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Senior Product Designer
🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain
Cabify 🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain
Design impactful user experiences across the Cabify ecosystem by partnering with Product, Engineering, and Data teams. The role involves solving complex mobility problems, evolving the design system, and validating solutions through research and data.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lottie 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Own the end-to-end design experience for the Marketplace product, focusing on search, results, and enquiry flows. Partner with Product Managers and Engineers to shape problem definitions and contribute scalable patterns to the design system.
Junior UI/UX Designer
Remote (🇵🇭 Philippines)
Sterry Remote (🇵🇭 Philippines)
Support the end-to-end design process by creating wireframes, high-fidelity prototypes, and maintaining design systems. Collaborate with developers and product leads to ensure technical feasibility and a smooth handoff of design assets.
Junior UI/UX Designer
Remote (🇮🇩 Indonesia)
Sterry Remote (🇮🇩 Indonesia)
Support the end-to-end design process by creating wireframes, high-fidelity prototypes, and maintaining design systems. Collaborate with developers and product leads to translate user research into intuitive digital experiences.
UI/UX Designer (m/w/d)
🇦🇹 Vienna, Austria
Firestart 🇦🇹 Vienna, Austria
The role involves conducting user research and usability tests to create wireframes, prototypes, and intuitive user interfaces. You will collaborate with product management and development to maintain the design system and ensure a consistent user experience.
Senior UI Designer
🇮🇳 Mumbai, Mumbai Suburban District, India
Vml 🇮🇳 Mumbai, Mumbai Suburban District, India
The role involves designing visually engaging and user-friendly interfaces for web and mobile platforms while ensuring consistency with design systems. You will collaborate with UX designers and developers to translate wireframes into polished, high-quality UI designs.
Web Designer & UX Sr.
🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico
Vml 🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico
Lead end-to-end UX/UI design for complex web projects, including brand sites and high-impact landing pages. Create and maintain design systems while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver cohesive digital solutions.
Principal Product Designer, Vrbo
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Expedia 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design of Vrbo traveler experiences, focusing on shopping, discovery, and booking journeys. Translate brand strategy into high-quality product experiences while integrating AI-enabled workflows and maintaining scalable design systems.
Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America)
Marble Technology Inc. Remote (🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America)
Lead the branding and end-to-end UX design for an AI-powered tax platform, defining the company's design system and language. Collaborate with founders and engineering to translate complex accounting workflows into intuitive product experiences.
Senior Product Designer
Lead the end-to-end design process for core AI products, from initial concept and user research to high-fidelity execution. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create scalable user interfaces and maintain consistent design systems.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Mutiny 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The role involves owning the end-to-end product design for an AI-native GTM platform, from creative agent interactions to final assets. You will build the design system, curate quality standards for AI output, and shape overall product strategy.
Sr. Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Cloaked 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design of mobile and web user experiences from research and strategy to polished UI delivery. Build and maintain a scalable cross-platform design system while collaborating with Product and Engineering teams to align user needs with business goals.
UX Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Pressw 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead the end-to-end user experience redesign of a healthcare scheduling platform, including extensive user research and auditing of existing workflows. Develop a comprehensive design system and high-fidelity prototypes for both worker-facing and admin-facing interfaces.
Senior Product Designer and Builder
🇺🇸 United States of America
Learnlux 🇺🇸 United States of America
Own the full design loop from discovery and research to high-fidelity UI and built-in-code prototypes. Collaborate with engineering and product leads to shape the roadmap and evolve the design system for a financial wellbeing platform.
Sr Product Designer (Brazil)
🇧🇷 Brazil
Claravine 🇧🇷 Brazil
The role involves owning and evolving the design system to ensure visual consistency and scalability across web applications. The designer will lead the creation of intuitive interfaces and use AI tools to optimize design workflows and user experiences.
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.