer needs into product solutions. Drive the evolution of design systems and collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve usability and design standards.
Senior Retail Design Manager, Global Real Estate Services
🇬🇧 Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Hsbc 🇬🇧 Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Lead the global retail branch design proposition by setting standards and shaping future formats aligned with customer and channel strategies. Oversee design governance, assurance, and the management of strategic partners and consultants across multiple global markets.
Senior UX Researcher
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Intact 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Senior UX Researcher will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to identify information gaps and ensure a user-centered design process. They will lead user research studies, analyze data, and communicate findings to influence design strategies.
Senior Product Designer
🇮🇳 Mumbai City District, India
Pepper 🇮🇳 Mumbai City District, India
Own core product surfaces end-to-end, framing problems and designing flows to deliver polished results. Collaborate with designers, product managers, and engineers to iterate and improve product designs post-launch.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Mateo, California, United States of America
Notable 🇺🇸 San Mateo, California, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will own product design across multiple workstreams within a cross-functional pod, focusing on AI-powered healthcare workflows. Responsibilities include breaking down problems, designing user experiences, and collaborating with product and engineering teams.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Geneva, IL 60134, United States of America
Marklund 🇺🇸 Geneva, IL 60134, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer will design marketing collateral for print and digital materials while adhering to branding guidelines. They will also work with the Marketing and Communication team to produce marketing/event videos and assist at special events.
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.