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Sr. Product Designer
🇺🇸 Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
Dealerware 🇺🇸 Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will lead design across the full product development lifecycle, from discovery through launch, by immersing themselves with dealership teams to identify friction points and design intelligent, human-centered workflows. This involves designing end-to-end service experiences, obsessing over every touchpoint, and utilizing modern AI tooling to reduce manual work and build trust.
Sr UX Designer - Acton, Mass. or San Diego, CA (Hybrid)
🇺🇸 San Diego, California, United States of America
Insulet Corporation 🇺🇸 San Diego, California, United States of America
The Senior UX Designer will lead end-to-end UX design for web-based and cross-platform digital experiences supporting Omnipod users, taking ownership of large-scale initiatives from discovery through delivery. This involves influencing product direction by advocating for customer needs and creating design specifications using modern tools.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Motorway 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The Senior Product Designer will own the end-to-end design process within their Squad, from problem definition to polished UI, leading discovery, user testing, and implementation across web, mobile, and native apps. Key duties involve delivering high-impact design work, partnering with product managers and analysts to shape roadmaps, and championing a user-centered design approach.
Senior UX Designer, Labs
🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Google 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Responsibilities include collaborating with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and provide creative solutions, communicating the user experience through various design artifacts, and integrating user feedback into product updates. Designers will also develop wireframes, high-fidelity visual designs, and rapid prototypes to convey key ideas and user journeys.
Sr. Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Skylight 🇺🇸 United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer will be responsible for designing static advertisements for Paid Social channels, utilizing channel best practices and weekly performance data to rapidly create high-performing creative and iterations. This role also involves designing performance and editorial Emails and collaborating with Channel partners to refine the channel's design system.
Sr. UX Designer, Amazon Live
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Senior Designer will drive design strategy across Amazon Live touchpoints, establishing vision and creating cohesive, innovative designs to transform the live commerce experience. Key duties include analyzing customer problems, developing design strategy, creating comprehensive design artifacts, and ensuring consistency across multiple customer touchpoints.
(Senior) UI Designer
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Neuronation 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
The UI Designer will own the flagship Brain-Training app, crafting engaging and intuitive user experiences by blending creativity, research, and data-driven insights. Key duties include improving the mobile application to drive growth, conceptualizing and validating new features, and defining UI/visual standards.
Owala Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Lehi, Utah, United States of America
Trove Brands 🇺🇸 Lehi, Utah, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer will develop high-impact creative solutions across digital, print, retail, and experiential platforms while upholding and refining brand identity through consistent design systems. This role also involves leading art direction for video and photography shoots and overseeing the development of e-commerce assets.
Sr. Graphic Designer
🇮🇳 Bangalore North, India
Manipal Natural Private Limited 🇮🇳 Bangalore North, India
The Senior Graphic Designer will lead end-to-end design execution across digital, print, social, and branding projects while guiding and mentoring junior designers to ensure quality and consistency. Key duties include developing strong visual concepts, overseeing daily creative output, and collaborating with cross-functional teams on cohesive campaign ideas.
Senior Web Designer
🇵🇱 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Cd Projekt Red 🇵🇱 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
The Senior Web Designer will creatively lead complex web design projects, focusing on elevating and maintaining brand consistency across the company's online presence through hands-on design work. Key duties include designing responsive layouts, collaborating with cross-functional teams, managing timelines, and supporting junior designers.
Senior product designer
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Seccl 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The Senior Product Designer will lead the evolution of design best practice, shaping scalable, user-first design while remaining hands-on in designing the product and a scalable design system. Responsibilities include designing and optimizing end-to-end customer journeys across mobile and web, defining UX approaches, and collaborating with product and engineering teams.
Senior UX Designer - 3-Month Contract - Octopus by RTG
🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Robusta 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
The Senior UX Designer will lead the entire user experience design process, from initial discovery and research through to final delivery of digital solutions. Key duties include conducting user research, creating necessary design artifacts like user journeys and prototypes, and developing scalable design systems.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Owl.co 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Senior UX Designer will collaborate with engineering and cross-functional teams from concept through launch, defining the design strategy for Owl’s platforms to ensure consistency and intuitive experiences. Key tasks include creating clear interfaces for complex tasks, conducting user research, and designing explainable, accountable, and trustworthy experiences.
Senior Product Designer - Institutional Custody
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Ava Labs 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will lead the end-to-end product design for Fortary, an institutional digital asset custody platform, collaborating closely with Product, Engineering, and Design teams. Responsibilities include conducting user research, designing system components, rapid prototyping, and owning user journeys from concept through launch.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States of America
Sprinter Health 🇺🇸 Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States of America
The role involves owning end-to-end design for key product surfaces across patient, partner, and clinician software, playing a central role in shaping a new AI-first product from inception to launch. Responsibilities include driving the design process from research through high-fidelity designs and contributing to the design system's evolution.
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.