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Senior Director & Head of Design
🇺🇸 United States
Drivecentric 🇺🇸 United States
You will lead the product design team and define the strategy for agentic experiences and information architecture across the DriveCentric platform. This role involves hands-on design work, managing a growing team, and ensuring seamless integration of AI agents into complex dealership workflows.
Senior UX Product Designer (New York City)
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Levelpath 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
You will collaborate with product managers and engineers to discover user needs and deliver elegant, high-fidelity prototypes for mobile and web platforms. Additionally, you will maintain usability standards and contribute to the company's design system while ensuring engineering-ready documentation.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 Brighton, England, United Kingdom
Kier Group 🇬🇧 Brighton, England, United Kingdom
Lead and manage engineering design delivery for water and wastewater treatment projects across a major framework partnership. Responsibilities include line managing Design Managers and collaborating with discipline leads to ensure optimal design methodologies.
Senior Graphic Designer and UI/UX
🇮🇩 Indonesia
Caspian Digital Solutions 🇮🇩 Indonesia
The role involves a 50-50 split between producing high-quality static and motion creative assets and managing the design project pipeline. You will coordinate tasks across the design team while ensuring brand consistency and timely delivery across multiple client accounts.
Senior Product Designer, Growth/Website
🇫🇷 France
Deel 🇫🇷 France
Own the end-to-end conversion rate optimization (CRO) process for the company website and landing pages. Design and execute A/B tests to turn visitors into pipeline while maintaining high visual and UI craft.
Senior Product Designer
🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Geotab 🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
The Senior Product Designer will own the end-to-end design vision for the Geotab Video Platform, creating complex data-heavy interfaces for AI dashcam and video intelligence software. They will drive design initiatives across cross-functional teams while mentoring junior designers and championing the company's design system.
Altra: Senior Designer, Color and Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States
Altra Running 🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States
Develop seasonal color palettes, graphics, and prints for Altra footwear from concept through production. Collaborate with Product, Merchandising, and Development teams to translate brand vision into commercially viable products.
Senior UX Designer — AI/UX
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Speria 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States
You will own the UX design work across three SaaS products while defining interaction patterns for human-AI workflows. This includes collaborating with cross-functional teams to validate designs and extending the design system with AI-specific components.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States
Revenuecat 🇺🇸 United States
You will own complex product problems from discovery through production, working closely with Product and Engineering teams. Your role involves shaping product direction, creating intuitive developer workflows, and maintaining a high bar for visual and interaction design.
Senior Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Revenuecat 🌍 Remote
You will own complex product problems from discovery through production, working closely with Product and Engineering teams. You are responsible for turning technically complex workflows into simple, polished experiences for developers.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States
Fortive 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States
The Senior UX Designer will lead end-to-end design for B2B software products, managing the process from discovery through post-launch iteration. They will conduct user research, create responsive interfaces, and collaborate closely with Product and Engineering teams to implement high-quality solutions.
Olympic & Paralympic, Graphic Designer, Senior Associate
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Jpmorgan Chase & Co. 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
The designer will shape and deliver brand design for JPMorganChase's Olympic partnership, creating high-impact assets across multiple channels. They will build visual identity systems and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure consistent, high-craft creative execution.
Senior Product Designer, Growth/Website
🇩🇪 Germany
Deel 🇩🇪 Germany
You will own the end-to-end conversion rate optimization (CRO) process for the company website, including hypothesis generation, A/B testing, and design implementation. You will also collaborate cross-functionally to translate business goals into high-converting web experiences and mentor other designers.
Senior UX / Digital Product Designer (Mensch)
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Taikonauten Gmbh 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
You will lead the end-to-end digital product development process, from initial problem definition and discovery to final delivery. This involves structuring complex problems, facilitating workshops, and ensuring high-quality UX and UI design while collaborating with interdisciplinary teams.
Senior Architect Design Systems H/F
🇫🇷 Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Nexton 🇫🇷 Paris, Ile-de-France, France
The Senior Architect Design Systems acts as a bridge between design and engineering to ensure the technical coherence and scalability of the design system. They are responsible for defining architecture, managing design tokens, automating build pipelines, and coaching teams on best practices.
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.