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Senior Staff UX Designer, Workspace GenAI Foundations Platform
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Google 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead UX strategy and design execution for strategic areas of the Generative AI Foundations Platform and collaboration experiences across Google Workspace. Identify product opportunities using market, competitive, and user insights, and guide cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders toward a unified user experience.
Senior Staff UX Designer, Workspace GenAI Foundations Platform
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Google 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Lead UX strategy and design execution for strategic areas of the Generative AI Foundations Platform and collaboration experiences across Google Workspace. Use market, competitive, and user insights to shape product direction, build compelling design narratives, and align cross-functional teams around a unified user experience.
Senior Product Designer (Banking/Fintech)
🇵🇭 Philippines
Billease 🇵🇭 Philippines
Own product experiences from discovery and strategy through delivery, launch, and iteration, designing clear and scalable journeys across lending, payments, cards, and financial services. Collaborate with cross-functional partners, use research and analytics to validate and improve designs, evolve shared design systems, and balance customer, business, and technical needs.
Senior Product Designer
🇮🇳 Maharashtra, India
Talentmatics 🇮🇳 Maharashtra, India
Own product design across multiple releases and product areas, translating complex business and user problems into intuitive B2B SaaS, enterprise, and AI-powered experiences. Create workflows, dashboards, data-rich interfaces, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs; evolve design systems and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders while incorporating user research and feedback.
Senior Design Manager
🇬🇧 Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom
Costain Group Plc 🇬🇧 Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom
Manage design delivery for water projects on the Northumbrian Water AMP8 Framework, including design partners, project teams, contracts, deliverables, programmes, and budgets. Ensure compliant, safe, buildable, and carbon-efficient designs through design reviews, risk and assurance processes, BIM strategy implementation, and coordination with framework and project stakeholders.
Senior Visual Designer
🇵🇰 Karachi Division, Sindh, Pakistan
Systechlogic 🇵🇰 Karachi Division, Sindh, Pakistan
Create visual assets for social media, marketing campaigns, branding, websites, digital advertisements, publications, and presentations. Develop creative concepts, maintain consistent branding, collaborate with marketing and content teams, and manage multiple projects while meeting quality standards and deadlines.
Senior Product (UI/ UX) Designer
🇪🇬 Egypt
Flatgigs 🇪🇬 Egypt
Design intuitive, user-centric web and mobile experiences across LTR and RTL layouts, guiding work from research and discovery through wireframing, prototyping, usability testing, and iteration. Own and scale design systems, translate user feedback and evolving product requirements into improvements, and collaborate with distributed teams.
Senior Hydraulic Design Manager
🇸🇬 Singapore
Ramboll 🇸🇬 Singapore
Lead and manage the planning and design of complex water infrastructure, flood resilience, and climate adaptation projects across Singapore and Southeast Asia. Coordinate multidisciplinary teams and act as the primary point of contact for clients, authorities, and stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.
Site Design Engineering Intern
🇺🇸 Christiansburg, Virginia, United States of America
Westwood Professional Services 🇺🇸 Christiansburg, Virginia, United States of America
Assist senior engineers with grading, drainage, utility, and erosion control plans for residential and commercial development projects, including preliminary stormwater and utility calculations. Prepare and revise construction documents in AutoCAD Civil 3D, support permitting and review responses, coordinate with other design professionals, and participate in site visits and construction administration as needed.
Senior Staff UX Designer, Workspace GenAI Foundations Platform
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Google 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Drive the UX strategy and design execution for the Generative AI Foundations Platform while leading cross-functional teams to ensure a unified user experience. Develop compelling design proposals and narratives to influence senior stakeholders and drive high-impact product opportunities.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Bidrecruitment 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Create and oversee the visual development of client-facing bid submissions, tender documents, presentations, case studies, project profiles, and marketing materials, ensuring they meet high standards and align with the company brand. Manage branded templates, produce graphics and infographics, and support the company’s website and social media presence while coordinating with pre-construction, bid, and leadership teams.
Senior Interaction Designer [AQ-19190]
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Aquent 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead interaction design initiatives from strategy through execution, creating intuitive, inclusive interfaces, task flows, visualizations, and prototypes. Guide cross-functional partners, facilitate critiques and research activities, validate designs through usability testing, and present design rationale to senior leadership.
Senior or Lead Product Designer [AQ-19275]
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Aquent 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Lead end-to-end product design across web and mobile, from research and concept development through interactive prototyping, MVP delivery, and scaled adoption. Align customer needs with business goals while collaborating with product, engineering, design, and strategy teams and promoting accessible, high-quality design practices.
Visual Designer
🇬🇧 Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Pontoon Solutions 🇬🇧 Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Shape the visual and UI direction for a youth-focused digital savings proposition, translating research and strategic insights into concepts, user journeys, prototypes, and polished interfaces. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, validate assumptions, and present design rationale and intended customer impact to senior stakeholders.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇭🇰 Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
Mox Bank 🇭🇰 Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
You will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to design innovative and seamless banking experiences for investment features. This includes conducting user evaluations, creating design artifacts, and simplifying complex financial information through effective visual communication.
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.